Faculty Research

Ola El-Zammar, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Pathology
6805B University Hospital
Upstate Medical University
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
(315) 464-4750

Education and Clinical Training

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

Clinical Specialty

Anatomic Pathology, Certified: 2004
Clinical Pathology, Certified: 2004
Cytopathology, Certified: 2005

Clinical Department/Section Affiliations

Pathology/Anatomic Pathology

Research Program and Department Affiliations

Pathology

Research Interests

Classification of Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung.

EGFR mutation and amplification in Adenocarcinoma of lung using gene sequencing, FISH and immunohistochemistry.

Research Abstract

Recent Selected References

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:

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