Educational Contribution of the Institutions participating in the Residency Program
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Ben Taub General Hospital (Harris County Hospital District)
Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is the primary academic institution sponsoring the Molecular Genetic Pathology (MGP) fellowship program. Fellows will have primary appointments in the Departments of Pathology and Molecular and Human Genetics of BCM.
BCM will provide administrative support for the MGP fellows through its Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME) and the offices of the Department of Pathology and Molecular and Human Genetics. All faculty members (clinical, basic science, and research) affiliated with this fellowship program will have primary appointments on the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine.
BCM represents one of the primary training sites for this program and will serve as the site for the mandatory laboratory rotation in Human Genetics. The Department of Molecular and Human Genetics is headed by Arthur Beaudet, M.D. The DNA Diagnostic Laboratory (Director, Benjamin Roa, Ph.D.) of the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at BCM will be the primary training site for Human Genetics.
The BCM Human Genome Sequencing Center will also participate in the training of MGP fellows by providing didactic teaching, elective rotations, and opportunities for elective research. Research laboratories (headed by research faculty) of the Departments of Pathology and Molecular and Human Genetics at BCM may sponsor elective research experiences for periods during or beyond the mandatory 12 months of the MGP fellowship program.
BCM will serve as the primary site for didactic and case conferences/lectures sponsored by the Departments of Pathology and Molecular and Human Genetics.
Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), a primary affiliated teaching hospital of Baylor, will serve as a primary site for laboratory training based on the distributed model of testing in molecular genetic pathology.
Fellows will rotate in the laboratories of Molecular Microbiology (Director, James Versalovic, M.D., Ph.D.), Molecular Neuropathology (Director, Adekunle Adesina, M.D., Ph.D.), and Molecular Pathology (Oncology; Director, Dolores Lopez-Terrada, M.D., Ph.D.), located in the Department of Pathology. The Department is headed by Milton J. Finegold, M.D. MGP fellows will participate in clinical case and didactic conferences in the Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics of TCH. Additional training opportunities for MGP fellows will be made available in the Texas Children's Cancer Center (Director, David Poplack, M.D.) and its molecular oncology laboratories.
MGP fellows will have the opportunity to pursue research opportunities in the Department of Pathology at TCH. TCH is the fourth-ranked children's hospital in the USA (2004 U.S. News and World Report) and contains 467 beds, making it one of the largest pediatric healthcare institutions in the country.
Molecular Genetic Pathology Methods
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) will serve as a primary site for laboratory training in adult molecular oncology and molecular identity / histocompatibility testing. MDACC will also serve as a secondary site for training in molecular microbiology.
This rotation has been arranged in cooperation with Dan Jones, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Molecular Genetic Pathology fellowship program at MDACC. Letters of agreement have been signed by the program directors and leaders of the Departments of Pathology at Baylor and MDACC.
Fellows will rotate in the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (Directors, Dan Jones, M.D., Ph.D., and Raja Luthra, Ph.D.) and the Histocompatibility Laboratory (Directors, Pedro Cano, M.D., and Marcelo Fernandez-Vina, Ph.D.). The fellows will participate in clinical case conferences, and didactic conferences in the Division of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at MDACC.
MDACC is the number one-ranked (U.S. News and World Report, 2004) cancer cancer in the United States and includes a comprehensive array of subspecialties in oncology.
Ben Taub General Hospital (Harris County Hospital District)
Ben Taub General Hospital (BTGH), the primary public affiliated teaching hospital of Baylor, will serve as a secondary site for laboratory training in molecular microbiology.
Fellows will rotate in the Microbiology Laboratory (Director, Charles E. Stager, Ph.D.) located in the Department of Pathology. The fellows will participate in clinical case conferences. BTGH provides comprehensive adult and pediatric medical care in addition to housing a Level One Trauma Center for Harris County.
BTGH also serves as a site for Baylor Genetics consultation services, the People's Clinic (a Harris County-funded ambulatory care clinic), and the Prenatal Clinic.