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Winter COLUMBIA PATHOLOGY 2021 AND CELL BIOLOGY REPORT A Year Like No Other NIH Funding Columbia Pathology Ranks High Honoring our Community Years of Service and Retirements COVID-19 Response Departmental collection of the clinical response to the pandemic in this issue 4 3 From the Chair 4 Honors and Awards: Dr. Vivette D’Agati Awarded Named Professorship 7 Faculty Promotions 10 Anniversaries 11 In Memoriam: Dr. Taube Rothman 12 Retirements 14 New Administrative Staff 15 Research 16 COVID-related Research 18 Education: New Grad Students Columbia Pathology and Cell Biology Report Chairman Kevin A. Roth, MD, PhD Donald W. King, M.D. and Mary Elizabeth King, M.D. Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology Chair, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology Pathologist-in-Chief, CUIMC Department Administrator/CFO 11 Joann Li, PA, MPH Editor and Layout Designer Milan Fredricks Copy Editor and Webmaster Ping Feng Contributing Writers James Goldman, MD Eldad Hod, MD, PhD Joann Li Jeanette Rodriguez Address correspondence to: PCB Reports, Editor c/o Milan Fredricks 13 Columbia University Department of Pathology and Cell Biology 630 W. 168th St., Box 23 New York, NY 10032 E-mail: [email protected] Website: https://pathology.columbia.edu on the cover: 3d render of planet earth shaped as corona virus (Source: 9_fingers_ via Twenty20) FROM THE CHAIR A Life Changing Year YEAR like none other. Twelve I witnessed residents, fellows, months of tragedy, death, faculty members, graduate courage and compassion. students, support staff, researchers Anniversaries A And now, here we are trying and administrators putting the In Memoriam: Dr. Taube Rothman to comprehend what we have needs of patients and health care lived through, to learn important workers ahead of their personal lessons from the struggles we’ve comfort and concerns. Despite faced, and prepare ourselves for significant adversity, we somehow the ongoing challenges of the still managed to advance scientific raging pandemic. research and our educational Research mission, while quickly adapting to Kevin A. Roth, M.D., Ph.D., Chair Personally, I reflect on my own reduced laboratory capacity and [email protected] actions and inactions; what I did virtual learning. right, what I did wrong; what would I do differently if I had the I will admit to days this past year chance to turn back the clock? when I wasn’t sure if I was up to I think about the tragic loss of the challenge, if the department lives and how it has impacted so was up to the challenge. However, many families and communities, as I reflect today on what we’ve including our department. Nearly been through together, and what every day, I am reminded of how we’ve achieved together, I couldn’t much things have changed and be prouder to be a member of this how different the “new normal” is esteemed department. ◆ from February 2020. Best wishes, I look back with great pride on how the department responded to what sometimes Kevin A. Roth, M.D., Ph.D. seemed an insurmountable situation; the list of people who went above and beyond any reasonable expectation of duty and responsibility is long. I will forever cherish the people in the department who were virtual strangers to me one year ago who because of the pandemic, I’ve gotten to know, trust, and admire. I’ve learned more clinical pathology and virology in one year than I had in my previous 30 plus years in pathology. 4 PCB REPORTS Honors and Awards (From left to right) Drs. Glen Markowitz (vice-chair of Anatomic Pathology), Vivette D’Agati, and Kevin Roth (Chair) celebrating Dr. D’Agati’s new Delafield professorship Vivette D. D’Agati, M.D. Awarded Named Delafield Professorship We are proud to announce that Professor Vivette Kidney and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) D’Agati, an internationally recognized expert in renal Fascicle on Non-Neoplastic Kidney Diseases. pathology, has been named the Delafield Professor of Since 1984, she has organized and directed the annual Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University Irving Columbia University postgraduate course “Renal Biopsy in Medical Center (CUIMC). Medical Diseases of the Kidney”, which is the longest running Appointment to a named professorship is one of the CME course at CUIMC, currently in its 43rd year and attended highest honors a faculty member can attain in recognition annually by over 250 domestic and international registrants. for continued scholarly achievement and distinction. The Her list of honors includes Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Cum Laude from Yale University, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical established the Delafield Endowed Professorship in 1928 in Honor Society from NYU, and numerous teaching awards, honor of Dr. Francis Delafield, former Professor of Pathology including Teacher of the Year from the Columbia University and Professor Emeritus. During his lifetime, Dr. Delafield was Medical School Classes of 2009 and 2010. In 2018, she recognized as the leading national authority received