Dr. Rajiv Dhir
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Dr. Dhir is is a member of the Division of Anatomic Pathology. More information about this division is available here. For a list of other faculty in the Division of Anatomic Pathology, please select this link.

Office Location:

Room A610.3 PUH

Contact Information:

Office Phone: (412) 647-0857
Fax: (412) 647-6251
Beeper: (412) 765-8600
E-Mail: dhirr@msx.upmc.edu


Education and Training:

11/1997-Present: Research Assistant Professor, Staff Pathologist,
Director, Western Pennsylvania Tissue Bank Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

07/1996-10/1997: Research Associate, Division of Genitourinary Pathology,
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

1993-1996: Resident in Pathology (AP/CP), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

1992-1993: Resident in Pathology (AP/CP), Berkshire Medical Center, University of Massachusetts ,Worcester, MA

1989-1992: Senior Resident, Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

1986-1989: Resident in Pathology (AP/CP), All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

1984-1984: Intern at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

1979-1983: Medical education at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Awarded degree of MBBS.

Publications:

  1. Value of electron microscopy and intermediate filament typing in the diagnosis of round cell tumors of childhood. Thesis submitted and approved in Dec. 1988 by the faculty of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

  2. Bhatia S, Khosla A, Dhir R, Bhatia R & Banerji AK. "Giant Lumbosacral nerve sheath tumors". Surg. Neurol. 1992; 37:118-22.

  3. Verma A, Sarkar C, Padma MV, Dhir R, Jain S, Maheshwari MC. "Dystrophin test in differential diagnosis of childhood muscular dystrophies". J. of the Assoc. of Physicians of India. 1992. 40(9):610-3.

  4. Dinda AK, Mahapatra AK, Sarkar C, Dhir R, Kharbanda K. "Primary cerebellopontine angle choroid plexus papilloma: a case report and review of literature". Indian J Cancer. 1994. 31:48-51.

  5. Tanwar RK, Kumar R, Malik S, Dhir R, Rath GK. Orbital neurofibrosarcoma: a case report. Indian J Pathol Microbiol 1995 Jan;38(1):91-94.

  6. Dhir R, Nalesnik M, Demetris AJ, Randhawa PS. "Latent Membrane Protein Expression in Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease: An immunohistochemical analysis". Appl. Immunohistochem. 3(2): 123-126, 1995.

  7. Kharbanda K., Dinda AK., Sarkar C., Karak AK., Dhir R., Mathur M., Roy S. "A correlative study of in vivo and in vitro labeling index using bromodeoxyuridine in human brain tumors". Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 23(3):185-90, 1995.

  8. Kapadia SB, Dhir R, Fuji H, Dickman PS, Wollman M, Johnson JT, Barnes L. "Botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma of Stensen's duct". Am. J. Otolaryngol. 1996 Mar;17(2):127-132.

  9. Nangia AK, Konety BR, Wachtel S, Dhir R, Becich MJ, Bahnson RR. Perineural invasion in transitional cell carcinoma and the effect on prognosis following radical cystectomy. Urology 49(6): 968-972 (Jun 1997).

  10. Dhir, R.; Gau, J.T.; Krill, D.; Bastacky, S.; Bahnson, R.R.; Cooper, D.L.; Becich, M.J. CD44 expression in benign and neoplastic human prostates. Mol Diagn. (in press).

  11. Bastacky, S.B., Dhir, R., Nangia, A.J., Brufsky, A., Bahnson, R.R., Becich, M.J. "Choriocarcinomatous differentiation in a high grade urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder". J. of Urologic Path. (in press).

  12. Konety, B.R.; Nangia, A.K.; Nguyen, T-S.T.; Veitmeier, B.N.; Dhir, R.; Acierno, J.S.; Becich, M.J.; Hrebinko. R.; Getzenberg, R.H. Identification of nuclear matrix protein alterations associated with renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Res. (submitted).

  13. Nezu, F.M., Dhir, R., Logan, T.F., Lavelle, J., Becich, M.J., Chancellor, M.B. "Malignant priapism as the initial clinical manifestation of metastatic renal cell carcinoma with invasion of both corpora cavernosum and spongiosum". J. of Urology. (submitted).

