Residency Program Scholarly Activity | Department of Pathology UC Davis Health

As an integral part of their growth and development, residents are given several opportunities to participate in departmental research activities. Clinically-oriented research is ongoing in all sections of the laboratory and interdepartmental research provides the opportunity to collaborate with hematology/oncology, transplantation pathology, surgery and gastroenterology. Basic research programs in breast cancer, prostate cancer, neuropathology, nutrition, immunology, and proteomics are available on both the Sacramento and UC Davis campuses. In addition, biophotonics, informatics and bioengineering are other areas of active research paving the way for new technologies in the digital age of pathology.

Each resident is required to participate in an original scientific project with the goal of publication in a peer review journal. Residents also are encouraged to present their research findings at regional and national conferences, including U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), College of American Pathologists (CAP), American Association of Pathologists' Assistants (AABB) and UC Davis Medical Center research symposiums. The Department offers a generous annual travel stipend (Travel Award Policy and Procedure).

Resident / Fellow Mentored Research Grants

Title: Morphological and Immunophenotypic Characterization of Cholangiocarcinomas
PI: Raymond Gong, M.D. - GI/Liver Pathology Fellow
Faculty Sponsor: Karen Matsukuma, M.D., Ph.D.

Title: Assessment of Myelomonocytic Antigen Expression in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemias/Lymphomas
PI: Tahera Iqbal, D.O. - PGY 4
Faculty Sponsor: Denis M. Dwyer, M.D.

Title: Machine Learning and Multiplex Serologic Testing for the COVID-19 Epidemic in Pakistan: Predictive Modeling for Population Based Immunologic Assessment
PI: Luke Dang, M.D., Ph.D. - PGY 3
Faculty Sponsor: Imran H. Khan, Ph.D. and Hooman H. Rashidi, M.D.

Title: Relationship between ABO Blood Group and COVID-19 Susceptibility and Outcome
PI: Anupam Mitra, M.B.B.S., M.D. - PGY 3
Faculty Sponsor: Grace F. Monis, M.D., Ph.D.

Title: Expression of Immunohistochemical Lineage Markers in Neuroendocrine Tumors
PI: Alexander Ladenheim, M.D. - PGY 3 and Abebe B. Teklu, M.D.
Faculty Sponsor: Alaa Afify, M.D.

Title: Pathologic Lesions in Pediatric En Bloc Kidney Allografts and their Clinical Significance
PI: Guofeng (George) Gao, M.D., Ph.D. - PGY-3
Faculty Mentors: Kuang-Yu Jen, M.D., Ph.D.

Title: Expression of H2S Producing Enzymes and Cysteine Metabolites in Astrocytomas
PI: Miao Tian, M.D. - PGY-2
Faculty Mentor: Mirna Lechpammer, M.D., Ph.D.; Ralph Green, M.D., Ph.D.

