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Department of Pathology News

2017-2018 Residents and Fellows

Date: Saturday, July 14, 2018 @ 8:30 AM

Location: Moses

2017 Group Residents Fellows 



RESIDENCY TRAINING PROGRAM 2017-2018







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Ridin Balakrishnan


Ridin Balakrishnan 		 Angela Baldwin


Angela Baldwin 		 Mohammad Barouqa


Mohammad Barouqa 		 George Lominadze


George Lominadze 		 Lin Wang


Lin Wang 


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S Cameron
Sophie Cameron 		 Gregory Dickinsonre
Gregory Dickinson 		 J Schultz
Jason Schultz  		 Semple
Stacia Semple  		 Xi Zhang
Xi Zhang  		 Joseph Burt
Joseph Burt (PSYF) 




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Jeffrey Ahlstedt


Jeffrey Ahlstedt

 		 Shaomin Hu


Shaomin Hu

 		 Jack Jacob


Jack Jacob

 		 Ziena Khairy


Ziena Khairy

 		 Sigfred Lajara


Sigfred Lajara

 		 Priyanka Patil


Priyanka Patil

 


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Rosemari DiDonato


Rosemarie DiDonato

 		 Ivo


Ivo Francischetti

 		 Rita Gupta


Ritu Gupta

 		 Hugo


Hugo Kaneku

 		 Sabrine


Sabrine Racine-Brzostek

 




FELLOWSHIP TRAINING





































S Gera


Shweta Gera


Cytopathology 		 Khutti
Seema Khutti


Cytopathology 		 M Casey
Michael Casey


Dermatopathology 		 Michelle Gatica-Torres
Michelle Gatica-Torres
Dermatopathology 		 Akki Ashwan Gi Liver
Ashwan Akki,
GI/Liver 
Maheen Hossain


Maheen Hossain


Hematopathology

 		 m eskandari


Mohammad Eskandari


Hematopathology

 		 F Massimi
Farzana

Massimi, MD


Molecular Genetics

 		 Tianhua GuoCrooped


Yumei Fu, MD


Women's Health

 		  




2014 FELLOWS

























































































Kirsten Fleming  Kirsten Fleming
Dermatopathology 
Ari  Ari Leifer, MD


Cytopathology Fellow


Private practice group, Atlanta, GA
SMaleki  Sarah Maleki, MD
Residency, Montefiore Medical Center, NY


Cytopathology Fellow


Oncological surgical pathology fellowship, Memorial Sloan Cancer Center
Larissa Chismar  Larissa Chismar, MD
Dermatopathology Fellow
Olena Dorokhova  Olena Korokhova, MD


Residency, Montefiore Medical Center, NY


Dermatopathology Fellow
bivin2  William Bivin, MD


GI Liver Fellow


Assistant Professor and Head of Gastrointestinal Pathology, University of Missouri Health Systems
Gordana Katava2  Gordana Katava, MD


Hematopathology Fellow


Rutgers New Jersy Medical School to complete AP/CP Residency training.
Ronald Rice  Ronald Rice, MD


Residency, Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center


Hematopathology Fellow


Women's Health Fellow, Montefiore Medical Center
  Nilufer Inamdar, MD


Molecular Genetics
harmon  Bryan Harmon, MD


Women's Health Fellow

Attending Pathologist, Montefiore Medical Center


2014 RESIDENTS

































































Jeffrey Arnold  Jeffrey Arnold, MD


2014 Cytopathology Fellowship, University of Pennsylvannia;


2015 Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia PA
Monica Chung  Monica Chung, MD


2014 Breast Pathology Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston;


2015 Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC
 
Olena Dorokhova, MD  Olena Dorokhova, MD


Dermatopatholgy Fellowship, Montefiore Medical Center
Kenneth Friedman  Kenneth Friedman, MD


2014 Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship, Rhode Island Hospital (Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University), Providence, RI;


2015 Surgical Pathology Fellowship, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Randin Nelson  Randin Nelson, MD


Transfusion Medicine Fellowship, National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
Sanjita  Sanjita Ravishankar


