Johns Hopkins Pathology

The two-year program centers on clinically oriented biopsy and surgical pathology gastrointestinal case material for sign-out with Drs. Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Anders, Lysandra Voltaggio, and Laura Wood. This includes an active consult service for which the fellow is responsible. Specialty experience in liver disease is provided by Drs. Robert Anders, Laura Wood, and John K. Boitnott. Dr. Ralph Hruban, Director of the Department, provides diagnostic and research experience in pancreatic diseases.

The fellow participates in clinical rounds and in housestaff and medical student teaching. In the second year the fellow is appointed an Assistant by The Johns Hopkins Hospital and takes full responsibility for sign-out of gastrointestinal case material. Research is an integral part of the program during both years and may have either a clinical or an experimental emphasis. There are multiple opportunities for collaborative studies in gastroenterology and in basic research in this and other departments.

In addition, a separate one year fellowship position in GI / Liver Pathology is offered. This fellowship parallels the two-year program, but does not include the sign-out opportunities of the two-year program.

Requirements: Minimum of two full years Anatomic Pathology. Fellows must be able to obtain Maryland licensure by the second year of the program.

Stipends: Commensurate with the candidate's level of postgraduate training.

Applications: For application forms or questions:

Applications should be received by October 1 for a July 1 starting date 16 months later (e.g., an application submitted by Oct 1, 2012 will be for a July 1, 2014 start); supporting documents should be received within a month of this deadline (e.g., by Nov 1, 2012 in previous example). This timetable updates and supersedes all previously announced timetables; requests for variations from this updated timetable should be directed to Dr. Lysandra Voltaggio.

Applicants should clearly state if they are applying for the one-year fellowship, for the two-year program, or for both.

Most residents who enter a fellowship do so at the end of their residency training or after completing their AP or CP segment. However, under appropriate conditions residents may begin their fellowship training by interrupting their residency program. Fellowship programs entered after receiving the M.D. degree can be expected to meet fully the "credentialling year" requirement of the American Board of Pathology.

Applicants for the Pathology Residency Program who would like to learn more about fellowship opportunities should first contact either:

Charles J. Steenbergen, MD, PhD, Director, Residency Training Program or
Nancy Nath, Medical Training Program Manager

Research opportunities are available to all interested Pathology residents. In addition, the department has research-fellowship residency positions that assure a funded year of research as a fellow to those accepted. Those positions are available to applicants with a strong background in research who wish to combine clinical and research training during their residency years. A PhD is not required. However, MD applicants without a PhD are expected to have spent at least one year in research, with a record of research productivity. These research-fellowship residency positions are available for all qualified residents to pursue AP, CP, or AP/CP training followed by 1 or more years of research training.

A member of the Medical Scientist Advisory Committee will serve as an advisor to each resident in the research-fellowship program. The advisor will be identified during the resident's first year in training. Applicants begin full-time research following clinical training. The length of clinical training is flexible and will depend on the specific clinical track chosen (AP, CP, or AP/CP) and credentials (PhD or other credentialling year).

Residents are expected to continue to attend conferences and participate in other clinical activities on a limited basis during the research period. The advisor will help identify appropriate activities for each resident based on his or her own interests. Support for one year of research will be assured by the Department of Pathology. Residents will be provided with guidance in applying for other forms of research support, as part of their academic career development. Residents who obtain extramural research funding with salary support below their PGY level will receive supplementary salary support from the Department or another appropriate source.

Residents are encouraged to select research mentors in the Department of Pathology, but may work with investigators in other departments. An oversight committee will review and approve the choice of the research mentor before the resident begins the first research year. Residents are encouraged to select research laboratories located on the main medical school/hospital campus. Special approval from the committee is required for research at another location.

