Clinical
The Department of Pathology and
Molecular Medicine performs comprehensive
laboratory testing, test result interpretation
and diagnostic consultation through the
following services: Anatomic Pathology including
surgical pathology, cytology, neuropathology,
and autopsy; Haematopathology including
laboratory haematology, transfusion medicine,
haemostasis, and immunology; Medical Microbiology
including bacteriology, virology, mycology,
parasitology and Infection Control; Clinical
Chemistry; and Laboratory Genetics including
cytogenetics, molecular diagnostics, and
a gene microarray facility.
The Department of Pathology and Molecular
Medicine provides direct patient care through
a Clinical Genetics service which includes:
diagnosis and management of patients and
families with simple and complex genetic
traits; evaluation of children and adults
with a variety of disorders including mental
retardation, birth defects, congenital malformations,
neurologic abnormalities, and inherited
metabolic disorders; prenatal diagnostic
evaluation; and evaluation and counselling
of patients in a predictive cancer testing
program. The department also administers
an Autologous Transfusion Program throughout
the Transfusion Medicine Service and a multidisciplinary
regional program for care of individuals
with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders.
Although these clinical activities are
centred predominantly in the Southeastern
Ontario Academic Health Sciences Centre,
the Department also provides regional and
trans-regional laboratory and clinical care
services which include a laboratory outreach
program involving multiple hospitals and
other clinical care sites, a regional gynaecologic
cytology screening program, a regional dermatopathology
service, a regional forensic pathology service
through the Regional
Forensic Unit at Kingston General Hospital,
a national diagnostic service in focused
areas of molecular genetics and haemostasis,
and clinical genetics programs.
Research
The Department of Pathology and Molecular
Medicine undertakes externally funded, peer-reviewed
basic, clinical and translational research
that is focused on the aetiology, molecular
pathogenesis, epidemiology and pathobiology
of disease. The Department provides leadership
in multidisciplinary research groups including
cancer biology and molecular haemostasis.
The Department fosters collaborative and
clinical research.
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