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Pathology Department Faculty
revised 3/06

Director of Clinical Pathology and Acting Chair
Jay L. Bock, Professor. M.D./Ph.D.,1977, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Yeshiva): Clinical chemistry; informatics; metallobiochemistry

Director of Anatomic Pathology
Carmen Tornos, Professor. M.D. 1977, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. Gynecological and breast pathology.

Associate Director of Laboratories

Frederick Miller, Marvin Kuschner Professor. M.D., 1961, New York University: Immunopathology; renal disease; environmental pathology.

Director of Residency
Bernard P. Lane, Professor. M.D. 1963, New York University: Gastrointestinal pathology; ultrastructural pathology; differentiation; carcinogenesis.


Jorge Benach, Professor (Microbiology). Ph.D., 1972, Rutgers. Infectious disease immunology.

Richard Bronson, Associate Professor (Ob/Gyn). M.D., 1966, New York University. Reproductive endocrinology.

Thomas Cottrell, Associate Professor Emeritus. M.D., 1965, Columbia. Pulmonary pathology; autopsy pathology.

Howard B. Fleit, Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1980, New York University. Leukocyte Fc receptors; granulocyte/macrophage growth and differentiation.

Martha B. Furie, Professor. Ph.D., 1980, Rockefeller. Interactions of bacterial pathogens with host cells of innate immunity.

Dennis K. Galanakis, Associate Professor. M.D., 1962, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Director of Blood Bank. Biochemistry; metabolism and physiology of fibrinogen in health and disease.

Marc G. Golightly, Professor. Ph.D., 1979, University of California, Los Angeles: Head of Immunology Laboratory. Tumor immunobiology; flow cytometry; natural killer cells.

Gail S. Habicht, Professor. Ph.D., 1965, Stanford. Immunobiology of aging; immunoparasitology; lymphokines.

Alan Heimann, Associate Professor. M.D., 1981, Yale. Chief of Cytopathology. Endocrine pathology; fine needle aspiration.

Youjun Hu, Assistant Professor. M.D., 1984, Zhejiang Medical University, China. Hematopathology; Surgical Pathology.

Mae Hultin, Professor (Medicine). M.D. 1970, Hahnemann. Coagulation proteins in hemostasis and thrombosis and vascular disease.

Sonya Hwang, Assistant Professor. M.D., 1998, State University of New York at Brooklyn. Surgical pathology, cytology.

Philip B. Kane, Associate Professor. M.D., 1967, New York University: Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Pathology. Pathology of infectious disease

Cynthia Kaplan, Professor. M.D., 1974, New York University: Placental pathophysiology; pediatric pathology.

Richard Kew, Research Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 1985, Stony Brook. Leukocyte chemotaxis; inflammation; pulmonary immunopathology.

Sharon Liang, Assistant Professor. M.D., 1984, Hunan Medical College, China; Ph.D. 1993, Oregon State University: Surgical pathology, Gynecological pathology, Early detection of precancer lesions of uterine papillary serous carcinoma.


Jingxuan Liu, Clinical Assistant Professor, M.D., 1991, Peking Union Medical College; Ph.D., 1998, University of Texas Southwestern. Surgical Pathology, special interest in breast, genitourinary and gastrointestinal pathology. Tumor biology (tumorigenesis), tumor immunology and transplantation immunology.

Kenneth Marcu, Professor (Biochemistry). Ph.D., 1975, Stony Brook. Mammalian gene regulation and function.

Ute Moll, Professor. M.D., 1985, University of Ulm, Germany. Tumor suppressor genes, the role of the p53/p73/p63 gene family in human cancer, transcription-independent mitochondrial apoptosis program of p53.

Petr Pancoska, Research Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1982, Charles University (Prague). Spectroscopy, bioinformatics.

Alexei Petrenko, Research Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 1987, Ukrainian Academy of Science (Kiev). Molecular biology of cancer.

Kanokporn Rithidech, Associate Professor of Research Pathology. Ph.D., 1987, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX: Molecular cytogenetics, genomic instability and cancer, radiation biology, proteomics.

Roberta J. Seidman, Associate Professor.
M.D., 1983, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Neuropathology.

Lisa Senzel, Assistant Professor. M.D./Ph.D., 2001, Albert Einstein. Chief of Hematology Laboratory. Hematology and transfusion medicine.

Sanford Simon, Professor (Biochemistry). Ph.D., 1967, Rockefeller. Extracellular matrix degradation by proteases of inflammatory cells, tumor cells, and microbes; design and evaluation of protease inhibitors for therapeutic applications.

Eric D. Spitzer, Associate Professor.
M.D./Ph.D., 1985, Johns Hopkins. Chief of Microbiology Laboratory. Molecular biology of microbial pathogens.

Silvia G. Spitzer, Clinical Associate Professor. Ph.D. 1983, University of Buenos Aires. Head of Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory. Molecular biology of microbial pathogens and clotting diseases
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Roy T. Steigbigel, Professor (Medicine). M.D., 1966, Rochester. Mononuclear and polymorphonuclear phagocyte functions; macrophage function in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

Denise Trochesset, Assistant Professor (Dentistry). DDS, 1988, Minnesota. Oral and maxillofacial pathology.

Sui Y. Zee, Associate Professor, MD, 1991, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Gastrointestinal and pancreatic pathology, cytology.

Gary Zieve, Associate Professor. Ph.D., 1977, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Synthesis and assembly of snRNP particles;autoimmunity.

Thomas Zimmerman, Assistant Professor. D.V.M., 1987, University of California, Davis. Director of laboratory animal resources.

EMERITUS:

Nancy Peress, MD, Professor Emeritus
Mildred Phillips, MD, Professor Emeritus
Leon Sokoloff, MD, Professor Emeritus

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