Karen kaul

Laboratories and pandemic preparedness: A framework for collaboration and oversight ⁦@JMDiagn⁩ jmd.amjpathol.org/article/S1525-…

@NorthShore_Path Great job!!

Great job to Dr. Dan Ngov and his faculty mentor, Dr. Irani, for the work they presented at this year's AFSA meeting in Denver!

Congrats to all the winners and great job, @ChatchananAUSAV! We are proud of you.

@LJTafeMD Miss you too—let’s schedule a catch up!

@kaulk16 I wasn’t able to attend this year. I’ll miss seeing you.

Always wonderful to see everyone at USCAP! Colleagues, residents (current and past) and family!

Great work at USCAP from a few of our residents! @ChatchananAUSAV, @IsidanKadir, and Shruti Srikumar

@MarikaForsythe @NorthShore_Path It goes so fast!!

Back when this journey in pathology began... 🤯

If you're going to the meeting, come check us out at USCAP this year! We're eager to share what we've been up to. 🔬🧬🤖

Congrats to our new residents! We can't wait to see you this summer and welcome you to the Northshore Path family! #pathmatch #match2026

Sana and Dr. Sullivan present their work on the continued importance of the "triple test" in breast pathology at USCAP 2026.🔱🔬🔱

Congrats to PGY3 resident, Shruti Srikumar, @meganparilla and the rest of the team for this work on POLE-mutated, non-ultramutated endometrial carcinoma! NGS testing of all new endometrial cancers at NS made this possible. Check it out in Modern Path! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41354358/

A well deserved post-IRAP residents' dinner to celebrate the holiday season!

@NorthShore_Path You all did such a great job!!

Read the #JMDSilver Guest Editorial from the former Editor-in-Chiefs: Changes and Challenges in Molecular Diagnostics. @kaulk16 @BzehnbaCaymanS Full text: jmdjournal.org/article/S1525-…

Congrats to our PGY2 and PGY3 residents (and Kadir) for their outstanding presentations at the CPS Illinois Registry of Anatomic Pathology today. Great job and thanks for your hard work, everyone! @ChicagoPathSoc 🔬🔬🧬🧬🔥🔥

Dr. Lee and Dr. Paintal recently had the pleasure of speaking to the 7th grade students at Marie Murphy Middle School about their careers in pathology. Thanks to Mr. Persino for hosting and also to the students for being such an attentive and curious audience!

A message from a Kindergarten teacher: After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old: “My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.” No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.” My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me. When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe. My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown. And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice. They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer. The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.” As if kindness were a weakness. Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure — a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.” a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.” a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.” Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up. But this last year broke something in me. The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival. I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times. So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998: “Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.” I sat on the floor and cried. No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications. I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced. I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers. So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try. Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

A traditional Northshore pathology bagel welcome for our newest faculty member in molecular pathology, Dr. Xiaoyan Yang!

@NorthShore_Path @FoundationATCG Great presentation!! Thank you Lauren!

@DrNeilStone Just a liar.

Looks like an anti vaxxer Sounds like an anti vaxxer Talks like an anti vaxxer Probably is an anti vaxxer