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Pathology Residency Program

GI & Hepatic Pathology Fellowship

Program Faculty


Melissa Upton, MD
  Director, GI & Hepatic Pathology Fellowship Program
  Assoc. Professor & Director, Anatomic Pathology
Cyrus Rubin, MD- Professor Emeritus, Medicine and Pathology
Paul Swanson, MD- Professor, Pathology
Matthew M.C. Yeh, MD PhD - Asst. Professor, Pathology

Description: The gastrointestinal pathology fellow participates in all activities of the GI pathology service. The fellow evaluates gastrointestinal biopsies from the University of Washington Academic Medical Center, including liver and pancreatic transplant biopsies, with the pathology resident, and communicates the results to the gastroenterology fellow or attending. The fellow has primary responsibility for the evaluation and work up of outside consultation cases (approximately 3,000 annually), including dictation of reports and letters to the contributing pathologist and responding to telephone calls about the cases. The fellow is responsible for presenting at hospital-wide clinical conferences, including GI clinicopathologic case conference, liver and pancreas transplant conference, liver tumor conference, GI journal club and GI histopathology conference. Each fellow is expected to complete one or more significant research projects. These can be either clinically oriented studies using patient case material, or they can be done in collaboration with a basic scientist and involve laboratory bench work, usually in the area of molecular biology. The latter usually requires an additional year of training and a funding source.

Program Goals and Objectives
Typical Schedule

Requirements: Applicants are expected to have completed the training required for certification in Clinical and/or Anatomic Pathology by the American Board of Pathology. This requirement may be waived by the Program Director in exceptional cases.

Stipends: Appointment is for one year. Stipend and benefits are based on the schedule for residents at an equivalent level. Fellows are encouraged to apply for extramural funding if additional research training is desired.

For More Information:
Dr. Melissa Upton
Department of Pathology
University of Washington
Box 356100
Seattle, WA 98195-6100
Telephone: 206-598-0006
Fax: 206-598-4928
Application Form
Deadline: February 1 of year preceding entry
or until position is filled

 
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