Joan Guitart, MD < Back Joan Guitart, MD Faculty Focus of Work Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, Dermatopathology, Skin cancer prevention and detection Education MD: Autonomous University of Barcelona (1983) Postgraduate Training Resident: Univ. of Illinois Hospital, Pathology (1988) Fellow: Cleveland Clinic, (1989) Intern: Cleveland Clinic, Internal Medicine (1990) Resident: Cleveland Clinic, (1990) Certifications Board Certification: Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology Board Certification: Dermatopathology, American Board of Pathology Board Certification: Dermatology, American Board of Dermatology PS Home

Antoanella Calame, MD Antoanella Calame, MD Faculty Dr. Antoanella Calame received her MD degree from University of California, San Diego (UCSD) after graduating Summa Cum Laude from California Lutheran University. She completed her residency in Dermatology at UCSD, followed by a Dermatopathology Fellowship at University of Texas, Southwestern (UTSW) in Dallas, Texas, where she trained with Dr. Clay Cockerell, one of the world leaders in the field of Dermatopathology. Dr. Calame is board certified in Dermatology and Dermatopathology and holds over thirty active state licenses. She is the author of a book on Cutaneous Manifestations of HIV disease and has published numerous peer reviewed scientific papers. Dr. Calame is an invited speaker at local and national conferences every year. She has a special interest in melanoma and melanocytic lesions and is actively involved with the newest clinical and molecular techniques used in the diagnosis and prognosis of cutaneous melanoma. Dr. Calame is the founder and director of Compass Dermatopathology, Poway Dermatology, and the Dermatology Center of La Jolla. She practices Dermatopathology full time and spends a limited time seeing Dermatology patients. Dr. Calame teaches Dermatology and Dermatopathology to the UCSD and Navy Dermatology residents, as well as Dermatology and Pathology residents who come to rotate with her from all over the United States and the world. She has received the annual Excellence in Teaching Award from UTSW and UCSD four times. Dr. Calame’s interests outside of work include tennis, yoga, camping, and spending time with her family. PS Winter Home

Business 201 Faculty < Back Mireya Hawthorne CEO & Principal Mireya Gonzalez Hawthorne serves the insurance and risk management needs of commercial clients in a variety of industries including retail, food service, manufacturing, public entity, financial services, healthcare, construction, property management and development. Mireya specializes in large-scale corporate risk management and solves critical risk and asset management objectives for middle market corporations. Areas of expertise include multi-state property and casualty programs, negotiating favorable terms for difficult or unique Directors and Officers Liability placements, negotiating Bonds, Products Liability coverage, helping clients turn around adverse Workers' Compensation experience, and insuring hard to place Property Schedules. She brings over 20 years of extensive insurance, risk financing, and risk management experience to MGRA. Mireya began her insurance career in San Antonio, Texas with Nationwide Insurance. A leading sales executive in personal lines and a nationally ranked producer of property and casualty insurance. Promoted to Dallas County Portfolio Manager & led the underwriting division for her district to the state Sales Conference each year. Became one of ten districts in Texas to reach Pacesetter’s (annual award) 4 consecutive years. In 1998, went to Summit Global Partners & excelled as an Account Executive/Producer. Served the insurance and risk management needs of companies such as WBK Construction Co, Hardscape Construction, Bell Sports, Monitronic’s, Broadcast.com , BroadbandNow, Trintel, ABC Pest Control, NTTA, and NV Holdings. She was recruited by Marsh USA in 2002 to develop new engagement opportunities for middle to large markets in their consulting and risk management division. She developed relationships with companies such as D.R. Horton, Carreker Financial, and Mary Kay, Inc. She managed client risks to strengthen their balance sheets, reduce expenses, and benefit their overall bottom line. Specialties: Technology Consulting firm, Franchised Food Service, Development of National Insurance Programs for Groups/Associations/Franchises, Construction, Mgmt Consulting, Service Organization, Products Liability, Executive Risk Arena-DnO, EnO, EPLI, Crime & Fiduciary https://www.mgrainc.com/ Business201 Home

Chris Bandel < Back Chris Bandel Educational Manager Cockerell Dermatopathology , Dermatopathologist Assistant Dermpath On Demand, Co-Educational Manager Bio coming soon. DOD Home

