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The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has both clinical and basic sciences responsibilities.  The Department has service, teaching and research responsibilities in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.  The education division provides instruction to medical students, technologists, postgraduate trainees as well as special continuing education through Eastern Area Health Education Center (EAHEC).  It has clinical services responsibilities that include the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH) and specialty laboratories at the Brody School of Medicine (BSOM).  The Department has several professional contracts to provide consultation and direction with regard to laboratory operations at outlying centers.  The Department is also responsible for the operation of the Regional Medical Examiner Forensic Pathology service.  The Department has sufficient academic and research programs, as well as ongoing teaching and conference course responsibilities.  A residency program began July 1, 1989.  The Department oversees the Ph.D. in Biological Sciences program. The Department started a Regional Pathology service that served its first client in April of 2000.  The Regional Pathology service offers anatomic pathology and clinical laboratory services designed to meet the needs of individual physician practices, community hospitals and other health care organizations in eastern North Carolina.  The Chairman of this Department also serves as the Chief of Pathology at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.  The Department currently employs 23 permanent faculty members, 2 adjunct faculty members, 2 part time/contract physicians, 23 permanent staff employees, 2 student workers, 12 residents, 2 fellows, 3 pathology assistants, and 2 Ph.D. candidates.