The CAPA 10th Anniversary Scientific/Business Meeting and Reception

                          In Conjunction With 101st USCAP Annual Meeting

Location: The Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom C. (900 Canada Place WayVancouver, BC, V6C 3L5 Canada)

Time: 4:00pm – 6:30pm, Saturday, March 17, 2012

Program: (More details to follow) 

4:00-5:00PM

Scientific Session I: Hot Topics in Pathology (Chaired by Dr. Yun Gong)

GU Pathology: What’s New? 

Dr. Charles Guo (UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)

Digital Imaging and Pathology: Where Are We Going? 

Dr. Ximing Yang (Northwestern Uni. Feinberg School of Medicine)

Molecular Pathology for General Pathologists: Now and Future

Dr. Hui Pei (Yale School of Medicine) 

THE POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED. 4/27/11

Department of Pathology Breast Section at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has an unexpected opening for this year's breast fellowship starting July 2011. Due to the trend of subspecialization in most of the academic centers and large hospitals and legal issues for breast cases, fellows graduating recent years from the breast fellowship training all  got pretty good positions. The graduating fellow this year was recruited to be attending at the Johns Hopkins.

If you are interested, please contact Dr. Zhang.
 

Amy Hong Zhang, M.D., Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology, Breast Section
University of Texas-M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Phone: (713)792-4234
Email: HZhang9<at>mdanderson.org
 

July 1 sees another wave of Chinese medical graduates (CMG) entering pathology residency programs across the country. In order to bring together a significant body of information to CMG interns, and to orient and familiarize them with pathology residency program culture, expectations and tips to improve their performance in their training, Dr. Liping Song, a pathology intern at the Ball Memorial Hospital, IN, spearheaded and organized the first “How to survive the 1st year pathology residency” teleconference which took place on June 26, 2010.

The Senior Scientist provides scientific and technical leadership in the management, design and execution of a clinical research program within the Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology.  With a broad range of skills and experience, this individual is a critical component of the Principle Investigator's laboratory, demonstrating a capacity for collaboration and innovation with consistently high productivity.   

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The Departments of Pathology, Urology and Hematology-Oncology of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine seek a qualified candidate for a fellowship in urologic pathology. Responsibilities of the fellow are to create tissue microarrays of prostate cancer and other urologic cancers; processing of prostatectomy and other urologic specimens for tissue banking, assisting urologic pathologists in clinical processing, medical record review. Candidates should have background in processing of pathologic samples, general familiarity with research techniques such as tissue microarray, general familiarity with medical nomenclature and medical record review. The fellow will have an opportunity to partipate in research projects based upon tissue microarray, genomic and proteomic biomarkers, and other specimen-based translational research modalities.

Qualified candidates should send curriculum vitae to Dr. David Burstein,  Department of Pathology, Box 1194, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York NY 10029. 

David E. Burstein MD

Professor of Pathology

Vice-Chair for Research,

Department of Pathology

212 241-0364

BEST ABSTRACT AWARD

Chinese American Pathologists Association

Dear Members: 

On behalf of the Chinese American Pathologists Association (CAPA) Executive Committee, we are delighted to announce the 2010 Best Abstract Award for pathologists in training of Chinese ethic origin.

The Chinese American Pathologists Association (CAPA) is formerly known as the Hua Tuo Society of Pathology.  Its mission is to promote excellence in practice, education and research, as well as advocacy on behalf of Chinese pathologists. The objective of the Best Abstract Award is to encourage and reward outstanding research contributions by our pathologists in training.

Eligibility:

1)     First-authored abstract(s) accepted for either platform or poster presentation at the 2010 USCAP Annual Meeting;

2)     Pathologists in training (resident or fellow) of Chinese ethnic origin.

Dear fellow doctors:

If you want to chat with your old friends, meet some new friends, and have some intelligent and educational fun, please come to join the Chinese American Pathologist Association (CAPA), formerly Hua-Tuo society, annual meeting and gathering. 

Puzzled by you career decision? Academic versus private practice? Come to listen to what some senior and successful pathologists in both fields will tell you. Mark you calendar please

Time: Saturday, March 20, 2010, starting from 4pm -
Place: Marriott Wadman Park Hotel (Maryland room)

I recently spent some time at Bar Harbor, ME, a beautiful Northeast, tourist spot. Acadia National Park is just 10 miles away, which is the first National Park established by National Park Service (NPS).

The points of interest are Thunder Hole, Jordan Pont and its famous Jordan Pond House (a restaurant facing Jordan Pond), Sea wall, Bass Harbor head light house, and Cadaliac mountain (great for sunset and sunrise). Many more interest spots are reserved for next visit! ^_*

Here come my photos!

2009 ACAP Mock Interview Report

With strong support from Dr. Eng, our attending interviewers and Association of Chinese American Physicians (ACAP) administrative staff, the ACAP Student, Resident and Fellow Committee (SRF) successfully held the 2009 mock interview on Sat. Sept 26, 2009, for 22 Chinese Medical Graduates (CMGs). Some of them came from California, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. The session started at 8:15am and was followed by 2 and half hours of group discussion led by me. Our attending interviewers ably covered Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Anesthesiology, and Pathology. Each CMG has been interviewed and consulted by 3 or more interviewers in the specialty(ies) of his or her interest.