Faculty

Marvin Kuschner Professor and Chair
Kenneth R. Shroyer, MD, PhD  Cancer biomarkers as diagnostic adjuncts in surgical pathology and cytopathology.

Vice Chair for Anatomic Pathology, Program Director for Selective (Surgical) Pathology Fellowship
Meenakshi Singh, MD, Professor  General surgical pathology, cytopathology, breast pathology and GYN pathology. Cancer biomarkers of female reproductive tract and breast. Quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology 
Jay L. Bock, MD, PhD, Professor  Clinical chemistry; Informatics; Metallobiochemistry.

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

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

Residency Program Director
Sonya Hwang, MD, Assistant Professor   Surgical pathology, cytopathology.

Jerell R. Aguila, PhD, Research Assistant Professor  Hematopoietic stem cells and cancer therapy.

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

Ann Berger Zaslav, PhD, Associate Professor Cytogenetics.

Jorge Benach, PhD, Professor (Microbiology)  Infectious disease immunology.

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

Jian Cao, Assistant Professor (Medicine)   Experimental pathology.

Emily Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor (Pharmacology)  Scientific Director, Proteomics Core Laboratory.

Paul Chu, MD, Assistant Professor  Dermatopathology.

Jason Cohen, MD, Assistant Professor  Dermatopathology. 

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

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

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

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

Syed Hoda, MD  Bone and soft tissue pathology; surgical pathology

Youjun Hu, MD Assistant Professor  Hematopathology; surgical pathology.  

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

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

Cynthia Kaplan, MD, Professor  Placental pathophysiology; pediatric pathology.

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

Antonius Koller, PhD, Research Assistant Professor   Technical Director, Proteomics Core Lab. 

Bernard P. Lane, MD, Professor   Director of Autopsy Service.  Gastrointestinal pathology, ultrastructural pathology, differentiation, carcinogenesis.

Jingxuan Liu, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor

Yupo Ma, MD, PhD, Professor  Medical Director of Flow Cytometry Lab.  Program Director for Hematopathology Fellowship.  Hematopathology.
 
Natalia Marchenko, PhD, Research Assistant Professor  Mechanisms of aberrant stabilization of mutant p53 in cancer and its effect on cell motility, invasion and metastases.

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

Yvonne Milewski, MD, Assistant Professor  Chief Medical Examiner, Suffolk County Medical Examiner's Office.

Allen J. Norin, PhD  Director of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory.

Alexei Petrenko, PhD, Research Assistant Professor  Molecular biology of cancer.

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

Roberta J. Seidman, MD, Associate Professor  Neuropathology.

Lisa Senzel, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor   Director of Hematology Laboratory.  Hematology and transfusion medicine.

Sanford Simon, PhD, 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, MD, PhD, Associate Professor  Director of Microbiology Laboratory.  Molecular biology of microbial pathogens.

Silvia G. Spitzer, PhD, Associate Professor  Director of Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory.  Molecular biology of microbial pathogens and clotting diseases.

Roy T. Steigbigel, MD, Professor (Medicine)  Mononuclear and polymorphonuclear phagocyte functions; macrophage function in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

Carmen Tornos, MD, Professor  Surgical pathology, gynecological pathology, breast pathology.

Glenda Trujillo, PhD, Research Assistant Professor   Experimental pathology.

Ming Wu, MD, Assistant Professor  Director of Renal Pathology, surgical pathology.

Sui Y. Zee, MD, Associate Professor  Director of Surgical Pathology. Gastrointestinal and pancreatic pathology, cytopathology.

Jizu Zhi, PhD, Research Assistant Professor  Bioinformatics and cheminformatics.

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

Thomas Zimmerman, DVM, Assistant Professor  Director of Laboratory Animal Resources.

EMERITUS:
Thomas Cottrell, MD, Associate Professor Emeritus
Gail S. Habicht, PhD, Professor Emeritus
Frederick Miller, MD, Professor Emeritus
Nancy Peress, MD, Professor Emeritus
Mildred Phillips, MD, Professor Emeritus
Leon Sokoloff, MD, Professor Emeritus
Mae Hultin, MD, Professor Emeritus (Medicine)