Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pathology

Faculty:

CWRU/UHCMC

Derek Abbott, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Innate immunity and inflammatory diseases

Fadi W. Abdul-Karim, M.D.
Professor
Surgical pathology cytopathology

James M. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Biocompatability, inflammation, foriegn body reaction to medical devices, prostheses, and biomatierls

Rose Chu Beck, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Philip Bomeisl, D.O.
Assistant Professor

Shu Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Aging, cell biology, dementia, degenerative disease, neuroscience, prion disease, protein chemistry

Brian Cobb, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Adaptive immune responses to carbohydrate-encapsulated bacterial pathogens, utilizing confocal microscopy, analytical biochemistry, animal models, fluorescence spectroscopy, and traditional cellular immunology

Mark L. Cohen, M.D.
Professor
Neuropathology

Beverly B. Dahms, M.D.
Professor
Pediatric pathology

Dawn Dawson, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Dhanlaxmi Desai, M.D.
Clinical Instructor

Laxminarayana Devireddy, D.V.M, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Katharine A. Downes, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Blood banking, transfusion medicine, coagulation

Steven N. Emancipator, M.D.
Professor
Immune complexes, glomerulonephritis, arthritis, hypersensitivity

Xingjun Fan, Ph.D.
Instructor

Rosemary Farag, M.D.
Clinical Instructor
Anatomic pathology, cytopathology

Pierluigi Gambetti, M.D.
Professor
Prion disease, neurodegenerative disorders, prion protein, protein conformation, transgenic animals, transfected cells, animal models, cell models, prion protein gene, spongiosis, anatomical-clinical correlation, polymorphism, genotype phenotype correlations

Neil S. Greenspan, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Antibody, B cell, bacterial immunity, complement, cytokines, humoral immunity, immunogenicity, immunological specificity, molecular recognition, pneumococci, polysaccharides, T cell, vaccines

Clive R. Hamlin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Clinical Pathology, with particular interest in prion disease testing

Clifford V. Harding, III, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Interim Chair
Immunology, antigen processing, major histocompatibility complex, tumor immunity, microbial immunity, vaccine, adjuvants, cell biology, endocytosis, phagocytosis

Yung T. Huang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Emeritus
Mucosal immunology, IgA, HIV, measles virus, virus infections, pathogenesis, prevention, and vaccine development

Mark W. Jackson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Onogenes, tumor suppressors and breast cancer

Gretta H. Jacobs, M.D.
Associate Professor
Renal pathology, transplant pathology, liver pathology

Michael R. Jacobs, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Clinical microbiology

David R. Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Immunology, flow cytometry, enzymatic amplification staining, cytotoxicity, virology, HIV, herpes simplex virus, Epstein-Barr virus

Said Khayyata, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Transgenic mouse models, human and animal prion diseases, muscle disorders, gene therapy

Michael E. Lamm
Professor, Emeritus, Past Chair
Mucosal immunity, assembly and transport of IgA antibodies in and through epithelial cells, IgA and host defense against infections

Hyoung-gon Lee, Ph.D.
Instructor
Alzheimer disease, the molecular mechanism of neurodegeneration and cardiomyopathy

Louis Levine, M.D.
Clinical Instructor

Feng Lin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Complement regulation, knockout/transgenic mouse models, recombinant proteins, NMR, crystallography, gene array

Catherine Listinsky, M.D.
Associate Professor
Clinical interests: Hematopathology: Benign and malignant disorders of lymph nodes, relationships among Hodgkins and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas

Wendy Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Gregory T. MacLennan, M.D.
Professor
Genitourinary cancer, malignancy, urology

M. Edward Medof, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
T cell immunology, autoimmunity, T regulatory function, cancer immungens, growth factors, apoptosis, ocular immunology, and the connection between complement and neurobiology

Howard Meyerson, M.D.
Associate Professor
Hematopathology, lymphoma, leukemia, flow cytometry, phenotype, immunology

Vincent Monnier, M.D.
Professor
Molecular mechanisms of protein aging, oxidative stress, complications of diabetes and aging, cataractogenesis, microbial enzyme technology

Prabha Murthy, M.D.
Clinical Instructor

John G. Nedrud, Ph.D.
Professor
Helicobacter pylori, vaccines, pathogenesis, mucosal immunology, cholera toxin and mucosal adjuvants, antigen processing, viral immunology

Robert B. Petersen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neuropathology, prions, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, cell biology

Theresa P. Pizarro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Theresa P. Pretlow, Ph.D.
Professor, Emeritus

Thomas G. Pretlow II, M.D.
Professor, Emeritus

Lakshmi Ramachandra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Immunology, immune function and aging, influenza, microbial immunity, mycobacteria tuberculosis, phagosomes

Rania Rayes, M.D.
Clinical Instructor

Raymond W. Redline, M.D.
Professor
Abortion, cerebral palsy, chorioamnionitis, helicobacter pylori, intrauterine growth retardation, pregnancy, perinatal pathology, placenta, preeclampsia, trophoblast, reproductive immunology

Mark Rodgers, M.D.
Instructor

Jiri Safar, M.D.
Associate Professor
Neurodegeneration, protein misfolding, prions

Linda M. Sandhaus, M.D.
Associate Professor

Christine Schmotzer, M.D.
Clinical Instructor

David R. Sell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Neena Singh, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Prion diseases, protein transport, chaperones, proteasomes, nuclear import

Mark A. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor
Aging, Alzheimer's disease, cell cycle control, cytoskeletal organization, neurodegeneration, oxidative stress

Man-Sun Sy, Ph.D.
Professor
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, prion

Alan M. Tartakoff, Ph.D.
Professor
Yeast nucleus/mitosis, molecular genetics methods to study cell migration, Huntington's disease, stress resistance, tumor cell growth

Harry Taylor, M.D.
Associate Professor

David Wald, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor

Jay K. Wasman, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Surgical pathology, cytology, liver pathology, angiogenesis

Joseph E. Willis, M.D.
Associate Professor
Gastrointestinal pathology

Wei Xin, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Anatomy pathology, GI pathology, pancreatic research and non-neoplastic GI disease research

Lan Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Xiongwei Zhu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's disease, amytrophic lateral sclerosis, oxidative stress, signal transduction, mitochondria, cell cycle control

Nicholas P. Ziats, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Vascular biology, endothelial cells, artificial graft materials

Wen-Quan Zou, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Prions, prion diseases, neurodegenerative disorders, conformational diseases, early events of protein aggregation, specific recognition or protein aggregates