Fishback is New Chairman of Pathology and Anatomy

November 8, 2006

Nancy Fishback, M.D.

NORFOLK—Nancy Fishback, M.D., professor, a member of the EVMS faculty for eight years and the nation’s first pathologist to be board-certified in sleep medicine, has been appointed chairman of the school’s department of pathology and anatomy.

Fishback follows William Glass, M.D., Ph.D., who is leaving EVMS to create a renal pathology division in Bostwick Laboratories, Inc., in Richmond, Va. and to serve as the division’s medical director. Dean Gerald Pepe thanked Glass for his “major” contributions to the advancement of EVMS.

Pepe praised Fishback’s commitment to and enthusiasm for teaching and research.

“Dr. Fishback is well known to the EVMS family and is an outstanding educator and researcher with keen administrative abilities,” Pepe said.

Fishback, who received her B.A. in psychology from Indiana University and her M.D. from the Indiana University School of Medicine, also completed a rotating internship and residency training in anesthesiology and internal medicine and a pulmonary disease fellowship. She joined the EVMS faculty as an associate professor of medicine and pathology in 1998 and has conducted extensive research in cooperation with the faculty in the EVMS/Sentara Sleep Disorders Center.

Prior to joining EVMS, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio where she also completed training in anatomic pathology. From 1991-1994, she was staff pathologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC, and in 1994 was appointed associate professor of clinical pathology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.

Fishback said she hopes to bring new faculty to the department who can complement the core group of dedicated teachers and researchers who currently work there.

Fishback, who is also board-certified in internal medicine and pathology, said she also wants to foster more research between her department and the EVMS Division of Sleep Medicine. Teaching, however, is her true passion.

“Dr. Fishback is well-known for her dedication to and performance of outstanding and innovative medical student education,” Pepe said.

Fishback took a leadership role in development and delivery of the pathology curriculum for second-year medical students.

“I can have a really bad day and be tired and then spend a couple hours in the lab looking under a microscope with students and I am energized,” she said.

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