Suman Chauhan, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology

Medical Education:
RNT Medical College, Rajasthan University, India

Residency:
Washington Hospital Center, Washington D.C
RNT Medical College, Rajasthan University, India

Fellowship:
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY (Cytopathology)
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) Washington D.C (Nephropathology)

Board Certification:
The American Board of Pathology Combined Anatomic & Clinical Pathology
The American Board of Cytopathology

Wen Chen, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology

Medical Education:
Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China

Residency:
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
New Jersey Medical School at Newark, NJ

Fellowship:
UMDNJ-NJMS
AFIP Washington, DC
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Board Certification:
Anatomic Pathology, Clnical Pathology, Dermatopathology

Alejandro Luiña Contreras, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology

Medical Education:
Central Del Caribe School of Medicine

Residency:
George Washington University Medical Center

Fellowship:
Slan-Kettering cancer center, The UT MD Anderson Cancer center

Board Certification:
The American Board of Pathology, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

Clinical Interests:
Molecular Pathogenesis of Neoplasia

Louis DePalma, M.D.

Title: Professor of Pathology; Director, Division of Clinical Pathology; Chief, Hematopathology, Molecular Pathology

Medical Education:
University of Naples Medical School

Residency:
Monmouth Medical Center, New Jersey; Yale New Haven Hospital, Connecticut

Fellowship:
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Board Certification:
Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine

Clinical Interests:
Developmental hematology and immunology, hematopathology, immunohematology, and molecular diagnostics

Bio:
Dr. DePalma is trained in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, and blood banking/transfusion medicine, and serves as Director of Clinical Pathology and Chief of the Hematopathology and Molecular Pathology Services. He is active in many national and international pathology organizations. Dr. DePalma is co-investigator in the NIH funded HIV Tumor Registry and has published numerous articles and chapters in the field of hematology and immunology. He is also Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology at GW.

D. Robert Dufour, M.D.

Title: Emeritus Professor of Pathology,
Acting Chief, Pathology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington DC,
Fellow, Public Health Program Practice Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA

Medical Education:
Medical College of Wisconsin

Residency:
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, MD

Fellowship:

Board Certification:
National Board of Medical Examiners, American Board of Pathology: Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Chemical Pathology

Samantha Easley , M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology

Medical Education:
State University of New York at Buffalo

Residency:
University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Fellowship:
Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University

Board Certification:
Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Clinical Interests:
breast pathology, endocrine pathology, GI pathology

Dana Ashley Hill, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology

Medical Education: Washington University St. Louis, MO

Residency: Barnes-Jewish Hospital Saint Louis, MO, Pathology and Surgical Pathology

Fellowship: St. Louis Children's Hospital St. Louis, MO

Board Certification: American Board of Pathology/Pediatric Pathology

Clinical Interests:

Bio: D. Ashley Hill, MD, is chief of the Division of Pathology at the Children's National Medical Center. She is an expert in pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB), a rare childhood lung tumor. Dr. Hill plays a leadership role in the International PPB Registry and currently works toward identifying the genetic anomalies that underly this rare disorder.

Robert V. Jones, M.D.

Title: Associate Professor of Pathology; Chief, Neuropathology and Immunohistology

Medical Education:
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Residency:
Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Fellowship:
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Board Certification:
Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Neuropathology

Clinical Interests:
CNS tumors, CNS infections, demyelinating disorders, epilepsy, and neuromuscular diseases

Bio:
Dr. Jones is trained in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology and neuropathology, and serves as Chief of Neuropathology and the Neuromuscular Pathology Laboratory. He practices both general surgical pathology and neuropathology. Dr. Jones is active in many national and international pathology organizations, and is a frequent speaker at the annual Neuropathology Review Course sponsored by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

John F. Keiser, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

Title: Associate Professor of Pathology; Chief, Microbiology Laboratory

Medical Education:
Pennsylvania State University

Residency:
Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Board Certification:
Medical Microbiology

Clinical Interests:
Diagnostic microbiology, rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases, and clinical relevance in laboratory microbiology.

Bio:
Dr. Keiser is a clinical pathologist who serves as Chief of the Clinical Microbiology Service. He is active in many national and international organizations.

Patricia Latham, M.D.

