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Michael Teitell received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the UCLA College Honors Program as a Departmental Scholar in Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1985. He earned combined M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in the UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program in 1993. His graduate and early post-doctoral studies were with Dr. Mitchell Kronenberg at UCLA in Molecular and Cellular Immunology. Dr. Teitell was a Resident and Clinical Instructor in Anatomic Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 1993-1995. During this time he was a Research Associate with Dr. Richard Blumberg. From 1995-1997, Dr. Teitell was a Resident in Clinical Pathology at UCSF and a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Joe Gray. From 1997-1999, he held a joint appointment at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles as a Pediatric Pathology Fellow and at UCLA as a Clinical Instructor in Pathology. He became an Assistant Professor in the UCLA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in 1999. He was jointly appointed in the UCLA Department of Pediatrics in 2001 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004. He currently serves as Chief of the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, with board certification in anatomic, clinical and pediatric pathology. Dr. Teitell has received several important honors and awards. Among these are the David Paul Kane Scholar Award of the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation (2000-2001), the Lymphoma Research Foundation Junior Faculty Award (2001-2002), the FOCIS/Millenium Pharmaceuticals Young Investigator Award in Genomics Research (2001-2002), a Scholar Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (2003-2008), election to the American Society of Clinical Investigators (2004) and a Margaret E. Early Medical Research Trust Award (2005). Education and Training 1981-1985 UCLA. B.S., M.S. - Chemistry and Biochemistry 1985-1993 UCLA. M.D., Ph.D. - Molecular Immunology and Medicine Research, Professional Experience and Professional Positions 1991-1993 Post-doctoral Fellow, Microbiology and Immunology, UCLA 1993-1995 Clinical Instructor and Resident, Anatomic Pathology, Harvard Medical School 1994-1995 Research Associate, Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital 1995-1997 Resident, Clinical Pathology, UCSF 1997-1999 Fellow, Pediatric Pathology, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles 1999-2004 Assistant Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, UCLA 2004-2008 Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, UCLA 2008-present Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, UCLA Professional Activities 1995-present American Association of Immunologists, Abul Abbas (sponsor) 1999-present Member of the Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA 1999-present Member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA 2002-present American Society for Biochem and Molec Biology, Joan Conaway (sponsor) 2003-present Medical Scientist Training Program, Executive Committee, UCLA 2004-present American Association for Cancer Research, Richard Gatti (sponsor) 2004-present NIH, Cancer Genetics Study Section Member 2005-present Member, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) 2005-present Member, Broad Center for Stem Cell Research (ISCBM), UCLA 2006-present Member, Epigenetics Society 2006-present American Society for Microbiology 2006-present Section Editor, Laboratory Investigation 2006-present Editorial Board, Nanomedicine 2006-present Consulting Editor, Editorial Board, Pediatric Research 2007-present Member, Biophysical Society, Robert Callender (sponsor) 2007 Judge, College Board, Siemens Comp. in Math, Science & Technology, National Finals, NYU 2008-2009 Chair, Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, UCLA 2008 Chair, California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee 2008 Chair, Oncogenic & Tumor Suppressor Pathways, AACR Annual Meeting