About the 2009 Essential Pathology Bookshelf Over 75 new professional level textbooks and monographs are published every year in the areas of pathology, surgical pathology, and laboratory medicine, with an average price in excess of $140. How do you find the time to determine the ones that will be the most useful references for your busy pathology practice and research? Let the Essential Pathology Bookshelf be your guide. The “must-have” titles on this list were selected by a team made up of clinical experts and medical librarians who are collection development experts in pathology. The list represents titles that were available at the time of the selection process in the Spring of 2009. These experts research the book literature and update their selections once every year. Whether your interest is in general anatomic pathology, surgical pathology, or laboratory medicine, or you have a more specific interest in cytopathology or histopathology, or neuropathology, placental pathology, hematopathology, or gynecological pathology, you will find the detailed information provided about the titles selected for the Essential Pathology Bookshelf indispensable. Meet The Essential Pathology Bookshelf Clinical Experts...
		Ivan Damjanov, MD, PhD, is Professor of Pathology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He graduated from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Croatia, where he received his MD degree in 1964 and his PhD degree in experimental pathology in 1971. He is a board certified pathologist with special expertise in urogenital pathology. He has published over 300 papers in peer reviewed journals and over 25 pathology books for practicing pathologists, residents, and medical students. His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian, among others.
		Valerie Ng, PhD, MD, is Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC), Director of the Clinical Laboratory and Director of the Transfusion Service at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California. She received her PhD from the UT Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and MD from UT Dallas Southwestern Medical School. She completed residency training in the Department of Laboratory Medicine in the School of Medicine at UC San Francisco and joined the faculty shortly thereafter. She rose through the ranks of faculty, while accumulating various additional administrative responsibilities, including Director of the Clinical Laboratory at San Francisco General Hospital (1999-2005), Chief of the Medical Staff at San Francisco General Hospital (2003-2005), and Interim Chair of the UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine (2000-2005). She retired from UCSF in June 2005, adding the title of Professor Emeritus of the UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine. She is currently President-Elect of the ACMC medical staff (2006-2008), and will assume the full duties of President of the ACMC Medical Staff in 2008-2010. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (2006-2009) and is a member of the external advisory board for the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. She also serves as a consultant to the Microbiology Devices Panel of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of the Food and Drug Administration. She coordinates and lectures in an annual CME Advances in Laboratory Medicine course sponsored by Scientific Symposiums International (SSI) since 2004, and serves on the SSI Scientific Advisory Board.