The UAB Department of Pathology celebrated the 29th year of its Paulette Shirey Pritchett Endowed Lecture in Pathology on May 16 with an outstanding lecture by Vishva M. Dixit, M.D., Vice President, Early Discovery Research, Genentech, Director, Genentech Postdoctoral Program. Dixit delivered the talk, titled, "Why So Many Ways to Die?"

Dixit was introduced by Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, Ph.D., Endowed Professor in Experimental Cancer Therapeutics, Vice Chair for Research, and is also pictured with Sooryanarayana Varambally, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular and Cellular Pathology, whose mentor trained under Dixit at the University of Michigan. 

The lecture is named for Paulette Shirey Pritchett, who was appointed an assistant professor at UAB in 1975 and a surgical pathologist at UAB and later at Cooper Green Hospital. Dr. Pritchett was a highly respected young member of the UAB Department of Pathology when she unexpectedly passed away on August 4, 1984. She was a native Alabamian who obtained her medical degree from the University of Alabama, where she was awarded the Stewart Graves Award and the William Boyd Medal for her demonstrated excellence in pathology. Dr. Robert Pritchett, her husband and a practicing dermatologist, provided financial support to the university in her name to establish this lectureship.

We thank Dr. Pritchett and members of his family for making this lectureship possible.

View past lecturers for the Paulette Shirey Pritchett Endowed Lecture in Pathology here.