About Us
Welcome to the OHSU Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine!
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is a dynamic academic department, providing world-class clinical care to our patients, fostering expanded basic science and research programs, innovating pathology education, and pursuing new advancements in patient care, teaching, and research. Using technology such as remote frozen section interpretation, we are improving turnaround times and the work-life balance of our physicians. Our collaborative work environment includes a junior faculty mentorship program, internal leadership opportunities, annual faculty retreat, faculty workgroups, and regular opportunities to share feedback and ideas as we strive for continuous program improvement. Our learners are integral members of our department, and our faculty are passionate educators. Collegiality, collaboration and a love of learning define us as a team of academic physicians and physicians in training.
Education
We pride ourselves on our enthusiastic, dedicated teachers, the comradery in our learners, and our devotion to the best of academic medicine. We offer an excellent residency program and seven subspecialty fellowships. Our educational offerings also include the unique Pathology Student Fellowship, four medical student electives, and a pathology interest group. Our CME program regularly invites nationally recognized visiting speakers.
Clinical Care
Our pathologists provide exceptional diagnostic care for patients in OHSU Hospital, OHSU Clinics, Doernbecher’s Children’s Hospital, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Shriner’s Hospitals for Children. In addition, we offer second opinions for patients as well as consultations for physicians throughout the Pacific Northwest and across the country. Our highly trained, subspecialized providers are devoted to providing state-of-the-art personalized medicine, integrating each patient’s detailed health history to form a precise diagnosis and contributing to the best possible prognosis.
Research
Research and research training are core pillars of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at OHSU aligned with OHSU’s missions. Our research program ranges from cutting edge molecular pathology, hematologic malignancies, placental biology and disease, to cardiovascular disease, aging, as well as neurodegenerative disease. The Oregon Brain Bank is also housed in the Department.
Our goal is to understanding pathogenesis of disease, identifying novel diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets for improving patients’ outcome. The department strives to foster a culture that supports collaborations among basic scientists and clinicians on advancing translational discovery programs to facilitate the application of research innovations and discoveries to improve patient care.
Under the leadership of Dr. Guang Fan, Department Chair and Dr. Yabing Chen, Vice Chair for Research, our recent research efforts have focused on advancing digital pathology and promoting the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence in multidisciplinary research collaborations across Pathology and other departments and institutions at OHSU. Our faculty are also committed to research training and education of the next generation of scientists and pathologists, including residents, fellows, medical students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows
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Department News
OHSU Pathology is hiring! If you can see yourself working in a thriving academic environment with truly great people in a spectacular city, we want to hear from you.
Academic Subspecialty Surgical Pathologist
- Pathology was awarded a multi-year $45,000 See, Test and Treat award from the College of American Pathologists. Congratulations to project leads Zhengchun Lu, Vanderlene Kung, Guang Fan and Rabeka Ali!
- Robert Christian, with Chloe Young, was awarded an OHSU Exploratory Research Seed Grant for $5,000 for their project “Platelet HLA Testing at OHSU secondary to Platelet Refractoriness in Adult and Pediatric Patients”.
- Alec Saitman has been appointed as a member of the CAP Toxicology Committee.
- Nicole Andeen has been accepted as a member of the Knight Translational Oncology Program.
- Beckman Coulter will provide a travel award for OHSU Student Adam Martin for his accepted abstract under mentor Wei Xie to present at USCAP 2026.
- Maryjka Blaszczyk, was awarded a Pathologist-in-Training Travel Award under mentor of Judy Shi to attend USCAP’s 2026 Annual Meeting.
- Publication in Current Issues in Molecular Biology “TMPRSS2 Expression in Lung Tissue of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma Patients: Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Relevance to SARS-CoV-2 Infection” authors include Marcela Riveros Angel, David Loeffler, Ahmad Charifa, Ryan B. Sinit, Taylor Amery, Beyza Cengiz, Tomasz M. Beer and George V. Thomas
- Publication “Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Positive Airway Pressure and Implications of Early Treatment in Parkinson Disease” was published in the JAMA Neurology with Greg Scott as the last author and first author Lee Neilson from Neurology.
- Pathology Outreach Efforts offering free HPV screenings in partnership with various community organizations, including the Chinese Friendship Association was recognized in OHSU’s 2025 Year in Review.
