People of Pathology Podcast
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Episode 110: Dr Uchechukwu Brian Eziagu – Medical Education and Pathology in Nigeria
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Uchechukwu Brian Eziagu
What we discuss with Dr Eziagu:
- How he decided to become a doctor and how he chose pathology
- Why he went on to earn a masters degree in anatomy
- His experience in pathology residency
- Some of the subspecialties that he finds interesting
- His research work with placentas in the setting of HIV
- How he got started in teaching
- The pathology staffing situation in Nigeria
- His thoughts on emerging technologies in pathology
Links for this episode:
University of Uyo Teaching Hospital
Dr Uchechukwu Brian Eziagu – Google Scholar
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Episode 109: Jim Perkins – Medical Illustration
Today my guest is Medical Illustrator Jim Perkins
What we discuss with Jim:
- His education in biology and geology, and his interest in paleontology
- How he discovered the medical illustrator field
- His early work as a medical illustrator, including medicolegal illustration
- How he got into teaching medical illustration, and some stories of students he has influenced
- His 27 year association with the Robbins textbooks, and how that began
- The process of creating illustrations, and how that has evolved
- Some of the other illustration he has done, including continuing the work of Dr Frank Netter
- His thoughts on the future of the field
Links for this episode:
Rochester Institute of Technology Medical Illustration Program
Association of Medical Illustrators
Pathology For The Health Professions
Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease
Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations
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Episode 108: Dr Jeffrey Ross – HER2, Companion Diagnostics, and Foundation Medicine
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Jeffrey Ross
What we discuss with Dr Ross:
- How he got started in medicine and pathology, and his thoughts on exposing medical students to pathology
- His experience during residency of handling a specimen for an estrogen receptor trial
- How he decided to focus on the HER2/neu gene, and some of his work in that area
- HER2 testing by IHC and by FISH, and which he thought was better
- Liquid biopsy, and how it may be used in the future
- The origin of Foundation Medicine
- Some of the work that Foundation Medicine does
- The impact that Foundation Medicine has had on patients, and a few of their stories
Links for this episode:
A New Era for Pathologists’ Assistants – Voicebrook Blog
Faculty Profile SUNY Upstate – Dr Jeffrey Ross
A Brief History of Breast Cancer
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Episode 107: Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green – Infection Prevention and Control and the GirlyMicro Blog
Today my guest is Consultant Clinical Scientist Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green
What we discuss with Dr Cloutman-Green:
- How her family members influenced her choice of a career in science, and how she studied zoology
- How she switched to microbiology and infection prevention and control
- Why working in a pediatric hospital is important to her
- How and why she started the Girly Microbiologist blog
- Why she decided to write on turning 42 on the blog, and some of the lessons she has learned
- What she has learned from working during the pandemic
- Why it is important to her to nominate others for awards, and to advocate for science
Links for this episode:
Dr Cloutman-Green on Twitter
Dr Cloutman-Green on Instagram
The Pathology Grand Tour Podcast – Episode 1 Microbiology
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Episode 106: Olivia Gaskill – Psychology, Science Writing, and Deputy Editor of The Pathologist
Today my guest is Olivia Gaskill
What we discuss with Olivia:
- How she became interested in psychology
- Her Masters program in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Her early interest in writing
- How she started working at The Pathologist
- How she learned the language of pathology
- Her promotion to Deputy Editor and some of her favorite projects
- The Pathology Grand Tour podcast and how it started
- British Science Week and advocating for science
Links for this episode:
Olivia Gaskill on Twitter
Olivia Gaskill on Instagram
The Pathology Grand Tour Podcast
The Infectious Disease Curator
British Science Week Interview
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Episode 105: Dr Andrea Deyrup – Didactics, Disparities, Data, and Deep Dives
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Andrea Deyrup
What we discuss with Dr Deyrup:
- Her initial work in evolutionary biology
- How and why she decided on medical school and pathology
- Her backpacking trip through Asia and some of her adventures there
- Her current position at Duke University and her previous teaching experience
- How her view of race in medicine has changed
- Working on Robbins Essential Pathology and Robbins Basic Pathology, and some of the changes that are coming
- Her collaboration with Dr Jospeh Graves Jr, and their recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine
- The feedback from other medical specialties on the issue of race in medicine
- Why it is important that pathology and pathologists lead the way in this change
Links for this episode:
Dr Andrea Deyrup on Twitter
Dr Deyrup’s website Pathology Central
Pathology Central YouTube channel
Racial Biology and Medical Misconceptions
Data-driven and determined: Evaluating race in medical curricula
Dr Andrea Deyrup on Diversify in Path Podcast
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