Episode 108: Dr Jeffrey Ross - HER2, Companion Diagnostics, and Foundation Medicine People of Pathology Podcast

Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Jeffrey Ross
What we discuss with Dr Ross:
How he got started in medicine and pathology, and his thoughts on exposing medical students to pathology
His experience during residency of handling a specimen for an estrogen receptor trial
How he decided to focus on the HER2/neu gene, and some of his work in that area
HER2 testing by IHC and by FISH, and which he thought was better
Liquid biopsy, and how it may be used in the future
The origin of Foundation Medicine
Some of the work that Foundation Medicine does
The impact that Foundation Medicine has had on patients, and a few of their stories
Links for this episode:
Health Podcast Network
 LabVine Learning
The ConfLab from LabVine
Dress A Med scrubs
A New Era for Pathologists' Assistants - Voicebrook Blog
 
Foundation Medicine
Faculty Profile SUNY Upstate - Dr Jeffrey Ross
A Brief History of Breast Cancer
Comprehensive Genomic Profiling of Carcinoma of Unknown Primary SiteNew Routes to Targeted Therapies
 
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