Resident applicants interested in the combined Residency-Research Fellowship Program should contact:

Kathleen Burns, MD, PhD: 410-502-7214 kburns9@jhmi.edu
Charles J. Steenbergen, MD, PhD: 410-502-5982 csteenb1@jhmi.edu
Nancy Nath: 410-955-3439 nnath2@jhmi.edu

Fellows	Year	Fellowship Activity	Current Position
Jose Jessurun, M.D.	July 1, 1984 - June 30, 1986	Defined Iymphocytic colitis and helped define collagenous colitis	Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College New York, NY
Wade S. Samowitz, M.D.	July 1, 1985 - June 30, 1987	Immunohistochemical detection of oncogenes	Professor of Pathology University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
Audrey Lazenby, M.D.	July 1, 1986 - June 30, 1988	Further defined the histologic features, clinical aspects, and causes of lymphocytic and collagenous colitis	Professor of Pathology and Microbiology & Director of Anatomic Pathology University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE
Scott E. Kern, M.D.	July 1, 1987 - June 30, 1990	Morphometric analysis of gastric endocrine cells in pernicious anemia. Associated allelic loss with metastasis in colorectal neoplasia.	Professor of Oncology & Pathology The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
Joel K. Greenson, M.D.	July 1, 1988 - June 30, 1990	Studied AIDS Enteropathy	Professor & Director of Surgical Pathology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
G. Johan A. Offerhaus, M.D.	July 1, 1989 - June 30, 1991	Studied extracolonic neoplasms in patients with FAP, chemoprevention by Sulindac, and DNA content and molecular genetic alterations in colon cancer.	Head of Gastrointestinal Pathology, Chair in tumor biology of digestive tract neoplasms, Professor of Pathology University of Utrecht Utrecht, The Netherlands
Janice McCall, M.D.	July 1, 1990 - June 30, 1991	Subtraction DNA hybridization for Crohns Disease	Partner with Ruffolo and Hooper Tampa, FL
Mark Redston, M.D.	July 1, 1991 - June 30, 1994	Molecular genetic changes in pancreatic cancer	GI Pathologist Miraca Life Sciences Irving, TX
Susan Kornacki, M.D.	July 1, 1992 - June 30, 1994	Studied the genetic mutations in dysplasia arising in patients with ulcerative colitis and dysplasia in fundic gland polyps in patients with FAP	Medical Director NYGA Laboratory New York, NY
Christopher Moskaluk, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 1993 - June 30, 1995	Defined the molecular genetic alterations in early pancreatic neoplasms	Chairman of Pathology and Professor of Pathology & Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
Asif Rashid, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 1994 - June 30, 1996	Genetics and alterations in tubular adenomas of the colon	Professor of Pathology MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
TT Wu, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1997	Research on Barrett's Esophagus	Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
Shuan Li. M D.	July 1, 1996 - June 30, 1998	Histopathology of solitary rectal ulcer lesions	Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando, FL
Julian Alexander, M.D.	July 1, 1997 - June 30, 1998	Characterizations of RER + colorectal carcinomas	Private Practice in the UK
Susan Abraham, M.D.	July 1, 1998 - June 30, 1999	Gastric Polyps	Associate Professor MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
Eric Y. Li, M.D.	July 1, 1999 - June 30, 2000	Fat accumulation in the liver	Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center Laboratory Ogdenburg, NY
Michael Torbenson, M.D.	July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2002	Hepatitis C	Professor of Pathology Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
Anirban Maitra, M.D.	July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002	Application of SNP chip technology	Professor of Pathology MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2003	Gene expression in Pancreatic Cancer	Professor of Pathology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY
Baishali Bhattacharya, M.D.	July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004	Web-based teaching of GI Pathology and research on telomere length in gastric adenocarcinoma, gastritis, and gastric carcinoma precursor lesions	GI Pathologist Miraca Life Sciences
H. Parry Dilworth, IV, M.D.	July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2005	Teaching GI Pathology	Staff at Northwestern Hospital Minneapolis, MN
Guang-Yu Yang, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005	Chemoprevention of Pancreatic Cancer	Professor of Pathology Northwestern University Chicago, IL
Jon Davison, M.D.	July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007	Zebrafish models of Pancreatic Ccancer	Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
Jason Daniels, M.D.	July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2008	Clinical correlates in GI/Liver Pathology	Staff at Hospital Pathology Associates St. Paul, MN
Zongming Chen, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008	Pyloric Gland Adenoma of the stomach and duodenum	Director, Immunohistochemistry Geisinger Medical laboratories Danville, PA
Jennifer Scudiere, M.D.	July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2009	Clinical correlates of GI Pathology	GI Pathologist Miraca Life Sciences
Jason Park, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2010	Pdx1 expression patterns in pancreatic neoplasms	Assistant Professor of Pathology UT Southwestern Dallas, TX
Chanjuan Shi, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010	Precursors of Pancreatic Cancer	Associate Professor of Pathology Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Dora Lam-Himlin, M.D.	July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010	Gastric polyps in patients with Peutz-Jeghers' and Juvenile Polyposis Syndromes	Senior Associate Consultant & Instructor Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Mayo Clinic Phoenix, AZ