Business 201 Faculty < Back Jeff Libby Partner Jeff Libby is more than an outstanding attorney and counselor; he is a trusted advisor. Jeff's practice focuses on commercial real estate and commercial loan transactions in which he assists clients on a local and national basis in a wide array of development, leasing, lending and construction matters. Mr. Libby works alongside developers of medical office buildings, retail shopping centers, multifamily complexes and single-family lots assisting with site acquisition, due diligence, subdivision and platting, zoning, entitlements and financing, as well as the construction of improvements, leasing, management and asset disposition. Jeff helps landlords and tenants successfully negotiate their commercial lease agreements, and counsels owners and contractors throughout the construction process. Mr. Libby also assists local community banks and national institutional lenders in processing and closing commercial loan transactions. Specialties Include: Commercial Real Estate Transactions Commercial Loan Transactions Commercial Lending Site Acquisition and Disposition Sale-Leaseback Transactions Medical Office Building Development Retail Development Mixed Use Development, Shopping Center Development Office Building Development Multifamily Development Single-Family Development Leasing (Landlord / Tenant) Medical Office Leasing Retail Leasing Shopping Center Leasing Commercial Office Leasing Industrial Leasing Warehouse Leasing Construction (Owner, Contractor, Subcontractor) Entitlements and Zoning Business Loan Transactions (Lender / Borrower) Commercial Mortgage Loans (Lender / Borrower) Title and Survey Easements Covenants, Conditions and Restictions (CCRs) Deed Restrictions Owner Associations Business Transactions Corporate Transactions https://www.libbysparks.com/ Business201 Home

Joan Guitart, MD Joan Guitart, MD Faculty Focus of Work Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, Dermatopathology, Skin cancer prevention and detection Education MD: Autonomous University of Barcelona (1983) Postgraduate Training Resident: Univ. of Illinois Hospital, Pathology (1988) Fellow: Cleveland Clinic, (1989) Intern: Cleveland Clinic, Internal Medicine (1990) Resident: Cleveland Clinic, (1990) Certifications Board Certification: Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology Board Certification: Dermatopathology, American Board of Pathology Board Certification: Dermatology, American Board of Dermatology PS Winter Home

Jennifer Cather, MD < Back Jennifer Cather, MD Faculty Jennifer C. Cather, MD, FAAD, is the Medical Director and Founder of Mindful Dermatology and Modern Research Associates in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Cather earned her BA in Chemistry at the University of Texas, graduating Magna Cum Laude and her MD at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. After completing anInternal Medicine internship at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, she completed a Clinical Research Fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center and a residency in Dermatology at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. She is licensed to practice in Texas and California and is certified by the American Board of Dermatology. Dr. Cather has been an investigator in more than 275 clinical research trials in the areas of psoriasis and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and has authored or co-authored numerous abstracts and manuscripts. Her writing has appeared in such publications as the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, The British Journal of Dermatology, the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology, Cutis, Dermatologic Therapy, and Dermatologic Clinics. Dr. Cather lectures on investigational therapies in psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, melanoma, and graft versus host disease, and she frequently serves as a consultant within these disciplines. PS Home

