UAB Professor and Department of Pathology Chair Jay M. McDonald, MD, and Professor and Division of Anatomic Pathology Director Gene P. Siegal, MD, PhD, announce the appointment of Silvio H. Litovsky, MD, as assistant professor. Dr. Litovsky joins UAB from Texas, where he was senior research scientist at the Texas Heart Institute and assistant clinical professor of pathology at the University of Texas at Houston.

Dr. Litovsky graduated with honors from University of Buenos Aires Medical School in Argentina. He completed an internal medicine internship and cardiology residency at Ramos Mejia Hospital in Buenos Aires and a postdoctoral fellowship at Masonic Medical Research Lab in Utica, New York, followed by a pathology residency at State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse and a cardiovascular pathology fellowship at Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. He then completed a cardiac registry fellowship and pediatric pathology fellowship at Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology.

In addition to numerous peer-reviewed publications, books and book chapters, and abstracts, Dr. Litovsky has served as a reviewer for Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, since 2002.

Dr. Litovsky's major research interests include several fields of cardiovascular pathology, including inflammation and calcification in atherosclerosis, infections as promoters and destabilizers of atherosclerotic plaques, pathogenesis of transmural and nontransmural myocardial infarction, devices employed in patients with severe heart failure, heart transplantation, and stem cell therapy.

He may be reached at 975-6964 for academic and administrative calls; e-mail slitovsk@uab.edu.