2014 Pediatric and Perinatal Pathology, Women and Infant's Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital (Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University), Providence, RI;


2015 Surgical Pathology Fellowship, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Sophia rodriquez  Sophia Rodriquez, MD


Forensic Pathology Fellowship, New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


2014 OUTGOING FELLOWS





























































































































CYTOPATHOLOGY

































































































































































 
Esther Adler  Esther Adler, MD


Patholgist and cytopathology director at Kings County Hospital Center and Assistant Professor at Downstate University.
Laleh Hakim  Laleh Hakima, MD


Residency, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY


Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, MO

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Jennifer Vickers  Jennifer Vickers, MD


Faculty position at UT Southwestern Dermatology, Austin, Texas
Jessica Mercer  Jessica Mercer, MD


Private practice, Gwinnett Dermatology, Atlanta GA
Andrea Chakrapani  Andrea Chakrapani, MD 

GI/LIVER PATHOLOGY

































































































































































 
Shilpa  Shilpa Jain, MD


Attending pathologist at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

HEMATOPATHOLOGY

































































































































































 
Hong Chen  Hong Cheng, MD


Attending pathologist with Meridian Program, a private practice in New Jersey.
Yanang Fang  Yanan Fang, MD 

MOLECULAR GENETICS

































































































































































 
DaQuong ma  Deqiong Ma, MD


Clinical Cytogenetics Fellow, Montefiore Medical Center

WOMEN'S HEALTH

































































































































































 
yinhang  Yinghua Pang, MD


Attending pathologist at Woodhull Hospital, Brooklyn


2013 RESIDENTS









































Ekatarina  Ekaterina Castano, MD


Renal/GU Fellowship, Yale University
Ari2  Aaron Leifer, MD


General Oncologic Pathology Fellowship


Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center


Cytology Fellowship, Montefiore
Jessica Niakin  Jessica Niakan, MD


Surgical Pathology and Breast Pathology


Fellowships, Mount Sinai
Anita Singh  Anita Singh, MD


Surgical Pathology and Soft Tissue Fellowships


MD Anderson, Houston, TX


2013 FELLOWS















































































































CYTOPATHOLOGY

































































































































































 
Xiu Yang  Xiu Yang, MD


Attending Pathologist


University of Louisville, KY
Cole  Adam Cole, MD


Attending Pathologist


Montefiore Medical Center

DERMATOPATHOLOGY

































































































































































 
Rosmanrev  Ilana Rosman, MD 
Thai Ly Yen  Thai Ly Yen, MD


 
Alexis Young  Alexis Young, MD 

HEMATOPATHOLOGY

































































































































































 
Jonathan Chow  Jonathan Chow, MD


Attending Pathologist


Brooklyn Hospital
Weiji Li  Weiji Li, MD


Attending Pathologist


Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

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Katherine Downey  Katherine Downey, MD


South Shore Hospital, MA

WOMEN'S HEALTH

































































































































































 
Esther Adler  Esther Adler, MD


Cytopathology Fellowship


Montefiore Medical Center


2012 RESIDENTS



Esther Adler, MD


Women's Health Fellowship, Montefiore Medical Center



Adam Cole, MD


Cytopathology Fellowship, Montefiore Medical Center



Janice Diaz-Cavalliery, MD


Forensic Pathology Fellowship, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, City of New York Program



Kristin Ware, MD


Forensic Pathology Fellowship, Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Houston, TX





2012 FELLOWS



Cytopathology


Julian Arce, MD


Attending Pathologist, Long Island College Hospital



Sarah Frost, MD


Pathology Fellow, Mount Sinai Hospital



Dermatopathology


Christopher A. D'Angelis, MD


Attending Pathologist, University at Buffalo Pathologists, Inc.



Melinda R. Mohr, MD


Attending Pathologist, Eastern Virginia Medical School



Marc Meulener, MD



GI Liver


Yusheng Han, MD


University of Minnesota



Hematopathology


Rekha Bhat, MD



Donghong Cai, MD, PhD


Attending Pathologist, University at Buffalo Pathologists, Inc.



