Episode 108: Dr Jeffrey Ross - HER2, Companion Diagnostics, and Foundation Medicine
People of Pathology Podcast
English - April 18, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBScience Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 107: Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green - Infection Prevention and Control and the GirlyMicro Blog
Next Episode: Episode 109: Jim Perkins - Medical Illustration
Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Jeffrey Ross
What we discuss with Dr Ross:
How he got started in medicine and pathology, and his thoughts on exposing medical students to pathology
His experience during residency of handling a specimen for an estrogen receptor trial
How he decided to focus on the HER2/neu gene, and some of his work in that area
HER2 testing by IHC and by FISH, and which he thought was better
Liquid biopsy, and how it may be used in the future
The origin of Foundation Medicine
Some of the work that Foundation Medicine does
The impact that Foundation Medicine has had on patients, and a few of their stories
Links for this episode:
A New Era for Pathologists' Assistants - Voicebrook Blog
Faculty Profile SUNY Upstate - Dr Jeffrey Ross
A Brief History of Breast Cancer
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