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Research Faculty—Pathology

Anatomic Pathology

  • Jerrold Abraham, MD
    Professor
    Research Interests:

    Environmental and occupational pulmonary diseases; Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis; Gadolinium toxicity; scanning electron microscopy and x-ray microanalysis studies

  • Ann Barker-Griffith, MD
    Emeritus
    Research Interests:

    Analysis of ocular and other material by SEM-EDS (scanning electron microscopy - energy dispersive X-ray spectrosocpy); complications of ocular region trauma; ultrastructure of trabeculum and vitreous, shaken baby syndrome.  

  • Kamal Khurana, MD
    Professor
    Research Interests:

    Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration, Head & Neck Cytology

  • Paul Shanley, MD
    Professor
    Research Interests:

    Kidney and transplant pathology; vasculitis

Clinical Pathology

Hematopathology

  • Scott Blystone, PhD
    Associate Professor
    Research Interests:

    Actin Cytoskeletal Dynamics in the leukocyte inflammatory phenotype.

Research Core

  • Tamara Jamaspishvili, MD/PhD
    Assistant Professor
    Research Interests:

    Dr Jamaspishvili is a Director of SUNY UpState PatholOgy REsearch Core & Digital Pathology (SUNY SPORE) located at the Department of Pathology. The Core mission is to provide efficient, high-quality histology and digital pathology services to internal and external researchers, including private sector companies and biopharma.

    Dr Tamara Jamaspishvili is a research pathologist, translational research scientist focusing on developing, evaluating, validating, and applying tissue-based prognostic and predictive biomarkers and models for improved disease prognostication and management of cancer patients. Dr Jamaspishvili conducts multi-disciplinary collaborative translational research projects with the goal to develop innovative strategies to advance biomarker assessment using quantitative digital pathology, computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI).  Dr Jamaspishvili has ongoing research interests in molecular and digital pathology of genitourinary cancers. She is now focusing on improving companion diagnostic biomarker testings for solid cancers in immuno-oncology using computer vision. She has ongoing collaborations with NCI/NIH and other national or international multi-disciplinary research groups. Dr Jamaspishvili and her team are open to academia-industry collaborations. 

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