Faculty of Health Sciences
Department of Pathology
Residency Program

News

  • Congratulations to General Pathology resident Hetal Talati. At the January 12, 2o12 SJH Staff meeting, Hetal was awarded with the Best Resident Award 2o12.

  • Congraulations to AP residents Etiene Mahe, and his wife Laura, on the birth of their baby girl on Saturday, October 29, 2011.

  • A reminder to all Lab Med residents (MM, MB|CC, AP, GP) that the MB Lab Management Sessions were set by PD's as mandatory, for all Lab Med residents, regardless of what speciality you are in.

  • We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Margaret Nowaczyk as the new program director for CCMB (Genetics) training program.
  • Congratulations to our Medical Microbiology Program Director, Dr. C. Main who has recently become Editor for the HRLMP Newsletter.
    You may view past issues online.

  • Residents' Research Day, 2012 will be held on Thursday, May 24, 2012. Please mark your calendards, and be sure to attend this annual event where residents show case their research.

    *MDCL –Michael G DeGroote Centre for Learning & Discovery, Building 52 on the campus map at http://www.mcmaster.ca/welcome/med/campusmap.pdf

    Due date for resident/fellow abstracts will be posted at a later date, however; anticipate in & around the Easter Weekend/12.

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    Postgrad Graduation Dinner 2012 - Tuesday June 12

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    Residents' Housestaff Holidays

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    Rsident / Fellow Achievements

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  • Congratulations to Kika Veljkovic; Kristin Hauff; Maged Mansour from Clinical Chemistry, and Medical Biochemistry for winning poster presentations 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes at the recent Laurence Becker Symposium at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto.

  • Kika Veljkovic, Clinical Biochemistry Fellow, McMaster University

    First Poster Prize in Resident/Fellow Category at the Laurence E. Becker Symposium 2011, University of Toronto and Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto, ON,  June 1 2011 for her abstract: "1. Comparison of monomeric prolactin levels following macroprolactin precipitation by 2. PEG6000 and PWG8000

    Time from urine collection to urinalysis - is four hours an acceptable delay for samples at room temperature?"

    Travel Grant to Encourage Research Presentations by Trainees in Clinical Chemistry at the Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists/Canadian Laboratory Medicine Congress 2011, Vancouver, BC, June 4-8 2011. Abstract: Same as above.

    Travel Grant Award and One of Four Top Trainee Abstracts (with oral presentation), at the Association for Clinical Chemistry 2011 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, July 24 - 28 2011. Abstract: "High Sensitive Cardiac troponin T measurements for predicting short-term serious cardiac outcomes in emergency department patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome."
  • Applications for the 2010 Harry Richardson award are now being accepted. Please see here for further information.
  • Research Grant Application deadlines = every February 15 & October 15
  • Please submit any news you have to share, to the Program Office.
  • Interfaith holidays

Hetal Talati, GP Resident
Best Resident Award 2o12
 

Anatomical Pathology graduating residents, 2011. Shamim, Amal, AP Program Director, Dr. M. Sur, and graduating resident Pooja
 

Residents with
Resident Research Day
guest speakers:
Dr. J. Goldblum &
Dr. L. Pantanowitz

Salaheddin Abouanaser, MM Resident, with his poster at Residents' Research Day '11

Etienne Mahe, AP Resident,
first recipient of the HRLMP Award, standing with Dr. V. Alexopoulou


Poster Judging
Residents' Research Day '11
Jocelyn Srigley, MM Resident

Poster Judging, Residents' Research Day '11
Dr. T. Chetty;
MB Resident, Li Wang