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Dr. Westermeier attended Yale College in New Haven,
Connecticut and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York
before attending medical school at the Faculte de Medecine
de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France. While in high school, Dr.
Westermeier received the National Merit Scholar award; in
medical school he received the “Mention Internationale”
which is the highest possible award in France for medical
school theses. Dr. Westermeier did his pathology internship
and residency at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San
Francisco, California. He is board certified in Anatomic and
Clinical Pathology by the College of American Pathologists.
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Dr.
Pankowsky is a graduate of The University of Texas
Medical School Medical School at Houston. He earned a
concurrent Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering
(Bioengineering) at Rice University. He completed his
residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Case Western
Reserve University/University Hospitals of Cleveland. During
that time he published papers on male breast cancer and
developed a model for studying blood protein adherence to
artificial surfaces. He has fellowship training in Surgical
Pathology at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI and
subspecialty training in Hematopathology at Loyola
University in Chicago, IL. He is board certified by the
American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical
Pathology, and Hematology. He was an Assistant Professor of
Pathology at Emory University School of Medicine from
1992-1995. He has been with Pathologists’ Laboratory, PC
since 1998. He holds several US and foreign patents in the
area related to multiparameter immunophenotyping of cells.
Working closely with members of Tennessee Oncology, he has
helped develop a procedure for a painless bone marrow biopsy
and many such procedures are performed at our covered
hospitals. He is an active member of the community and
currently serves on the board at Akiva Day School. His
volunteer activities have included walking for Light the
Night for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society and helping to build
access ramps for Access Nashville. |
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Dr.
Brian Carlson received his medical degree from
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville,
Tennessee. His residency was at the Parkland Memorial
Hospital in Dallas, Texas in Anatomic and Clinical
Pathology. Dr. Carlson began with Pathologists' Laboratory,
PC in 1982. Dr. Carlson is certified by the American Board
of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. |
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Dr.
Angela Byrd-Gloster earned her medical degree from
the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. She also
completed her residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
at the University of South Florida. During her final year of
residency Dr. Byrd-Gloster functioned as a Fellow in
Oncologic Surgical Pathology at Moffit Cancer Center and
Research Institute in Tampa, Florida. Following residency,
she served in the United States Navy as a Staff Pathologist
at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North
Carolina and National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda,
Maryland. During these tours of duty she also performed many
collateral duties including Head of Clinical Laboratory,
Chair of Tissue and Transfusion Committee and Pathology
Liaison for Multidisciplinary Breast Tumor Board. For the
outstanding performance of these duties she received the
Navy Achievement Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal. Dr.
Byrd-Gloster is a Diplomate of the American Board of
Pathology, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. |
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Claude R. Velasco, M.D. graduated with Highest
Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia
in Charlottesville, Virginia before attending Stanford
University Medical School, Stanford, California. He
continued on at Stanford University Medical Center as a
resident in Anatomic Pathology, and then as a surgical
pathology fellow. He served as Associate Professor at the
Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee Medical
Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Dr. Velasco is certified by
the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical
Pathology and Hematology. He completed training in clinical
pathology at the University of California, San Diego,
followed by a fellowship in Hematopathology at the
University of Utah. |
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