Episode 108: Dr Jeffrey Ross - HER2, Companion Diagnostics, and Foundation Medicine

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   People of Pathology Podcast: Website Twitter