Pathology Faculty
Morrow, Jon
Chair and Chief
Research Interests:Hemolytic Disease; Degenerative Brain Disease; spectrin; Autopsy Pathology; Renal Pathology; Medical Informatics; Computer Aided Instruction (CAI); Telepathology
Clinical Interests:Hematologic and renal disorders; kidney cancer; colon cancer; breast cancer
West, A. Brian
Vice Chair
Research Interests:Anatomic pathology of the gastrointestinal tract; liver; biliary tract and pancreas; with special emphasis on non-neoplastic diseases. Histopathological diagnosis of infectious diseases; the pathogenesis of infectious and inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and biliary system; Vascular diseases of the alimentary tract; Efficiency and error reduction in anatomic pathology
Clinical Interests:Anatomic pathology of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, biliary tract and pancreas, with special emphasis on non-neoplastic diseases; Histopathological diagnosis of infectious diseases.
Adeniran, Adebowale
Research Interests:Oncologic Surgical Pathology; Cytopathology; Urologic Pathology; Biology of translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC); Biology of the primary urethral carcinomas
Clinical Interests:genitourinary pathology; Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC)
Agarwal, Seema
Research Interests:Cellular and molecular biology; classical genetics and functional genomics; signal transduction; drug screening for cancer therapeutics and cancer stem cells.
Albright, Ronald
Research Interests:x-ray crystallography; protein structure/function
Bao, Yunhua
Research Interests:iPSCs, ESCs; Differentiation; Patients; Myogenesis; Transgenic
Bosenberg, Marcus
Research Interests:Melanocytic neoplasms; soft tissue tumors; cutaneous lymphoma; genodermatoses
Clinical Interests:Dermatopathology; melanoma; skin cancer
Bossuyt, Veerle
Research Interests:Breast and Gynecologic pathology; Cytopathology
Clinical Interests:Women's Health Program in pathology (gynecologic and breast pathology); cytopathology
Braddock, Demetrios
Research Interests:Structural biology; Hematopathology; Genitourinary Pathology
Clinical Interests:Urologic pathology; hematopathology
Brandsma, Janet
Research Interests:Molecular biology of papillomavirus pathogenesis; Development of protective and therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated disease; Vaccines; Virology
Bucala, Richard
Research Interests:Mechanisms by which host immunity converts from a protective response to one producing disease and tissue pathology; Emergence of steroid resistance; Biochemical, biological, and genetic characterization of the MIF cytokine family; MIF's role in malaria and global infectious diseases; Pharmacologic immuniomodulation of the MIF pathway; Role of fibrocytes in different systemic fibroses
Clinical Interests:Autoimmune diseases; Rheumatoid arthritis; Systemic Fibroses; Y-NHH Consultation
Buza, Natalia
Research Interests:diagnostic and prognostic markers in endometrial, ovarian and breast cancer
Clinical Interests:breast pathology; gynecological pathology.
Cai, Guoping
Research Interests:Fine needle aspiration biopsy; Cytopathology; Genitourinary pathology
Clinical Interests:Surgical Pathology; Cytopathology; Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy
Camp, Robert
Research Interests:Quantitative Pathology; Prognostic markers in breast cancer; Phenotypic differences between primary and metastatic breast cancer; Growth factor responsiveness of breast carcinoma; Tissue microarrays; Automated analysis of immunohistochemistry
Clinical Interests:Breast pathology; quantitative pathology
Chang, Sandy
Research Interests:Mouse models of cancer; DNA damage; Telomere biology
Clinical Interests:Cancer diagnosis, molecular techniques
Chhieng, David
Research Interests:HPV; cervical cancer; pancreas cancer; thyroid cancer
Clinical Interests:Pancreatic cancer; Thyroid cancer; Cervical cancer; Fine needle aspiration biopsy; Pap tests; Humanpapilloma virus
Choi, Young
Research Interests:Immunopathology; Molecular Pathology; Cytopathology and Clinical Pathology; Breast Cancer; Immunopathology; Molecular Pathology; Immunopathology; Molecular Pathology
Clinical Interests:Immunopathology; molecular pathology; anatomic pathology/cytopathology and all areas of clinical pathology and lab services
Cohen, Paul
Research Interests:General surgical pathology; Thoracic surgical pathology; Gynecologic surgical pathology
Clinical Interests:Diagnostic surgical pathology; pulmonary and thoracic pathology; gynecologic pathology
Costa, Jose
Research Interests:Oncology; Carcinogenesis; Tumor development and progression; Advanced diagnostics; Molecular diagnostics; Diagnosed genetic alterations in tumors; Cancer risk detection by mutational load distribution analysis
Clinical Interests:Molecular biology of tumors; oncologic pathology; molecular diagnostics; functional imaging; orthopaedic pathology; soft-tissue tumors; bone cancer; gastrointestinal cancer; sarcoma; head and neck tumors.
