Faculty

Marvin Kuschner Professor and Chair
Kenneth R. Shroyer, M.D., Ph.D.  Cancer biomarkers as diagnostic adjuncts in surgical pathology and cytopathology.

Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology
Jay L. Bock, M.D., Ph.D., Professor.  Clinical chemistry; informatics; metallobiochemistry

Vice Chair for Anatomic Pathology
Meenakshi Singh, M.D., Professor  General Surgical Pathology, Cytopathology, Breast Pathology and GYN Pathology. Cancer Biomarkers of Female Reproductive Tract and Breast.

Vice Chair for Pathology Research
Ute Moll, M.D., Professor.  Tumor suppressor genes, the role of the p53/p73/p63 gene family in human cancer, transcription-independent mitochondrial apoptosis program of p53.

Vice Chair for Education
Howard B. Fleit, Ph.D., Associate Professor.  Leukocyte Fc receptors; granulocyte/macrophage growth and differentiation. 

 Residency Program Director
Sonya Hwang, M.D., Assistant Professor. Surgical pathology, cytology.

Tahmeena Ahmed, MBBS, Assistant Professor.  Transfusion medicine and hematopathology.

Ann Berger Zaslav, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology.  Cytogenetics.

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

Richard Bronson, M.D., Professor (Ob/Gyn).  Reproductive endocrinology.

Jian Cao, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pathology 

Emily Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Pharmacology).

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

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

Marc G. Golightly, Ph.D., Professor.  Director of Immunology Laboratory. Tumor immunobiology; flow cytometry; natural killer cells.

Gail S. Habicht, Ph.D., Professor.  Vice President for Research, Stony Brook University.  Immunobiology of aging; immunoparasitology; lymphokines.

Eli Hatchwell, MB, DPhil, Associate Professor of Research Pathology.  High resolution Cytogenetics; developmental disorders.

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

Youjun Hu, M.D. Assistant Professor.  Hematopathology; Surgical Pathology.

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

Jingfang Ju, Ph.D., Assistant Professor.  Co-director of Translational Research Laboratory.

Philip B. Kane, M.D., Associate Professor. Cardiovascular and pulmonary pathology.  Pathology of infectious disease.

Cynthia Kaplan, M.D., Professor.  Placental pathophysiology; pediatric pathology.

Richard Kew, Ph.D., Associate Professor.  Leukocyte chemotaxis; inflammation; pulmonary immunopathology.

Antonius Koller, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor.

 Bernard P. Lane, M.D., Professor.  Director of Autopsy Service. Gastrointestinal pathology; ultrastructural pathology; differentiation; carcinogenesis.   

Yupo Ma, M.D., Ph.D., Professor. Medical Director of Flow Cytometry Lab.  Hematopathology

Natalia Marchenko, Ph.D.  Research Assistant Professor.  Mechanisms of aberrant stabilization of mutant p53 in cancer and its effect on cell motility, invasion and metastases.

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

Yvonne Milewski, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor. Chief Medical Examiner, Suffolk County Medical Examiner's Office.

Frederick Miller, M.D., Professor.  Clinical Director of Immunology Laboratory. Immunopathology; renal disease; environmental pathology.

Allen J. Norin, Ph.D. Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory

Alexei Petrenko, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor.  Molecular biology of cancer.

Kanokporn Rithidech, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Research Pathology. Molecular cytogenetics, genomic instability and cancer, radiation biology, proteomics.

Roberta J. Seidman, M.D., Associate Professor.  Neuropathology.

Lisa Senzel, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor.  Director of Hematology Laboratory. Hematology and transfusion medicine.

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

Eric D. Spitzer, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor.  Director of Microbiology Laboratory. Molecular biology of microbial pathogens.

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

Carmen Tornos, M.D., Professor.  Gynecological and breast pathology.

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

Adrianus Van Der Velden, Ph.D. (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology).

Sui Y. Zee, M.D., Associate Professor.  Director of Surgical Pathology. Gastrointestinal and pancreatic pathology, cytology.

Jianhua Zhang, M.D., Research Assistant Professor

Jizu Zhi, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor.  Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics

Gary Zieve, Ph.D., Associate Professor.  Synthesis and assembly of snRNP particles;autoimmunity.

Thomas Zimmerman, D.V.M., Assistant Professor.  Director of laboratory animal resources.

EMERITUS:

Thomas Cottrell, M.D., Associate Professor Emeritus
Nancy Peress, MD, Professor Emeritus
Mildred Phillips, MD, Professor Emeritus
Leon Sokoloff, MD, Professor Emeritus

SUFFOLK COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE:

Stuart Dawson, M.D.
Stephanie Horowitz, M.D.
James C. Wilson, M.D.

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