On Tuesday evening, August 27, a group of UAB School of Medicine students making up the Pathology Interest Group gathered in the Surgical Pathology conference room in North Pavilion, Room 3554, named in honor of Dr. Vishnu Reddy, Professor, Anatomic Pathology. They came together as part of a co-enrollment course between Forensic Medicine and Public Health, "How the Dead Can Teach the Living," led by Brandi McCleskey, M.D., Assistant Professor, Forensic Pathology. The course invited students in the interest group to come view slides on the room's multi-head microscopes. The session covered cardiac, pulmonary, renal, and gastrointestinal pathology topics, and was taught by residents Danielle Fasciano, Chief Resident, Bo Chen, PGY-4, Taylor Pickens, PGY-3, and Oraine Snaith, PGY-2.

Images from the slides under the microscopes are projected on screens around the room for consultation, to discuss interesting cases and possible diagnoses. UAB medical students getting a closer look at some of the work pathologists do.

A panel led by pathology residents will be held next month, September 10th, 5-7 p.m. in Volker Hall to discuss pathology as a career.