Meet Former Hematopathology Fellow, Dr. Abraham Loo

Dr. Abraham Loo is a practicing surgical pathologist/hematopathologist at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, NJ. He was a fellow in Hematopathology at URMC from 2014-15. We caught up with him recently to talk about his career path, and see what advice he has to offer others. 

Sharing Lab Quality Practices Overseas

Can you imagine working in a lab that has no electronic database and limited technology?

That’s exactly the case in many parts of the world, which is why members of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), led by URMC’s Dr. Victoria Zhang, traveled to three different countries in Asia this summer to provide training in areas of need.

Just How Bad was ’17-18 Flu Season? Clinical Labs Provide a Recap

It was a record-breaking year for the flu in the Greater Rochester Region. Just ask anyone working in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH), which saw a 37 percent increase in the number of flu tests performed at SMH between July 2017 and June 2018 over the previous season. Our labs performed 17,862 tests in total.  

Pathology Research Day 2018 Recap

The annual Pathology Research Day event at the University of Rochester Medical Center was held on Monday, June 11, 2018.

First Class of URMC's Rising Medical Technologists Graduates

Together with friends, family, and future colleagues, URMC's first clinical/medical laboratory technology students graduate from the program on Friday, May 18.