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Department of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine
S-417 BST
200 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
(412) 648-1260


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Department Faculty by Divisional Affiliation

    Alphabetical Listing  


  Division of Anatomic Pathology  

  Division of Experimental Pathology  [Back to Top]  

    Aaron Bell, PhD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Transcriptional regulation of hepatocyte differentiation.

    Chunsun Dai, MD, PhD -- Assistant Professor
    -- The role and mechanisms of Wnts in podocyte dysfunction and acute renal failure.

    Nick Giannoukakis, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Gene and cell therapy for autoimmunity.

    Sikandar L. Katyal, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Pulmonary biology, growth factors in lung development and lung injury/repair.

    Youhua Liu, PhD -- Professor
    -- Cellular and molecular pathogenesis of renal fibrosis.

    Jianhua Luo, MD, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Cancer molecular biology.

    Wendy M. Mars, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and cancer phenotype.

    George K. Michalopoulos, MD, PhD -- Professor and Chairman
    -- Regulation of hepatocyte growth.

    Satdarshan P.S. Monga, MD -- Associate Professor
    -- Wnt and HGF signaling in Liver and Hepatic Stem cell characterization.

    Ivona Pandrea, MD, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- SIV pathogenesis in progressive and nonprogressive hosts. Immune therapies for HIV infection.

    Steve Strom, PhD -- Professor
    -- Chemical carcinogenesis, molecular mechanisms of growth control in human liver and prostate.

    Yanping Yu, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Cancer molecular biology.

    Reza Zarnegar, PhD -- Professor
    -- Regulation of gene expression of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and receptor protooncogene c-met

  Division of Pathology Informatics  [Back to Top]  

  Division of Neuropathology   [Back to Top]  

    Robert Bowser, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Molecular and cell biological studies of human brain development and neurodegenerative diseases.

    Charleen Chu, MD, PhD --Associate Professor
    -- Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration; proteolytic and oxidative regulation of cell signaling.

    Ronald Hamilton, MD -- Associate Professor
    -- Alpha-synuclein aggregation in the pathogenesis of dementia with Lewy bodies.
    -- Prognostic factors in pediatric brain tumors.

    Scott Kulich, MD, PhD-- Assistant Professor
    -- The interaction between oxidative neurotoxins and intracellular signal transduction cascades in the context of neurologic diseases.

    Kathryn McFadden, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Neuropathology

    Geoffrey Murdoch, MD, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Pediatric Neuropathology

    Gutti R. Rao, MD -- Associate Professor
    -- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

    Clayton A. Wiley, MD, PhD -- Professor, Division Director
    -- Examining mechanisms of neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer's Disease, AIDS, West Nile Virus and influenza infection.

  Division of Transplantation Pathology   [Back to Top]  

    Anthony J. Demetris, MD -- Professor, Division Director
    -- Liver transplant pathophysiology and immunopathology.

    Chang Han, MD, PhD -- Research Assistant Professor
    -- Prostaglandins in hepatobiliary carcinogenesis.

    Michael A. Nalesnik, MD -- Professor
    -- Epstein-Barr virus related post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders, transplant pathology.

    Erin Rubin Ochoa, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Cell-cycle regulatory role of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, p27kip1, as it relates to to improve Hepatocyte Transplantation.

    Parmjeet S. Randhawa, MD -- Professor
    -- Polymavirus infection, renal transplant pathology.

    Eizaburo Sasatomi, MD, PhD -- Assistant Professor
    -- transplant pathology.

    Adriana Zeevi, PhD -- Professor
    -- Cellular mechanisms of allograft rejection.

