The UAB Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory is a division of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Our
laboratory has a three fold mission:
- Service
- Education
- Research
Service
in the Laboratory is centered around the provision of diagnostic
ophthalmic pathology services to the physicians of UAB, including
the Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital and the surrounding region.The
Laboratory regularly receives consultation requests from other
pathologists and institutions. The UAB Ophthalmic Pathology
Laboratory employs the latest techniques in microscopic diagnosis
as well as emerging technologies of molecular diagnostic pathology.
These techniques enhance our pathologists ability to make
difficult diagnoses, utilizing such processes as flow cytometry,
the polymerase chain reaction, gene rearrangement studies,
as well as immunohistochemistry. The rich collaborative environment
that exists on the UAB campus allows consultations to be obtained
from the UAB Department of Pathology if needed. The Laboratory
has an alliance with the Laboratory Corporation of America
to provide ophthalmic pathology services to their large constituency
of laboratories and hospitals across the eastern United States.
As evidence
of the Laboratory's commitment to quality, we have been accredited
for more than 20 years by the College
of American Pathologists. The CAP Laboratory Accreditation
Program is widely recognized as the "gold standard"
for laboratory accreditation and has served as a model for
various federal, state, and private laboratory accreditation
programs throughout the world.
Submission
of Specimens to the Laboratory To submit specimens to
the Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory, download the submission
form (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.) Please complete
the form in its entirety. Note that the patient's
date of birth is now REQUIRED for submission. Seal the specimen
container securely and ship by overnight courier to the address
indicated on the form.
Education
in the Laboratory is carried out via multiple mechanisms,
including one-on-one review of pathology slides at the Laboratory's
multihead microscope. Residents from the Department of Ophthalmology's
residency program are the primary focus of the educational
efforts of the laboratory, but multiple individuals may participate
in sign-out, including UAB Department of Pathology residents,
UAB and visiting medical students, and other faculty. The
staff of the laboratory gives a rotating series of lectures
on all aspects of ophthalmic pathology.
Research
in the Laboratory is varied and benefits from being part of
UAB, a major biomedical research institution that is consistently
ranked in the top 20 funded by the National Institutes of
Health. Collaborative projects are currently underway with
faculty in other departments including Cell Biology and Microbiology,
as well as within the Department of Ophthalmology. Current
projects include the role of the innate immune system in experimental
ocular inflammatory disease. The Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory
also provides histopathology consultative services to the
UAB Age Related Maculopathy Histopathology Laboratory, and
our Director, Russell W. Read, MD, is on the ARM Shared Tissue
advisory board. Members of our laboratory have presented work
at many national meetings, including the Association
for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and American
Association of Ophthalmic Pathologists
Staff
Russell
W. Read, MD Director
James O. Powell, MD
Joyce Horn Pathology Specialist
Contact
Us
UAB Ophthalmic
Pathology Laboratory
Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital @ UAB
1720 University Boulevard
H-17 EFH
Birmingham, AL 35233
+1.205.325.8331
+1.205.325.8658 FAX
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