Her lectures and laboratory sessions cover a wide range of topics within pulmonary pathology. She has considerable expertise regarding the surgical and medical management of lung disease and her lectures are informed by an awareness of the clinical issues and implications surrounding pathologic diagnoses. Her sessions not only cover basic pathologic concepts, but are also clinically important and useful exercises. Students praise her direct and outgoing personality and her unusual ability to make difficult concepts clear. She is a highly committed and accomplished educator, who is able to communicate an almost infectious zeal for her work-and a role model in her approach to undergraduate medical education.