Labatory improvement reduce turnaround time.Continuous Specimen Flow Changes Night Shifts to Day Shifts While Reducing Turn-Around-Time < Back Continuous Specimen Flow Changes Night Shifts to Day Shifts While Reducing Turn-Around-Time Clay Cockerell, MD, JD, MDA | Mary deBram-Hart, BS, HT | Erico Von Bueren, PhD, MD, MOR | Brenda Wander | Mark Fussner, BS, CT | Claudio Scancich | Craig Reed | Brand McCarley Jul 26, 2022 Labatory improvement reduce turnaround time. To reduce average TAT from 36-42 hours to 24-26 hours, the laboratory was restructured to include, relocation and a new floor plan for linear specimen workflow with a larger workspace. Conventional tissue processors were replaced with continuous flow, rapid tissue processors, cassette batch sizes reduced to an maximum of 32, and fully automated embedding was introduced. Personnel was rescheduled to decrease family unfriendly working hours (3pm-5am) and total hours, while increasing laboratory efficiency. MATERIALS & METHODS Customized WinSURGE® (Computer Trust Corp) Scanning Records using customized tools in Microsoft ® Excel ® 2013. Floorplans analyzing pathway crossings. Analysis of scheduled personnel shifts, family unfriendly (3pm-5am) schedules, and overtime. Analysis of cassette number reduction by increasing the number of spatially separated cross sectioned ellipse/s in Tissue-Tek® Paraform® Sectionable Cassette Systems (Sakura Finetek, Torrance, CA). Specimens were processed on Tissue-Tek VIP® 5, Tissue-Tek Xpress® x120, and embedded on Tissue-Tek AutoTEC® (Sakura Finetek, Torrance, CA). RESULTS The Paraform Sectionable Cassette System allows multiple cross sectioned ellipse/s in one cassette, locking their orientation from grossing to microtomy. Using Paraform Cassettes resulted in less cassettes grossed, processed, embedded, sectioned, and less slides stained and reviewed. Daily volumes decreased from 1,600 to 1,358 (-13%), reducing costs and increasing profitability. OLD vs. NEW LABORATORY SETUP The new laboratory set-up reduced overall daily working time for the entire Team from 215.5 hrs. to 136 hrs. (-79.5 hrs./-37%) while reducing the daily family unfriendly time (3pm to 5am) by 61% from 119.5 hrs. to 44 hrs./ 75%. The highest reduction of working and family unfriendly time was achieved in Embedding: -52 hrs./-100%, followed by Microtomy and Grossing. The Grossing and Microtomy Teams assist loading and unloading the Tissue-Tek Xpress x120 and Tissue-Tek AutoTEC, allowing task variety. The 4 stacked graphs on the left show the effect on working hours, the 4 stacked graphs on the right show the effect on family unfriendly hours. Noticeably, cumulative overtime was reduced from an average daily total of 16 hours to 0 hours. Overall, all Teams highly appreciated these changes and do not want to return to the previous set-up. CONCLUSIONS Specimens are oriented at grossing eliminating misorientation with manual embedding. Excisions can have multiple cross sectioned ellipse/s and are correctly oriented at grossing using Paraform Sectionable Cassette System reducing the total number of cassettes generated. Only 2% of the daily volume needs manual embedding due to specialty circumstances. Utilization of the Tissue-Tek Xpress x120 and Tissue-Tek AutoTEC allows 80% of specimens to be ready for microtomy within 7 hours after arrival into the laboratory. Continuous flow, rapid tissue processing means no more large batches, bottlenecks, or waiting time. The Tissue-Tek AutoTEC allowed 6 Histotechnicians to change their hours from night shift to day shift, allowing them to work more employee/family friendly shifts. Better hours and less blocks meant staff are able to perform additional duties allowing variety during the work day.  Designing a laboratory in a new building with a Lean workflow floor plan eliminated retraced steps and excessive walking time. Clients, Pathologists, and employees are happier. ABOUT CLAY J. COCKERELL, MD, JD, MBA Dr. Clay J. Cockerell is a world-renowned specialist in treating and diagnosing skin disorders and has diagnosed over three million biopsies. An internationally recognized pioneer in his field and double board-certified in dermatology and dermatopathology, Dr. Cockerell has been practicing medicine since 1986. He is currently the Founder & President of Cockerell Dermatopathology and the Program Director of the Health Education Services dermatology residency program sponsored by the Lake Granbury Medical Center. Also, Dr. Cockerell sees patients a few days per month to assist with resident training and to keep his clinicopathological skills sharp. Dr. Cockerell has held numerous leadership positions within several highly regarded medical associations. Most notably, he served as the President, Secretary & Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Dermatology, President of the Texas Dermatological Society, and President of the Dallas Dermatological Society. Also, Dr. Cockerell holds leadership roles as Founder and President of Cockerell Dermatopathology and a former AmeriPath Board of Directors member. Dr. Cockerell and his wife, Brenda, had a lifelong dream of producing wine and, in 2005, purchased a vineyard in Calistoga, California. They now produce wine under the Coquerel Family Wine Estates label. Dr. Cockerel and Brenda have two children, Charles and Lillian, and they have been married for forty-six years. In addition, Dr. Cockerell and Brenda enjoy traveling, golf, and winter sports. ABOUT COCKERELL DERMATOPATHOLOGY The Cockerell Dermatopathology story begins with Dr. Clay J. Cockerell's vision to establish a practice whose mission is to treat each specimen as if it came from one of own family members. Family! At Cockerell Dermatopathology, every employee is driven by a relentless pursuit of diagnostic excellence. We specialize in evaluating dermatologic disorders, tackling cases ranging from the routine to the most challenging. Our practice continuously invests in cutting-edge technologies to best serve each referring clinician and their patients. These innovations result in higher-quality diagnostic slides, quicker turnaround times for routine cases, and seamless deployment of EMR interfaces. From an educational perspective, Cockerell Dermatopathology is more than a dermatopathology practice. We host numerous in-person and internet-based education events and boast a state-of-the-art 14-headed microscope for dermatology resident training sessions. Our services extend beyond borders, serving hundreds of clinicians in Texas, throughout the United States, and globally. With a highly accessible team of board-certified dermatopathologists and a dedicated support staff, our vision is simple yet profound. Family, we treat every specimen as if it were from one of our own family members. Previous Next