Recent Resident / Fellow Presentations

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		Jiejun Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Resident "Which features, if any, are diagnostically specific for allergic contact dermatitis?: A review of 109 clinically confirmed cases and controls" College of American Pathologists (CAP) 2022 Conference New Orleans, October 7-10, 2022 Faculty Mentors: Drs. Maxwell A. Fung and Peggy A. Wu
		Jiejun Wu, M.D., Resident "Biannual Administration of a Slide Exam to Residents to Prepare them for Board Examinations: A Pilot Effort" American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) 2022 Conference Chicago, September 7-9, 2022 Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kurt Schaberg
		Anupam Mitra, M.D., Resident "Clear-cell basal cell carcinoma can be distinguished from trichilemmoma by Ber-EP4 and CD34 expression: A case series." 59th annual meeting of American Society of Dermatopathology (ASDP) October 20-23, 2022
		Anupam Mitra, M.D., Resident "Squamous Morules in a Fundic Gland Polyp: A Rare Benign Mimic of Well-Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor." American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) 2022 Conference Chicago, September 7-9, 2022 Faculty mentor: Dr. Karen Matsukuma
		Alexander Ladenheim, M.D., Resident "Sudden Infant Deaths with COVID-19: A Report of Three Cases" National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) 2021 Annual Meeting, West Palm Beach, FL October 17, 2021
		Ying Liu, M.D., Ph.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology "Mesonephric-like adenocarcinoma: Two cases of a rare entity and review of literature" September 9–12, 2020
		Alejandro Mendoza, M.D., Surgical Pathology Fellow American Society of Cytopathology - 67th Annual Scientific Meeting “Optimization of Toluidine Blue for Rapid On-Site Evaluation (ROSE)” November 14-17, 2019
		Ananya Datta-Mitra, M.D., Hematopathology Fellow Stowell Symposium May 2019 UC Davis Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Symposium October 2018 "The significance of low power versus high power microscopy in the training phase of various machine learning/artificial intelligence learning platforms. and Stowell symposium May 2019. Poster presentation."
		Ying Liu, M.D., Resident United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Annual Meeting “Genomic Signatures and Clinicopathological Correlation in Uterine Smooth Muscle Tumors of Uncertain Malignant Potential, Leiomyosarcoma, and Leiomyoma with Bizarre Nuclei” February 29 – March 5, 2020
		Alejandro Mendoza, M.D., Surgical Pathology Fellow United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Annual Meeting “Toluidine Blue or Diff-Quik: Ideal for ROSE Telecytology?” February 29 – March 5, 2020
		Miao Tian, M.D., Resident College of American Pathologists Meeting 2019 “Adenosquamous Carcinoma of the Pancreas: A Challenging Case” September 21-25, 2019
		Guofeng Gao, M.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP 2019) Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ “An Autopsy Case of Severe Nonimune Hydrops Fetalis Secondary to Premature Closure of the Foramen Ovale” September 11-13, 2019
		Guofeng Gao, M.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP 2019) Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ “Four Cases of Esophageal Diverticulum Presented as Posterior Thyroid Nodules” September 11-13, 2019
		Ying Liu, M.D., Resident 2019 U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Annual Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland "Analyzing Anatomic Pathology On-Call Summaries to Improve Pathology Resident On-Call Experience and Patient Care" March 18-22, 2019
		Raymond Gong, M.D., Resident 9th Annual UC Davis Healthcare Quality Forum "Implementation of a Qualitative Plasma B-hCG Test for Rapid Emergency Department Pregnancy Screening" March 13, 2019
		Andrew Jones, M.D., Resident Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2018 "Uses of Short Essays to Address Core Competencies in Medical School Pathology Education" November 30, 2018
		Andrew Jones, M.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP 2018) 2018 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD "Sevelamer-Associated Appendicitis" October 3-5, 2018
		Dongguang Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP 2018) 2018 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD "Prestin Can Be Used as a New Marker of Choroid Plexus Tumor" October 3-5, 2018
		Dongguang Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP 2018) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD "Gorham-Stout Syndrome (Vanishing Bone Disease): A Case of a Rare Entity" October 3-5, 2018
		Dongguang Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP 2018) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD "Doxycycline Related Gastric Mucosal Injury, a Peculiar Pathological Pattern" October 3-5, 2018
		Dongguang Wei, M.D., Ph.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP 2018) 2018 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD "Mycobacterium Gordonae Infection Presenting as Appendiceal Mass" October 3-5, 2018