Cowper, Shawn
Research Interests:Alopecia; cutaneous lymphoma; pathology informatics; nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy/nephrogenic systemic fibrosis
Clinical Interests:General dermatopathology; alopecia; cutaneous lymphoma; pathology informatics; nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy/nephrogenic systemic fibrosis; adnexal neoplasms
Davis, Gustave
Research Interests:Pathology of the Ear; Head and Neck
Downing, Steve
Research Interests:Cardiovascular Pathology; Pathophysiology
Fernandez, Susan
Clinical Interests:cytopathology
Friedlaender, Gary
Research Interests:Biomolecules for bone repair; fusions and bone regeneration; musculoskeletal oncology; medical education; osteoporosis; healthcare delivery
Clinical Interests:Tumors and pathological fractures; metastatic disease to bone; fracture nonunions; infections; sarcoma; multiple myeloma; bone cancer; pediatric cancer; limb-sparing tumor resections.
Galan, Anjela
Research Interests:Malignant melanoma; Lyme disease; Bullous skin disorders
Clinical Interests:General dermatopathology; dermatology; pathology and molecular studies; skin neoplasms, including malignant melanoma; soft tissue tumors; Lyme disease
Gallagher, Patrick
Research Interests:Neonatal hematology; Erythropoiesis; Inherited abnormalities of the erythrocyte including metabolic, membrane, and hemoglobin disorders; Sickle cell disease; Hereditary spherocytosis; Elliptocytosis; Pyropoikilocytosis; Stomatocytosis
Clinical Interests:Neonatal medicine; Respiratory and circulatory failure; Shock; Prematurity; Newborn hematology and blood problems; Neonatal infectious disease; Genetic disorders
Gershkovich, Peter
Research Interests:Medical Informatics; Web-Based Software Development
Gibson, Joanna
Research Interests:Gastrointestinal and liver oncologic pathology
Clinical Interests:Gastrointestinal, liver and pancreaticobiliary pathology; Head and Neck Pathology; Endocrine Pathology.
Gilmore-Hebert, Maureen
Research Interests:signal transduction, breast cancer
Glusac, Earl
Research Interests:Morphologic and immunohistochemical features of cutaneous lymphoproliferative, fibrohistiocytic, and melanocytic neoplasms
Clinical Interests:Melanocytic diseases; mycosis fungoides; histiocytic disorders
Haines, G., III
Research Interests:General Surgical Pathology; Head and Neck Pathology; Arthritis; Cancer Or Carcinogenesis; Pathology; Stress; Surgery
Clinical Interests:General Surgical Pathology; Genitourinary Pathology; Breast Pathology; Gynecologic Pathology; Head & Neck Pathology
Hao, Liming
Research Interests:Gastrointestinal pathology
Clinical Interests:gastrointestinal pathology
Harigopal, Malini
Research Interests:Cancer biomarkers; Breast; Thyroid; Immunohistochemistry; AQUA method of analysis in tissue microarrays and cytologic material
Clinical Interests:Breast, thyroid and gynecologic cytology
Homer, Robert
Research Interests:Lung pathology; Interstitial lung disease; immunopathology; Pathology of animal models of asthma; Pulmonary fibrosis; Acute lung injury; Emphysema
Clinical Interests:Lung pathology; immunopathology
Hudnall, Stanley
Research Interests:Tumor immunology; Chronic inflammation; Tumor viruses
Clinical Interests:Hematologic malignancies
Hui, Pei
Research Interests:GYN Pathology; Molecular Diagnostics
Clinical Interests:Diagnostic Gynecological Pathology;Molecular Diagnostics
Jain, Dhanpat
Research Interests:Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD); Liver tumors; Motility disorders of GI tract; Esophageal and gastric carcinoma
Clinical Interests:Gastrointestinal and liver pathology; gastrointestinal stromal tumors; prostate cancer; motility disorders of the bowel
Kashgarian, Michael
Research Interests:Transport ATPases, Ischemic Cell Injury, Heat Shock proteins, Mechanisms of Glomerular Sclerosis. Clinical Interests: renal pathology, diagnostic electron microscopy, genetic pathology. Other interests include advanced imaging techniques, confocal microscopy, image analysis, vital microscopy.
