University of Washington

Clinical Fellowships: GI and Hepatic Pathology

Program Faculty

Matthew M.C. Yeh, MD PhD
Director, GI & Hepatic Pathology Fellowship Program
Professor, Pathology

Paul E. Swanson, MD
Professor, Pathology
Chief, GI and Hepatic Pathology Service

Melissa Upton, MD
Associate Director, Residency Program Director
Professor, Anatomic Pathology
Staff Pathologist, UWMC

Ben Hoch, MD
Associate Professor, Anatomic Pathology
Director, Bone & Soft Tissue Pathology Fellowship Program
Attending Pathologist, UWMC

Camtu Truong, MD
Acting Assistant Professor, Pathology

Lisa Koch, MD, PhD
Acting Instructor, Pathology

Florencia Jalikis, MD
Acting Assistant 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 1,500 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. 1 position/year