Surgical Pathology


Bella Graber, MD


Cytology Fellow, Syracuse University



Women's Health


Xiaoqing O'Leary, MD, PhD





News

Dr. Joan W. Berman, Ph.D.

Dr. Berman Delivers 2019 Presidential Lecture

Joan W. Berman, PhD, a professor in the Departments of Pathology and of Microbiology & Immunology and the Irving D. Karpas Chair in Medicine, received the 2019 Einstein-Montefiore Presidential Lecture Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in basic and clinical research at Einstein and Montefiore. Dr. Berman and her co-honoree, Chinazo Cunningham, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), delivered the 3rd annual Einstein-Montefiore Presidential Lecture on June 3, in the Robbins Auditorium, on Einstein’s Jack & Pearl Resnick Campus. The event was hosted by Gordon F. Tomaselli, MD, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean, and Steven M. Safyer, MD, President and CEO, Montefiore Health System.

Dr. Berman’s presentation was titled, “Buprenorphine: A Novel Therapy for HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders.” The Berman lab studies interactions of HIV with the central nervous system (CNS): how HIV enters the CNS, persists there despite antiretroviral therapy, and causes dementia and other neurocognitive disorders collectively known as neuroAIDS. Dr. Berman and her team showed that methamphetamines and other drugs of abuse can worsen the CNS damage associated with neuroAIDS. Such drugs are known to raise extracellular dopamine levels. Dr. Berman’s group was the first to demonstrate that dopamine increases the number of HIV-infected leukocytes that cross the blood-brain barrier and infiltrate the CNS. Dr. Berman also found that the methadone alternative, buprenorphine, not only inhibits monocytes from entering the CNS but helps eliminate the cognitive deficits associated with HIV infection in mice.

 

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Dr. HerbertBTanowitz

Remembering Dr. Herbert Tanowitz

We mourn the passing of our beloved colleague, mentor and friend. [Read more] 

Announcing the Dr. Herbert B. Tanowitz Honorary Lecture for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine

Created by the Montefiore Einstein Department of Pathology in honor of Dr. Herbert Tanowitz who passed away on July 17, 2018, the lecture will focus on parasitology and tropical medicine—the driving research interests of Dr. Tanowitz’ long and distinguished career. The inaugural lecture will be a full-day symposium on the pathogenesis of Chagas Disease, including research on the role of adipose tissue in this chronic infection.

Click here to donate to the Lecture Fund or for more information 

 
 

Research

Experimental pathology aims to define disease in terms of fundamental molecular and cellular processes. Research in our Department focuses on critical issues in multiple disease classes. Areas of focus include: 

 

Research in each of these areas is highly interactive, and the Department strives for a collegial atmosphere in which collaborations can flourish. This effort is conducted through a variety of department-level activities, including regular meetings to discuss work in progress and a departmental retreat at which students, postdoctoral fellows, residents and faculty all have opportunity to present and discuss their research.

 

Research Funding Program

The Department of Pathology has established a research funding program to encourage residents and fellows to participate in clinical pilot research projects. Up to $2,000 will be awarded per research project, for projects of up to two years in duration.

 

Research Faculty

Amanda Beck, DVM 

Geoffrey Childs, PhD 

Joan W. Berman, PhD 

Mahalia Desruisseaux, MD, PhD 

Amy Fox, MD  

David Fooksman, PhD  

Chandan Guha, MBBS, PhD 

Rachel Hazan, PhD 

Lawrence Herbst, DVM, PhD 

Huan Huang, MD 

Fernando Macian, MD, PhD 

Maja Oktay, MD, PhD 

Harry Ostrer, MD 

Thomas J. Ow, MD 

Michael B. Prystowsky, MD, PhD 

Moshe Sadofsky, MD, PhD 

Bridget Shafit-Zagardo, PhD 

Louis Weiss, MD