People of Pathology Podcast
Episodes
Episode 74: Dr Sarah Coupland – Ophthalmic Pathology, Molecular Pathology, and Cancer Research
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Sarah Coupland
What we discuss with Dr Coupland:
- Her medical training in Australia, and how she relocated to Germany
- How she discovered pathology, and some of her subspecialty interests
- How she started the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Research Group, and some of her projects there
- Her work with uveal melanoma and how that led her involvement with the Cancer Genome Atlas
- Her experience as Director of the Northwest Cancer Research Centre
- The article “From Pot to Print: Using 3D Scanning and Printing to Bring Back Pathology Specimens,” which she coauthored
- Her involvement with the
- The Royal College of Pathologists Book Club
- The importance of getting students interested in pathology
Links for this episode:
Dr Coupland on Twitter
Liverpool Ocular Oncology Research Group
From Pot to Print: Using 3D Scanning and Printing to Bring Back Pathology Specimens from The Pathologist
Integrative Analysis Identifies Four Molecular and Clinical Subsets in Uveal Melanoma in Cancer Cell
Royal College of Pathologists Book Club – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Northwest Cancer Research Centre
What Is Uveal Melanoma? on YouTube
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Episode 73: Dr Melissa Upton – Education, Opportunity, Empathy, and Inclusion
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Melissa Upton
What we discuss with Dr Upton:
- How her parents instilled in her the importance of access to education
- How she was inspired to become a doctor, and how she chose pathology
- Her experience in Tokyo as a research fellow
- How she became involved with ASCP and her term as president
- Some of her initiatives with ASCP in the area of diversity
- Her involvement in the editorial Reversing Historical Trends
- The importance of wellness, and what this means to her
- Her opinion on if pathology is making progress in diversity and inclusion
Links for this episode:
Dr Upton on Twitter
Reversing Historical Trends: The Crisis, the Challenge, and the Opportunity
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Episode 72: Dr Jeremy Li – Deep Tissue Microscopy and Cision Vision
Today my guest is Dr Jeremy Li
What we discuss with Dr Li:
- Studying physical chemistry and spectroscopy
- His work in super resolution microscopy and some of the applications
- Deep tissue microscopy and how it is used
- How he developed a new technology for visualizing lymph nodes
- How he investigated whether there was a clinical need for this technology
- How the technology was refined based on feedback from those in pathology
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Episode 71: Dr Barbarajean Magnani – The Power of Poison, and See, Test, and Treat
Today my guest is Pathologist and Author Dr Barbarajean Magnani.
What we discuss with Dr Magnani:
- How she got involved with the See, Test, and Treat program
- The paper she coauthored on starting a See, Test, and Treat program at Tufts Medical Center
- How she decided to continue the Dr Lily Robinson story from The Queen of All Poisons
- The new book, The Power of Poison, and one of the themes of people not being what they seem
- How she uses dialogue between characters to explain scientific concepts in the book
- How pathologists are the supreme puzzle-solvers
- what we can expect from the third book in the series
- Some of her other writing projects
Links for this episode:
The Pathologist Power List 2021
Dr Magnani on Twitter
Dr Magnani’s Website
The Queen of All Poisons on Amazon
The Power of Poison on Amazon
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Episode 70: Alexandra Giardina – Biobanking and the Pathologists’ Assistant
Today my guest is Alexandra Giardina, Pathologists’ Assistant student and Biorepository Consultant.
What we discuss with Alexandra:
- Her research experience in neurosignaling physiology
- Cancer research and how this introduced her to pathology and biobanking
- How she discovered the pathologists’ assistant field while working in biobanking
- Her work with Audobon Bioscience
- Her thoughts on the role of a pathologists’ assistant in biobanking
- Her experience as a pathologists’ assistant student
- How the pandemic affected her program and how the program adapted
- Why she thinks it is important to diversify your skillset
Links for this episode:
Tulane University Pathologists’ Assistant Program
Episode 6: Sarah Garner – Garner’s Guide to Gross Anatomy
Episode 17: Heidi Wagner – Biobanking and Medical Ethics
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Episode 69: Dr Douglas Posey – Forensic Pathologist, Author of From Mississippi To The Morgue
Today my guest is Forensic Pathologist Dr Douglas Posey.
What we discuss with Dr Posey:
- Why he decided to write his new book, From Mississippi to the Morgue: A Black Doctor’s Journey From Rural Mississippi to Forensic Pathology
- His experience growing up in Mississippi
- How two mentors were influential in his life
- His experience in the Army which led to Medical Technology
- How and why he decided to go to medical school
- How he became a forensic pathologist
- How through sharing his own story he hopes to inspire others to be successful
Links for this episode:
From Mississippi To The Morgue on Amazon
Dr Posey’s Website
National Association of Medical Examiners
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