Renata B. Greenspan

COLONEL RENATA B. GREENSPAN, MC, USACOLONEL RENATA B. GREENSPAN, MC, USA
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Renata B. Greenspan, Colonel, USA, MC is the newly appointed Director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP).COL Greenspan's most recent assignment was as Chairperson of the Department of Pathology and Area Laboratory Services at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), the Pathology Consultant to The Surgeon General and immediate past Transfusion Medicine Consultant.She was instrumental in bringing Telepathology to Army Hospitals and oversaw 13 installed units.

Previous duties as Chairperson of the Department of Pathology and Area Laboratory Services included supervising 180 civilian employees, 85 enlisted soldiers and 18 officers.As Chairperson, she managed an annual budget of 18,000,000.00 and equipment valued at $30,000,000.00; she oversaw DoD's largest residency program, the military's only Blood Bank Fellowship, and the Clinical Laboratory Officer Course.

Renata B. GreenspanColonel, USA, MC

Renata B. Greenspan, M.D., COL, MC, USA

Renata B. Greenspan, M.D., COL, MC, USA

Renata Greenspan, AFIP director.

Information Manufacturing Corp. in Rocket Center, W.Va., was brought in to scan and digitize the data, store it and develop a search application to allow easy access to all the newly digitized data.

"This wealth of material is very important for education and research," Greenspan said.

So far, 4.5 million records have been digitized.In addition to historical medical data that AFIP had, medical information from closed military bases, the Automated Central Tumor Registry and other sources is being digitized, Greenspan said.AFIP officials plan to digitize about 2 million records a year.

The Army started collecting specimens and information about them in 1862, when researchers were looking at Civil War soldiers' wounds and the effects of those wounds, Greenspan said.
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For AFIP, a portal called "Ask AFIP" eventually will be developed, Greenspan said.It will be an interactive database with a Google-like front-end search feature.Medical professionals will be able use it for research or to request a consultation, she said.

"What's unique about this system is, because our repository is very extensive, we can refer doctors to many cases and even show them unusual presentations," Greenspan said.

Renata Greenspan, COL, MC, USA

Director, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology