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Dr. Murat Gokden is a neuropathologist and a Professor in the Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, AR. He has been a neuropathologist and a faculty member of the Department since 2000. He is a graduate of Dokuz Eylul Medical School, Izmir, Turkey and received his pathology residency and neuropathology fellowship training at Washington University in St. Louis, surgical pathology fellowship at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX and cytopathology fellowship training at UAMS.
Although he is board certified in anatomic pathology, neuropathology and cytopathology, he has been focusing essentially exclusively on neuropathology. Although he has vast experience on all aspects of neuropathology, including brain tumors, autopsy neuropathology and neurodegenerative diseases and, muscle and nerve biopsies, he focuses on surgical neuropathology/brain tumors. He also serves Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH), and is a consultant to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory and the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital, as well as pathologists throughout Arkansas and neighboring states.
Dr. Gokden is a member of a number of professional societies and is actively involved in the activities of the American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP), United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), and College of American Pathologists (CAP), and presented consistently at the annual scientific meetings. His academic interests span all aspects of neuropathology, but focuses mostly on surgical neuropathology/brain tumors. He has authored and co-authored a number of books, book chapters and peer-reviewed and review articles, and is heavily involved in the education of trainees in the Medical Center, including medical students, as well as residents/fellows of several Departments.
Dr. Anja C. Roden is Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and is a board certified Anatomic and Clinical Pathologist with special interest in thoracic pathology.
Dr. Roden received her medical training at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Technical University in Dresden, Germany. After training in general surgery and working in basic immunology science she completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency, surgical pathology fellowship, and pulmonary Mayo Clinic scholarship at Mayo Clinic Rochester, US. Subsequently, she joined the staff of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA. Dr. Roden also serves as the Medical Director of the Immunostains Laboratory, the Pulmonary Pathology Fellowship Director, and the head of the thoracic transplant section.
Dr. Roden focuses her research on mediastinal neoplasms, mesothelioma, biomarkers, and pulmonary transplant pathology. She published her work in over 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts, wrote more than 40 book chapters and co-edited 2 textbooks on mediastinal, pulmonary, and mesothelial neoplasms and non-neoplastic lung disease. Following her interests, she chairs the thymic carcinoma and mediastinal working groups of the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group, is a member of an International Mesothelioma Panel and an International Virtual Thymoma Panel, and the Immunohistochemistry Committee of the College of American Pathologists. She is the President of the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group, chair of the thymic subcommittee of the rare tumor committee of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, co-chair of the mediastinal working group of the European Society of Pathology, and the immediate past chair of the pathology community network of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
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Dr. Dabbs is an academic pathologist and currently a consultant for breast and gynecologic pathology and immunohistology in addition to consulting for Pharma and medical-legal issues in breast pathology. From 2001-2019, Dr. Dabbs served as Professor and Chief at UPMC Magee-Women's Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Dabbs has published more than 250 peer reviewed papers and 9 textbooks.
Dr. Gown has recently retired from a distinguished 40-year pathology career as a pathologist-scientist recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in the diagnostic and research applications of immunohistochemistry. He received his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY in 1975, and
then completed his Pathology Residency as well as Pathology Fellowship training at the University of Washington, Seattle, the latter under the aegis of Dr. Earl Benditt. Dr. Gown rose through the ranks to full Professor of Pathology, building an NIH-funded research laboratory, while also serving as an attending pathologist at the University of Washington Medical Center. In the latter context, he developed a diagnostic immunohistochemistry laboratory that also served as a resource for area pathologists. In 1997, he left the University of Washington to found PhenoPath Laboratories, which over 20 years grew to become an internationally renowned diagnostic
reference laboratory. Over his career, he has developed numerous clinically important monoclonal antibodies (e.g., HMB-45, 34βE12), and has contributed extensively to the expanding horizons of immunohistochemistry with over 300 peer-reviewed publications. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of several major pathology journals and is involved in several teaching endeavors, including a role as Clinical Professor of Pathology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Dr. Gown has been married to his wife Carol for over 50 years, having raised 2 sons and now with 3 grandsons. He is also an ardent bicyclist and a student of classical guitar.
Dr. Richard Cartun left Hartford Hospital back on June 30, 2022 after a “44” year career in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine where his main focus was on the amazing technology called “Immunohistochemistry” which, as many medical professionals know, has revolutionized diagnostic pathology.
Richard’s career began when he was hired as the Immunopathology Technician in July of 1978 following graduation from the University of Connecticut (UConn) where he received his BS degree in Pathobiology. Richard performed the first immunoperoxidase “stains” (now called “Tests” …..) at Hartford Hospital in June of 1980. Over the next several years he obtained a MS degree (1982) in Health Care Management from the Hartford Graduate Center/RPI and a PhD (1990) in Pathobiology, also from UConn. At the time of his departure, Richard served as the Director of Histology and the Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology and Morphologic Proteomics (aka, “Immunohistochemistry”) Laboratories. He also served as the Assistant Director of Anatomic Pathology and the Director of Biospecimen Collection programs.
Richard has an extensive list of publications and has given countless presentations for state, national, and international organizations including the National Society for Histotechnology (NSH), the Society For Applied Immunohistochemistry (SFAI), Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Pathology (AIMP), and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP). He is also a founding member of the International Society for Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology (ISIMM).
Richard and his wife Ellen reside in Avon, CT. They have two married sons, four grandchildren, and are also “BIG” UConn Basketball fans!