UAB Synopsis, Vol. 24, No. 10, March 21, 2005
UAB's Section of Cytopathology in the Department of Pathology and Division of Anatomic Pathology was recently designated a Center of Excellence (COE) by the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC).
UAB Associate Professor and Head of the Section of Cytopathology Isam-Eldin A. Eltoum, MD, accepted the award last fall at the national organization's 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago. The 3-year award cements UAB cytopathology's role as a mentor for other diagnostic organizations in the Southeast and across the United States.
The COE program was initiated by ASC to recognize and promote programs with extraordinary expertise in all phases of cytopathology practice, education, and research, including novel frontier technologies and technical and scientific excellence.
"This honor recognizes the excellence of our faculty, the quality of our trainees and teaching, and our research and clinical practice activities," Dr. Eltoum says. "With the completion of our modern facilities in the new University Hospital, we truly are the best cytopathology program in the Deep South and among the best in North America."
UAB joins five other institutions recognized as Centers of Excellence: Harvard Medical Institutions Consortium, Boston, Massachusetts, www.hms.harvard.edu; Fletcher Allen Health Care/University of Vermont in Burlington, www.fahc.org/pathology; Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, www.musc.edu/cytocenter; Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, www.pathology2.jhu.edu/cytopath; and Rochester Cytopathology Consortium/University of Rochester Medical Center and Rochester General Hospital in New York, www.urmc.rochester.edu/Path.