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Shanth A. Goonewardene, MD

Vice Chair, Quality and Clinical Operations, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Disciplines

  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Pathology

Research Interests

  • Utilizing K ras analysis to increase the sensitivity of detecting adenocarcinoma in fine needle aspiration cytology specimens.
  • Creating a digital study set of gastrointestinal pathology to be used for education for medical students( USF and others) rotating through our department.
  • Detecting Isolated Tumor Cells in Body Effusion Cytology Specimens.

Kirsten S. W. Bellucci, MD

Co-Chair, Section Dermatopathology

Disciplines

  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Pathology

Research Interests

  • 1995 Summer Research Fellow-Sonserai Lee, M.S., Knowledge Recovery Foundation. Traveled to various riverside native communities in Peruvian Amazon basin to collect, identify, and discuss local medicinal plants with the indigenous people and the village shaman
  • 1991-1994
  • Dana Scholar Research Project (MC) Irvin Schmoyer, Ph.D., Biology Dept., Muhlenberg College. Developed a picture library of structural aspects of normal cells using fluorescent microscopy

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  2. Physician

Discipline

    1. Pathology
    2. Medicine and Health Sciences 24
    3. Neurosciences 1
    4. Hematology 1
    5. Medical Neurobiology 1

Research Interest

    1. Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2
    2. 1991-1994 1
    3. 1995 Summer Research Fellow-Sonserai Lee, M.S., Knowledge Recovery Foundation. Traveled to various riverside native communities in Peruvian Amazon basin to collect, identify, and discuss local medicinal plants with the indigenous people and the village shaman 1
    4. 5/2000-12/2000 • The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Pathology, Designed and constructed tissue micro-arrays of lung and breast cancers for simultaneous immunohistochemical analysis of multiple tumor samples. 6/2005 •Leiden University, Netherlands, Department of Dermatology, Studied histology and immunohistochemistry of cutaneous lymphomas. 2006 • University of Pittsburgh Division of Molecular Diagnostics, Compared IgH Biomed-2 multiplex PCR assay to in-house PCR assay for detection of immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement in B-cell lymphoid infiltrates. 2007 •University of Pittsburgh, Division of Molecular Diagnostics, Evaluated three different methods of DNA extraction from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded skin specimens. 1
    5. Anatomic Pathology 1

Organization

    1. Department of Pathology 14
    2. Health Network Laboratories 13
    3. Forensic Pathology Associates 5
    4. Department of Pathology & laboratory Medicine 4
    5. LVH-P, Department of Pathology 2

Position

    1. Physician