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Dr. Michael Laposata is the Professor and Chair of the Department
of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston. He received
his M.D. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and
completed a postdoctoral research fellowship and residency in Laboratory
Medicine (Clinical Pathology) at Washington University School of Medicine in
St. Louis. He took his first faculty position at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1985, where he was an Assistant
Professor and Director of the hospital's Coagulation Laboratory. In 1989, he
became Director of Clinical Laboratories at the Massachusetts General Hospital
and was appointed to the faculty in the Department of Pathology at Harvard
Medical School, where he became a tenured full Professor of
Pathology. Dr. Laposata joined Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine in 2008 where he was the Edward and Nancy Fody Professor of Pathology
and Medicine. Additionally, he was Pathologist-in-Chief at Vanderbilt University
Hospital and Director of Clinical Laboratories.
His basic
research program has focused on fatty acids and their metabolites.
Dr. Laposata's clinical expertise, for both patient care and clinical research,
is in blood coagulation, with a special expertise in diagnostic errors. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed
publications in basic and clinical research and authored/edited nine books. His work on diagnostic errors earned him an
appointment to the 21 member panel of the National Academy of Medicine which
issued the 2015 report on Improving
Diagnosis in Healthcare.
Dr. Laposata is the
recipient of 14 major teaching prizes at Harvard, the Massachusetts General
Hospital, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His recognitions
include the 1989 Lindback Award, a teaching prize with competition across the
entire University of Pennsylvania system; the 1998 A. Clifford Barger
mentorship award from Harvard Medical School; election to the Harvard Academy
of Scholars in 2002, and to the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Academy for Excellence in Teaching in 2009; and the highest award - by vote of
the graduating class - for teaching in years 1 and 2 at Harvard Medical School
in 1999, 2000, and 2005.
His textbook, in its third
edition, Laposata’s Laboratory Medicine,
has been translated into multiple languages.
It is used globally by those learning laboratory medicine and those
using the clinical laboratory. In a peer
nominated survey performed by The Pathologist, a journal reporting on
the practice of pathology, the November 2015 issue identified Dr. Laposata as
the most influential pathologist in the United States, and the third most
influential pathologist in the world.