Ming-Tseh Lin, M.D.	July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010	Molecular Diagnostics	Assistant Professor of Molecular Pathology The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
Toby Cornish, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011	Three-dimensional mapping of precursor lesions in the pancreas	Associate Professor of Pathology University of Colorado Denver, CO
Karen Matsukuma, M.D.	July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2012	Timing of ATRX/DAXX inactivation in neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas	Assistant Professor UC Davis Health System Sacramento, CA
Christina Arnold, M.D.	July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2012	Whipple disease and Teching GI Pathology	Assistant Professor of Pathology Ohio State University Columbus, OH
Aatur Singhi, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012	The pathology of familial pancreatic cancer	Assistant Professor of Pathology Univeristy of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
Ta-Chiang Liu, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012	Using viruses to treat cancer	Assistant Professor of Pathology Washington University St. Louis, MO
Oliver McDonald, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2013	Epigenomic reprogramming during evolution of pancreatic cancer	Assistant Professor of Pathology Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Safia Salaria, M.D.	July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013	Gastrointestinal, hepatic, and pancreatobiliary diseases	Assistant Professor of Pathology Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Laura Wood, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013	Genomic analyses of gastrointestinal, liver, and pancreatic neoplasms	Assistant Professor of Pathology The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
Michael Cruise, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2012 - December 31, 2013	Immunomodulatory features of MSI-high colorectal tumors	Assistant Professor Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH
Sabrina Sopha, M.D.	July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014	Prognostic role of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in colorectal carcinoma	Staff Pathologist Baltimore Washington Medical Center Glen Burnie, MD
Arvind Rishi, M.D.	July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014	Expression of adhesion kinases/stem cell markers in pancreatic adenocarcinoma	Assistant Professor North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System Manhasset, NY
Changqing (Cathy) Ma, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014	Upper tract involvement by juvenile polyposis	Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
Thomas Huebner, M.D.	July 1, 2014 - January 30, 2015	response of pancreatic cancers to treatment	Chief Pathologist Integrated Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics Greenbelt, MD
Scott Robertson, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015	Chromosomal aberrations in solid pseudopapillary neoplasms	Staff Pathologist The Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH
Feriyl Bhaijee, M.D.	July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015	Tumor Immunology	Staff Pathologist AmeriPath Indianapolis, IN
Meredith Pittman, M.D.	July 1, 2014 - December 31, 2015	Pancreatobiliary and hepatocellular carcinoma; autoimmune diseases of the luminal GI tract	Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College New York, NY
Justin Poling, M.D.	July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016	Grading and immunomodulation of radiated pancreatic cancer	Staff Pathologist Pathgroup Nashville, TN
Arunima Ghosh, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016	Gastrointestinal histopathology in SLE patients	Clinical Informatics Fellow National Library of Medicine Bethesda, MD
Maryam Kherad Pezhouh, M.D., M.Sc.	July 1, 2015 - April 15, 2017	Inflammatory Bowel Disease	Assistant Professor of Pathology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL
Yaman Tarabishy, M.D.	July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017	Gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumors	Staff Pathologist Peoria Tazewell Pathology Group Peoria, IL
Ogechukwu Eze, M.D.	July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017	Lateral Spread In Esophageal Squamous Cell Neoplasia, Upper Gastrointestinal Lesions in Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome	Assistant Professor of Pathology The Ohio State University Columbus, OH
Kevin Waters, M.D., Ph.D.	July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017	Barrett Esophagus, Pancreatic Cancer, and Epideiology in GI diseases	Surgical Pathologist Cedars-Sinai Hospital Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Byrnes, M.D.	July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018	Ischemic colitis, Hepatic hemangioendothelioma	Assistant Professor Washington University St. Louis, MO
Armen Khararjian, M.D., M.B.A.	July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018	Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement	Staff Pathologist Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek, CA
Rifat Mannan, M.D.	July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018	pathCast: live broadcasting pathology lectures; The Outlet Patch: Gastric heterotopia of colo-rectum and anus; Reactive Stromal Pseudotumors of the gastrointestinal tract	Assistant Professor of Pathology University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA