What's New at Geisinger Medical Laboratories?
Dr. George Lin Joins GML Professional Staff
Dr George Lin is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an MD-PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Virology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Upon leaving U. Penn, he spent three years at the NIH working on AIDS vaccine research and left to found Biological Mimetics, Inc., a vaccine development company. Later he returned to Brigham and Women's Hospital for his Anatomic Pathology Residency and stayed at Harvard for a fellowship in Dermatopathology.
At Geisinger Dr Lin will practice dermatopathology and anatomic pathology.
Members of GML's Anatomic Pathology Group Write Book
Members of GML's anatomic pathology group have written a unique book, Handbook of Practical Immunohistochemistry: Frequently Asked Questions. Published by Springer, the textbook is a practical, quick reference to help organize the increasingly complex field of immunohistochemistry (IHC) in clinical diagnosis into a question-and-answer format.
According to editors Fan Lin, MD,PhD, and Jeffrey Prichard, DO, the information in the book is intended as a resource for medical professionals:
- Pathology residents, fellows and attendings
- Researchers
- Clinicians faced with reading pathology reports that include an ever-growing vocabulary of immunohistochemical markers
- Laboratory supervisors and technicians tasked with optimizing and validating antibody protocols for clinical use
The book is available on the Springer website, where individual chapters are also available for download.
The group has also launched a companion website to their handbook: ihcfaq.com. The ihcfaq.com website is a way to extend the utility of the book with:
- updates to antibodies, staining protocols and clinical applications between book editions
- electronic access and searching of topics
- thousands of additional stain images of normal and abnormal tissues in GML's tissue microarray (TMA) collection.
