THE DEPARTMENT OF
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE

The Department is composed of four divisions: Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Research, and Education. The Department employs 47 full-time faculty, and is responsible for the operation of diagnostic laboratories in Surgical Pathology, Autopsy Pathology, Forensic Pathology, Molecular Pathology, Cytology, Cytogenetics, Immunopathology, Hematology, Transplantation and Transfusion Medicine, Diagnostic Immunology, Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Microbiology. The combination of the clinical and basic sciences in the Department keeps students in close touch with current medical problems as they initiate and perform their research.

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:


DIVISION OF ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY

Janice M. Lage, M.D., Chair

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



DIVISION OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Janice M. Lage, M.D., Chair

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


DIVISION OF RESEARCH PATHOLOGY

Janice M. Lage, M.D., Chair

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

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