the “Distinguished Alumnus Award” from on diseases of the kidney. the NewYork-Presbyterian Society of the Alumni. Dr. Vivette D’Agati completed her She is a member of the Association of American undergraduate studies at Yale College Physicians and received the Jacob Churg Award and attended medical school at Duke and for lifetime achievement from the Renal Pathology New York University. She completed her Society. Most recently, Dr. D’Agati was named the residency in Pathology and fellowship in 2020 recipient of the Edward N. Gibbs Award in renal pathology at Columbia Presbyterian Nephrology. Medical Center. Her training in renal Dr. D’Agati served as President of the Renal pathology was under Dr. Conrad Pirani, Pathology Society (RPS). Each year, the RPS bestows one of the “Founding Fathers of Renal a mid-career achievement award on one of its Pathology”. She has been director of the members. Four of the initial 7 winners of this award Columbia Renal Pathology Division since were trained by Dr. D’Agati, whose former fellows 1984 and became Professor of Pathology in 1994. Over this currently hold faculty positions in renal pathology at Stanford period, she has created one of the largest laboratories of University, Duke University, University of Michigan, Mayo renal pathology in the world, processing over 5000 renal Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, University of Arkansas, University of biopsies annually, received from more than 130 hospitals in Nebraska, University of Rochester, Cedars Sinai Los Angeles, 12 states. In addition to her clinical and research practice, she and CUIMC. She is especially proud of their accomplishments. has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers and 80 book chapters, and co-edited six textbooks of renal pathology, Congratulations to Dr. D’Agati on this special distinction. including the latest editions of Heptinstall’s Pathology of the WINTER 2021 5 Honors and Awards Dr. Govind Bhagat Recognized As An Expertscape Expert In Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma We are pleased to announce that Govind Bhagat, MBBS, professor of pathology and cell biology at CUIMC and director of the hematopathology division, was recently recognized in the Blood Cancer Awareness Month (September 2020) as an Expertscape(link is external and opens in a new window) Expert in Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma. Dr. Bhagat received this recognition for being in the top 1% of scholars writing about Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma over the past 10 years. Dr. Bhagat leads the hematopathology division of the department of pathology and cell biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). The division boasts nationally and internationally recognized experts who provide expedient and accurate diagnoses for a variety of hemato-lymphoid neoplasms. They are actively engaged in translational research efforts to define the molecular bases of lymphomas and leukemias and elucidate novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. OTHER HONORS AND AWARDS Paulette Bernd, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology Recently featured in Colgate University’s Magazine as one of 13 alumnae who graduated in the first few years that Colgate became a coeducational university. Read the detailed story here. Vivette D’Agati, MD, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at CUIMC Named the 2020 recipient of the Edward N. Gibbs Award in Nephrology. She is the first woman and the first pathologist to receive this award. Read the detailed story here. Adolfo Ferrando, MD, PhD Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology and Cell Biology and of Systems Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics) Inducted into the Association of American Physicians, an honorific society of the nation’s leading physician-scientists Serge Przedborski, MD, PhD Professor of Neurology (in Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience) & Ira Tabas, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine (Immunology) and Pathology and Cell Biology (in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics) Named to the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list that identifies researchers who have demonstrated influence in their field through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the past decade. Their names were drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science citation index. 6 PCB REPORTS VP&S Event 2020 VP&S Crown Awards Gala This year’s Crown Awards event shared their experiences during ABC News Chief Health and celebrated the front line heroes these unprecedented times. Their Medical Correspondent was the of Columbia - the physicians, interview portion starts at 25:25 of event emcee. A special highlight researchers, staff, students, the CROWN Awards Virtual Benefit. of the evening was the musical and trainees - who responded performance by two-time Tony courageously to the COVID-19 The event also paid tribute to award winner, Brian Stokes pandemic. In Pathology and Dr. Lee Goldman for his 14-year Mitchell.