Theodore Rosen, MD < Back Theodore Rosen, MD Faculty Dr. Rosen, a native of Chicago. attended Michigan State University as a National Merit Scholar, and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School cum laude. He trained in internal medicine at the University of Alabama and in dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine, where he currently serves as Professor and Vice-Chair of Dermatology. Dr. Rosen previously served on the Board of Directors and is a past Vice-President of the American Academy of Dermatology. He is also a past-President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Houston Dermatological Society and prior Chairman and Secretary-Treasurer of the Dermatology Section, Southern Medical Association. Dr. Rosen was the 2017 recipient of the AAD Thomas G. Pearson Memorial Award for lifelong achievement in education, and the 2021 recipient of the Robert J Freeman Memorial Mentoring and Leadership Award from the Texas Dermatology Society. Dr. Rosen has written over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, 28 textbook chapters and 4 textbooks. Dr. Rosen is an avid numismatist, diehard Chicago Cub fan and devotee of horror films. PS Home

Shane Chapman, MD, MBA < Back Shane Chapman, MD, MBA Faculty Title Professor of Dermatology Additional Titles | Positions/Affiliations Chair Department of Dermatology Medical Director, Supply Chain Value Analysis at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Education Tulane University, BS 1990 University of Texas Medical School - Houston, MD 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MBA 2016 Program Dartmouth Cancer Center Professional Interests Psoriasis and Complex Inflammatory Skin Disease Immunotherapy of Melanoma Photodynamic Therapy PS Home

Jennifer Cather, MD Jennifer Cather, MD Faculty Dr. Jennifer Cather leads Mindful Dermatology. She is a board-certified dermatologist, an active member of the American Academy of Dermatology and is an internationally recognized authority in complex medical dermatology, aesthetics, and skin cancer. Dr. Cather is passionate about diagnosing and managing patient conditions, from the most severe diseases, such as psoriasis or atopic dermatitis, to common skin conditions. Whether seeking the latest medical or rejuvenation advancements in dermatological care, Dr. Cather and her team at Mindful Dermatology are fully invested in our patients. They are constantly raising the standard for dermatology care by providing innovative, research-based therapies and actively seeking new treatments through clinical research. Dr. Cather, a Southern California native, and her husband, Chris, have two daughters, Wonder and Magic. Outside of work, Dr. Cather enjoys staying active and living a healthy lifestyle, whether it's snow skiing, snorkeling, hiking, or stargazing with her husband. PS Winter Home

Lawrence Eichenfield, MD < Back Lawrence Eichenfield, MD Faculty Dr. Eichenfield is chief of pediatric and adolescent dermatology at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and professor of dermatology and pediatrics and vice-chair of the department of dermatology at UC San Diego School of Medicine. He is board certified in dermatology, pediatric dermatology and pediatrics. After earning his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Dr. Eichenfield was a pediatric resident and chief resident at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He then completed his dermatology residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Along with longstanding expertise in atopic dermatitis, acne, psoriasis and other inflammatory skin conditions, Dr. Eichenfield has interests in neonatal dermatology, vascular lesions, laser surgery and rare skin disorders. He has authored more than 400 journal articles, chapters, abstracts and books, and has served as the senior editor of "Neonatal and Infant Dermatology," published by Elsevier, as well as "The Eczemas." He served as editor-in-chief of Pediatric Dermatology for 12 years and currently serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals and periodicals. Dr. Eichenfield has held multiple leadership positions, including co-founder and co-chair of the Pediatric Dermatology Research Alliance, co-chair of the American Academy of Dermatology Guidelines for Atopic Dermatitis, co-chair of the American Acne and Rosacea Society/American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Acne Recommendations for Diagnosis and Treatment, member of the Expert Panel Member of the NIAID Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy, Scientific Advisory Board of the National Eczema Association, and director of the Rady Children's/UC San Diego Eczema and Inflammatory Skin Disease Center. Additionally, he has served in leadership roles on guidelines and consensus statements for multiple dermatological conditions, including acne, rosacea, atopic dermatitis and psoriasis. Dr. Eichenfield enjoys running, reading, and skiing. PS Home