  Section of Laboratory Medicine  [Back to Top]  

    Harry C. Blair, MD -- Professor, Acting Medical Director
    -- Bone physiology and pathology

    Richard Bodnar, J., PhD -- Research Assistant Professor
    -- Signaling mechanisms regulating angiogenesis

    Marina Nikiforova, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Molecular Anatomic Pathology

    Alan Wells, MD, DMS -- Professor and Vice-Chairman
    -- Cell migration, cell motility regulation, and its role in physiologic and pathologic situations

    Cary Wu, PhD -- Professor
    -- Cell adhesion: molecular mechanism and the roles in the pathogenesis of cancer and diabetic nephropathy

  Division of Clinical Chemistry  [Back to Top]  

    K. Michael Gibson, PhD, FACMG -- Professor
    -- Murine models of inborn errors of metabolism

    Octavia M. Peck Palmer, PhD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Intra-individual variation of chemistry analytes in the Pediatric population

    Mohamed A. Virji, MD, PhD -- Professor
    -- Tumor markers in liver and prostate cancers, rapid assays for intra-operative management, clinical laboratory automation, point-of-care testing, and laboratory information management

  Division of Clinical Immunopathology   [Back to Top]  

    Bruce S. Rabin, MD, PhD -- Professor of Pathology and Psychiatry, Division Director
    -- Brain and the immune system

    Galina V. Shurin, MD, PhD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Therapeutic approaches on incorporation of low-dose chemotherapy into vaccine therapyr

    Michael R. Shurin, MD, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Tumor-induced immunomodulation, molecular mechanisms of the regulation of dendropoiesis and immunobiology of dendritic cells in cancer

  Division of Hematopathology   [Back to Top]  

    Lydia C. Contis, MD -- Associate Professor
    -- Evaluation of the ploidy analysis of malignancies by image and flow cytometry - myelodysplastic and other myeloid disorders.

    Fiona E. Craig, MD -- Associate Professor
    -- Flow cytometry.

    Miroslav Djokic, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Follicular lymphoma change this to minimal residual disease and other studies of myeloid and lymphoblastic disorders

    Raymond E Felgar, MD, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Classification and pathobiology of hematopoietic and lymphoid malignancies.

    Christine Garcia, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- hematopoietic and lymphoid disorders.

    Sara A. Monaghan, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Pediatric and adult acute leukemias and myeloid disorders.

    Lisa J. Robinson, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Molecular hematopathology, and cell signaling abnormalities in acute leukemia.

    Steven H. Swerdlow, MD -- Professor, Division Director
    -- Multiparameter investigations of hematopoietic and lymphoid proliferations, clinical hematopathology.

  Division of Clinical Microbiology   [Back to Top]  

  Division of Molecular Diagnostics  [Back to Top]  

    Jeffrey A. Kant, MD, PhD -- Professor, Division Director
    -- Clinical and translational applications for molecular diagnostics

    Marie C. DeFrances, MD, PhD -- Assistant Professor
    -- PI3K signaling mechanisms in hepatocytes

    Zoltan N. Oltvai, MD -- Associate Professor
    -- Post genomic disciplines, including transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics.

    Tim D. Oury, MD, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Antioxidant enzyme extracellular superoxide dismutase

    Wenxing Ding, PhD -- Research Assistant Professor
    -- The regulation of autophagy, apoptosis and necrosis in liver injury.

    Xiao-Ming Yin, MD, PhD -- Professor
    -- Molecular mechanisms of apoptosis and its implications in human pathogenesis

  Transfusion Medicine   [Back to Top]  

    Darrell J. Triulzi, MD -- Professor
    -- Effect of transfusion on the host immune system

    Donald Kelley, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Transfusion Medicine.

    Lirong Qu, MD, PhD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Epstein-Barr virus in normal blood donors, lymphocytes survival during the storage of blood products, and therapeutic mechanism of plasma exchange in the treatment of TTP.

    Mark Yazer, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- blood group genetics, coagulation effects of xenotransplantation.

  Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (Pediatric Pathology)  [Back to Top]  

    Miguel Reyes-Mugica, MD -- Professor, Division Director
    -- Childhood tumors and defects of neural crest cell migration

    Ronald Jaffe, MB, BCh -- Professor
    -- Dendritic cells and their disorders, childhood histiocytoses

    Amy Davis, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Pediatric Pathology

    Csaba Galambos, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Neonatal and pediatric lung diseases, childhood vascular tumors and malformations, angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis.

    John Ozolek, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Stem cell biology and cellular therapeutics.

