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.