Virginia Commonwealth University Service 

Department of Pathology
Vice Chair for Graduate Medical Education (1999 - Present)
Associate Director, Resident Training Program (2005-Present)
Executive Committee (1996 - Present)

Current (Other)
Chair, Graduate Medical Education Committee, VCU Health System (2007 - Present)
M-IV Advisory Committee, School of Medicine, VCU (2003 - Present)
Co-Course Director, MII Respiratory and Cardiovascular Courses, School of Medicine, VCU (1991 - Present)
Vice President, Faculty Senate, Virginia Commonwealth University (2007-2008)

Licenses & Certifications

Medical Licenses (Current)
Commonwealth of Virginia

Board Certifications (Current)
National Board of Medical Examiners, 1976

American Board of Pathology
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 1980
Voluntary re-certification, 2002

Education

Postgraduate Medical Education
Fellow in Surgical Pathology
Department of Pathology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York
1980 – 1982

Resident, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Virginia Commonwealth University
1976 – 1980

Intern, Internal Medicine
Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Virginia Commonwealth University
1975 – 1976

Medical Education
MD, New York Medical College
New York, New York 1975

Undergraduate Education
AB, (Biology, cum laude), Rosemont College
Rosemont, Pennsylvania 1971

Awards

 2007
Outstanding Teacher Award (Best Teacher, Pathology Teaching)

2006
Outstanding Teacher Award (Faculty with High Evaluation), M-II Cardiovascular Course
Outstanding Teacher Award (Faculty with High Evaluation), Pathology Teaching
Top Doctors, Richmond Magazine, April 2006

2005
Outstanding Teacher Award, M-II Pathology
Saul Kay Award (Teaching Award presented by graduating residents)
Finalist, ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award

2004
Outstanding Teacher Award (Faculty with High Evaluation), M-II Cardiovascular Course

2003
Outstanding Teacher Award (Faculty with High Evaluation), Pathology Teaching

2002
Outstanding Teacher Award, M-II Pathology

2001
Outstanding Teacher Award, M-II Pathology

2000
Outstanding Teacher Award, M-II Pathology

1999
Outstanding Teacher Award, M-II Respiratory Course
Outstanding Teacher Award (Faculty with High Evaluation), M-II Cardiovascular Course
Saul Kay Award (Teaching Award presented by graduating residents)

Recent Grants

Co-Investigator: “Determination of distinct types of immune responses to Her-2”
M. Manjili and H.D. Bear, Principal Investigators
Massey Cancer Center Pilot Project (2007)

Co-Investigator: “Regulation of Prostate Cell Growth”
Joy L. Ware, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
NIH (NIDDK) (2002-2005)

Professional Service

Trustee, The American Board of Pathology (2007- present)

Member, U.S.-Canadian Mesothelioma Reference Panel (1986 - present)

Secretary-Treasurer, Intersociety Committee for Pathology Information (2008- present)

Council Member, Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology (2003 - present)

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (formerly NCCLS) Area Committee on Quality Systems and Laboratory Practices (2004 - present)

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

• Residency Review Committee for Pathology, AMA representative 2000 - 2007 (Chair, 2005 - 2007)
• Subcommittee for Dermatopathology 2002 - 2007 (Vice Chair, 2004 - 2007)

Program Directors Section, Association of Pathology Chairs

• Immediate Past Chair (2002 - 2004)
• Chair (2000 - 2002)
• Vice Chair (1999 - 2000)
• Secretary-Treasurer (1998 - 1999)
• Co-Chair, Ethics Committee (1998 - 2000)
• Liaison to College of American Pathologists Membership Committee
  (2000 - 2002)
• Representative to Council of Medical Specialty Societies Organization of Program Directors Associations (2000 - 2002)

Professional Organizations

American Society of Clinical Pathology
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists
Pulmonary Pathology Society
American College of Chest Physicians (Fellow)
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
International Society of Breast Pathology
Program Directors Section, Association of Pathology Chairs
College of American Pathologists (Fellow)
Virginia Society for Pathology
Alpha Omega Alpha
American Medical Association
Medical Society of Virginia
Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

Roseff SD, Nichols BG, Grimes MM. The Changing Practice of Medicine. In: Clinical Laboratory Management. Garcia LS et al, ed., ASM Press, Washington D.C., 2004.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Hoban JD, Schlesinger J, Fairman RP, Grimes MM. Electrifying a medical school course: a case study. Teach Learn Med 2003; 15(2): 140-146.

Oskeritzian CA, Zhao W, Pozez AL, Cohen NM, Grimes M, Schwartz LB. Neutralizing endogenous IL-6 renders mast cells of the MC-T type from lung, but not the MC-TC type from skin and lung, susceptible to human rIL-4-induced apoptosis. J Immunol 2004; 172(1): 593-600.

Huang D, Liu X, Plymate S, Idowu M, Grimes M, Best A, McKinny J, Ware J. Proteomic identification of 14-3-3 sigma as a common component of the androgen receptor and the epidermal growth factor receptor signaling pathways of the human prostate epithelial cell line M12. Oncogene 2004; 23(41): 6881-6889.

Allen TC, Cagle PT, Churg AM, Colby TV, Gibbs AR, Hammar SP, Corson JM, Grimes MM, Ordonez NG, Roggli V, Travis WT, Wick MR. Localized Malignant Mesothelioma. Am J Surg Pathol 2005; 29(7): 866-873.

Burdick MJ, Jolles PR, Grimes MM, Henry DA. Mediastinal hibernoma simulates a malignant lesion on dual time point FDG imaging. Lung Cancer 2007; Sep 28.

Kass ME, Crawford JM, Bennet BD, Cox TM, Grimes MM et al. Adequacy of pathology resident training for employment: a survey report form the Future of Pathology Task Group. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2007; 131: 545-555

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Updated January 15, 2008