Cardiovascular Pathology
Cytopathology
Abdominal Solid Organ Transplantation (liver, pancreas, small bowel)

Director, Cyotpathology Laboratory and Cytotechnology   Training Program
Director, Cardiovascular Registry

Research:
An exciting milestone in small bowel transplant pathology occurred in October, 1999 when the Sixth Annual International Small Bowel Transplantation Symposium was held in Omaha. I led pathologists from UNMC, Pittsburgh, London, Ontario, and Miami in developing a working formulation of histologic criteria for grading rejection in small bowel transplant biopsies. This grading scale will be published in Transplant Proceedings in September, 2000. My interest in chronic rejection and transplant arteriopathy continues and I am investigating this process in small bowel allografts as well.

This past summer, a first-year medical student, Brock Wendt, and I studied an interesting process of intimal thickening and medial damage in cadaver aortic homografts used in reconstruction of hypoplastic aortas in children. We are correlating donor and recipient characteristics to better understand the pathobiology of this poorly-understood phenomenon.

Education and Training
B.S. (Distinction), Iowa State University, 1979

M.D., University of Iowa, 1983

Flexible Internship, Michigan State University, Kalamazoo Campus, 1983-84

Residency, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 1984-88

Chief Resident, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 1987-1988

Fellowship, Cardiovascular Pathology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 1987-89

Fellowship, Cytopathology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 1988-89

National Activities
Short Course Director - Pathology of Liver, Kidney, Pancreas and Small Bowel Transplantation: United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, New Orleans, LA, March, 2000