The research equipment available within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine reflects the diversity of the Department. Major equipment and facilities include: molecular biology facilities, protein purification and analysis equipment, transmission electron microscopy including x-ray microanalysis, freeze fracture and cryoultramicrometry facilities, tissue culture and tumor bank facilities, histopathology facilities, image processing and analysis facilities, laser capture microdissection, microscopy fluorometry, single cell microinjection, and time-lapse video imaging.
Faculty within the Department
of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine are listed below:
Mariam Alsharif, MD - Pathologist
Nicholas I. Batalis, MD - Instructor
Masha H. Bilic, MD - Assistant Professor
Christina Carrick, MD - Assistant Professor
Haytham Dimashkieh, MD - Assistant Professor
Russell A. Harley, M.D. - Human and Experimental Pulmonary Pathology
David
N. Lewin, M.D. - Residency Program Director
Gastrointestinal, Pancreatic, and Hepatopathology
Jim Madory, D.O. - Director, Pathology Informatics
John
S. Metcalf, M.D. Department Vice-Chair
Dermatopathology, pathophysiology of melanoma
S. Erin Presnell, M.D. - Director, Medical and Forensic Autopsy; Director, Undergraduate Education
Ellen C. Riemer, M.D., J.D.- Assistant Profesor
Forensic Pathology and Director of Pulmonary Pathology
Mary
S. Richardson, M.D. - Director, Surgical Pathology
Surgical Pathology, Gynecologic Pathology and Endocrine/ Head and Neck Pathology
Tihana Rumboldt, M.D. - Assistant Professor
Cynthia
A. Schandl, Ph.D., M.D. - Director, Forensic Pathology Fellowship Program
General Forensic Pathology,
Maternal and Placental Pathology, Forensic Histopathology, Molecular Forensic
Pathology, Molecular Surgical Pathology
M.
Timothy Smith, M.D. - Director, Anatomical Pathology
Surgical Pathology, Neuropathology, Dermatopathology
Cynthia Welsh, M.D. - Neuropathology
Jack Yang, M.D. - Associate Professor and Director of Cytopathology
John Lazarchick, M.D. - Vice Chair, Clinical Pathology; Director, Hematology & Hematopathology Fellowship Program
Frederick S. Nolte, Ph.D. - Professor and Director of Clinical Laboratories
Sally E. Self, M.D. - Director, Flow Cytometry, Immunology
Jerry E. Squires, M.D., Ph.D. - Medical Director, Transfusion Service
Lisa L. Steed, Ph.D.- Director, Microbiology
Daynna Wolff, Ph.D. - Director, Clinical Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics Laboratories
Yusheng Zhu, Ph.D. - Director of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology
Bradley
A. Schulte, Ph.D. Vice Chair
, Division of Research
Molecular mechanisms of hearing and hearing loss
Erika T. Brown, Ph.D. - Genetic instability in breast cancer
Lisa Cunningham, Ph.D. - Ototoxicity, Apoptosis in inner ear hair cells
Vincent Dammai, M.Phil, Ph.D. - Protein trafficking and cancer metastasis
Weimin Fan, M.D. - Drug resistance and experimental cancer therapy
Victoria J. Findlay, Ph.D. - The role of miRNAs in cancer
Yong-Zhong Gong, M.D.
Debra J. Hazen-Martin, Ph.D. - Heavy-metal nephrotoxicity, epithelial cell culture and ultrastructure.
Tien Hsu Ph.D. - Tumor suppressor genes in metastasis and angiogenesis
Toshihiko Kawamori, M.D., Ph.D. - Lipid signaling in cancer biology and Chemoprevention
Hainan Lang, M.D., Ph.D.- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of sensorineural hearing loss; stem cell therapy in hearing loss
Amanda C. LaRue, Ph.D. - Tissue reconstituting potentials of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)
Omar Moussa, M. Sc., Ph.D. - Gene expression, molecular profiling, Ets transcription
Makio Ogawa, M.D., Ph.D. - Cellular physiology of hematopoietic stem cells
Gian G. Re, Ph.D. - Gene expression in cancer.
Dr. Demetri Spyropoulos - Developmental regulatory gene functions in carcinogenesis.
Meihua Sui, M.D. - Cancer biology and experimental therapeutics
David P. Turner, Ph.D. - Transcriptional regulation of cancer progression
Yong Wang, M.D., Ph.D. - Cancer stem cells, aging, microRNAs, radiotherapy and bone marrow transplantation
Dennis Watson, Ph.D. - Molecular biology of gene regulation, molecular genetics of cancer
Je-Seong Won, Ph.D.
Daohong Zhou, M.D. - Hematopoietic stem cells, DNA damage and repair, senescence, radiation, chemotherapy, genomic instability