Northwestern Pathology

We could not be prouder of Dr. Melissa Mejia Bautista for receiving the Dr. Susan Perlman Award from McGaw Medical Center, which celebrates trainee compassion, academic excellence, and leadership. Melissa is the first pathology trainee to win this honor!

We at Northwestern Pathology are all so proud and honored to have helped train our outstanding graduating residents and fellows! Wishing them all the best as world-class clinicians and researchers.

We're stronger together. Happy Pride from Northwestern Pathology!

What an honor to host one of the greats in cancer research, Dr. Tyler Jacks from MIT, for the 14th Annual Rao Lecture!

Lots to celebrate at our Northwestern Pathology and Labs holiday party. Happy Holidays from us to you!

A very happy Halloween from all of us at Northwestern Pathology!🎃

Our Department is strong, diverse, and inclusive—and we're proud of that. Happy from us to you!

We 💜 our residents and fellows a latte! Happy to all of our wonderful trainees!

We are honored to announce that Dr. Peng Ji has been awarded the 2022 Ramzi S. Cotran Young Investigator Award from The USCAP. This award recognizes a body of investigative work which has contributed significantly to the diagnosis and understanding of human disease. Congratulations, Dr. Ji!

Congratulations to Carla L. Ellis, MD, MS for induction into Alpha Omega Alpha, one of the oldest and most respected medical honor societies. AOA recognizes high educational achievement, honoring gifted teaching, and promoting service to others.

September Case of the Month: A 25 year old patient with a large, painless paraspinal mass. MRI image and H&E section are shown below.
What are your thoughts? IHC and final diagnosis tomorrow!

August Case of the Month. A 35 year-old patient presents enlarged neck lymph node. H&E and IHC are shown. Additional immunostains were positive for c-Myc (>40%) and negative for BCL-2 (not shown). FISH for MYC rearrangement negative. What is your next step?

A: IGH gene rearrangement
B: FISH for BCL2 and BCL6 rearrangement
C: Molecular analysis for TP53 mutation
D: FISH for IRF4 rearrangement

Black lives matter. Pathology residents and faculty joined a peaceful demonstration at
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
this morning. We all must do our utmost to end racism.

Case of the month, May 2020. Middle-aged male with a neck mass. Gross photo and H&E are shown. IHC & diagnosis tomorrow!

Mark your calendars! Dr. Douglas Lowy of the will be our next Grand Rounds speaker on Monday, March 9!

Northwestern University Faculty Recognition Dinner hosted by President Schapiro & Provost Jonathan Holloway. Dr. Ritu Nayar was honored for receiving lifetime achievement awards from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) & the International Academy of Cytology (IAC) in 2019.

Wonderful workshop on using social media platforms to promote pathology by Drs. Escobar, Blanco and Pezhouh at

Phenomenal Grand Rounds presentation by Dr. Lydia Howell, chair of UC Davis Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: “Creating an Academic Culture for Success: Findings from a Four-Year NIH-funded Career Flexibility Study”! She also delivered a wonderful presentation on : Generations, Gender, and Microaggressions: Case studies and met with women faculty in small groups. Northwestern Medical Women Faculty Organization

Do you want to know what Pathology is and learn about the diagnostic side of medicine? Listen to this podcast by Dr. Elizabeth Morency

https://medicalschoolhq.net/ss-124-cytopathology-and-the-diagnostic-side-of-medicine/

Cytopathology and the Diagnostic Side of Medicine Session 124 Pathology was not at the top of Dr. Elizabeth Morency’s list. But after being smitten by histology electives, she knew pathology was for her. If you haven’t yet, check out all of our other podcasts on the Meded Media. Listen to this podcast episode with the player above, or keep read...

‪Northwestern Department of Pathology Holiday Party! May your holidays be full of warmth and cheer! Happy Holidays everyone! ‬

‪Dr. Siziopikou, Director of the breast pathology division gives a summary discussion on research projects focused on evaluation of neoadjuvant tumor response at ‬

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine & the Lurie Cancer Center celebrate women in leadership as part of a university-wide project honoring 150 years of women at Northwestern. Pathology is represented by Drs. Nayar and Green. https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/women-in-medicine/women-in-leadership/index.html

Case of the month, December 2019. A middle aged woman presents with neck mass. H&E images shown below. What is your differential? Immunohistochemistry and answer tomorrow!

The highly regarded Dr. Stuart Schnitt presented “Three Reasons You Should Care About Myoepithelial Cells” today at Department of Pathology Grand Rounds.

‪​Northwestern Pathology faculties Drs Nayar, Lin and Paintal publish a Cytopathology-Radiology Atlas with NMH Radiology colleagues, Dr Nemcek and Gupta Springer 2019. ‬https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030247546

Case of the month: November 2019. A 32 year-old woman is seen for follow-up exam after her routine Pap test with co-testing returned HPV 16 positive. Repeat Pap test and cervical biopsy are performed. What are your thoughts?

Ricardo Sumugod, Manager of Blood Bank and Process Improvement Leader, with Ken Hedley, VP of Operations, as Executive Sponsor, presenting "Elimination of Wrong Blood in Tube (WBIT)" at Northwestern Medicine Process Improvement Day.

Our Chair, Dr. Daniel Brat, gave a keynote address on the new molecular paradigm for brain tumor diagnosis, including his recent work with cIPMACT-NOW, at the Asia Pacific International Academy of Pathology Congress in Hefei, China.

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