Residency Program Graduates: Fellowships and Faculty Positions

70% of the graduates (2007-2018) are in academic faculty positions following completion of fellowships.

Graduate Training Graduation Year  Fellowships Faculty position
Amy Ku, MD/PhD AP/CP 2023 Hematopathology - Columbia  
Chinwe Madubata, MD AP/CP 2023 Molecular Genetic Pathology - Columbia  
Mine Yilmaz, MD AP/CP 2023 Breast Pathology - UT Southwestern University  
Christopher Shin, MD CP 2023 Transfusion Medicine - Stanford  
Shaheen Malick, MD CP 2023    
         
Joseph Burt AP/CP 2022 GI/Liver - Columbia  
Lanny DiFranza AP/CP 2022 Renal Pathology - Columbia  
Jeremy Miyauchi, PhD AP 2022 GU Pathology - Weill Cornell  
Jacob Valk AP/CP 2022 Surgical Pathology - Columbia  
Maxwell Weidmann, PhD CP 2022 Medical Microbiology - Columbia   
         
Diane Chen, MD AP/CP 2021 GI/Liver - Columbia Assistant Professor, Columbia
Simona De Michele, MD AP/CP 2021 GI/Liver - Columbia  
Mitra Dowlatshahi, MD AP/CP 2021 Surgical Pathology - Columbia  
Igor Katsyv, MD, PhD AP 2021 Dermatopathology - Memorial Sloan Kettering Dermatopathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Kenneth Ofori, MD AP/CP 2021 Hematopathology - Columbia  
Marie Smithgall, MD AP/CP 2021 Gyn Path - Weill Cornell;   
Gary Wang, MD, PhD CP 2021 Molecular Genetic Pathology - UCSF  
         
Wendy Lin, MD, PhD AP 2020 Hematopathology - Columbia Instructor, Columbia 
Shajo Kunnath Velayudhan,
MD,PhD		 AP 2020 Hematopathology - Weill Cornell Hematopathologist/
Physician-Scientist, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies
of Johnson & Johnson
Ijeuru Chikeka, MD AP/CP 2020 Dermatopathology - U. Pittsburgh Dermatopathologist, Private Practice
Paul Lin, MD, PhD AP/NP 2020 NP at Columbia Assistant Professor, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Osama Al Dalahmah, MD, PhD AP/NP 2020 NP at Columbia Assistant Professor, Columbia
         
Elizabeth Stone, MD,  PhD CP 2019 Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, New York Blood Center and Columbia Assistant Professor, Mt. Sinai, NY
Anna Lee, MD AP/CP 2019 1. Oncologic Pathology - Memorial Sloan Kettering  2. GI/Liver - Columbia  
Mary Rosenblatt, MD AP/CP 2019 Surgical Pathology - Columbia; Hematopathology, U Vermont  
Magdalena Jurkiewicz, MD, PhD CP 2019 Molecular Genetic Pathology - Columbia  
Diana Bryk, MD CP 2019 Molecular Genetic Pathology - Columbia  
Angela Zhang, MD, PhD AP 2019 Molecular Genetic Pathology - Columbia Pathologist, Oncology Division, Sema4, Stamford, CT
Anthony Rubino, MD AP/CP 2019 GI/Liver - Columbia Attending Pathologist, Ochsner Health System, LA
         
Sonya Purushothaman, MD AP/CP 2018 1. GI/liver  2. Surgical Pathology - both at Columbia Attending Pathologist, Wilson Medical Center - A Duke LifePoint Hospital, Wilson, NC
Yawei Yang, MD, PhD CP 2018 Molecular Genetic, Columbia University Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell
Sarah Vossoughi, MD CP 2018  Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, New York Blood Center and Columbia Assistant Professor, Columbia
Shane Betman, MD AP/CP 2018 Hematopathology - Cornell Attending Pathologist, St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
Gunnar Hargus, MD, PhD AP/NP 2018 NP at Columbia Assistant Professor, Columbia
         
