More than two dozen pathologists have left the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, DC, to form a new company that will offer the same pathology consultation services as the 150-year-old institute.
AFIP expected to be completed by 2011 under a federal plan to close more military bases across the country, including the campus Center Walter Reed Army Medical where AFIP is located. The company, which AFIP Laboratories originally called and American International Pathology (AIP) Laboratories after a protest from officials of the institute was renamed, will be headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, and will begin activities next month.
Evan Farmer, the company's director and a former comrade AFIP says The Washington Post as the objective of the company is to provide a new home for expertise the institute. But the AFIP officials say a new mandate from the Congress-Joint Pathology Center, administered by the Department of Defense, replace the institute after its closure.
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