UNIVERSITY of TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH Galveston, TX

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH Galveston, TX

PROGRAMS OFFERED The University of Texas Medical Branch offers fully accredited training programs in both anatomic and clinical pathology, and offers advanced fellowship training in surgical pathology, cytopathology, and dermatopathology, leading to subspecialty certification by the American Board of Pathology. Fellowship training is also offered in clinical microbiology and clinical chemistry leading to certification by the American Society for Microbiology and the American Assocation for Clinical Chemistry respectively. Residents may elect three years of anatomic pathology or three years of clinical pathology, each leading to certification, or a four year program in anatomic and clinical pathology leading to certification in both areas. The advanced fellowships described above lead to eligibility for special competence certification if such is available from the Board. All reasonable attempts are made to fit the program to the career objectives of the individual. In the anatomic pathology program, residents assume increasing diagnostic responsibility under staff supervision in surgical pathology, cytopathology, autopsy, dermatopathology, forensic pathology, pediatric pathology, neuropathology, liver pathology, transplantation pathology, and renal immunopathology. Clinical pathology offers a basic background in all disciplines of laboratory medicine, including clinical chemistry, hematopathology, coagulation, microbiology, transfusion medicine, cytogenetics, molecular diagnostics, laboratory administration and informatics. Diagnostic Management Teams (DMT) provide comprehensive diagnostic interpretation of anatomic and clinical pathology data to our clinicians. Information comes from our diagnostic experts as a personalized, expert driven narrative about the differential diagnosis for a patient evaluation. In addition, we have developed personalized interpretations that are disease-specific and have input not only from the pathologist, but also from investigators studying that particular disease. Pathology residents at UTMB are exposed in real-time to active clinical cases and play a meaningful and important role in the DMTs. Residents graduating from our program will be uniquely qualified to serve as real partners with treating physicians as they confidently provide valuable diagnostic information to their clinical peers in other medical disciplines. The department maintains fully equipped laboratories for electron microscopy, molecular biology, immunopathologic, biochemical, cytochemical and tissue culture studies. Outstanding research opportunities for residents are available in the department and the affiliated Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Areas of expertise for research include infectious diseases and biodefense, tropical and emerging infectious diseases, aging, translational research, molecular oncology, toxicology, drug abuse, endocrinology and neurodegenerative diseases among others.

TYPES AND NUMBERS OF APPOINTMENTS Twenty positions are available and 4-6 are offered at the PGY-1 level through the National Residency Matching Program.

FACILITIES The University of Texas Medical Branch campus is located on Galveston Island in the Gulf of Mexico, two miles from the Texas mainland which is reached by a causeway or ferry. The Medical Branch consists of a complex of 75 major buildings on its main campus (and has numerous community-based sites in Texas), covering 84 acres, and houses the state's oldest medical school. Also on campus are the Schools of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, the Marine Biomedical Institute, the Institute for the Medical Humanities, Center for Molecular Sciences, the Center for Biomedical Engineering and the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases. UTMB is also home to the Galveston National Laboratory (the first national biocontainment laboratory) which provides state of the art research capabilities for infectious agents ranging from biosafety level 2 to 4. Total student enrollment is 3,300. The Medical Branch Hospitals function as a multicategorical referral center for the State of Texas, ensuring a rich variety of clinical material. The hospitals are all physically interconnected, with a total of 680 beds. Two state-of-the- art facilities, the Jennie Sealy Hospital and the Clinical Support Building, were completed in 2016. The Victory Lakes Campus currently operates surgical clinics and a day hospital with 100 beds. UTMB also recently opened the Clear Lake Campus for an additional 191 bed community hospital. UTMB offers more than 60 residency and fellowship programs. The Moody Library, one of the largest medical libraries in the Southwest, has more than 250,000 bound volumes. The anatomic pathology division processes ~18,000 surgical accessions/year, ~40,000 cytopathology specimens/year (gynecological: ~38,000; non-gynecological: ~1,000/year; FNA: ~1,000/year) and performs approximately 300 autopsies per year. The clinical laboratory makes approximately 3,000,000 determinations per year. The patient population, geographic location and subtropical climate provide a remarkable diversity and quality of pathology material for breadth and depth of pathology education. A photography division is maintained within the department. There is a wide variety of sophisticated instrumentation in the clinical and research laboratories. COMMUNITY Galveston, a community of ~50,000 and a recreational center for Texas in a county of 340,000 residents, offers the gracious living of suburban America. The climate and unique beaches, bays and open water provide excellent opportunities year round for recreational activities. Houston, 50 miles to the north, is reached easily by car. One of the largest metropolitan areas in the US, Houston offers a wide spectrum of cultural options including theater, opera, classical and modern music, libraries, museums, educational facilities and professional and amateur athletics. Several small cities are found between Galveston and Houston, including the Clear Lake area which offers a great variety of suburbia and entertainment including the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (NASA). San Antonio, Dallas and Austin are also relatively short drives and offer numerous attractions.

STIPENDS AND MAINTENANCE Resident salaries (approximate) start at $56,191, increasing to $58,094 the second year, $59,895 the third year, $61,965 the fourth year, and $64,819 the fifth year. Hospitalization and malpractice insurance are provided along with a yearly allowance for professional development including travel to regional and national meetings.