		Guofeng Gao, M.D., Ph.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP 2018) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD "Sequential Blindness in a Diabetic Patient: Unusual Presentation of Rhino-Orbito-Cerebral Mucormycosis" October 3-5, 2018
		Guofeng Gao, M.D., Ph.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP 2018) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD "An Unusual Case of Co-Existing Pancreatic Undifferentiated Carcinoma with Osteoclast-like Giant Cells and Neuroendocrine Carcinoma by Fine Needle Aspiration with Liver Metastasis of the Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Component" October 3-5, 2018
		Andrew Jones, M.D., Resident California Blood Bank Society (CBBS) / South Central Association of Blood Banks (SCABB) Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona "Apheresis and Ethics" - Click on image for Presentation April 26-27, 2018
		Andrew Jones, M.D., Resident California Blood Bank Society (CBBS) / South Central Association of Blood Banks (SCABB) Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona "Sickle Cell Disease: To Exchange or Not to Exchange in the Setting of Acute Stroke" - Click on image for Presentation April 26-27, 2018
		Guofeng Gao, M.D., Resident U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Conference 2018, Vancouver, Canada "Donor Characteristic, Recipient Outcomes, and Histologic Findings of Kidney Allografts with Diffuse Donor-Derived Glomerular Fibrin Thrombi" March 17-23, 2018
		Amir Ghorbani, M.D., Resident U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Conference, 2018, Vancouver, Canada "MUSE (Microscopy with UV Surface Excitation): A Novel Ex-Vivo Microscopy in Surgical Pathology" March 17-23, 2018
		Ananya Datta Mitra, M.D., Resident 8th Annual UC Davis Healthcare Quality Forum, Sacramento, CA "A Review of Patient Factors, Transfusion Practices, and Outcomes in Patients with Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload (TACO) at UC Davis Medical Center in 2016-2017: A Quality of Care Change Pilot Program" March 14, 2018
		Amir Ghorbani, M.D., Resident The American Society of Dermatopathology (ASDP) 2017, Baltimore, MD "Applications of MUSE (Microscopy UV Surface Excitation) a novel ex-vio microscopy in Dermatopathology" - Oral Presentation October 26-29, 2017
		Nima Amini, M.D., Resident The American Society of Dermatopathology (ASDP) 2017, Baltimore, MD "Hemartoma Vascular Neoplasm, a New Entity" October 26-29, 2017
		Andrew Jones, M.D., Resident American Association of Pathologists' Assistants (AABB) 2017, San Diego, CA "Auto Anti-E in a 2-Month-Old Male: A Case of IPEX" October 6-9, 2017
		Guofeng Gao, M.D., Resident College of American Pathologists (CAP) 2017, National Harbor, MD "Pseudovascular and Spindle Cell Carcinoma in the Maxillary Sinus - Report of a Rare Entity" October 6-9, 2017
		Ananya Datta Mitra, M.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) 2017, Chicago, IL "B Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Aberrant T Cell Antigen (CDS) Expression: A rare entity" September 6-8, 2017
		Nicholas Coley, M.D., Resident American Association of Neuropathologists (AAN) 2017, Garden Grove, CA "Brain Tumors and Neuronatomical Imaging by Microscopy with UV Surface Excitation (MUSE)" June 7-11, 2017
		Ruijun Su, M.D., Resident International Society of Laboratory Hematology, Honolulu, HI "Quantification of Bone Marrow Pre-plasmacytoid dendritic cell after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation by Flow Cytometry" May 4-6, 2017
		Dongguang Wei, M.D., Resident U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Conference 2017, San Antonio, TX "Radiation Therapy Related Down-Regulation of PD-L1 on High-Grade Poorly Differentiated Sarcomas Justify the Combined Radio-Immunotherapy" March 6-10, 2017
		Andrew Jones, M.D., Resident U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Conference 2017, San Antonio, TX "Microfollicular Pattern and Absence of Pseudoinclusions Are Common Cytologic Characteristics in Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasms with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features" March 6-10, 2017
		Ananya Datta Mitra, M.D., Resident U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Conference 2017, San Antonio, TX "Increased Expression of LOX-1: A Potential Biomarker for Tumor Angiogenesis and Metastasis March 6-10, 2017
		Nima Amini, M.D., Resident American Society of Dermatopathology (ASDP) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL "Atypical Fibroxanthoma Metastasis: A Mystery for One Thousand and One Nights" October 26-30, 2016
		Andrew Jones, M.D., Resident American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL "Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Carfilzomib-induced Thrombotic Microangiopathy" October 22-26, 2016
		Dongguang Wei, M.D., Resident College of American Pathologists (CAP) 2016 - The Pathologists' Meeting, Las Vegas, NV "Primary Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma of Spleen - A Rare Localization and Review of Literature" and "Primary Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma of Breast with Bone Marrow Metastasis Mimicking Acute Leukemia: a Diagnostic Challenge" September 26-29, 2016
