I am a board-certified gynecologic pathologist with 21-year expertise in light-, immunofluorescence-, and high-resolution confocal-microscopy. I work as a staff pathologist at the UAB hospital and examine surgical tissues and provide the diagnoses. In my research projects, I have been involved in numerous collaborative studies and evaluated human, mouse and rat tissues. Pathologic findings have ranged from bacterial and viral infection, immune complex deposition and histopathology of female reproductive organs ranging from precancerous lesions to invasive carcinoma. My role in these studies was to review the protocols for immunofluorescence and immunohistochemical staining, perform tissue processing and embedding, and imaging studies using laser scanning confocal microscopy. My previous experience involved human islet cells isolation and pre-transplant preparation, pump perfusion of rat kidney and heart, quantification of extracellular matrix in kidney and heart, acute and chronic renal rejection, and HIV virion identification in the intestinal tissue. Most recently, I evaluated a passive mouse model of IgA nephropathy using image analysis with morphometric, densitometric, and co-localization studies.
