The Division of Laboratory Medicine, under the leadership of Division Director Long Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., announces the naming of several new laboratory directors.
Deniz Peker, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Attending Physician in Hematopathology/Surgical Pathology in the Division of Laboratory Medicine, is appointed Director of the Flow Cytometry Lab at UAB hospital, effective October 1, 2018.
Five Department of Pathology teaching faculty were among the faculty nominated by medical students for the UAB School of Medicine 2018 Argus Awards.
The Argus Awards, created in 1996 to recognize faculty members, give medical students the chance to honor their mentors, professors, courses and course directors for outstanding service to medical education. Faculty are nominated by course evaluations and students vote to select award winners in each category.
UAB Pathology is proud to welcome 10 new fellows for the 2018-19 academic year.
Five fellows come to us from UAB:
- Tyler Clemmensen 2018-2019 Hematopathology Fellow
- Robin Collingwood 2018-2019 GI Pathology Fellow
- Joseph Drwiega 2018-2019 Surgical Pathology Fellow
- Diana Morlote, who will serve as the 2018-19 Hematopathology Fellow
- Scott Taylor 2018-2019 Surgical Pathology Fellow
It was a bittersweet gathering as the Department came together on June 26 to celebrate the contributions of Robin Lorenz, M.D., Ph.D.,to the Department and the University. Lorenz was Professor, Department of Pathology and Medical Education; Associate Dean for Physician Scientist Development; Director, UAB Medical Scientist (MD-PhD) Training Program; Director, UAB Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP), and many other key roles. She has accepted a position as lead pathologist with Genentech.
Lorenz recently took a position with Genentech as senior director of pathology. At UAB, she held secondary faculty appointments in the UAB departments of Medical Education and Microbiology, and was a member of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Comprehensive Diabetes Center, and the Comprehensive Arthritis, MSK, Bone & Autoimmunity Center.
Lorenz joined UAB in 2002 as Associate Professor of Pathology. In 2006 she took over the UAB Medical Scientist (MD-PhD) Training Program (MSTP). In 2015 Lorenz helped establish the UAB Physician Science Development office in 2015, for which she served as Associate Dean.
Dr. Robin Lorenz
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