Faculty

Virginia Donovan, MD

Chairman

• Medical School: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• AP/CP Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Specialty: Hematopathology, Clinical Pathology
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Amy Rapkiewicz, MD

Vice Chair

• Medical School: SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY
• AP Residency: National Institute of Health/National Cancer Institute
• Fellowship: Cytopathology, NYU Medical Center; Forensic Pathology, Miami Dade County Medical Examiner
• Specialty: Autopsy Pathology, Soft Tissue, Lung
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Iman Hanna, MD

Program Director

• Pre/Medical School: Faculty of Medicine, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
• AP/CP Residency: Brown University School of Medicine
• Fellowship in Gynecologic Pathology: Women and Infants Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine
• Specialty: GI, GYN, Hepatobiliary
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Mala Gupta, MD

Director of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology

• Medical School: Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
• AP/CP Residency: St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital
• Fellowship: Surgical Oncologic Pathology and Cytopathology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Specialty: Cytopathology, Endocrine, Hepatobiliary
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Poonam Khullar, MD

Director of Research

• Medical School: Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
• AP/CP Residency: University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ, Robert Wood Johnson
• Fellowship in Surgical Pathology: New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA
• Specialty: Placenta, GYN
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Elena Selbs, MD, PhD

Director of Immunohistochemistry

• Medical School: Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
• AP/CP Residency: Winthrop University Hospital
• Fellowship: Surgical Pathology, Winthrop University Hospital
  • Elective Fellowship in Pulmonary and Gastrointestinal Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC
• Specialty: Pulmonary, Genitourinary, Breast
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Steven Drexler, MD

• Medical School: New York University, New York, NY
• AP Residency: State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Fellowship: State University of New York at Stony Brook, Neuropathology
• Specialty: Neuropathology, Medical Informatics, Genitourinary
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Andrea Flieder, MD

• Medical School: Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• AP/CP Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
• Fellowship: Surgical Pathology, Harvard University, Boston, MA
• Specialty: Breast
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Jianhong “Jen” Zhou, MD

• Medical School: Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
• AP/CP Residency: Case Western Research University Program
• Fellowship: Cytopathology, Case Western Research University Program
• Specialty: Cytopathology, Genitourinary
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Alla Joutovsky, MD

• Medical School: Tyumen Medical Academy, Tyumen Russia
• AP/CP Residency: Robert Wood Johnson, New Jersey; NYU Medical Center
• Fellowship: Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology, NYU Medical Center
• Specialty: Cytopathology, Genitourinary
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George Turi, MD

• Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
• Residency: Babies Hospital, Pediatrics, St. Louis Missouri
• AP Residency: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Chief Resident, Pediatric Pathology, Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University
  • Cardiovascular Pathology, Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University
• Fellowship: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, National Institute of Health (Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
• Specialty: Gastrointestinal, Cardiovascular
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Dalia Abdel–Azim, MD, PhD

• Medical School: Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt
• AP/CP Residency: University of Alabama
• Fellowship: Hematopathology, NYU Medical Center, Molecular Pathology, University of Nebraska
• Specialty: Molecular, Hematopathology
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Chaohui Lisa Zhao, MD, PhD

• Medical School: Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
• PhD: Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, ILAP/CP Residency: Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University
• Fellowship: Surgical/GI Pathology, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University
• Specialty: Gastrointestinal, Breast
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Melissa Alexander, MD, PhD

• Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
• PhD: Emory University
• AP/CP Residency: NYU Langone Medical Center
• Fellowship: Cytopathology, NYU Langone Medical Center; Breast Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Specialty: Breast
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Joseph Chiofolo, DO

Director of Transfusion Medicine

• Medical School: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
• AP/CP Residency: Long Island Jewish Medical Center
• Fellowship: Transfusion Medicine, New York Blood Center
• Specialty: Transfusion Medicine
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