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1/31/05

HEALTHCARE ETHICS TOPIC OF SLU'S NILES LECTURE

CANTON – Stephen S. Raab, M.D., will deliver the Niles Memorial 
Lecture on Science and Religion at St. Lawrence University on the 
topic "Ethics and Healthcare: Improving Patient Safety by Examining 
Pathology Errors."  The event, open to the public free of charge, 
is on Monday, February 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole.
	Raab, a native of Rochester, New York, and a graduate of 
Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, is director of cytology at 
the University of Pittsburgh Medical College (UPMC) Shadyside and 
professor of pathology in the University of Pittsburgh School of 
Medicine. He is the co-author of Modern Cytopathology and has published 
over 125 peer-reviewed articles in the medical literature. Raab is also 
vice president of the Viet American Cervical Cancer Prevention Project 
and has been awarded the College of American Pathologists Humanitarian 
Award for his efforts in introducing Pap testing in developing nations. 
He is on the executive board of the Papanicolaou Society, is on the 
editorial board of three pathology journals and is the co-chief editor 
of the Mosby Yearbook of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
	At UPMC, Raab is the director of Pathology Quality Assurance 
and the Center for Pathology Quality and Healthcare Research. His research 
interests include patient safety, process improvement, patient preference 
and pathology organizational cultures. Raab also manages a multicenter 
research project in patient safety and pathology-error reduction funded 
by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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