Department of Pathology Resident Wins Cytology Award

Department of Pathology Resident Rena Yu, MD, was the recipient of this year's Sixten Franzén Award for the Best Work in Fine Needle Aspiration offered through the European Federation of Cytology Societies. Her work "Thyroid biopsy: What is the measure of success?", submitted by Drs. Jerry Waisman, Rena Yu, Aylin Simsir, and Joan Cangiarella, was recognized at last month's 35th European Congress of Cytology in Lisbon, Portugal.

Dr. Yu is a graduate of SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and a fourth-year resident in the Department of Pathology. She plans to pursue a Cytopathology Fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco next year.

The award is named after Sixten Franzén (1919-2008), who was an internationally renowned cytopathologist at the Karolinska Institute and Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, and a pioneer in the field of aspiration cytology. As part of its mission, the European Federation of Cytology Societies organizes an annual congress in order to promote and disseminate the most recent innovations in the field of cytology, as well as to provide professional training for scientific and technical cytologists and to advance diagnostic skills for residents.