President's
Message
Jan A. Nowak, MD, PhD
Musing about AMPs
fifteenth year, I looked back to the
Tenth
Anniversary Issue of the AMP Newsletter (Vol
10, Number 4, 2004).
Amidst the many reminiscences
in that issue, I focused on then President Angie
Caliendos message. Today, she wrote, it is
impossible to imagine the practice of medicine
without molecular methods. The trendy catch
phrases of today touting a new world of personalized
medicine, with targeted therapies directed to
specific patients identified with laser directed
precision by pharmacogenomic testing using companion
diagnostics were yet to be hatched, but as an
organization we knew that the future of medicine lay
with molecular biology.
>>Read the Article
AMP Infiltrates the Halls of Congress
Representatives from AMP are actively
engaged with Congressional members regarding input
on health reform, oversight and reimbursement of
genetic tests, as well as DTC genetic testing. Of particular interest
were DNA patents as Congress was not aware that the
human genome was being patented.
See Jean Amos
Wilsons
Professional Relations Committee Report
AMP
Joins the American Civil Liberties Union to
Challenge the Constitutionality of Gene Patents
>>Read the Press
Release |
2009 Recipient of AMP Leadership Award
 The
members of the Nominating Committee and AMP Council
are pleased to announce
Debra G. B. Leonard, MD, PhD
as the recipient of the prestigious AMP Leadership
Award for 2009. Dr. Leonard has held a faculty
position as Professor of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell
University and has served as Vice-Chairman for
Laboratory Medicine and Director of Clinical
Laboratories at New York-Presbyterian Hospital,
Weill-Cornell campus since 2004.
>>Read the Article
AMP
2009 Annual Meeting & Exhibits
The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) 15th
Annual Meeting and Exhibits opens November 19-22, 2009, at
the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, Kissimmee, (Orlando) Florida.
>>AMP 2009
Annual Meeting Program.
Abstract
Submission Deadline:
June 2, 2009
Early (Reduced) Registration Deadline: September 14, 2009
Advance Registration Deadline:
October 14, 2009
Housing
Reservations (Reduced Meeting Rate) Deadline:
October 18, 2009 |
