Entry Year: 1992
Graduation Year: 2001
Currently: Pathologist with Pathology Associates of Tyler
Undergraduate: Texas A&M University, B.S. Chemical Engineering
Laboratory: Dr. Lih Kuo, Medical Physiology
Thesis: "Effect of low-density lipoproteins on nitric oxide release, L-arginine uptake and L-arginine metabolism in cultured endothelial cells"
Residency: Anatomic and clinical pathology, Baylor College of Medicine
Fellowship: Cytopathology, Baylor College of Medicine

Abstracts and Presentations:

• Schmiege, LM, Liao, JC, Ghosheh, SA, Hein, TW, Miller, SM and Kuo, L. "Effects of endotoxin and low-density lipoprotein on the L-arginine transport of endothelial cells (poster)." Microcirculation 2:94, 1995.
• Liao, JC, Lu, JL, Huang, KT, Edwards, M, Schmiege, L and Kuo, L. "Cardiovascular metabolic engineering for modulating nitric oxide production during sepsis (podium)." Asbstr Pap Am Chem Soc 211(Part 1): BIOT 225, 1996.
• Schmiege, LM, Liao, JC and Kuo, L. "Native and oxidized low-density lipoproteins potentiate L-arginine uptake in bovine microvascular endothelial cells (poster)." Microcirculation 4:171, 1997.
• Schmiege, LM and Bernard, DW. "Isotype switching of a monoclonal band without a change in the serum protein electrophoresis pattern (poster)." Clin Chem 49(6):A110, 2003.
• Schmiege LM and Yorke RF. "Size matters: How pathology professionals estimate cell size." Texas Society of Pathologists Annual Meeting, Dallas TX, selected podium presentation, January 2004.
• Schmiege, L, Marcelli, M, Vij, M and Green, LK. "A multidepartmental approach in the development of cost-effective criteria for requests of US-guided FNA of thyroid lesions in a selected patient population: A critical review and assessment of 240 cases over 6 years." Am J Clin Pathol 126(4):625, 2006. Link to Abstract

Publications:

• Lu, JL, Schmiege, L, Kuo, L and Liao, JC. "Downregulation of endothelial constitutive nitric oxide synthase expression by lipopolysaccharide." Biochem Biophys Res Commun 225(1):1-5, 1996.
• Yang, DJ, Krishnan, RS, Guillen, DR, Schmiege, LM, Leis, PF and Hsu, S. "Disseminated sporotrichosis mimicking sarcoidosis." Int J Dermatol, (in press).
• Takei H, Schmiege, L, Buckleair, L, Goodman, JC and Powell, SZ. "Intracerebral schwannoma clinically and radiologically mimicking meningioma." Pathol Int 55(8):514-9, 2005.
• Schmiege, LM. "Quantitative analysis of the inheritance of the human genome." J Irreprod Res 45(3):24-6, 2000.
• Seeborg, FO, Gay, H, Schmiege, LM, Bernard, D and Shearer, WT. "Immunoglobulin G(k) [IgG(k)] and IgG(l) paraproteinemia in a child with AIDS and response to highly active antiretroviral therapy." Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 12(11):1331-3, 2005. Link to Pubmed
• Yang, DJ, Krishnan, RS, Guillen, DR, Schmiege, LM, Leis, PF and Hsu. S. Disseminated sporotrichosis mimicking sarcoidosis. Int J Dermatol 45(4):450-3, 2006. Link to Pubmed
• Schmiege, LM and Wolf, DA. "A case of fatal cardiac tamponade during hemodialysis." Semin Dial 19(5):434-7, 2006. Link to Pubmed

Awards:

• Charles Davidson Scholarship, 1999.
• Ellison Miles Scholarship, 1997.
• Aggie Spirit Collegiate License Plate Scholarship, 1995, 1996.