Congratulations to Professor Ralph Crowe, M.D., on his retirement from full-time services to the UAB Department of Pathology and UAB Hospital. Effective January 1, he will work reduced clinical hours. Crowe has served his entire academic career in the Department, starting as chief resident at the outset of his medical career.
D. Ralph Crowe, M.D.
Crowe is a surgical pathologist and cytopathologist with more than 30 years of experience in clinical diagnostic pathology of multiple organ systems. He joined the Department in 1989 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2002, before his promotion to full professor in 2012.
Dr. Crowe became a primary pulmonary transplant biopsy pathologist in 2004. His involvement with non-neoplastic and neoplastic lung disease in the following years expanded to include medical student and fellowship-level teaching, and active participation in several interdisciplinary teaching and clinical conferences. This includes a weekly Interstitial Lung Disease Conference, a monthly Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board, a Lung Transplant Morbidity and Mortality Conference, and Multidisciplinary Chest Conference.
Dr. Ralph Crowe, back row, right-hand side, with his Cytopathology fellow faculty members.
Crowe is a Birmingham native who graduated magna cum laude with a degree in philosophy from Birmingham Southern College before receiving his medical degree at UAB. He completed an internship and residency at Carraway Hospital (then Carraway Methodist Medical Center), followed by a residency at UAB Hospital, serving as chief resident in the Department of Pathology.
His participation in professional societies and service to various committees and councils is too numerous to list, spanning from student mentorship to clinical studies and beyond. Crowe has published many academic articles, abstracts and manuscripts over his career, and presented lectures, papers and posters at conferences nationwide.
Isam Eldin-Eltoum, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Quality and Safety, has worked with Dr. Crowe for more than 20 years and said of his friend and colleague, “Dr. Crowe has always been very careful and methodical. He focuses on patients and on giving the best consultations to our clinical colleagues.” Eldin-Eltoum calls Dr. Crowe, “a southern gentleman. He is down to earth despite all the knowledge he has, not just medical but political, historical, and of the arts.”
Vishnu Reddy, M.D., Professor, Laboratory Medicine, calls Crowe, “one of the most valuable senior diagnostic pathologists in our department.”
Congratulations to Greg Davis, M.D., M.S.P.H., Director and Professor, Division of Forensics, UAB Department of Pathology, who was recently announced as a member of the 2018 School of Medicine Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society is a professional medical organization that recognizes and advocates for excellence in scholarship and the highest ideals in the profession of medicine. Dr. Davis will be inducted on March 14, 2019, as a faculty level member.
The Division of Molecular & Cellular Pathology led by Director Ralph Sanderson, Ph.D., Professor, recently hosted a gathering to celebrate the end of the year, as well as the retirement of longtime Administrative Supervisor Cindy Brown.
Cindy served as administrative supervisor for 11 years, taking over the position when John Chatham, Ph.D., was Division Director.
"She enhanced the staff, and improved morale, and over the years built an outstanding team of administrative staff," Sanderson says. "As Division Director I worked with her for only one year, but benefited from her leadership of the staff for 11 years."
The Division of Anatomic Pathology led by Director Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, M.D., Ph.D, Professor, is pleased to welcome Goo Lee, M.D., Ph.D., to the Division as assistant professor in the Surgical Pathology Section and Gastrointestinal Pathology.
Lee joins the Department from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Ottowa Hospital/University of Ottowa. He is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and has clinical expertise in GI and GYN Pathology.
Lee completed a fellowship at Emory University in GI/Hepatic Pathology. His research interests focus on chronic inflammation, molecular pathways, and chemoprevention in inflammatory bowel disease-associated colorectal cancer, as well as early detection of dysplasia in IBD and transepithelial migration of neutrophils in IBD.
Goo Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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