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Anatomic Pathology Faculty Retire
Ralph Crowe, M.D.
Congratulations to Professor Ralph Crowe, M.D., on his retirement from full-time services to the UAB Department of Pathology and UAB Hospital. Effective January 1, he began working reduced clinical hours. Crowe has served his entire academic career in the Department, starting as chief resident at the outset of his medical career. Dr. Crowe is a surgical pathologist and cytopathologist with more than 30 years of experience in clinical diagnostic pathology of multiple organ systems. He joined the Department in 1989 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2002, before his promotion to full professor in 2012. Dr. Crowe became a primary pulmonary transplant biopsy pathologist in 2004. His involvement with non-neoplastic and neoplastic lung disease in the following years expanded to include medical student and fellowship-level teaching, and active participation in several interdisciplinary teaching and clinical conferences. Dr. Crowe is a Birmingham native who graduated magna cum laude with a degree in philosophy from Birmingham Southern
College before receiving his medical degree at UAB. He completed an internship and residency at Carraway Hospital (then Carraway Methodist Medical Center), followed by a residency at UAB Hospital, serving as chief resident in the Department of Pathology. His participation in professional societies and service to various committees and councils is too numerous to list. Crowe has published many academic articles, abstracts and manuscripts over his career, and presented lectures, papers and posters at conferences nationwide.
Andra Frost, M.D.,
Professor, Anatomic Pathology, retired after more than 20 years as a surgical, cyto-and autopsy pathologist at UAB Hospital. Dr. Frost started in the Department of Pathology as an associate professor in 1997, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology in 2006. She became full professor in both departments in 2012. She was medical director of the Cytotechnology Training Program in the Auburn University School of Sciences. She also served as scientist in the O'Neal Comprehensive
Cancer Center and the Cell Adhesion and Extracellular Matrix Center. Dr. Frost served as chair of numerous committees of pathology professional organizations, with an emphasis on training and cytopathology interests. She is a member of the American Association of Cancer Research, of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, and of the American Society of Cytopathology. Over her many years with UAB, Dr. Frost served as a mentor for numerous undergraduate and graduate students in both the medical and graduate schools. Before her appointments at UAB, Dr. Frost worked for Georgetown University Hospital and as an associate professor in the Department of Pathology at Georgetown University. She was a surgical pathologist and cytopathologist at George Washington University Hospital. After moving to Birmingham, Dr. Frost served as a surgical pathologist/cytopathologist/autopsy pathologist at the Birmingham Veteran’s Administration Hospital. Over the years, Dr. Frost's research focus is on diagnostic pathology within the breast and thyroid as well as breast cancer biology. She provided effort on research grants funded by the NIH, NCI and other private organizations throughout her career. CONTINUED NEXT PAGE
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