Clinical Interests:Renal pathology; electron microscopy; advanced imaging techniques; renal cancer; kidney cancer; mesothelioma; pediatric cancer; unknown primary cancers; solid kidney and cardiac transplantation
Katz, Samuel
Clinical Interests:Hematopathology; Leukemia; Lymphoma
Khelifa, Sihem
Research Interests:Microinvasive Breast Neoplasia; Lobular Neoplasia; Biomarkers of Aggressive Behavior in Intraductal Neoplasia; Biomarkers of Occult Invasion on Breast Needle Core Biopsy
Kim, Jung
Research Interests:neuropathology; surgical pathology (Brain tumors, Epilepsy, Muscle); autopsy. dementia including Alzheimer's disease.
Kleinstein, Steven
Research Interests:Computational immunology; Systems biology; Disease/tissue/pathway/process modeling and simulation; Statistical and model-based analysis of experimental and clinical data
Kluger, Yuval
Research Interests:Signal processing and dimensional reduction of genome-wide data; Local and non-local genomic pattern recognition; Identification of cancer subclones with proliferation and invasion potential in heterogeneous cancer biopsies
Ko, Christine
Research Interests:Adnexal tumors; benign and malignant epidermal tumors; vascular tumors
Clinical Interests:Dermatopathology; adnexal and keratinocytic neoplasms; clinical pathologic correlation of inflammatory dermatoses; general dermatology
Kowalski, Diane
Research Interests:Head and Neck Pathology; Cytopathology; Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) technique
Clinical Interests:Head and neck pathology; nongynecologic cytopathology
Krause, Diane
Research Interests:Bone Marrow Transplantation; Stem Cells; Cell and Molecular Hematology; Leukemia
Clinical Interests:Transfusion medicine; stem cell transplantation; stem cell processing; apheresis
Krauthammer, Michael
Research Interests:Molecular interaction networks: computational analysis, pathway discovery, knowledge representation; Statistical modeling and analysis; Text mining in biology: term identification, information extraction
Kupfer, Gary
Research Interests:Genomic instability; Development of cancer; Genetic syndrome Fanconi anemia (FA); Viral protein enhancement of cancer therapeutics
Clinical Interests:Pediatric oncology; genetic markers for diagnosis, prognosis, staging and tracking disease in patients.
Kyriakides, Themis
Research Interests:Angiogenesis; Extracellular matrix remodeling; Inflammation; Cell fusion; Wound healing; Foreign body response; Gene delivery; Biomaterials
Lazova, Rossitza
Research Interests:Spitz nevi; Spitzoid melanocytic neoplasms; Malignant melanoma; Melanocytic nevi on special anatomic sites
Clinical Interests:General dermatopathology; melanocytic nevi on special anatomic sites; spitzoid and unusual melanocytic neoplasms; Melanoma; Spitz nevi
Levi, Angelique
Clinical Interests:Cytopathology, surgical pathology, genito-urinary pathology, gynecologic pathology; fine needle aspiration with on-site cytologic assessment
Li, Jie
Research Interests:Molecular Neuro-Oncology; Proteomics; Selective tissue dissection; Neurosurgery; Genomics; Therapeutic targets; Biomarkers; Brain tumors; Human specimen; Microdissection
Li, Qi
Research Interests:Cell- Matrix and Cell-Cell Interactions; Integrin-Mediated Signaling. Neural Stem cell development.
Lizardi, Paul
Research Interests:Cancer Genetics/Epigenetics; Cancer biology; Dynamics of abnormal chromatin states in neoplasia and metastasis; DNA amplification technology (MDA, RCA); DNA microarray technology for epigenetic analysis, array-CGH; Proteomics analysis of cancer tissues
Ma, Xian-Yong
Research Interests:How do the key target proteins determine the status of cell differentiation and proliferation? How do the modifications of gene structure (DNA and core histone) cause global changes of gene expression pattern? My research employed multitude of molecular, cellular, physiological and bioinformatics techniques to investigate the molecular mechnisms and physiological function of interferon induced P202a, acute megakaryoblastic leukemia associated transcription factorRBM15, and Polycomb Repressive Group proteins SUZ12. The ongoing research topics including global interferes for binding pattern caused by fusion of polycomb protein JJAZ1 to transcription repressor JAZF1 and genome-wide exploration of cis regulatory regions bond with transcription factor JAZF1 using CHIP-sequencing analysis.
Madri, Joseph
Research Interests:Connective tissue disorders; Cell-Matrix and Cell-Cell Interactions; Integrin-Mediated Signaling; Cardio-vascular development; Angiogenesis and Vascular Biology; inflammation; T-cell-Endothelial cell interactions
Clinical Interests:cardiovascular development; effects of premature birth on brain development; connective tissue disorders; autoimmune diseases - specifically multiple sclerosis; effects of maternal diabetes on offspring
Maihle, Nita
Research Interests:Cancer; Women's cancers; Diagnostics; Theragnostics; Biotherapeutics; Precision/personalized medicine, signal transduction; EGFR/ERBB/HER-driven adult solid tumors
Clinical Interests:1)Discovery and application of disruptive innovations to improve the detection, treatment, and prevention of cancer.
2) ‘Precision medicine’ in oncology -- the coupling of early detection and theragnostic biomarkers with the treatment of patients using biologically-targeted therapeutics.
3) Use of “soluble” EGFR/HER receptors (sEGFR and sHERs) as novel serum/tissue biomarkers and also as potential biotherapeutics for the treatment of adult solid tumors.
Marchesi, Vincent
Research Interests:Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease; Neurodegeneration; Amyloid abeta metabolism, Auto-antibodies; Protein-folding
Clinical Interests:Alzheimer's disease; adult neurodegeneration
McNiff, Jennifer
Research Interests:Histopathologic evaluation of inflammatory and neoplastic skin disease; Immunofluorescence studies; Cutaneous lymphoma and murine models of graft vs. host disease
Clinical Interests:General dermatopathology; pathologic diagnosis of inflammatory and neoplastic skin diseases; immunofluorescence in skin diseases; Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma; immunobullous disorders.
Means, Robert
Research Interests:Viruses; Immune responses; AIDS-associated cancers; KSHV; Adverse pregnancy events; Oncogenesis; Cancer metabolism; Tumor virology; Herpesviruses
Min, Wang
Research Interests:Inflammation; Angiogenesis/lymphangiogenesis; Atherosclerosis; Transplant rejection; Tumor microenvironment and metastasis
Mitchell, Kisha
Research Interests:Gastrointestinal; Liver Pathology; Forensic Pathology
Clinical Interests:Colon Cancer; Liver Cancer; Pancreas and Bile duct Cancer; Autopsy Pathology, Ancillary Techniques to aid in Autopsy Pathology, Transplant Liver Pathology
Moeckel, Gilbert
Research Interests:Fibrosis; Progression of chronic kidney disease; Acute kidney injury; Regenerative medicine; Injury repair
Clinical Interests:Diabetic Nephropathy, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE); acute kidney injury; papillary necrosis; Acute Interstitial Nephritis (AIN); transplant pathology; ultrastructural pathology
Morotti, Raffaella
Clinical Interests:pediatric pathology
Nguyen, Don
Research Interests:Metastasis; Lung cancer; Cancer genomics; Tumor microenvironment
Parkash, Vinita
Research Interests:Gynecologic; Obstetric Pathology
Clinical Interests:Gynecologic pathology; perinatal pathology
Pinto, Marguerite
Research Interests:Cytopathology/Surgical Pathology GYN; Breast
Clinical Interests:Gynecologic and breast pathology; cytopathology, including Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA); use of tumor markers in cytopathology
Pober, Jordan
Research Interests:Immunobiology of vascular endothelial cells: cytokine actions and mechanisms; transplantation immunology
Politi, Katerina
Research Interests:Cancer biology; Mouse models of lung cancer; Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor; ERBB Receptor family; Targeted therapy
Prasad, Manju
Research Interests:Endocrine, Head & Neck Pathology; Genotype-phenotype correlation in tumors; Protein expression and biomarkers in tumor tissues, and their diagnostic & prognostic relevance
Clinical Interests:Tumors of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands; Head and neck Cancer; Benign diseases mimicking cancers of the endocrine organs and of Head and Neck, Bone and soft tissue pathology
Qyang, Yibing
Research Interests:Heart; Stem cell; ES cell; iPS cell; Physiology; Tissue engineering; Small molecule; Patient; Disease; Cardiovascular
Rimm, David
Research Interests:Quantitative Pathology; Cancer Tissue Biomarkers; Melanoma; Breast Cancer; Cell-cell adhesion in cancer; Translation of molecular techniques to diagnostic cytopathology; General Cytopathology; Immunohistochemistry; thyroid pathology
Clinical Interests:Molecular diagnostics; thyroid cytopathology; urine cytopathology; breast cancer; cancer biomarkers; growth factor receptors
Robek, Michael
Research Interests:Virus-host interactions; viral immunology; hepatitis viruses; interferon
Robert, Marie
Research Interests:Gastrointestinal and liver pathology; Inflammatory bowel diseases; Barrett esophagus; Dysplasia associated with inflammatory bowel disease and Barrett esophagus
Clinical Interests:Gastrointestinal pathology; liver and pancreatic pathology; Barrett esophagus; gastritis; Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD); celiac disease; colitis; Crohn's disease; esophageal cancer; colon cancer; pancreatic cancer; hepatitis; liver tumors; dysplasia in Barrett esophagus; ulcerative colitis
Rose, John
Research Interests:Virology; Vaccine and gene expression vectors based on rhabdoviruses; Membrane protein assembly, transport and targeting; Viral assembly
Rose, Nina
Research Interests:genetics; virology
Saglam, Ozlen
Research Interests:Oncologic surgical pathology in particular breast; gynecologic pathology; cytopathology
Clinical Interests:Breast and gynecologic pathology; cytopathology
Shadel, Gerald
Research Interests:Mitochondria; Mitochondrial Genetics and Biogenesis; Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Human Disease and Aging; Mechanisms of mtDNA Transcription and Mitochondrial Translation; Signaling Pathways that Sense and Control Mitochondrial Function; Cancer; Immune System Signaling
Sinard, John
Research Interests:medical informatics
Clinical Interests:ophthalmic pathology; general surgical pathology; autopsy pathology; tumor pathology; pathology informatics
Sklar, Jeffrey
Research Interests:Molecular biology of human disease, especially cancer; Molecular biologic methods of disease diagnosis; Cancer-related genes and their functions in neoplasia and normal cellular physiology; Chromosomal structure and chromosomal abnormalities in genetic and neoplastic disorders; Immunogenetics
Clinical Interests:Molecular diagnostics; autopsy pathology
Stankewich, Michael
Research Interests:Spectrin cytoskeleton; membrane transport
Stern, David
Research Interests:Cancer Biology: signal transduction by HER2/ErbB2 and other EGF family receptor tyrosine kinases; EGF family receptors in breast cancer and mammary development; DNA damage checkpoint signaling; Functional and genetic analysis of cancer; Melanoma
Subtil, Antonio
Research Interests:Alopecia; Atypical melanocytic lesions and cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders
Clinical Interests:Cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders; infectious diseases; alopecia; melanocytic lesions
Tavassoli, Fattaneh
Research Interests:Breast carcinoma; Basal-like carcinomas; Intraepithelial neoplasias; Invasive mammary carcinomas; Necrotic variant and common types of lobular intraepithelial neoplasia; Markers for breast and ovarian carcinoma; Micro and macroenvironment on mammary carcinogenesis; Protein expression profile of mammary and ovarian carcinomas
Clinical Interests:Breast and gynecologic pathology
Thakar, Juilee
Research Interests:Computational Immunology, Network Biology, Dynamic Modeling
Vortmeyer, Alexander
Research Interests:Neuropathology; Hereditary Tumorigenesis; Applied Proteomics
Wajapeyee, Narendra
Research Interests:Cancer; Genomics; RNAi; Senescence; DNA methylation; RNAi delivery to cancer cells
Walther, Zenta
Research Interests:epithelial polarity and proliferation control; intestinal epithelial homeostasis; intestinal barrier function; innate immune signalling
Clinical Interests:molecular profiling of solid tumors; personalized medicine; GI oncology; thoracic oncology; melanoma
Wan, Minghong
Research Interests:Molecular Diagnosis; Human and Mouse Genetics; Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics
Clinical Interests:Molecular Pathology
Xu, Mina
Research Interests:Peripheral T-cell lymphoma, NOS; Classical hodgkin lymphoma; Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, EBV-related lymphoproliferative disorders
Clinical Interests:Hematopathology; Lymphoma; Leukemia; Nonneoplastic Blood Disorders
Yan, Qin
Research Interests:Epigenetics; Transcription regulation; Cancer biology; Stem cell biology
Zhang, Hai Feng
Research Interests:Mouse gene knockout; Cytokine signaling; angiogenesis; Biology of vascular endothelium, recombinant protein production.
Zhang, Xuchen
Research Interests:Liver and gastrointestinal pathology; Neoplastic and non-neoplastic pulmonary pathology; Acute and chronic oxidant-induced lung injury
Clinical Interests:Liver/Gastrointestinal pathology; Thoracic pathology
