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About the Executive
Officer
Mark E. Sobel, MD, PhD
Executive Officer
Dr. Mark Sobel received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1970,
his M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1975 and his
Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the City University of New York in
1975 with a concentration in Biochemistry. He completed a one-year
residency in pediatrics at the Boston Children’s Hospital Medical
Center in 1976. He began a 25-year career at the National
Institutes of Health in 1976. From 1992-2001, Dr. Sobel was Chief
of the Molecular Pathology Section of the National Cancer
Institute. His main research interests were gene regulation,
molecular basis of metastasis, and molecular diagnostics. He was
the Course Director and main lecturer of the Concepts in Molecular
Biology Course offered by the American Society for Investigative
Pathology from 1987 to 1999 and he trained several of the current
Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory Directors in the United States. He
was awarded the United States Public Health Service Commendation
Medal in 1989, the Saul J. Horowitz, Jr. Memorial Award from the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1991, and was inducted into Alpha
Omega Alpha in 1995. Dr. Sobel was President of the American Society
for Investigative Pathology from 1999-2000 and President of the
Association for Molecular Pathology in 1999.
Since 1996, Dr. Sobel
has focused his attention on biomedical ethics, human subjects
protections, and the application of molecular diagnostics to improving
healthcare. He has been a major spokesperson within the pathology and
oncology communities to educate and discuss appropriate means for
clinicians and researchers to access human biological materials to
improve knowledge about human disease and simultaneously respect human
subjects and was a member of the Board of Directors of AAHRPP
(Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection
Programs) from its inception in 2001 until 2008. He is currently a
member of the Editorial Boards of Laboratory Investigation,
Diagnostic Molecular Pathology, and Archives of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine. In 2001, Dr. Sobel left the National Cancer
Institute to become the Executive Officer of the American Society for
Investigative Pathology (publisher of The American Journal of
Pathology and co-publisher of The Journal of Molecular
Diagnostics), the Association for Molecular Pathology (co-publisher
of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics), the Intersociety
Council for Pathology Information (publisher of The Directory of
Pathology Training Programs), and several affiliated societies
involved in pathology and tissue resources. |
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