Screening examinations are tests performed to find disease before symptoms begin. The goal of screening is to detect disease at its earliest and most treatable stage. In order to be widely accepted and recommended by medical practitioners, a screening program must meet a number of criteria, including reducing the number of deaths from the given disease. Screening tests may include laboratory tests to check blood and other fluids, genetic tests that look for inherited genetic markers linked to disease, and imaging tests that produce pictures of the inside of the body.
Angiography is an imaging test that uses X-rays to view your body's blood vessels. The X-rays provided by an angiography are called angiograms. This test is used to study narrow, blocked, enlarged, or malformed arteries or veins in many parts of your body, including your brain, heart, abdomen, and legs.
Tooth whitening or tooth bleaching is the process of lightening the color of human teeth. Whitening is often desirable when teeth become yellowed over time for a number of reasons, and can be achieved by changing the intrinsic or extrinsic color of the tooth enamel.
Cardioversion is a medical procedure that restores a normal heart rhythm in people with certain types of abnormal heartbeats. You might choose to have a health assessment because of a specific health concern, or you’d like to improve your health. These health screenings will e carried out by the registered medical practitioner and nurses.
Dr. Baird’s clinical and research interests include lab test utilization management, proteomics, tissue analysis, general laboratory medicine, pathology and pathophysiology of organ systems, and developing novel methods for clinical laboratory tests.
One technology of particular interest is the Luminex Platform, a system for performing multiplex, bead-based immunoassays, which is used on tissue homogenates. The goal of this project is to provide quantitative information that complements histomorphologic examination in the diagnosis of diseases in solid tissues. A second technology of interest concerns the use of oligonucleotide aptamers. Developed through the SELEX process, aptamers are short strands of DNA that can form very selective binding reagents, and Dr. Baird’s lab is attempting to develop novel tissue diagnostics with these reagents. Finally, Dr. Baird has established a long-term collaborative project with Ventana Medical Systems studying the formalin fixation process, aimed both at monitoring the process with novel methods, as well as determining optimized fixation protocols that yield the highest quality preserved tissue for downstream molecular and proteomic assays.
Immunohistochemistry Fellowship, Phenopath Laboratories, Seattle, 2007-2008
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, 2003-2007
MD, Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 2003
PhD, Biomedical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 2003
BS, Chemistry, Stanford University, 1995
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