The Department of Repository Services provides administrative support to the Center for Advanced Pathology and to the Department of Defense in achieving the Institute's objectives in consultation, education, and research. The department's main functions are as follows:

• Maintaining the AFIP Repository, consisting of over 3.0 million case files and associated paraffin blocks, microscopic glass slides, and formalin-fixed tissue specimens.
• Receiving and accessioning case materials with the highest possible materials accountability and responding to contributors' requests for information on the status of cases submitted.
• Responding to outside requests for release of medical information and pathologic materials.
• Coding and entering pathologic diagnoses and case demographic data into the Institute's research database using the SNOMED coding system.
• Obtaining patient follow-up information for clinicopathologic correlation studies.
• Conducting periodic quality assurance audits to ensure case record completeness, the integrity of the research database, and the accurate tracking of case materials.
• Maintaining a repository of pathologic materials from closed military medical facilities in accordance with applicable DoD regulations and federal statutes.
• Providing budgetary monitoring and policy guidance for the DoD Automated Central Tumor Registry (ACTUR), the DoD Central Cancer Registry, and hosting the annual DoD Cancer Registrars Training Conference.
• Providing management support, policy guidance, and quality assurance monitoring for the Institute's digital imaging contract task orders concerning document conversion.
• Maintains over 4.1 million patient records and associated material from 25 military facilities closed prior to the 2005 BRAC law.

Chair:	Frank Roberts
Address:	Armed Forces Institute of Pathology ATTN: Repository and Research Services 6825 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20306-6000
Commercial:	202-782-2500
DSN:	662-2500
Fax:	202-782-7831