Stefanie Forest, MD, PhD CP 2017 Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering, NY Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein; Deputy Dir. Clin. Chem at Montefiore
Sandeep Wontakal, MD, PhD CP 2017 Molecular Genetic Pathology - Columbia Post-doctoral fellow, Columbia
Elizabeth Godbey, MD AP/CP 2017 Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, New York Blood Center and Columbia Assistant Profesor, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA
Marilyn Nedumcheril, MD AP/CP 2017 1. Surgical Pathology - Columbia. 2. Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, New York Blood Center and Cornell  
Monika Paroder, MD, PhD AP/CP 2017 Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, New York Blood Center and Columbia Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein; Montefiore
Maryam Shirazi, MD AP/CP 2017 1. GI/Liver 2. Molecular Genetic Pathology - both at Columbia Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Chicago
George Zanazzi, MD, PhD AP/NP 2017 NP at Columbia Assistant Professor, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
         
Shih-Hsiu Jerry Wang, MD, PhD AP/NP 2016 Neuropathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, Duke, Durham, NC
Stuart Weisberg, MD, PhD CP 2016 Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, New York Blood Center and Columbia Assistant Professor, Columbia
Diana Sung, MD AP/CP 2016 1. Surgical Pathology - Columbia 2. Gynecologic Pathology - Cornell Pathologist, Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
Simon Sung, MD AP 2016 1. Cytopathology - Cornell 2. Surgical Pathology - Columbia Assistant Professor, Columbia
Jung Son, MD AP/CP 2016 Biomedical Informatics at Columbia Senior Bioinformaticist at pulseData, Inc., NY, NY
         
Armando del Portillo, MD, PhD AP 2015 GI/Liver Pathology - Columbia Assistant Professor, Columbia
David Terrano, MD, PhD AP/CP 2015 1. Oncologic Pathology - Memorial Sloan Kettering 2. Dermatopathology - Mt. Sinai, NY Dermatopathologist, Co-director resident education, Aurora Diagnostics, Scottsdale, AZ
Patricia Raciti, MD AP/CP 2015 1. Oncologic Pathology - Memorial Sloan Kettering. 2. Hematopathology - Columbia Attending Pathologist, Greenwich Hospital, CT and with PAIGE.AI, MSKCC, NY, NY
Elizabeth Margolskee, MD, MPH AP/CP 2015 MPH - Columbia 2013-14; Hematopathology - Cornell. Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell
Hemant Varma, MD, PhD AP/NP 2015 Neuropathology, Columbia, and Molecular Pathology, Columbia Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
Allison Mautone, MD AP/CP 2015 Forensic Pathology - Fort Worth, TX Medical Examiner, New Jersey Southern Regional Office
Annie Koehne de Gonzalez, MD AP/CP 2015 1. Surgical Pathology. 2. GI/Liver pathology - both at Columbia Assistant Professor, Columbia
Amy Coffey, MD AP 2015 1. Pediatric Pathology - Texas Children's Hospital - Baylor, Houston. 2. Hematopathology, Baylor Pathologist, Seton Hospitals and Dell Children's Hospital, Austin, TX
Daniel Green, MD CP 2015 Microbiology - Yale Assistant Professor, Columbia
Najiyah Kazi, MD AP 2015 Dermatopathology - Johns Hopkins Pathologist, Affiliated Dermatology, Scottsdale, AZ
         
Jennifer Oliver-Krasinski, MD, PhD AP/CP 2014 1. Surgical Pathology - Columbia 2. Pediatric Pathology - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Assistant Professor, Montefiore Medical Center, NY
Paul Rosenstiel, MD, PhD AP 2014 Renal Pathology - Columbia Pathologist, South Texas Pathology Associates, San Antonio, TX
Jean Hou, MD AP/CP 2014 1. Renal pathology - Columbia (2012-13). 2. Surgical Pathology-Hartford, CT Assistant Professor, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Fresia Pareja Zea, MD, PhD AP 2014 1. Oncologic Pathology and 2. Breast Pathology - both at Memorial Sloan Kettering Instructor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY
         
Ashleigh Allen, MD AP/CP 2013 Hematopathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ
Mark Ewalt, MD AP/CP 2013 1. Hematopathology - Stanford 2. Molecular Pathology - Stanford Assistant Professor and Dir. Mol. Hematopathology, U. Colorado Denver
Shana Coley, MD, PhD AP 2013 Renal Pathology, Columbia Clinical Senior Lecturer (Asst Prof), Univ. Glasgow, Scotland
James Mitchell, MD AP 2013 1. GI/Liver and 2. Surgical Pathology - Columbia Associate Pathologist and Teaching Staff, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Susan Hsiao, MD, PhD AP 2013 Molecular Genetic Pathology, U. Pittsburgh Assistant Professor, Columbia
Markus Siegelin, MD AP 2013 none Associate Professor, Columbia
         
Kamraan Gill, MD AP/CP 2012 1. Oncologic Pathology, MSKCC, 2. Hematopathology, Columbia Dermatopathologist, CBL Path, Rye Brook, NY
Melanie Hawver AP/CP 2012 1. Surgical Pathology, Univ. of Pennsylvania. 2. Gynecologic Pathology, Cornell Pathologist, St. Peter's Hospital, Maplewood Pathology PC, Albany, NY
Jonas Heymann, MD AP/CP 2012 1. Cytopathology, Cornell. 2. Surgical Pathology, Columbia 3. Molecular Pathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, NYPH-Weill Cornell, NY
Nadejda Tsankova, MD, PhD AP/NP 2012 Neuropathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, Mt. Sinai, NY
Huy Pham, MD, MPH CP 2012 1. MPH Program, Mailman School of Public Health 2. Transfusion Medicine, Columbia/NYBC Medical Director, National Marow Donor Program Collection Center, Seattle
Andrew Turk, MD AP/CP 2012 1. Surgical Pathology, Columbia 2. Molecular Genetic Pathology, Cornell Assistant Professor, Columbia
         
Tatyana Gindin, MD, PhD CP 2011 Hematopathology, Columbia  
Paul Hosking, MD CP 2011 1. Post-doctoral research fellow, Columbia. 2. Hematopathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo, NY
Shafinaz Hussein, MD AP/CP 2011 Hematopathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, Mt. Sinai, NY
Stephen Lagana, MD AP 2011 Surgical and GI/hematopathology, Columbia Associate Professor, Columbia
Marcela Salomao, MD AP 2011 Surgical and GI/hematopathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
Anthony Sireci, MD, MSc CP 2011 Clinical Chemistry, Columbia Senior Medical Director, Loxo Oncology, Stamford, CT
         
Nike Beaubier, MD AP 2010 1. Molecular Genetic Pathology, Columbia. 2. GI Pathology Fellowship, Northwestern Dir. Pathology & Medical Lab Operations, Tempus, Chicago, IL
John Crary, MD, PhD AP/NP 2010 Neuropathology, Columbia Associate Professor, Mt. Sinai Med Center, NY
Kalpana Devaraj, MD AP/CP 2010 GI/Liver, Columbia Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver
Richard Francis, MD, PhD CP 2010 Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine, NY Blood Center/Columbia Associate Professor, Columbia
Jennifer Lambe Kirkland, MD AP/CP 2010 1. Oncologic Pathology, MSKCC, NY. 2. Dermatopathology, Ackerman Inst/Downstate Univ., NY Dermatopathologist, StrataDx, U. Conn. Health Center
Andrew Teich, MD, PhD AP/NP 2010 Neuropathology, Columbia Associate Professor, Columbia
Erin Weeden, MD AP/CP 2010 None Pathologist & Director of Anatomic Pathology, Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, NV
Woojin Yu, MD AP/CP 2010 GI/Liver Path, Columbia Pathologist, Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento, CA
         
Anand Padmanabhan, MBBS, PhD CP 2009 Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine, Univ. of Pittsburgh Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin; Med Dir Blood Cntr of WI
Renata Joffe, MD AP/CP 2009 Dermatopathology, Ackerman Institute/Downstate Univ., NY Dermatopathologist, Inform Diagnostics, Irving, TX
Keagan Lee, MD AP/CP 2009 Dermatopathology, Ackerman Institute/Downstate Univ., NY Founder, Sagis Diagnostics PLLC, Houston, TX
Robert Schlaberg, MD, MPH CP 2009 Microbiology, Univ. of Utah/ARUP Assistant Professor, Univ. Utah/ Director Microbial Amplified Detection Lab ARUP
Brie Stotler, MD, MPH CP 2009 Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine, NY Blood Center Associate Professor, Columbia
David deVinck, DO AP/CP 2009 1. Surgical Pathology,-Columbia. 2. Dermatopathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY Pathologist, Woodland Memorial Hospital, Woodland, CA
         
Keith Baribault, MD AP/CP 2008 Dermatopathology, Ackerman Institute//Downstate Univ., NY Pathologist, DermPath Diagnostics, Tampa, Florida
Dave Chow, MD AP/CP 2008 1: Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine, NY Blood Center. 2: Hematopathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, UMDNJ - Hackensack Univ Medical Center, NJ
Leal Herlitz, MD AP/CP 2008 Renal Pathology, Columbia Staff Pathologist, Cleveland Clinic, Director of Renal Pathology
Eldad Hod, MD CP 2008 Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine, NY Blood Center/Columbia Associate Professor at CUMC, Columbia
Basil Horst, MD AP 2008 Dermatopathology, UCLA Clinical Asst. Professor, U. British Columbia, Vancouver
         
Bryan Ebert, MD AP/CP 2007 1. Surgical Pathology -Columbia. 2.Dermatopathology, Ackerman Institute/Downstate Univ., NY Pathologist, Dermpath Diagnostics, Newton Square, PA
Jeffrey Kaplan, MD AP 2007 Surgical Pathology, UCLA Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver
Christian Keller, MD AP/NP 2007 Neuropathology and Surgical Pathology, Columbia Senior Staff Pathologist, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit
William Twaddell, MD AP 2007 GI/Liver Pathology, Columbia Associate Professor, University of Maryland
         
Kimberly Chu, MD AP/CP 2006 GI Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Pathologist, Mt. Kisco Medical Group, NY
Jeffrey Hodgin, MD, PhD AP 2006 Renal Pathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, Univ. of Michigan
Sara Monaco, MD AP/CP 2006 Cytopathology, Univ. of Pittsburgh Associate Professor, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Efsevia Vakiani, MD, PhD AP 2006 Oncologic Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering, NY Attending Pathologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering, NY
Shine Yun, MD AP 2006 Cytopathology, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1. Assistant Prof, Columbia. 2. Pathologist, California Pacific Med Center, SF, CA
         
Jason Cohen, MD AP 2005 1. Surgical Pathology - Columbia. 2. Dermatopathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY Managing and Medical Director, Dermpath Diagnostics, Port Chester, NY
Melissa Gill, MD AP 2005 Dermatopathology, Cornell Pathologist, SkinMedical Research & Diagnostics, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Jenny Libien, MD, PhD AP/NP 2005 Neuropathology, Columbia Chair of Pathology, SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY
Risha Ramdall, MD AP/CP 2005 Cytopathology, NYU 1. Assistant Professor, NYU. 2. Pathologist, Seton Medical Center, Daly City, CA
Jamie Shutter, MD AP 2005 GYN & Breast Pathology at University of Virginia Lab Director - Women's Pathology Laboratory, Tampa, FL
Lawrence Tsao, MD AP/CP 2005 1. Surgical Pathology -Columbia. 2. Hematopathology, U. New Mexico Medical Director, East Region, Quest Diagnostics, Teterboro, NJ
         
Adel Assaad, MD AP 2004 Head and Neck Pathology, Univ. of Pittsburgh Deputy Chief of Pathology, Virginia Mason Clinics, Seattle, WA
Jennifer Eleazar, MD AP/CP 2004 Surgical Pathology, Columbia Pathologist, CareMount Medical, Mt. Kisco, NY
Robert Mazziotta, MD AP/CP 2004 Surgical Pathology, Columbia Pathologist, The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ
Samih Nasr, MD AP 2004 Renal Pathology, Columbia Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Neil Renwick, MBChB, PhD AP 2004 Molecular Pathology, Columbia Assistant Professor, Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen's Univ, Ontario
Kurenai Tanji, MD, PhD AP/NP 2004 Neuropathology, Columbia Professor of Pathology (in Neurology) at CUMC, Columbia
Tilla Worgall, MD, PhD CP 2004 Clinical Chemistry, Columbia Associate Professor, Columbia

 

American Board of Pathology Certifying Examinations

First-time Pass Rates for 2004-2019:

  • Clinical Pathology - 100%
  • Anatomic Pathology - 97%
  • Neuropathology - 100%
  • Hematology (Hematopathology) - 100%
  • Molecular Genetic Pathology - 100%