Faculty

The Marvin Kuschner Professor and Chair
- Kenneth R. Shroyer, MD, PhD, Professormolecular mechanisms of tumor aggression. Surgical pathology and cytopathology

Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology & Director of Laboratory Services 
Jonathan Heusel, MD, PhD, Professor, Director of Laboratory Services, Molecular Biology or Microbial Pathogens

Interim Vice Chair for Anatomic Pathology and Residency Program Director
Chief of Renal Pathology, Director of Autopsy Service, Medical Director of the 

Vice Chair for Laboratory Initiatives and Digital Medicine
, (Biomedical Informatics), Cherith Professor and Founding Chair, Biomedical Informatics; Vice President for Informatics, 51±¬ÁÏÍø; Associate Director for Informatics, Stony Brook Cancer Center

Vice Chair for Experimental Pathology
Jingfang Ju, PhD, Professor, non-coding RNAs in cancer and translating the new discovery to clinical cancer diagnosis and therapy

Fellowship Program Directors
, Hematopathology Fellowship Program Director, Hematopathologist, Medical Director of Flow Cytometry Lab, Scientific Director of Stem Cell Core, Stem cell research

, Director of Cytopathology Fellowship Program, Director of  and Chief of Cytopathology, Cytology and predictive tumor markers


PATHOLOGY FACULTY, PRIMARY APPOINTMENTS

Sunjida Ahmed, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Surgical Pathology

,Transfusion medicine and hematopathology

Breast cancer and mammary stem cells

Ji Dong (Karen) Bai, MD, Clinical Instructor, Surgical Pathology

Jela Bandovic, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Gastrointestinal/Pancreatobiliary/Liver Pathology and Hematopathology

Rachel Brownlee, DVD, DACLAM, Director of Veterinary Services, Division of Laboratory Animal Resources 

Brendan Boyce, MD, Clinical Professor, Bone and soft tissue

Bo Chen, PhD, Instructor, Director, Manager, MALDI

Fei Chen, PhD, Professor, Epigenetics and cancer stem-like cells

Jun Chung, PhD, Associate Professor, Mechanisms of tumor invasion and metastasis

Mehdi Damaghi, PhD, Assistant ProfessorEvolution of metabolic phenotypes in variable tumor microenvironment

 (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology), Director, Graduate Program in Genetics. Interactions of bacterial pathogens with host cells of innate immunity

Shah Giashuddin, MD, Associate Professor

John Haley, PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Developmental Therapeutics, Cancer Center, and Director of the Proteomics Core

Richard Kew, PhD, Associate Professor, Scientific Director of ; Leukocyte chemotaxis; inflammation; pulmonary immunopathology

Howard B. Fleit, PhD, Associate Professor Emeritus, Assistant Dean for Curriculum, 51±¬ÁÏÍø of Medicine 

Hong Lin, PhD, Head of Clinical Immunology, Director of Flowcytometry Core Lab 

Ke Jian "Jim" Liu, PhD, Professor, Associate Director for Basic Research, Stony Brook Cancer Center

, Director of Transfusion Services 

Peng Mao, PhD, Associate Professor

Natalia Marchenko, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mechanisms of aberrant stabilization of mutant p53 in cancer and its effect on cell motility, invasion and metastases, oncogenic properties of Keratin 17

 Transcriptional regulation by mutant p53

, Ute Moll, MD, Professor, Tumor suppressor genes, the role of the p53/p73/p63 gene family in human cancer, transcription-independent mitochondrial apoptosis program of p53

David Montrose, PhD, Assistant Professor, Understanding and modulating host intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the GI tract to prevent and treat colorectal cancer (CRC) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Allen J. Norin, PhD, ProfessorDirector of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory

 Cancer Functional Clinical Dynamics and Biomarkers Discovery

Rekha Reddy, DMD, Assistant Professor, Director of Oral Pathology

Kanokporn Rithidech, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Molecular cytogenetics, genomic instability and cancer, radiation biology, proteomics

Anupama Sharma, MD, MHA, Clinical Associate ProfessorAssociate Director of Surgical Pathology 

Riddhish T. Sheth, MD, Assistant ProfessorLaboratory Medical Director, SHH and SBUH 

, Neuropathology 

Director of Hematology Laboratory, Hematology and transfusion medicine

Mario Shields, PhD, Associate Professor

Carlos A. Tirado, PhD, FACMGG, Professor, Director of Cytogenetics 

Arthur Totten, PhD, D(ABMM), Assistant Professor, Director of Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory

Chitra Thakur, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cancer Microenvironment

Zhishan Wang, MD, PhD, Professor, Environmental Carcinogenesis 

Xiaoyun Wen, MBBS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Surgical Pathologist 

Jared Woods, MD, PhD, Director of Digital Pathology, Neuropathologist 

Chengfeng Yang, PhD, Professor, Environmental Carcinogenesis 

Wei Yang, PhD, Associate Professor, Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer Metastasis 

 


PATHOLOGY FACULTY, SECONDARY APPOINTMENTS

(Ob/Gyn), Reproductive endocrinology

Jiang Chen, MD, Associate Professor, Vice Chair, Planar cell polarity and primary cilia in skin and hair follicle development and skin cancers.

Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Co-Director Translational Research Laboratory, Associate Professor, Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University

(Medicine), Director, Cancer Center and Vice Dean, Cancer Medicine, School of Medicine. Internal Medicine; Medical Oncology

(Biomedical Informatics)

(Dermatology)

(Clinical Oral Pathology/Oral Medicine)

Brian Sheridan, PhD(Molecular Genetics and Microbiology), Resident memory T cells (Trm) in the intestines, Memory gd T cells in mucosal inflammation  

(Medicine), Mononuclear and polymorphonuclear phagocyte functions; macrophage function in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection

(Urology), Specification and clonal fate analysis of prostate epithelial cells in organogenesis and cancer

, Co-Director, Cancer Control Program. Cedars-Sinai Cancer Institute

, (Molecular Genetics & Microbiology), Role of Mammalian T cells in adaptive immunity to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium


VOLUNTARY FACULTY

John Chumas, MD, Clinical Associate Professor
Jason Cohen, MD, Assistant Professor, Dermatopathology
, Research Assistant Professor (EPFL), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
Amr Ghaleb, PhD, Research Assistant Professor
, Clinical Assistant Professor, Chief Medical Examiner, Suffolk County 
Anait Levenson, MD, PhD, Adjunct Research Professor, Long Island University 
Ariella Lissauer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Alice Nemajerova, PhD, Research Assistant Professor
Timothy Pal MD, Assistant Professor, Chief of Pathology, Northport VA
Lester Paldy, MS, Distinguished Service Professor
Amy Rapkiewicz, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor                                                                                                                                                                            Jingxuan Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, Saint Louis University Hospital, Bethlehem                                                                                               Ling-Zhi Liu, MD, PhD, Research Assistant Professor                                                                                                                                                                

EMERITIS 

Kenneth Marcu, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Biochemistry)                                                                                                                                                Jorge Benach, PhD, Professor Emeritus                                                                                                                                                                Carmen Tornos, MD, Professor Emeritus
Jay L. Bock, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus
Dennis K. Galankis, MD, Professor Emeritus
Mae Hultin, MD, Professor Emeritus (Medicine)
Philip B. Kane, MD, Associate Professor Emeritus
Cynthia Kaplan, MD, Professor Emeritus                                                                                                                                                                          Sanford Simon, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Biochemistry)
Nancy Peress, MD, Professor Emeritus                                                                                                                                                                            Eric Spitzer, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus