University of Virginia Health System

TEMPLETON NAMED NEW PATHOLOGY CHIEF AT U.VA. HEALTH SYSTEM

Dr. Dennis J. Templeton has joined the University of Virginia Health System as Walter Reed Professor and chairman of the Department of Pathology. A cancer pathology specialist, Templeton previously served as associate professor of pathology and oncology, and associate director for basic research of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Among the priorities Templeton plans for the department to pursue over the next two years are development of DNA diagnostic testing in the clinical labs, and cell and cancer biology in the experimental pathology division, he said.

Templeton completed his residency training in anatomic pathology at New England Deaconess Hospital and was clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine. Before joining Case Western Reserve University in 1990, he was a post-doctoral fellow with Robert Weinberg at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass.

Templeton's awards include the Burroughs Wellcome Clinician Scientist Award, and the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Fellowship for Clinical Scientists.

Findings from research studies he has led have been published in peer-reviewed publications including Nature, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Molecular and Cellular Biology. He serves as editorial reviewer for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Pathology, the Journal of Immunology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Nature and Oncogene, among others. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Investigative Pathology.

We are very pleased to welcome Dennis as head of one of the most important departments in our Health System, said Dr. Robert M. Carey, dean of the U.Va. School of Medicine. He is brilliant in his field as well as personable and terrific to work with.

The U.Va. Department of Pathology includes anatomic pathology (25,000 surgical cases, 27,000 cytologic cases and 225 autopsies per year), laboratory medicine (1.8 million tests annually) and neuropathology for pituitary disease, epilepsy, neuromuscular disease and post-mortem examination of dementia and degenerative disease.

July 25, 2001