OSU Appointment:

• Professor of Pathology, 1971

Education:

• Duke University, Zoology, B.S., 1962
• Duke University School of Medicine, M.D., 1967

Residency:

• Duke University Medical Center, 1967-1969
• The Ohio State University Hospitals, 1969-1971

Certification:

• Diplomate, Anatomical and Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology, 1974
• American Board of Forensic Examiners, 1996
• American Board of Forensic Medicine, 1996

Special Interests:

• Infectious diseases pathology
• Inflammatory/infectious pulmonary diseases
• Medical microbiology and epidemiology

Current Funding:

• NIH, NCI,, UO1 Tissue Bank of HIV-Positive Malignancies, AIDS & Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR), $3,824,427.00, ; budget period: 06/01/2002-05/31/2007, African Supplement 2003, PI

Current Publication:

• Romer D, Yearsley K, Ayers L., Using a modified standard microscope to generate virtual slides. Anatomical Record (Part B: New Anat.), 2003, 272B:91-97
• Chaves A, Mihm M, Schanbacher B, Basuray A, Liu C, Ayers L W, Bauer J, Cardiomyopathy in a murine model of AIDS: evidence of reactive nitrogen species and corroboration in human HIV/AIDS cardiac tissues. Cardiovascular Research, 2003 Oct, 60(1):108-118
• Cordero L, Ayers L, Duration of empiric antibiotics for suspected early-onset sepsis in extremely low birth weight infants. Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology, 2003 Sept, 24(9): 662-6
• Cordero L, Rau R, Taylor D, Ayers LW, Enteric gram-negative bacilli bloodstream infections: 17 years' experience in a neonatal intensive care unit. American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), 2004 June, 32(4): 189-195