Appointments:
Hematopathologist, QEII Health Sciences Centre; Section Head, Molecular Hematopathology, NSHA Central Zone; Hematopathology Division Head, IWK Health Centre; Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University
Affiliations:
QEII Health Sciences Centre; IWK Health Centre; Dalhousie University
Research Interests:
Cancer detection, point-of-care, assay optimization
How to improve cancer diagnostics
By collaborating with several wonderful researchers at Dalhousie, I work on the development and optimization of methods to detect blood cancers. I am helping Dr. Alan Fine develop and clinically validate a novel point-of-care device to rapidly detect blood cancers. Dr. Fine’s device requires no more than a pinprick of blood and generates results in a matter of minutes. Dr. Robert Liwski and I have undertaken a retrospective study to determine the power of hospital laboratory automated blood analyzer data to identify the patient samples that are most likely to contain acute leukemia.
What brought you to your current institution?
I received undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from Dalhousie prior to completing my residency in hematological pathology. I joined the medical staff in NSHA Central Zone as a hematological pathologist and was appointed Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University in 2015.
Hometown: Bedford, NS
Learn More about my research:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Am3AyOIAAAAJ&hl=en
Involvement with BHCRI to date:
I have served on Scientific Review Panel for Summer Studentships