Critical Values - January 2009 - (Page 32) Volume 2 • Issue 1 • January 2009 Miss the Annual Meeting? Visit ascp.org/2008AnnualMeeting to listen to the keynote sessions on your computer while looking at the PowerPoint presentations or handouts. You can also save these the “audio-only” files to your iPod or MP3 player. ASCP Masters and Awards The ASCP honored eight members with ASCP Masterships at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Baltimore: Ellen HopeKearns, PhD, MASCP, SH(ASCP); Nathan Johnson, PhD, MASCP, MT(ASCP)DLM,SC,SLS; Joanna Lurie, MS, MASCP, MT(ASCP); Irina Lutinger, MPPH, MASCP, MT(ASCP)DLM, FACHE; LoAnn C. Peterson, MD, MASCP; Steven G.Silverberg, MD, MASCP; Patrick C.J. Ward, MD, MASCP; Mark R. Wick, MD, MASCP. Ishwarlal Jialal, MD, PhD, FASCP, received the ASCP Philip Levine Award for Outstanding Research. The ASCP H.P. Smith Award for Distinguished Pathology Educator went to Russell K. Brynes, MD, FASCP. Kent B. Lewandrowski, MD, FASCP, received the ASCP Ward Burdick Award for Distinguished Service to Clinical Pathology. And David F. Keren, MD, FASCP, a past president of the ASCP, was honored with the ASCP Israel Davidsohn Award for Distinguished Service. Residents Natalia Golardi, MD, and Raja M. Gidwani, MD, were honored with 2008 ASCP Resident Liaison Awards. Kathrina Alexander, MD, and Michael H. Roehrl, MD, PhD, tied for first place in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology (AJCP) Resident Research Symposium Competition. Visit www.ascp.org/MainMenu/residents.aspx Lab Week ASCP Around the World ASCP has received $3.9 million for the first year of its second five-year initiative with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue working with the CDC to strengthen laboratory services for the testing and monitoring of HIV/AIDS patients in Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, and Tanzania. ASCP needs members who are fluent in French and/or Portuguese to translate education materials, serve as facilitators during in-country trainings, and provide technical assistance in countries that are severely affected by HIV/AIDS. Go to www.ascp.org and click on Global Initiatives. “Laboratory Professionals Get Results” is the theme of the 2009 National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, April 19-25. The 2009 Planning Guide is now available. Contact ascp@ascp.org (put Lab Week in the subject line), or go to www.ascp.org, click on Laboratory Professionals, then Lab Week. ASCP Press Each month three articles from AJCP will be offered to readers to earn CME credit (one CME credit per article). Articles and the associated examination to document credit will be available online only for three years. ASCP Press recently published Laboratory Safety: A Self-Instructional Text, Cytopathology Review Guide, 3rd edition, and Bone Marrow Immunohistochemistry. 32 http://www.ascp.org/2008AnnualMeeting http://www.ascp.org/MainMenu/residents.aspx http://www.ascp.org http://www.ascp.org
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