Useda / Uthman / Valente 

Domingo H. Useda, MD (1984)

Dr. Domingo H. Useda was born in Leone, Nicaragua in 1926 to Timotea Hernandez Fonseca Useda and Domingo Useda Valle. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad Nacional de Micaragua in 1948. Dr. Useda married Isabel Guthrie, and they had eight children Charlotte, Bradford, Richard, Lauren, Janet, Robin, Juan, and Celina. After Isabel passed way, Dr. Useda re-married Maria Elena. They were married twenty-five years. 

Dr. Useda died on June 7, 2011 at Rio Grande Regional Hospital in McAllen, Texas. 

Dr. Useda received his MD degree from the Universidad de Nicaragua, Fac. Med. Leon, Nicaragua in 1952, graduating as valedictorian of his class. He completed an internship at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans in 1953, and did his first pathology residency at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. In 1954 he did additional pathology training with Dr. A.O. Severance at Baptist Hospital in San Antonio. He completed his pathology training in 1957 and was board certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties in 1960. 

Dr. Useda took a position as director of pathology at Torbett Clinic-Hospital in Marlin, Texas and as a consultant in pathology to the Veterans' Administration Hospital. In 1959, after much deliberation Dr. Useda declined an academic position in Nicaragua, and decided to raise his family in the United States. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1962. 

He decided to work in the Rio Grande Valley area, and took positions as director of pathology at the HCA Rio Grande Regional Hospital in McAllen, laboratory director at Mission Hospital in Mission and Starr County Hospital in Rio Grande City, and consultant for Edinburgh General Hospital in Edinburgh. He would eventually serve as president of the Board of Trustees of Rio Grande Regional Hospital and director of pathology at McAllen General Hospital. He maintained the position of director of pathology from 1960 until 1982. He was also the owner and director of Mid Valley Laboratory of Pathology of Weslaco from 1963 until 1982. 

From 1977 until 1982, Dr. Useda was the pathology services director of Knapp Medical Hospital and in 1982 took the position of director of pathology services at Rio Grande Hospital and in 1982 took the position of director of pathology services at Rio Grande Regional hospital, which he held until 2007. He served as the pathology services director at Edinburgh Hospital from 1983 until 1995. 

In 1975 he assumed the role of medical director at Rio Grande Valley Blood Systems. Additionally, he worked to educate people on AIDS and proper care for patients. In the area of academics, Dr. Useda served as director of medical technology at the University of Texas Pan American Program and as associate professor of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. 

In organized medicine, Dr. Useda served as president of the Hidalog-Starr County Medical Society. He served as foreman to the Texas Delegation to the College of American Pathologists. Additionally, he was active in the Texas Medical Association and the American Society of Clinical Pathology. 

Dr. Useda retired in 2007. 

In 1993 Dr. Useda was the first "Valley" pathologist to receive the George T. Caldwell, MD Award for his contributions to the field of pathology and the second Hispanic to receive the award. 

Dr. Useda served as president of the TSP in 1984 and is credited with establishing the House of Delegates system during his term in office. 

Bauer, H., Ajello, L., Adams, E., & Hernandez, D.U (1955). Cerebral mucormycosis: Pathogenesis of the disease: Description of the fungus, rhizopus oryzae, isolated from a fatal case. The American journal of medicine, 18(5), 822-831.

Edward O. Uthman, MD (2014)

Dr. Edward "Ed" O. Uthman was born on March 4, 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Battle Ground Academy in nearby Franklin in 1970, and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in 1967 at the age of fifteen. 

He is married to fellow pathologist, Dr. Margaret Uthman, and they have two adult children, Marissa Venable and Andrew Uthman. 

Dr. Uthman received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Rhodes College in 1974. He received his MD degree in 1977 from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He did his pathology residency also at the UT Health Science Center in Memphis. He did his pathology residency also at the UT Heath Science Center and was board certified in clinical and anatomical pathology in 1981. During his time as an undergraduate, he worked as an emergency room nursing assistant at Miller Hospital in Nashville, and during his residency, he worked part-time as Assistant County Medical Examiner for Shelby County. 

in 1982, Dr. Uthman moved to Little Rock, Arkansas to serve as assistant professor of pathology at the University of Arkansas College of Medicine. While there he won the Golden Apple Award for Best Teacher of Preclinical sciences in 1983, 1985, and 1986. 

In 1986, Dr. Uthman moved to Houston, Texas where he joined Brown & Associates Medical Laboratories. He became a general partner in 1991 and is currently still practicing there. Dr. Uthman also serves as Laboratory Medical Director and on the Board of Directors of OakBend Medical Center in Richmond. He has been chief of staff twice during his time at OakBend. 

Dr. Uthman currently serves as adjunct professor of pathology at The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine, a position he has held since 2002. He has won awards for his participation in the sophomore pathology course lecture series. 

Aside from practice and academia, Dr. Uthman has served on the Technical Advisory Committee for the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center in Houston and served for nine years as Deputy State Commissioner for Inspections and Accreditations of the College of American Pathologists. Additionally, he is co-owner of PATH-L, the longest-running online discussion group for pathologists. 

Dr. Uthman served as president of the Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists in 2006 and has served on panels or committees for the American Society for Clinical Pathology and the College of American Pathologists. He is a member of the Fort Bend County Medical Society and the Texas Medical Association. 

Dr. Uthman served as president of the TSP in 2014 and received the Presidential Award in 2009. In the past several years the field of pathology has changed, leading Dr. Uthman to encourage pathologists to interact more with their hospital community (See his editorial "Getting out from behind the paraffin curtain" in Arch Path Lab Med, Vol 138, January 2014). 

Additionally, Dr. Uthman continues to work with the Education Foundation for young pathologists and is the Chair of the Communications Committee. 

Dr. Uthman is the author of the book Understanding Anemia, published in 1998. He is also on the Executive Advisory Board of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. 

Giltman, L.I., Osborne, P.T., Coleman, S.A., & Uthman, E.O. (1985). Paget's disease of the anal mucosa in association with carcinoma demonstrating mucoepidermoid features. Journal of surgical oncology, 28(4), 277-280.

Cohen, C., Sharkey, F.E., Shulman, G., Uthman, E.O., & Budgeon, L.R. (1987). Tumor-associated antigens in breast carcinomas. Prognostic significance. Cancer, 60(6), 1294-1298.

Uthman E, Understanding Anemia, University Press of Mississippi, 1998. 

Phillip T. Valente, MD (2000)

Dr. Philip Thomas Valente was born in 1949 in Astoria, Queens in New York City to Dr. Frank Valente, a general practitioner, and Pauline Manzella. Both of Dr. Valente's parents were born in the city's Italian immigrant communities. Dr. Valente had an older brother, Ralph, who developed Wilson's disease and died at the age of fifteen in 1957. 

Dr. Valente went to Loyola, a Jesuit high school in Manhattan. After graduating in 1967, Dr. Valente spent a summer in Munich, Germany to study the language. He then attended Columbia University in upper Manhattan where he received a BA degree in German language and literature. Upon graduating in 1971, Dr. Valente went back to Germany to teach English at a primary and secondary school. It was during this time that he decided to go into medicine. 

Dr. Valente has three children from his first marriage, Ruth Emily, Rachel, and Thomas. He is married Anne-Marie Hewitt-Murphee. 

When Dr. Valente returned to the United States, he was re-admitted to Columbia University and took all of the required pre-medical classes to qualify for the medical program. He received his MD degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1977. He began an internship and residency in anatomic pathology at Cornell University Medical College New York Hospital where he met Dr. John T. Ellis, a Texas native and Dr. George Caldwell's son-in-law. After two years, he transferred to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, Long Island to study clinical pathology. He served as chief resident and became a staff surgical pathologist. 

Dr. Valente's interests concentrated on cytology, surgical pathology, and gynecologic pathology. In 1983, he moved to Philadelphia to do a cytopathology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Barbara F. Atkinson and joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology in Temple University Medical School. Although his original plan was to stay in Philadelphia, Dr. Valente was trapped by Dr. David Papermaster in 1987 to joint he faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio for the position of medical director of cytotechnology and liaison to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Valente accepted the position and he and his family moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1988. Within a year of joining the staff, Dr. Valente had re-established the Cytopathology Fellowship Program founded by his predecessor, Dr. Ibrahim Ramzy. During this time he also worked with the Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital. 

Dr. Valente served in many capacities in education and organized medicine. He was very active with the American Society of Cytopathology and the American Society of Clinical Pathology, establishing several teleconferences with them. He was on the executive board of the ASC from 1998 until 2002 and has worked on several committees for the ASC and the ASCP for quality assurance and continuing education and certification. He served on an expert panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and reviewed grant proposals for the National Cancer Institute. At the state level, Dr. Valente served as president of the Texas Society of Cytology in 1993. 

The School of Cytotechnology at UTHSC in San Antonio closed in 2005 having trained more than one hundred cytotechnologists during Dr. Valente's tenure as medical director. Dr. Valente has recently served as a member Cytotechnology Program Review Committee for the ASC and has traveled to several newly established cytotechnology programs to approve them for accreditation. 

Dr. Valente has been active with the TSP since he attended his first meeting in 1989. He has served on the Nominating Committee and the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Membership Committee. 

Dr. Valente served as president of the TSP in 2000. During his presidency, attempts by representatives of Medicare to deny payments for thin layer Pap preparations was reversed in part because of the efforts by TSP members in collaboration with the Texas Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Valente received the George T. Caldwell, MD Award for his contributions to pathology. 

As of 2001, Dr. Valente had over 50 publications, mainly on gynecologic cytology. 

Fine, B.A., Valente, P.T., Feinstein, G.I., & Dey, T. (2000). VEGF, flt-1, and KDR/flk-1 as prognostic indicators in endometrial carcinoma. Gynecologic oncology, 76(1), 33-39.

Hammes, L.S., Tekmal, R.R., naud, P., Edelweiss, M.I., Kirma, N., Valente, P.T., ... & Cunha-Filho, J.S. (2007). Macrophages, inflammation and risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) progression - clinicopathological correlation. Gynecologic oncology, 105(1), 157-165.

Judd, H.L., Mebane-Sims, I., Legault, C., Wasilauskas, C., Johnson, S., Merino, M., ... & Scully, R. (1996). Effects of hormone replacement therapy on endometrial histology in postmenopausal women: the Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions (PEPI) Trial. JAMA, 275(5), 370-375.