  14. Dhir R., Bahnson R.R., Cooper D.L., Bastacky, S.B., Becich M.J. Immunohistochemical detection of standard and variant forms of CD44 expression in metastatic and organ confined prostatic adenocarcinomas (submitted).
Publications (in preparation):
  1. Dhir R., Dickman P.S. Lymphocytic bronchitis and Epstein-Barr virus infection in pediatric lung transplants.

  2. Torbenson, M., Dhir, R., Nangia, A.J., Becich, M.B., Kapadia, S.B. "Signet ring cell carcinomas of the prostate".
Published Abstracts:
  1. Dhir R, Nalesnik MA, Demetris AJ, Randhawa PS. "Expression of Latent Membrane Protein in Epstein-Barr Virus associated Post- Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease". Am. J. of Clinical Pathology. 1994. 102(4):545.

  2. Dhir R, Evans BA, Hakam A, Bahnson RR, Cooper DL, Becich DL. "Immunohistochemical Detection of standard and Variant forms of CD44 in normal and neoplastic prostates". Am. J. of Clinical Pathology. 1995. 104(3):344-345.

  3. Dhir R, Dickman PS. "Epstein-Barr virus In-situ hybridization and lymphocytic bronchitis in biopsies from pediatric lung transplants". Am. J. of Clinical Pathology. 1995. 104(3):325.

  4. Dhir R, Contis LC. "Immunohistochemical staining for Bcl-2 in malignant lymphoma involving bone marrow : Comparison of results by Southern blot analysis". Am. J. of Clinical Pathology. 1995. 104(3):349.

  5. Dhir, R.; Thomas, A.; Melhern, M.; Tirney, S.; Brufsky, A.; Becich, M.J.; Salup, R.; Bastacky, S. Analysis of anti-androgen therapy on prostatic adenocarcinoma. Accepted US & Canadian Academy of Pathology 86th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL March 1-7, 1997. Modern Pathology 10(1): 73A, 1997.

  6. Bastacky, S.; Dhir, R.; Borochovitz, D. The incidence and significance of concurrent renal disorders occurring in diabetic nephropathy (CRD/DN). Accepted US & Canadian Academy of Pathology 86th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL March 1-7, 1997. Mod Pathol 10(1): 177A, 1997.
Papers presented:
  1. Analysis of anti-androgen therapy on prostatic adenocarcinoma. US & Canadian Academy of Pathology 86th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL March 1-7, 1997.

  2. The incidence and significance of concurrent renal disorders occurring in diabetic nephropathy (CRD/DN). US & Canadian Academy of Pathology 86th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL March 1-7, 1997.

  3. Immunohistochemical detection of standard and variant forms of CD44 expression in metastatic and organ confined prostatic adenocarcinomas. The 1995 fall meeting of the Society for Basic Urologic Research in Chapel Hill.

  4. Epstein-Barr virus In-situ hybridization and lymphocytic bronchitis in biopsies from pediatric lung transplants. Presented for the Pathology Resident Awards competition at the fall meeting of the ASCP in New Orleans in Oct. 1995.

  5. CD44 expression in normal and neoplastic human prostate. The fall meeting of the ASCP in New Orleans in Oct. 1995.

  6. Immunohistochemical staining for Bcl-2 in malignant lymphoma involving bone marrow: Comparison of results by Southern blot analysis. The fall meeting of the ASCP in New Orleans in Oct. 1995.

  7. Expression of Latent Membrane Protein in Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders. The fall meeting of the ASCP in Washington D.C. in Oct.1994.

  8. Medullomyoblastomas-a study of four cases. The annual meeting of the Delhi Chapter of the Indian Academy of Pathologists & Microbiologists in Oct.1991.

  9. Electron Microscopy and Immunocytochemistry as tools in the diagnosis of round cell tumors of childhood. The annual meeting of the Indian Academy of Cytopathologists, Ahemdabad, India, Jan. 1989.

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