		Amir Ghorbani, M.D., Resident XXXI International Congress of the International Academy of Pathology and 28th Congress of the European Society of Pathology, Cologne, Germany "Centronuclear Myopathy" and "BRAF Mutation" September 26-29, 2016
		Jessica Rogers, M.D., Resident College of American Pathologists (CAP) 2016 - The Pathologists' Meeting, Las Vegas, NV "Disseminated Peritoneal Leiomyomatosis: A Complication of Uterine Morcellation" September 26-29, 2016
		Saba Ali, M.D., Resident 2016 American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV "Atypical Marginal Zone Hyperplasia (MZH) Is a Mimic for Marginal Zone Lymphoma (MZL) in Pediatric Patients" September 14-16, 2016
		Nima Amini, M.D., Resident 2016 American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV "Mast Cell Rich Leiomyoma as a Mimic of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor" September 14-16, 2016
		Nicholas Coley, M.D., Resident 2016 American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP), Baltimore, MD "EBV-Associated B-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disorder of the CNS in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Mycophenolate Immunosuppression" June 15-20, 2016
		Grace Monis, M.D., Ph.D., Transfusion Medicine Fellow American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA "Two-For-One TPE: Managing Steroid-Resistant Encephalopathy in a Patient with Both Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and Hepatitis C Viremia" May 5, 2016
		Grace Monis, M.D., Ph.D., Transfusion Medicine Fellow 6th Annual UC Davis Healthcare Quality Forum, Sacramento, CA "In and Out on Photopheresis: Does Vascular Access Choice Improve Procedural Efficiency and Patient Safety?" March 16, 2016
		Ananya Datta Mitra, M.D., Resident 6th Annual UC Davis Healthcare Quality Forum, Sacramento, CA "Implementation of Integrated Hematopathological Services: To Improve Patient Care and Reduce Cost!" March 16, 2016
		Saba Ali, M.D., Resident United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Conference, Seattle, WA "Validation and Utility of Telepathology for Immediate Intraoperative Consultation of Donor Kidney Biopsies" March 14-18, 2016
		Nicholas Coley, M.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) 2015, Long Beach, CA "Interactions Between Mechanosensory Hair Cells and Support Cells of the Zebrafish Lateral Line During Development, Death, and Regeneration: Is Taking Your Sox(es) Off a Key to Mechanosensory Hair Cell Regeneration?" October 27-30, 2015
		Jessica Rogers, M.D., Resident American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) 2015, Long Beach, CA "Xanthomatous Pseudotumor as a Rare Cause of Small Bowel Obstruction and Mimic of Malignancy: Case Report and Review of the Literature" October 27-30, 2015
		Andrew Jones, M.D., Resident Gay and Lesbian Medical Association's 33rd Annual Conference, Portland, OR "Changing Medical Minds: Analysis of Shifting Trends in Attitudes, Knowledge, and Beliefs in Pre-Clinical Medical Students Regarding LGBT+ People and Healthcare" September 25, 2015
		Sarah Barnhard, M.D., Transfusion Medicine Fellow 5th Annual UC Davis Health Care Quality Forum, Sacramento, CA April 1, 2015
		Sarah Barnhard, M.D. Rebecca Sonu, M.D. "Using the UC Davis Tethered Meta Registry to Improve the UC Davis Medical Center Patient Blood Management System." American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA October 24-28, 2014
		Elham Vali Khojeini, M.D. Mingyi Chen, M.D. "Stromal Rich Variant of Hyaline-Vascular Castleman Disease: A Case Report of an Unusual Tumor with Review of the Literature" College of American Pathologists (CAP) Annual Meeting, 2014, Philadelphia, PA September 7-11, 2014
		Sarah Barnhard, M.D. Rebecca Sonu, M.D. "Using the UC Davis Tethered Meta Registry to Improve the UC Davis Medical Center Patient Blood Management System." UC Davis Fourth Annual Quality Healthcare Forum Sacramento, CA March 18, 2014
		Sarah Barnhard, M.D. "Evaluation of Oral Calcium Carbonate Prophylaxis for Therapeutic Plasma Exchange during a Calcium Gluconate Shortage." UC Davis Fourth Annual Quality Healthcare Forum Sacramento, CA March 18, 2014
		Elham Vali Khojeini, M.D., Resident Michael Van Ness, M.D., Resident "Increased CD5+ Hematogones in the Peripheral Blood and Bone Marrow of an Infant with Immune Thrombocytopenia" Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Retreat Arden Hills Conference Center September 5, 2013
		Adam Stelling, M.D., Resident "Acute4 Myeloid Leukemia with Isolated Trisomy 19 Associated with Diffuse Osteosierosis" Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Research Retreat Arden Hills Conference Center September 5, 2013
		Rebecca Sonu, M.D., Resident UC Davis Medical Center ThirdAnnual IntegratingQuality Symposium: Linking Clinical and Educational Excellence Education Building, LectureHall 1222 March 12, 2013
		Christina Diloreto, M.D., Resident U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) 2013 Annual Meeting March 2-8, 2013 Baltimore, MD
		Michael Van Ness, M.D. College of American Pathologists (CAP) Annual Meeting 2012 Sept. 9-12, 2012 San Diego, CA