Carlos A Pagan, MD
Pathology - Anatomic & Clinical, Pathology - Molecular Genetic, Pathology-Anatomic/Pathology-Clinical
Accepting New Patients

Overview
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
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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
*Please contact the provider’s office directly to verify that your particular insurance is accepted.
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