title: 'There is no turning back'--is AFIP facing demise?
abstract: The U.S. Department of Defense has recommended that Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, be relocated and that the AFIP's constituent parts be eliminated or, in the case of its tissue repository, warehoused. CAP past resident Daniel Seckinger, MD, chairman of the board of the American Registry of athology, testified July 7 before the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission its public hearing on military base closings. His statement appears here.
authors.affiliation: American Registry of Pathology, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Seckinger
mesh_terms: D003933:Diagnosis; D004219:District of Columbia; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine; D009144:Museums; D010336:Pathology; D012042:Registries; D012106:Research; D019113:Telepathology; D014481:United States