Title: Associate Professor of Pathology; Chief, Autopsy Service- Internist, Division of Gastroenterology

Medical Education:
University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Residency:
Yale-New Haven Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada

Fellowship:
Yale-New Haven Hospital

Clinical Interests:
Liver pathology

Bio:
Dr. Latham is both an anatomic pathologist and internist, currently serving as Chief of the Autopsy Service. She performs subspecialty sign-out of liver biopsies and other hepatobiliary specimens on the Surgical Pathology Service. In addition to her clinical and research activities in the Department of Pathology, she also serves as a clinical gastroenterologist in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Latham has a special interest in medical education and is Course Director of our systemic pathology courses for medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students. She is active in many national and international pathology and hepatology organizations, currently serving as a Governing Board member and Treasurer of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease.

Elsie Lee, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology; Chief, Transfusion Service

Medical Education:
SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse

Residency:
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Fellowship:
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics; Mayo Clinic

Board Certification:
Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Hematopathology, Blood Banking/Transfusion

Clinical Interests:
Transfusion medicine, stem cell transplantation, and hematopathology.

Bio:
Dr. Lee is trained in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, hematopathology, and blood banking/transfusion medicine, and serves as Chief of the Transfusion Service. She is active in national and international pathology organizations, as well as the regional chapter of the American Red Cross.

Jack H. Lichy, M.D., PhD

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology;

Min-Ling Liu,M.D., PhD

Title: Assistant professor of Pathology; Director, Surgical pathology, Hematopathology, Laboratories of Immunohistochemistry and Clinical Flow Cytometry.

Medical Education: Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Residency: Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC

Fellowship: Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC

Board Certification: American Board of Pathology, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
American Board of Pathology, Hematology

Clinical Interests: Hematopathology, Uropathology, Immunohistochemistry and Clinical Flow Cytometry.

Bio: Dr. Liu is Director of Surgical Pathology, Hematopathology, Immunohistochemistry and Clinical Flow Cytometry at VA Medical Center, Washington DC. She practices actively on both Surgical Pathology and Hematopathology.

Edina Paal, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology; Staff Pathologist and Director of Blood Bank, VA Medical Center, Washington, DC

Medical Education: Semmelweis University of Medicine

Residency:
George Washington University Medical Center

Fellowship: Cytopathology at
George Washington University Medical Center

Board Certification: Cytopathology (American Board of Pathology), Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (American Board of Pathology), Anatomic Pathology (National Certification Board of Hungary )

Marie-Lydie Y. Pierre-Louis, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology;

Medical Education: Medical School of the State University of Haiti


Residency: State University Hospital in Port-au-Prince Haiti and at Howard University Hospital in Washington DC

Fellowship: Gastro-Enterology at Klinikum Charlottenburg, Freie Universitat (Germany) and in Forensic Pathology at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Government of the District of Columbia, Washington DC.

Board Certification:

Clinical Interests:

Bio: Dr. Pierre-Louis brings to the District approximately 20 years of forensic pathology experience, with licensures to practice medicine in the District of Columbia and Haiti. Upon completing her fellowship with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, in 1986, she was appointed to serve as a Deputy Medical Examiner for the office, where she served in this capacity for 17 years until September of 2003. She became the Interim Chief Medical Examiner in September 2003, Acting Chief Medical Examiner in October 2004, and was appointed to serve as the Chief Medical Examiner in January 2005.

While serving as a Deputy Medical Examiner to the District, Dr. Pierre-Louis performed over 4,000 autopsies and witnessed over 15,000 throughout her career, as well as provided expert testimony in over 400 criminal and civil cases throughout the Washington DC Metropolitan area.

Christine Ann Reyes, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology;

Medical Education:
University of New Mexico

Residency: George Washington University Medical Center

Fellowship: Texas Children's Hospital Houston

Board Certification: American Board of Pathology/Anatomic & Clinical. American Board of Pathology/Pediatric Pathology

Bio: Christine Ann Reyes, MD, is the clinical director of Anatomic Pathology at Children's National. Dr. Reyes has in pediatric surgical pathology (including hematopathology and neuropathology), autopsy, and clinical pathology.

Katy Rezaei, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology;

Medical Education:
University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

Residency:
George Washington University Medical Center

Fellowship: Cytopathology at
George Washington University Medical Center

Board Certification: Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Cytopathology

Clinical Interests: Genitourinary pathology, Cytopathology, Surgical Pathology

Edith Francisca Schmidt, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology;

Medical Education: University of Louisville School of Medicine

Residency: George Washington University Medical Center, Georgetown University Hospital

Fellowship: Barnes-Jewish Hospital Saint Louis

Board Certification: American Board of Pathology

Arnold M. Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D.

