Ola El-Zammar, MD

Current Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Pathology

Hospital Campus

• Downtown

Clinic/Unit

• Thoracic Oncology Program (TOP)
  Upstate University Hospital - Downtown Campus
  Google Maps & Directions
  4835, 750 East Adams Street
  Syracuse, NY 13210
  315 464-6257
  

Education & Fellowships

• Fellowship: SUNY Upstate Medical University, 2006, Surgical Pathology
• Fellowship: SUNY Upstate Medical University, 2005, Cytopathology
• Residency: SUNY Upstate Medical University, 2004, Pathology
• Residency: SUNY Upstate Medical University, 2003
• Residency: Boston University Medical Center, 2002
• MD: American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 1996
• BS: American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 1992

Specialties & Certification

• Anatomic Pathology
• Clinical Pathology
• Cytopathology

Treats

• Adults and Children

Treatments/Services

• Breast Fine Needle Aspiration
• Fine Needle Aspiration of Thyroid Nodules

Associations/Memberships

• United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
• American Society for Clinical Pathology

Current Hospital Privileges

• Upstate University Hospital

Publications

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Research Abstract

Yantiss RK, Sapp HL, Farraye FA, El-Zammar O, O'Brien MJ, Fruin AB, Stucchi AF, Brien TP, Becker JM, Odze RD. Histologic Predictors of Pouchitis in Patients with Chronic Ulcerative Colitis. Am J Surg Pathol. 2004 Aug; 28(8): 999-1006.

Fruin AB, El-Zammar O, Stucchi AF, O'Brien M, Becker JM. Colonic metaplasia in the ileal pouch is associated with inflammation and is not the result of long-term adaptation. J Gastrointest Surg. 2003 Feb;7(2):246-53; discussion 253-4.

El-Zammar O, Haidar A. Immunoreactivity of ductal cells with putative myoepithelial markers: a potential pitfall in breast carcinoma. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2003 Oct;7(5):335.

Book Chapters

Myers JL, El-Zammar O. Pathology of drug-induced lung disease. In Katzenstein and Askin’s surgical pathology of non-neoplastic lung disease. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2006; 85-125.

Review articles

El-Zammar OA, Katzenstein AL. Pathological diagnosis of granulomatous lung disease: a review. Histopathology. 2007 Feb;50(3):289-310. N. Y. Haboubi, O. El-Zammar, S. T. O'Dwyer and R. J. James. Radiation bowel disease: Pathogenesis and management. Colorectal Disease 2000, 2, 323-329: