Janina A. Longtine, MD has been appointed as Director
of our Tumor Profiling Laboratory for Smilow Cancer
Hospital at Yale-New Haven and as Vice Chair of Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine and Director of Molecular and
Genomic Diagnostics at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Longtine
joins Yale from Mount Sinai Hospital where she served as
Vice Chair of Molecular Pathology and Genetics for the
department of pathology. In addition, she recently served
as President of the Association for Molecular Pathology
(2014-2015 term).
Dr. Longtine has considerable expertise and leadership
in molecular pathology, and her vision will place patient
management and individualized cancer care at the forefront of our Tumor Profiling
Laboratory. In her new role, she will also be working to more cohesively integrate various
molecular diagnostic services offered by Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, and the Center
for Genome Analysis at West Campus.
Dr. Longtine is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed
her residency and fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She received her
undergraduate degree in molecular biology at Wellesley College.