Title: Professor of Pathology

Medical Education:
University of Miami

Residency:
Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Fellowship:
Brandeis University

Board Certification:
Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Clinical Interests:
Pulmonary, bone, breast, and gastrointestinal pathology.

Bio:
Dr. Schwartz is a senior member of the faculty who serves actively on the Surgical Pathology Service. He is an active researcher, participating as a collaborator with many investigators in the Medical Center. Dr. Schwartz is active in many national and international pathology and pulmonary disease organizations, and currently serves as a member of the Council of Governors of the American College of Chest Physicians.

Sylvia Silver, D.A.

Title: Professor of Pathology, of Medicine, and Associate Dean for Health Sciences in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Professor of Community Health and Prevention in the School of Public Health and Health Services. Director of the Office of HIV Activities for the George Washington University Medical Center.

Education:
BA, Drake University;
MTS, Catholic University;
DA, Catholic University

Bio:
Dr. Silver is the Principal Investigator for the NCI-funded East Coast AIDS and Cancer Specimen Bank (part of the National AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource), the Co-Principal Investigator of the NCI-funded Mid-Atlantic Prostate Cancer Bank headed by GWUMC, and a Co- Investigator, on the NIH-funded Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). For this project, she is the Research and Retention Coordinator for the Metropolitan Washington DC site, and an active member of the national WIHS Cancer/Pathology Working Group. Dr. Silver has been a member of the Metropolitan Washington DC HIV Planning Council and President of the Board of Directors of Metro TeenAIDS, a community-based organization whose mission is to prevent HIV infection in youth and young adults and to serve those infected. Dr. Silver chaired the Montgomery County, Maryland (population > 800,000) Task Force on HIV/AIDS, an effort to define prevention activities. She has served on numerous NIH study sections for applications related to HIV.
During 2004-2005, Dr. Silver spent a sabbatical year with the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation developing and implementing a Professional Development Program for Clinical Research. This program builds capacity and develops individuals in their roles as members of a clinical research team. The Professional Development Program is in effect at Aeras/University Cape Town site in the Boland/Overberg region in South Africa and the Aeras/ St.Johns Medical College site in Palamneer, India.
Dr. Silver is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the newly formed George Washington University Africa Center for Health and Security

Carol Smith, M.S., M.T.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology

Education:
BS, University of Maryland;
MS, Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University

Bio:
Ms. Smith is trained as a medical technologist (clinical laboratory scientist) and coordinates teaching activities as part of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program, the Health Laboratory Technique Program (sponsored by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army), and the Masters of Science in Health Sciences Concentration in Immunohematology Program. She has a special interest in distance education. She is active in many organizations focused on health sciences education, including the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

Michael Stamatakos, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology;

Medical Education:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda, MD.)

Residency: Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center (San Antonio, Tx)

Fellowship: Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center; Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Board Certification: Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Cytopathology

Clinical Interests: Gynecologic and Breast Pathology

Sana O Tabbara, M.D.

Title: Professor of Pathology; Director, Division Anatomic Pathology; Chief, Surgical Pathology.

Medical Education:
American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Residency:
University of Virginia Health System

Fellowship:
University of Virginia Health System

Board Certification:
Anatomic Pathology, Cytopathology

Clinical Interests:
Breast, gynecologic and head and neck pathology, immunohistochemistry

Bio:
Dr. Tabbara is Director of Anatomic Pathology and Chief of the Surgical Pathology Service and practices actively on both the Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology Services. She is also an active participant in our Fine Needle Aspiration Service. She is active in many national and international pathology and cytopathology organizations, currently serving on the Executive Board and Chair of the Research Committee of the Papanicolaou Society for Cytopathology.

Lysandra Voltaggio, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology

Medical Education: University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Anatomic and Clinical Pathology)

Fellowship: George Washington University Medical Center (Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology)

Board Certification: Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Cytopathology

Clinical Interests: Gastrointestinal and Soft Tissue Pathology

Edward Wong, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Principal Investigator, Children's Research Institute

Medical Education:
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Residency:
Barnes-Jewish Hospitals, St. Louis, MO

Fellowship:
UNC Memorial Hospitals, University of North Carolina (Fellow)
Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health (Senior Staff Fellow)

Board Certification:

Clinical Interests:

Bio:
Edward Chun Cheung Wong, MD, is the director of Hematology and associate director of Transfusion Medicine, as well as the director of the Peripheral Blood Stem Collection Facility in the Division of Laboratory Medicine at Children's National Medical Center.

Dr. Wong is a recent graduate of the Master Teacher Leadership Development Program at George Washington University.