Written by Hannah Buckelew
On July 1, 2022, the Department of Pathology welcomes three new faculty members to the Division of Laboratory Medicine, directed by Vishnu Reddy, M.D.
Megan Amerson-Brown, Ph.D., CIC, MLS, joins the department as Assistant Professor from the Baylor College of Medicine, where she recently completed a Medical and Public Health Microbiology fellowship.
Amerson-Brown received her Ph.D. in Human Pathophysiology and Translational Medicine in 2019 from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences before working as an Infection Control Consultant in response to COVID-19 with Hospital Executive Interim Management and Consulting at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York. She has served as a Graduate Research Assistant at UTMB Galveston and as adjunct faculty, infection preventionist, and medical technologist in Microbiology at MD Anderson School of Health Professions and Cancer Center.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Megan Amerson-Brown to the UAB Department of Pathology. Her expertise in infection control and translational medicine will be a welcome addition to the Division of Laboratory Medicine.
Aishwarya Ravindran, M.D., joins the department as Assistant Professor, Division of Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Ravindran joins us from the Mayo Clinic’s Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, where she recently completed a Hematopathology fellowship.
Ravindran earned her medical degree from Stanley Medical College, the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University in Chennai, India. She subsequently pursued a two-year research fellowship in Hematology at Mayo Clinic where she also completed her residency and served as Chief Resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology in 2021.
In 2020, Ravindran was featured on The Pathologist’s Power List in the ‘Big Breakthroughs’ category for her contribution to the discovery of exostosin 1/exostosin 2-associated membranous nephropathy. In 2021, she was featured a second time in The Pathologist among the ‘Top 75 Pathologists and Laboratory Medicine Professionals,’ for her work on discovery of OCT2 in Rosai-Dorfman Disease and LEF1 overexpression in DUSP22-rearranged anaplastic large cell lymphoma. In June 2021, she was named a ’40 Under Forty’ honoree by the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP).
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Aishwarya Ravindran to the UAB Department of Pathology and to UAB. We look forward to the addition of her expertise in the Division of Laboratory Medicine.
Karen Scott, Ph.D., joins the department as Associate Professor, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Director, Forensic Toxicology Laboratory. Dr. Scott joins us from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, where she served as Associate Professor of Forensic Science and Program Director of the Forensic Science Division for nearly a decade.
Scott earned her Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow, UK, in Forensic Medicine and Science- Toxicology in 1998. Scott served as an Advisor in Forensic Toxicology for the Police Directorate Forensic Science Laboratories in Abu Dhabi from 2002-2006. She completed postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Health Sciences in Tokyo, Japan, before serving as Senior Lecturer and Forensic Toxicologist at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and later the University of Glasgow before joining Arcadia University as an associate professor in 2012. In 2019, Scott was elected as President of the Council for Forensic Science Educators, where she served until 2021.
Scott’s research in forensic toxicology focuses on hair analysis for drugs and drug stability in solvents, biological matrices and postmortem toxicology.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Karen Scott to the UAB Department of Pathology and to UAB. We know her experience and expertise in forensic toxicology will be an incredible addition to the Division of Laboratory Medicine.