Resident Research and Leadership
With the support of faculty and the department, we excel in resident research and leadership activities. UTHealth Pathology residents have achieved significant accomplishments in their academic and professional pursuits.
Research Achievements:
Our residents have made notable contributions to the field of pathology through research, including:
- Publications: Numerous manuscripts and book chapters across various topics in pathology.
- Abstracts and Presentations:
- Our residents regularly have abstracts accepted for poster and podium presentations at various prestigious conferences, including:
- United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP)
- College of American Pathologists (CAP)
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
- Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB)
- Association of Clinical Scientists (ACS)
- Texas Society of Pathologists (TSP)
- Our residents regularly have abstracts accepted for poster and podium presentations at various prestigious conferences, including:
Leadership Roles:
Our residents are encouraged to pursue leadership roles to develop the skills required to be future leaders in pathology. Some notable leadership roles held by our residents include:
- UTHealth House Staff Association:
- President
- Secretary/Treasurer
- College of American Pathologists:
- Resident Forum Executive Committee
- American Society for Clinical Pathology:
- Board Member, Pathology Resident Council
- Texas Medical Association:
- Resident Representative, Membership Committee
- Resident Representative, Medical Education Committee
Select Resident Publications:
- Yohannan B, Omo-Ogboi A, Kachira JJ, Juneja H. Hematologic complications after kidney and pancreas transplant in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia. Cleve Clin J Med. 2024 Mar 1;91(3):183-190. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.91a.23042. PMID: 38429002.
- Omo-Ogboi AC, Ederhion J, Ur Rehman A, Ogunleye O, Thomas-Ogunniyi J. Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis in a Middle-Aged Man Presenting With Respiratory Failure: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Cureus. 2024 Feb 26;16(2):e54942. doi: 10.7759/cureus.54942. PMID: 38544622; PMCID: PMC10967675.
- Gehris BT, Wang WJ, Mai B, Chen L, Wang W, Hu Z. Initial classic Hodgkin lymphoma and subsequent diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: separate entities with a continuum of BCL2 rearrangement. Pathology. 2024 Feb;56(1):115-118. doi: 10.1016/j.pathol.2023.05.019. Epub 2023 Jul 29. PMID: 37573163.
- Nessim Kostandy E, Suh JH, Tian X, Okeugo B, Rubin E, Shirai S, Luo M, Taylor CM, Kim KH, Rhoads JM, Liu Y. Probiotic Limosilactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 Changes Foxp3 Deficiency-Induced Dyslipidemia and Chronic Hepatitis in Mice. Nutrients. 2024 Feb 12;16(4):511. doi: 10.3390/nu16040511. PMID: 38398835; PMCID: PMC10892585.
- Naik U, Amin SE, Elsayad M, Saluja K. Pleomorphic Adenoma with a Novel Gene Rearrangement-LINC01606::PLAG1. Head Neck Pathol. 2024 Feb 23;18(1):10. doi: 10.1007/s12105-024-01612-x. PMID: 38393488; PMCID: PMC10891012.
- Wang WJ, Gehris BT, Rivera D, Ak S, Feng D, Wang W, Hu Z. Bone marrow-restricted aberrant myeloperoxidase expression in B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A diagnostic dilemma and mimicry of mixed phenotype acute leukemia. EJHaem. 2024 Feb 21;5(2):403-407. doi: 10.1002/jha2.855. PMID: 38633116; PMCID: PMC11020126.
- Rivera D, Cui W, Gao J, Peker D, Zhang QY, Dewar R, Qiu L, Konoplev S, Hu Z, Sasaki K, Hu AY, E S, Liu M, Fang H, Wang W, Tang G, Apperley JF, Hochhaus A, Cortes JE, Khoury JD, Medeiros LJ, Jabbour E, Hu S. Aleukemic Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Without Neutrophilia and Thrombocytosis: A Report From the BCR::ABL1 Pathology Group. Mod Pathol. 2024 Feb;37(2):100406. doi: 10.1016/j.modpat.2023.100406. Epub 2023 Dec 15. PMID: 38104892.
- Omo-Ogboi AC, Shirai S, Ur Rehman A, Ederhion JO, Buja M. A Rare Case of Disseminated Histoplasmosis With Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Mimicking a Flare of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Middle-Aged Man: A Case Report. Cureus. 2023 Sep 27;15(9):e46068. doi: 10.7759/cureus.46068. PMID: 37900471; PMCID: PMC10604590.
- Rivera D, Wang WJ, Chan KH, Ali H, Wang W, Medeiros LJ, Hu Z. From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center Castleman disease involving the thymus gland: Case report and literature review. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2023 Aug;65:152136. doi: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2023.152136. Epub 2023 Apr 10. PMID: 37060884.
- Naik U, Shah M, Sandberg DI, Samant R, Roy A, Bhattacharjee MB. Histopathologic “Evolution” in Pediatric Primary Intracranial High-Grade Sarcoma – a Key that Unlocked the Correct Diagnosis. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2023 Jul;53(4):661-666. PMID: 37625831.
- Amin SE, Elzamly S, Ahmed AA, Tandon N. Uterine Carcinosarcoma Presenting as Metastatic Osteosarcoma in the Lung: A Case Report and Literature Review. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2023 Nov;53(6):969-973. PMID: 38182153.
- Khalaj K, Fattahi N, Omo-Ogboi AC, Thomas-Ogunniyi JO, Ogunleye OA, Khanal A, Kramer LA. Incidental Detection of a Rare Pediatric High-Grade Fibrosarcoma in a Post-traumatic Setting: The Conundrum of Intra-Abdominal Hematoma versus Neoplasia. Case Rep Radiol. 2023 Dec 5;2023:3178778. doi: 10.1155/2023/3178778. PMID: 38089103; PMCID: PMC10715857.
- Herrmann AC, Hanau C, Karcher D, Miller DC, Murtha A, Sanders AE, Timmons C, Kaul KL; a work group of the Association of Pathology Chairs’ Graduate Medical Education Committee. The pathology fellowship application crisis: The current state and suggestions for remediation. Acad Pathol. 2022 Jun 25;9(1):100029.
- Ghosh A, Russell A, Dasgupta A. Technical Note: Newly Reformulated Total and Free PSA Immunoassay on Cobas e411 Analyzer Is Virtually Free from Biotin Interference. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2022;52(3):504-506.
- Elzamly S, Al-Habib A, Toraih EA, Jani PP, Thomas-Ogunniyi J, Sun H, Liu J, Zhu H, Buryanek J, Guo T, Zhang S. The optimal approach of EBUS-FNA rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE): a five-year experience from a large academic medical center. J Am Soc Cytopathol. 2022; 11(5):328-333.
- Omo-Ogboi AC, Deavers MT, Schmeler KM, Tandon N. Collision Tumor of the Ovary Involving Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor and High-Grade Serous Carcinoma-Report of the First Case [published online ahead of print, 2022 Jun 28]. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2022;10.
- Wang WJ, Omo-Ogbi AC, Rivera Rivera X, Moosvi AM, Chen L. Bone primary, spindle cell variant of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma presenting in the femur from a Paget’s disease patient. Leukemia and Lymphoma. 2022, Jul; 63(7):1765-1767.
- Wang W, Hu Z. Leukocytosis with left-shifted myeloid maturation in a peripheral blood specimen: a clue to the lymphoid blast phase of CML. Blood. 2022, Jan; 139(2):305.
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