University of Louisville Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

02/25/2026

Our very own Professor and Chair, Dr. Eyas Hattab, celebrated his 10th year anniversary with UofL and UofL Health! Congrats on a job well done and here’s to many more great years ahead!

02/19/2026

UofL Health Brown Cancer Center became the first of just three medical facilities in the USA to offer FDA approved solid tumor testing in house, called the Illumina TruSight Oncology Comprehensive. The detail provided in the test allows doctors to create deeply targeted and personalized therapy plans such as immunotherapies. In the past eight months, about 130 patients have benefited from the test, often taking their wait times from 4-6 weeks to just about 2-3 weeks. Kentucky is one of the most at-risk states for cancer, with 30,240 new cases in 2025 alone. Congratulations to Dr. Al-Kawaaz and the NGS lab, this is a massive win for the community!

In the summer of 2025, the University of Louisville Brown Cancer Center became one of the first in the US to offer FDA approved solid tumor testing.

02/16/2026

Birthday of the week goes to Dr. Nelly Wolf! HAVE AN AMAZING DAY, NELLY!

02/12/2026

William (Bill) Lockwood, PhD, MD, passed way in January 2026 in Belize, the country in which he retired. A graduate of University of Louisville School of Medicine, Dr. Lockwood was one of those rare physicians who practiced both anatomic and clinical pathology with excellence. He was known best for his role as the former Medical Director of our local American Red Cross (ARC) Region, and was an invaluable transfusion medicine resource to the community. Dr. Lockwood was a respected physician of the ARC and worked on significant medical projects at their national headquarters. He was heavily into research and published many papers. He later worked as Medical Director of Norton Hospital’s Transfusion and Coagulation Services and was the beloved Medical Director of the Transfusion Service at UofL Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Towards the end of his career, he was recognized by the AABB for a lifetime of excellence in transfusion medicine.

He was not only an expert in the field, but he also had “old time” work ethics. No one had higher expectations for Dr. Lockwood than he had for himself. He was always on time, always prepared and professional. He was the first person in management in the office each morning and the last one out. If we were forced to describe him in one word, it would be “exact.” Exact refers to being perfectly correct, accurate, and having zero deviation from a standard or true value. He was “exact” in everything he did. He expected it from his students, and they learned to expect it from themselves.

He was a lifelong mentor and friend, and touched the hearts of all who knew him.

Rest in peace, Bill, and know that so many patients benefited from the teaching you provided to medical students, residents, fellows and medical technologists in our community!

02/09/2026

Happy Birthday to Dr. Sahar Almustafa! HAVE THE BEST DAY EVER!

02/09/2026

Birthday of the week goes to Hunter Roeder!

02/06/2026

Happy Birthday to Dr. Morgan McCoy! 🥳🥳

02/06/2026

We want to take a moment to honor our friend, Dr. Mostafa Fraig, who sadly passed away on February 5, 2021. Dr. Fraig joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in July 2010 as the William M. Christopherson Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology, as well as Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He came to us from the John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland where he was Director of Cytopathology and Associate Director of Surgical Pathology. We still miss having Dr. Fraig around but his memory lives on in everyone who was blessed to know him.

01/28/2026

Birthday of the week goes to Melissa Munford! HAVE THE BEST DAY EVER!

01/20/2026

Birthday of the week goes to Dr. Mark Linder! HAVE A HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

01/09/2026

Congratulations to LIAM Team Green on receiving 3rd Place for the Ruth Greenberg Award for Medical Education Research! Our very own Dr. Mustafa Al-Kawaaz, along with Dr. Kristie Vail Schultz, attended to represent their team! Thanks to Research!Louisville!

01/08/2026

Good things come to those who wait! On December 4th, UofL Health invited their employees to the West Tower Grand Opening! This is a huge win for the community, providing more care and increased access to those in need. More info here:

UofL Health has brought downtown Louisville more quality care and increased access with the expansion of the new UofL Hospital West Tower. UofL Hospital’s West Tower includes a new 24-bed observation unit, six additional operating rooms as well as the option for more private beds.