• Professor in the Medical Technology Department at the University of Delaware. 
• President of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (2009-10), installed in Chicago at our annual meeting, July 25, 2009
  
• Office: Willard Hall Education Building room 305G; office 302-831-8737; fax 302-831-4180
• Teaching expertise: Clinical Chemistry, Urinalysis and Body Fluids, Laboratory Mathematics, Medical Terminology and Professional Development
• Certification Review seminars to prepare students to take national certification exams: answers to my most recent review are here.
• Research: Evidence-Based Medicine, the connection between diagnostic lab tests and patient outcomes; The structural basis for potency and receptor selectivity of a group of snake venom proteins (the disintegrins) which can affect many cellular processes, such as blood clotting and cancer metastasis 
• Presentation on patient safety
  
• Presentations for the 2005 ASCLS annual meeting in Orlando; presentations 1 and 2 for the ISTH meeting in Sydney Australia.
• Presentation for the 2006 CLEC meeting in San Antonio TX; appendix2 handouts
  
• Answers to the lipids-blood gas quizzes, 2006
  
• Read my articles/abstracts:
  • Laudicina R, Fenn JA, Freeman V, McCoy C, McLane MA, Mudnt L, Polancic J, Randolph T, Shanahan K. Research in Clinical Labroatory Science: Professionals' Involvement.
  • Laudicina R, Fenn JA, Freeman V, McCoy C, McLane MA, Mudnt L, Polancic J, Randolph T, Shanahan K. Research in Clinical Labroatory Science: Professionals' Education Preparation.
  • Disintegrins in health and disease
  • Inhibition of lung tumor colonization and cell migration with the disintegrin crotatroxin 2 isolated from the venom of Crotalus atrox
  • Scientific and standardization committee communications: classification and nomenclature of disintegrins isolated from snake venoms
  • Inhibition of melanoma cell motility by the snake venom disintegrin eristostatin
    
  • Monomeric and dimeric disintegrins: Platelet-active agents from viper venom
  • The disintegrin echistatin stabilizes integrin alphaIIbbeta3's open conformation and promotes its oligomerization
  • Scratching below the surface: Wound healing and alanine mutagenesis provide unique insights into interactions between eristostatin, platelets and melanoma cells. Pathophys Haemost Thromb 34: 164-168, 2005.
  • Molecular engineering of an EGFP/disintegrin-based integrin marker.
    
  • The disintegrin echistatin stabilizes aIIbB3's open conformation and promotes its oligomerization.
    
  • Disintegrins
    
  • New insights on disintegrin-receptor interactions: eristostatin and melanoma cells.
  • Cloning, expression, and characterization of a bi-functional disintegrin/alkaline phosphatase hybrid protein.
  • Integrin antagonists affect growth and pathfinding of ventral motor nerves in the trunk of embryonic zebrafish.
  • EC3, a Heterodimeric Disintegrin from Echis carinatus, Inhibits Human and Murine 4 Integrin and Attenuates Lymphocyte Infiltration of Langerhans Islets in Pancreas and Salivary Glands in Nonobese Diabetic Mice.
  • ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals, graduation 2003 issue

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