Dr. Leona Weston Ayers MD
Pathologist | Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
410 W 10TH AVE COLUMBUS OH, 43210About
Leona Weston Ayers, MD, is an expert in the pathology and microbiology fields. She works at the Ohio State University Medical Center at the James Cancer Hospital. Designated by the National Cancer Institute, this facility is the only free-standing cancer hospital in the Midwest and one of 40 comprehensive cancer hospitals in the nation. A noted author and speaker, Dr. Ayers has also given presentations on Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Africa at the Sub-Saharan Africa Lymphoma Consortium, as well as International Conferences on Malignancies in AIDS (an annual conference). She also conducts research for the Human Tissue Resource Network, as befits one of the main duties of a pathologist. When not practicing medicine, Dr. Ayers is a Professor as well at Ohio State University, teaching pathology.
Education and Training
Duke University School of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine 1967
Board Certification
American Board of Pathology - Pathology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bloodstream infections in a neonatal intensive-care unit: 12 years' experience with an antibiotic control program.
- Rapid identification of nonfermentative gram-negative rods by the Corning N/F system.
- Rapid identification of nonfermentative gram-negative rods by the Corning N/F system.
- Fluoride and bacterial content of bottled water vs tap water.
- Comparison of a closed (Trach Care MAC) with an open endotracheal suction system in small premature infants.
- Failure of systemic antibiotics to eradicate gram-negative bacilli from the airway of mechanically ventilated very low-birth-weight infants.
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia in very low-birth-weight infants at the time of nosocomial bloodstream infection and during airway colonization with Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
- A comparison of two airway suctioning frequencies in mechanically ventilated, very-low-birthweight infants.
- Purulence and gram-negative bacilli in tracheal aspirates of mechanically ventilated very low birth weight infants.
- Using a modified standard microscope to generate virtual slides.
- Duration of empiric antibiotics for suspected early-onset sepsis in extremely low birth weight infants.
- Cardiomyopathy in a murine model of AIDS: evidence of reactive nitrogen species and corroboration in human HIV/AIDS cardiac tissues.
- Enteric gram-negative bacilli bloodstream infections: 17 years' experience in a
- HIV/AIDS-related cardiovascular disease.
- The tissue microarray data exchange specification: a document type definition to validate and enhance XML data.
Areas of expertise and specialization
Faculty Titles & Positions
- Public speaking around the world -
- Professor of Pathology, Ohio State University -
Awards
- The Earline Kutscher Memorial Lectureship, 1991
Internships
- Duke University
Professional Society Memberships
- American Society of Investigative Medicine
Articles and Publications
- Book chapters
- Accuracy of Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis in constrained pathology settings: importance to epidemiology, Arch Pathol Lab Med 135
- The AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource, Methods Mol Biol
- Merkel cell carcinoma subgroups by Merkel cell polyomavirus DNA relative abundance and oncogene expression, International Journal of Cancer
What do you attribute your success to?
Hard work
Hobbies / Sports
- Traveling, Artwork, Reading
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