Programs & Platforms
Our department is creating the links from new discoveries in the laboratory and internationally recognized best practices to the rapid translation for clinical diagnostics in order to improve patient care and outcomes.
Our faculty are working to impact the future of medical care, including through telepathology and informatics. Our experts have developed new approaches to provide electronic interfaces with information systems and laboratories throughout the region. This work provides cutting-edge environments for our students and trainees.
Digital Pathology
Our department is actively engaged in digital pathology, including through education, research and emerging applications for clinical workflow.
Revolutionizing Teaching
Virtual microscopy is used to integrate whole slide imaging into pathology courses for medical students and allied pathology schools and the creation of pathology resident teaching sets, as well as interdepartmental tumor board conferences. This allows educators to create clinical vignettes with associated attached radiographic, gross and histopathology images.
Advancing Research
Our department offers digital services to UNMC researchers using a Leica Biosystems CS2 scanner located within our Tissue Science Facility. Investigators studying animal models can submit glass slides of various organs for scanning and in turn receive digital services via a cloud-based server. Researchers also have access to an image analysis program for quantitation.
Dr. Swanson named to new pathology digital leadership role
Exemplify the spirit of academic health care delivery, Dr. Ben Swanson is spearheading our department's digital pathology program.
Diagnostic Test Development
Our laboratory scientists are actively involved in the development and evaluation of new diagnostic tests. Services are provided in collaboration with commercial entities or on a contract basis such as for generation of data in support of 510K applications to the Food and Drug Administration.
In collaboration with Nebraska Medicine, our faculty have developed specialized services and diagnostic tests to address rare or uncommonly needs and may employ new antibodies or molecular techniques such as polymerase chain reaction. Specialized services may employ very expensive equipment not available in most hospitals such as electron microscopes or mass spectrometers. These assays are offered to physicians and health care providers through our outreach program, Regional Pathology Services.
Our scientists work closely with commercial partners in the development of protocols, including IRB applications and approvals. Work can be performed on site in our Tissue Sciences Facility or through review of material generated by commercial partners. Contact our chair, Joseph Khoury, MD, or medical director, Scott Koepsell, MD, PhD, for more information.
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