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W elcome! You have reached the Home Page of the Department of Pathology, College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) located in Oklahoma City. Whether you are an applicant, a current medical student with a growing interest in pathology, a potential pathology resident candidate, a graduate student looking for some great opportunities in the research arena of pathology, a fellow colleague of pathology, or simply a passionate surfer of the net, we hope your visit to our site will be a rewarding one. Stay a while and browse.
T he Department of Pathology in the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine is a large, multi-disciplinary department with over 37 full-time faculty, 12 administrative staff, some 17 residents and fellows, over 15 research laboratory assistants, and 14 post-doctoral fellows and graduate students. Some 18 M.D.s and D.O.s, 3 D.M.D.s, and 7 Ph.D.s in the Department provide extensive anatomic and clinical pathology services to the OUHSC campus hospitals in Oklahoma City. We also have a small group of extremely talented pathologists on staff on the OUHSC campus in Tulsa serving several hospitals in the vicinity. The Department is also a well-respected referral and consultation center that supplies outstanding pathology services to the citizens of greater Oklahoma and the surrounding states. Our staff has proven diagnostic expertise in surgical pathology, cytopathology, breast pathology, head and neck pathology, renal pathology, pathology of the newborn, neuropathology, transfusion medicine and blood-banking, clinical pathology and laboratory accreditation procedures.
The OU Health Center is rapidly expanding, and is under construction on many fronts. A beautification project was completed last year, featuring park-like areas planted with over 1,000 trees and the building of a fountain and clock tower in a pedestrian plaza replacing the east
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end of Stanton L. Young Boulevard. The Department of Pathology has also been renovated, reflecting new and exciting changes. Laboratories have been consolidated, and we have many new faculty members. We face many opportunities and have been given extraordinary resources to accomplish those tasks. Our most important resource is our faculty, staff, and students.
Our clinical services have changed drastically in the past year, as we now provide services to all medical facilities on campus. The OU Medical Center now encompasses the former Presbyterian, University and Children's Hospitals. We have a newly established Cade Cancer Center, as well other new programs. A new outpatient building (OU Physicians) was opened in late 2004.
Similarly, our residency program is undergoing a major overhaul. Highlights include a Residency Oversight Committee, a new administrative structure and process based upon competency models, and several new programs, such as dermatopathology under the direction of Dr. Neil Crowson.
As an academic department we strive to bridge the gap between the basic sciences and clinical disciplines of medicine. The Department has built on its tradition of excellence in academic medicine. The department is proud to have many distinguished faculty and students who have passed through OU. We encourage alumni and former faculty to send us an e-mail to let us know where you are and how we can contact you.
We recognize our unique position in the community of Oklahoma as a medical provider to its citizens and teacher to its students. Entrusted with these responsibilities, we continue to place special emphasis on healthy communication and dialog. In this spirit, we present to you our Department of Pathology web pages and encourage you to contact us with comments or questions regarding clinical aspects of pathology, our residency or graduate training programs, or our research endeavors.
Thank you.
Michael L. Talbert, MD
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