Editorial Board
J. Godfrey Heathcote, MA, MB BChir, PhD, FRCPC
Editor-in-Chief
Godfrey Heathcote graduated in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, where he was the student editor of the University Medical Journal. Following clinical studies at University College Hospital (UCH) Medical School in London (England), he obtained his medical degree in 1974 and became house physician on the metabolic unit at UCH. Subsequently, he became a research fellow in the Department of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Manchester, and in 1978 was awarded a PhD degree for his thesis “Studies on the Biosynthesis of Basement Membrane Collagen.” During this period at Manchester, he continued to work in metabolic medicine and became interested in the biochemistry and developmental biology of the eye. He continued this research in the Developmental Biology Laboratory at Harvard Medical School, where he was a research fellow in the Department of Medicine from 1980 to 1983.
During residency training in anatomical pathology at the University of Western Ontario, he developed an interest in ophthalmic pathology, which has since become his primary focus. Upon completion of training, he spent 6 months as a visiting pathologist at the Institute of Ophthalmology in London, England, and was appointed as a staff pathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital and assistant professor of pathology and ophthalmology at the University of Toronto. During this period, he worked closely with orbital and lacrimal surgeons and developed a subsidiary interest in head and neck pathology. In 1991, he returned to London (Ontario) as chief of pathology at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, becoming chair of the Department of Pathology at UWO and chief of pathology at the newly established London Health Sciences Centre in 1996. In 2004, he was appointed head of the Department of Pathology at Dalhousie University and chief of pathology and laboratory medicine for the eight laboratories of the Capital District Health Authority in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Dr. Heathcote has published widely in ophthalmic and head and neck pathology. His major clinical and academic interests lie in the pathology of the ocular adnexa and the developmental pathology of the eye. He is currently chair of the Canadian Ophthalmic Pathology Society and since 1994 has been the section editor of general and ophthalmic pathology for the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology. He is a regular reviewer of pathology papers for a variety of ophthalmology journals and was a member of the editorial team responsible for the publication in 2008 of the third edition of Garner and Klintworth’s Pathobiology of Ocular Disease.
Manon Auger, MD, FRCPC
Section Editor, Cytopathology
After obtaining her MD degree at McGill University, Manon Auger completed her residency training in anatomical pathology at the University of Toronto, followed by a cytopathology fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She is currently director of the Cytopathology Laboratory at the McGill University Health Centre and is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology at McGill University. She has given numerous cytopathology workshops in Canada and the United States and is the course director of the annual McGill Cytopathology Review Course. Dr. Auger’s special interests relate to fine-needle aspirations, in particular those from the thyroid gland.
Calvino Cheng, BSc, MD, FRCPC
Section Editor, Pathology Informatics and Quality Management
Calvino Cheng graduated in biochemistry and medicine from the University of Calgary and undertook residency training in hematopathology at the University of Alberta. Since 2005, he has been a staff hematopathologist at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre and the Capital District Health Authority (CDHA) in Halifax, and is an assistant professor of pathology at Dalhousie University, where he is also director of the hematopathology residency training program. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Section of Haematopathology of the CAP-ACP. His major interests lie in transfusion medicine, laboratory utilization, and pathology informatics, and he has combined these to develop an evidence-based maximum surgical blood ordering schedule (MSBOS) to enhance perioperative blood management. Dr. Cheng is the medical director of the Pathology Informatics Group in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at CDHA. Since 2005, he has been an adviser to the Canada Health Infoway project, first as a member of the Laboratory pan-Canadian Standards Group and more recently as a member of the Clinical Subcommittee, as it works to establish an interoperable electronic health record.
Eleftherios Diamandis, BSc, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Section Editor, Medical Biochemistry
Eleftherios Diamandis graduated from the University of Athens with a degree in chemistry, and following graduate studies in analytical chemistry, he trained in medicine and clinical biochemistry. Since 1995, he has been head of clinical biochemistry at Mount Sinai Hospital and is also biochemist-in-chief of the University Health Network in Toronto. He is currently professor and head of the Division of Clinical Biochemistry in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Diamandis is actively engaged in research in cancer biomarkers and molecular diagnostics and has published extensively in this field. He has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Van Slyke Award of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of international journals, including the British Journal of Cancer and Molecular Oncology, and is associate editor of Clinical Chemistry.
David K. Driman, MB ChB, FRCPC
Section Editor, Anatomical Pathology
David Driman graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1984 and completed residency training in anatomical pathology at the University of Toronto in 1993. Following fellowship training in gastrointestinal pathology with Dr. Robert Riddell at McMaster University, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), where he is now professor of pathology and associate professor of surgery. Between 1998 and 2007, he served as residency program director for both anatomical pathology and general pathology at UWO, and he has received several teaching awards for both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. In 2009, he completed a term as chief examiner in anatomical pathology for the Royal College. Dr. Driman is a staff pathologist at London Health Sciences Centre and is active in clinicopathological research in liver and gastrointestinal pathology.
Todd F. Hatchette, BSc, MD, FRCPC
Section Editor, Medical Microbiology
Todd Hatchette graduated in biology from Dalhousie University and pursued his medical studies at Memorial University. He is currently a medical microbiologist and infectious disease consultant at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre and Capital District Health Authority in Halifax, where he has been director of the Virology and Immunology Laboratory since 2004. He is an associate professor in the Departments of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology at Dalhousie University. After residency training, he undertook a period of laboratory research in the virology of influenza with Dr. Robert Webster at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and has published extensively on influenza, mumps, and Q-fever. Dr. Hatchette is a member of the Council of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada and the National Pandemic Coordinating Committee.
Michael J. Shkrum, MD, FRCPC
Section Editor, Forensic Pathology
Michael Shkrum is a staff pathologist at London Health Sciences Centre and professor in the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, at the University of Western Ontario. He began his practice in 1985 in London following a forensic pathology fellowship in North Carolina. Currently, he is the director of the Southwestern Ontario Forensic Pathology Unit. Dr. Shkrum has presented and published widely in his field. He coauthored a text titled Forensic Pathology of Trauma – Common Problems for the Pathologist. His research has focused on motor vehicle trauma. He is a co-principal investigator with the University of Western Ontario Multidisciplinary Accident Research Team based in the Faculty of Engineering Science.
Louis D. Wadsworth, MB ChB, FRCPath, FRCPC
Section Editor, Hematopathology
After medical school at the University of Manchester, Louis Wadsworth trained in hematopathology in the United Kingdom. He is currently a hematopathologist at the Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia and a consulting hematopathologist at Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center. He is a clinical professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of British Columbia and a member of the Department of Paediatrics. Dr. Wadsworth has published numerous papers on hematopathology, particularly in relation to children. His major interest is in transfusion medicine, and he is a member of the Royal College Specialty Committee for that discipline and a member of the National Advisory Committee for Blood and Blood Products. In 2006, Dr. Wadsworth received the William Boyd Award of the Canadian Association of Pathologists. |