    Sarangarajan Ranganathan, MD -- Associate Professor
    -- Clinicopathologic correlations of pediatric neoplasia especially small round cell tumors.

    Adam Rosendorff, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) -host interactions.

    Robert M. Wadowsky, ScD -- Professor
    -- Pediatric microbiology and molecular diagnostics.

  Magee-Womens Hospital (Ob/Gyn Pathology)  [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at UPMC Shadyside Hospital   [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System  [Back to Top]  

    Mona F. Melhem, MD -- Professor, Division Director
    -- Regulation of gene expression.

    Richard Bodnar, J., PhD -- Research Assistant Professor
    -- Signaling mechanisms regulating angiogenesis instead of "the regulation of angiogenesis

    Roy A. Frye, MD, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- SIRT1 overexpression role in prostate carcinoma, surgical pathology.

    Nadia F. Habib-Bein, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Anatomic Pathology .

    Dmitriy W. Gutkin, MD, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Growth factors and oncogensis.

    Scott Kulich, MD, PhD -- Assistant Professor
    -- The interaction between oxidative neurotoxins and intracellular signal transduction cascades in the context of neurologic diseases.

    Agnes K. Liman, MD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Cytopathology and Surgical Pathology.

    Gutti R. Rao, MD -- Associate Professor
    -- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

    Anu Sharma, MD -- Associate Professor
    -- Thoracic pathology

  University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute  [Back to Top]  

    Andrew A. Amoscato, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Natural killer (NK) cell regulation and function

    Dorothea Becker, PhD -- Professor
    -- Molecular analysis of genes governing melanoma development and progression.

    Yuan Chang, MD -- Professor
    -- KSHV pathogenesis and viral oncogenesis.

    Shi-Yuan Cheng, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Signaling mechanisms and models of cell invasion/metastases and angiogenesis.

    Albert B. DeLeo, PhD -- Professor
    -- Molecular characterization of tumor-specific antigens.

    Maryann Donovan, PhD - Assistant Professor

    Vijaya Gandhi, PhD - Assistant Professor

    Leslie Goldstein, PhD - Research Instructor

    Elieser Gorelik, MD -- Professor
    -- Tumor immunology.

    Ronald B. Herberman, MD -- Professor
    -- Natural killer (NK) cells.

    Frank Jenkins, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Epidemiology and molecular biology of Kaposi's Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV).

    Luyuan Li, PhD -- Associate Professor
    -- Vascular cell biology and tumor angiogenesis.

    David Malehorn, PhD - Research Assistant Professor
    -- Proteomic profiling

    Hannah Rabinowich, PhD -- Professor
    -- Regulatory mechanisms in NK cell adhesion.

    Nikola L. Vujanovic, MD, PhD -- Research Associate Professor
    -- Cytotoxicity mediated by immune effector cells and their role in anticancer host defense.

    Theresa L. Whiteside, PhD -- Professor
    -- Cancer Therapy, Cellular Therapy, Cell Culture, Immunoassays.

    Jian Yu, PhD -- Assistant Professor
    -- Defects in the control of apoptosis.

  Pathology at UPMC Bedford Memorial Hospital   [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at UPMC Braddock Hospital   [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at UPMC Horizon Hospital - Greenville   [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at UPMC Horizon Hospital - Shenango Valley   [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at UPMC McKeesport Hospital   [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at UPMC Mercy Hospital   [Back to Top]  

    Aleksandr M Perepletchikov, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor
    -- Urologic pathology, specifically focused in cytogenetics, immunohistochemistry, molecular analysis and tissue microarray of renal neoplasia.

  Pathology at UPMC Northwest Hospital   [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at UPMC Passavant Hospital   [Back to Top]  

    Daniel Chung, MD - Assistant Professor
    -- Surgical pathology, cytopathology and clinical pathology.

  Pathology at UPMC Passavant Cranberry Hospital   [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at UPMC South Side Hospital   [Back to Top]  

  Pathology at UPMC St. Margaret Hospital   [Back to Top]  

    Jagjit Singh, MD - Assistant Professor
    -- General surgical pathology and cytopathology, laboratory administration, quality management and laboratory accreditation.




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