Honors and Awards Archive
March 2013
Dr. David Solomon is the proud recipient of the 2013 Stowell-Orbison Award. This award is given to four trainees of Pathology at the annual United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Annual Meeting (Mar 2-8, 2013) who present the best paper through the medium of a poster presentation. This accomplishment was no small feat. Not only did Dr. Solomon compete among a field of over 250 poster presenters, many presenters were from around the globe. He is also the very first recipient of this award from UCSF.
March 2013
Dr. Benjamin Buelow is the recipient of the Pathologist-in-Training Award for Hematopathology. The Society of Hematopathology issues the Pathologist-in-Training Award for the best abstract submission in the field of Hematopathology. The Award committee narrows down the applicants and visits with each semi-finalist’s poster presentation at the annual United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) conference (Mar 2-8, 1013).
March 2013
Dr. Gabrielle Rizzuto is the recipient of the 2013 Society for Pediatric Pathology’s Young Investigator Research Grant. The Society awards this grant to fund research in the field of pediatric pathology. Dr. Rizzuto’s proposal is on “Immune response to infection at the maternal-fetal interface.” Proposals are reviewed and the winner is selected at their spring conference which takes place the same time as the US and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting (Mar 2-8, 2013).
April 2012
Dr. Theodore Miller was the recipient of The Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology Lifetime Achievement Award; this annual award was given at the PSC companion meeting at the recent USCAP in Vancouver. The recipient is chosen for meritorious achievements in teaching, academics and the practice of cytopathology.
March 2012
Teresa M. Darragh, MD, Professor of Clinical Pathology, is named President-elect of the ASCCP (American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology).
March 2012
Linda Ferrell, MD, Vice-Chair of Pathology and Director of Surgical Pathology, becomes President of the USCAP (US-Canadian Academy of Pathology).
December 2011
Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Chair of Pathology, has been elected President of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) for 2011-2013.
December 2011
Linda Ferrell, MD, Vice-Chair of Pathology and Director of Surgical Pathology, is the President-Elect of the US-Canadian Academy of Pathology and will be the President of the Academy from 2012 to 2013.
McKerrow’s Parasitic Disease Research Garners Mendel Medal
June 16, 2010
James McKerrow, PhD, a UCSF expert on parasites that afflict the poorest populations on Earth, recently visited a better-off land—the Czech Republic.
He didn’t jump the pond to reprise his stateside science lecture on “Things that Go Bump in the Night.” And his purpose was not to check out the famous pea garden that led to the discovery of basic rules governing the inheritance of biological traits.
Dr. Abul Abbas to Receive the 2010 ASIP Robbins Distinguished Educator Award
February 2010
Dr. Abul Abbas, Chair of the Department of Pathology at University of California San Francisco, is the 2010 recipient of the Robbins Distinguished Educator Award from the American Society of Investigative Pathology.