STAFF PROFESSORS G.A.S. Ansari PhD (Aligarh Muslim University, India) experimental pathology, toxicology; Judith F. Aronson MD (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) autopsy pathology, infectious diseases; Alan D.T. Barrett PhD (University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K) molecular virology, flaviviruses, vaccine development; Paul J. Boor MD (Tufts University) autopsy pathology, cardiovascular, experimental pathology; Alexander Bukreyev PhD viral hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, etc); Gerald A. Campbell MD (University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas), PhD (University of Texas, Austin) autopsy pathology, neuropathology; Jianli Dong MD (First Military Medical University, China), PhD (University of Toronto, Canada) molecular diagnostics; Benjamin B. Gelman MD (University Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio), PhD (University Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio) autopsy pathology, neuropathology, experimental pathology (HIV neuropathogenesis); Hal K. Hawkins MD (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina), PhD (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina) pediatric and perinatal pathology, experimental pathology (burns); Bhupendra S. Kaphalia PhD (Kumaun University, Nainital, India) experimental pathology, toxicology; Firoze M. Khan PhD experimental pathology, toxicology; Thomas Ksiazek PhD (University of California, Berkeley), DVM (Kansas State University) epidemiology of viral hemorrhagic fevers; Michael Laposata MD (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD), PhD (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) Chairman; laboratory medicine, hemostasis; Jere McBride PhD (University of California, Davis) experimental pathology, human ehrlichiosis (pathogenesis, vaccine development); Vladimir Motin PhD (Gamaleya Research Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia) experimental pathology, bubonic plague (pathogenesis, vaccine development); Anthony O. Okorodudu PhD (University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark) clinical chemistry, toxicology; Juan Pablo Olano MD (University of Cauca, School of Medicine, Colombia) autopsy pathology, infectious diseases pathogenesis; Slobodan Paessler PhD (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston), DVM (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany) viral pathogenesis (influenza, viral hemorrhagic fevers); Vsevolod Popov PhD (N.F. Gamaleya Epidemiology & Microbiology Institute, Moscow, Russia) electron microscopy, infectious diseases; Suimin Qiu MD (Xian Medical University, P.R. China), PhD (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston) surgical pathology, soft tissue, gastrointestinal; Sanjeev Sahni PhD (Kanpur University, Kanpur (U.P.), India) bacterial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions; Ramon L. Sanchez MD (University of Zaragoza, School of Medicine, Spain), PhD (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) dermatopathology; Harshwardhan Thaker MD (University of Bombay, India), PhD (Yale University, New Haven, CT) surgical pathology, informatics, digital pathology, pediatric pathology; Nikos Vasilakis PhD (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston) pathogenesis of arthropod-borne viruses; David H. Walker MD (Vanderbilt University, Memphis, TN) autopsy pathology, experimental pathology, infectious diseases; Scott C. Weaver PhD (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA) evolution and ecology of arboviruses.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Marjan Afrouzian MD (Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran) renal pathology, surgical pathology; Patricia Aguilar PhD (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston) virology and innate immunity; Donald Bouyer PhD (Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN) rickettsial virulence; Eduardo Eyzaguirre MD (Cayetano Heredia University, School of Medicine. Lima, Peru) surgical pathology, infectious disease pathogenesis; Naomi Forrester PhD (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK) viral pathogenesis, molecular evolution; Alexander Freiberg PhD (University of Potsdam, Germany) arbovirology, henipaviruses, bunyaviruses, immunopathology; Bin Gong MD (Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China), PhD (Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China) rickettsial pathogenesis; Tetsuro Ikegami PhD (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), DVM (Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan) bunyaviruses and vaccine development; Ranjana Nawgiri MD (Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India) diagnostic cytopathology; Ping Ren PhD (Georgia State University 1996) clinical microbiology; mycology; Abba Sahni PhD (Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow Avadh University, Faizabad, India) rickettsial pathogenesis; Heather Stevenson-Lerner MD (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston), PhD (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston) transplantation pathology, immunopathology, liver pathology, surgical pathology; Saravanan Thangamani PhD (Institute of Parasitology, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic) vector-pathogen interactions; Natalie Williams-Bouyer PhD (Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN) clinical microbiology.

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Erin A. Barnhart MD (University of Texas-Houston 2005) forensic pathology; Cecilia Clement MD (Cayetano Heredia University, School of Medicine, Lima, Peru) diagnostic cytopathology, surgical pathology; Rong Fang MD (University of Qingdao Medical College, China), PhD (University of Mediterranee Medical College in Marseille, France) rickettsial immunity; Michelle Felicella MD (The Uninversity of Vermont, Burlington) neuropathology, surgical pathology, autopsy; Jing He MD (Xian Medical University, China 1996) surgical pathology, cyotpathology; Peter McCaffrey MD (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD) pathology informatics, molecular diagnostics, clinical chemistry; Ami Murphy DO (University of North Texas Health Science Center Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ft. Worth) forensic pathology; Vidarshi Muthukumarana MD (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) surgical pathology, cytopathology; Felix Olobatuyi MD (Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ) hematopathology; Sean Yates MD (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) transfusion medicine, coagulation disorders; Christopher Zahner MD (Texas Tech Health Science Center, Lubbock) coagulation disorders, point of care testing.

CLINICAL PROFESSORS Jack B. Alperin MD (University of Tennessee, College of Medicine) Hematology-Oncology, Hemostasis; .

APPLICATIONS PGY-1 residents receive appointments through the National Residency Matching Program. Intern and resident candidates must be graduates of approved medical schools in the US or Canada or must be graduates of foreign medical schools who have ECFMG certification. Must apply through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service).

Address inquiries to: Rani Hayes, Residency/Fellowship Coordinator The University of Texas Medical Branch Department of Pathology 5.220 Mary Moody Northen Pavilion 301 University Boulevard Galveston, TX 77555 Phone: (409) 772-2870 Fax: (409) 747-2400 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.utmb.edu/pathology