Carlos A Pagan, MD

Pathology - Anatomic & Clinical, Pathology - Molecular Genetic, Pathology-Anatomic/Pathology-Clinical
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Email: cap2237@cumc.columbia.edu

Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated

  • Molecular Cancer Testing
  • Molecular Diagnostics
  • Molecular Pathology

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology at CUMC

Administrative Titles

  • Director, Residency Program

Hospital Affiliations

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Languages

  • Spanish

Gender

  • Male

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Insurance Accepted

For billing questions, please call (212) 305-7399.

Cigna

  • EPO
  • Great West (National)
  • HMO
  • POS
  • PPO

Emblem/GHI

  • Medicare Managed Care
  • PPO

Emblem/HIP

  • ConnectiCare
  • EPO
  • Essential Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO
  • Select Care (Exchange)
  • Vytra

Local 1199

  • Local 1199

MagnaCare (National)

  • MagnaCare

Medicare

  • Railroad
  • Traditional Medicare

Multiplan

  • Multiplan

RiverSpring

  • Special Needs

UnitedHealthcare

  • Compass (Exchange)
  • Empire Plan
  • HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • POS
  • PPO

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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • MD, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
  • Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Fellowship: 2016 Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center

Committees, Societies, Councils

  • Association of Molecular Pathology
  • American Board of Pathology
  • College of American Pathologists
  • United States and Canada Academy of Pathology

Board Certifications

  • Pathology - Molecular Genetic
  • Pathology-Anatomic/Pathology-Clinical

Research

Selected Publications

  • Miyauchi JT, Pagan CA, Kudose S. Collagen type III glomerulopathy in a tumour nephrectomy specimen: beware of a coincidental medical kidney disease. Pathology. 2023 Apr;55(3):422-423. doi: 10.1016/j.pathol.2022.06.006. Epub 2022 Aug 27. PMID: 36100492
  • Shawn Mendonca, Sun-Ming Pan, Jonathan Xu, Shyam Sukumar, Carlos Pagan, and Steven Brandes. Is Rectal Mucosa a Reasonable Graft Alternantive to Oral Grafts for Anterior Urethroplasty?: A Histology and Biomechanics Analysis. Submitted for publication.
  • Carlos A. Pagan, John Crapanzano, Catherine Shu, Joshua Sonnet, Anjali Saqi. Synchronous Pulmonary Adenocarcinomas: Correlation among Morphology, Next Generation Sequencing/Single Gene Analysis Molecular Testing and Clinical Outcomes with 8th Edition AJCC Criteria. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, July 2020, Volume 154, Issue 1, Pages 57-69.
  • Shawn Mendonca, Sun-Ming Pan, Jonathan Xu, Shyam Sukumar, Carlos Pagan, and Steven Brandes. A histological analysis of buccal mucosa, colon mucosa, and prepuce skin grafts: Is coon mucosa the ideal graft?. The Journal of Urology. 2020 Apr;203(Supplement 4):e520-1
  • Carlos A Pagan, Ryan N Ptashkin, Rona Yaeger, Sumit Middha, Jinru Shia, Kevin P O'Rourke, Michael F Berger, Lu Wang, Robert Cimera, Jiajing Wang, David S. Klimstra, Leonard Saltz, Marc Ladanyi, Ahmet Zehir,Jaclyn F Hechtman. Chromosome 20q Amplification Defines a Subtype of Microsatellite Stable, Left Sided Colon Cancer Associated with Wild Type RAS/ RAF and Better Overall Survival. Molecular Cancer Research, DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-16-0352.
  • David DiBardino, William Bullman, David Rawson, Carlos A. Pagan, Jonas Heymann, Anjali Saqi. Next Generation Sequencing of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer using a Customized, Targeted Sequencing Panel: Emphasis on Small Biopsy and Cytology. Cytojournal, 2017;14:7.
  • Scott T. Avecilla, Carlos A. Pagan, Dmitry Fridel, Koen van Besien, Melissa Cushing. An optimized PBSC collection protocol based on pre-harvest CD34 enumeration and plerixafor administration. Transfusion, Volume 55, Issue 8, August 2015, Pages 2010-6.
  • Timothy J. Judson, Rachel M. Feldman, Kevin Wood, Carlos A. Pagan, David W Wan, Todd Cutler. Celecoxib-induced cholestatic liver injury. Case Reports in Clinical Pathology, September 2014, Volume 1, No. 2, Page 90.
  • Julia Geynisman, Carlos A. Pagan, Edyta Pirog, Kevin Holcomb, A Rare Pelvic Mass: Cotyledonoid Dissecting Leiomyoma. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, June 2014, Volume 125, Issue 3, Page 284.
  • Austin A Pitcher, Carlos A. Pagan, Kevin Small, David M Otterburn, Excision of Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa Lesions in a Patient with Hereditary Lymphedema-Case Report and Review of the Literature. The Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, Volume 54, Issue 4, July-August 2015, Pages 747-750
  • Carlos A Pagan, Jonas Heymann, Catherine Shu, Naiyer Rizvi, Adrian Sacher, Mark Stoopler, John Crapanzano, Anjali Saqi. Limited Molecular Testing (MT) of Multiple Pulmonary Tumors in a Single Resection Specimen: Correlation with Morphologic Staging.
  • Jonas Heymann, Carlos A Pagan, Ladan Fazlollahi, William Bulman, Catherine Shu, Naiyer Rizvi, Adrian Sacher, Mehrvash Haghighi, John Crapanzano, Anjali Saqi. PD-L1 Expression in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC): Feasibility of Cytology and Its Comparison with Resection and Small Biopsies.

For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov