This year's fourth annual C. Bruce Alexander Lecture in Pathology Education featured Danny A. Milner, Jr., M.D., MSC, FASCP, Chief Medical Officer, American Society for Clinical Pathology. The event took place on February 18 in the West Pavilion Conference Center to a full audience.
Milner's talk, titled,"Building a Career in Global Health: Traditional and Non-Traditional Pathways and the Value of Mentorship," focused on the importance of mentorship in healthcare. He highlighted his international work in Africa and discussed how to translate healthcare and pathology issues between cultures.
A mentor himself of many residents during his time at UAB, Dr. C. Bruce Alexander posed for a photo with several of his former resident trainees who are now on faculty in the department.
Dr. Danny Milner with Dr. C. Bruce Alexander 
From left to right, back row: Dr. Virginia Duncan, Dr. Danny Milner, Dr. Forest Huls, Dr. Jason Wicker, Dr. David Dorn; (front row, L to R): Dr. C. Bruce Alexander, Dr. Marisa Marques, Dr. Shi Wei
Milner earned his M.D. from the University of Alabama's School of Medicine in 2000. He completed his residency and fellowship in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Microbiology in 2005 at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 1997, Milner started as a medical student working in Africa and since then has developed a reputation world-wide for his expertise on cerebral malaria. He has been involved in increasing pathology resources in a number of countries. He led the teams in Rwanda and Haiti that built anatomic pathology laboratories for advanced cancer diagnostics. Before Dr. Milner joined the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), he spent 10 years at Harvard teaching pathology, microbiology, and infectious disease. He earned many research grants for HIV and malaria.
Dr. Milner has authored over 100 publications and has presented his work in over 10 countries. He provides direction for many medical aspects of ASCP's policies and programs that relate to ASCP's global healthcare initiatives.
On January 31, 2020, the Department of Pathology tied for second place in the UAB School of Medicine's 4th annual Diversity Fair, hosted by the UAB School of Medicine Office for Diversity and Inclusion. The fair took place in North Pavilion Atrium and featured a live international band and cuisine from around the world, courtesy of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine departments. Each department hosted a table and represented its department's cultural diversity. Judges evaluated each department presentation, and the winner was chosen based on the table's design and food offerings
Monica Henderson, left, and Susan Mills, organizers of the 2020 Pathology display 
The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) will host it 109th annual meeting February 29-March 5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Several of our Department faculty, residents and fellows will present recent work at this, the largest world meeting of pathologists.
View a full list of UAB Pathology presentations, including posters, platform presentations, and special courses.
Join us for the UAB Pathology Reception at USCAP on Monday, March 2, 5:30-7pm in the JW Marriott, Los Angeles, JW Plaza II.
The Department of Pathology's Craig Maynard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology, has just been named one of UAB's 2020 Pittman Scholars for his research accomplishments. Dr. Maynard's current lab research is primarily focused on three areas. These include the role of T cell co-stimulation in promoting regulatory T cell (Treg cell) stability during chronic intestinal inflammation, the role of anti-commensal antibodies in the establishment and maintenance of host-microbiota mutualism, and lastly, the potential impact of early life stress (ELS) on susceptibility to, and chronicity of, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Maynard's overall research seeks to better understand the etiology of IBD and utitlize this knowledge for the development of novel therapeutic options.
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