Meet Our Pathologists
Qing Lu M.D., PhD is a graduate of the Shanghai Medical University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (graduate school). He completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology and his fellowship in surgical pathology and hematopathology at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Lu is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and has a subspecialty board certification in hematopathology. He currently serves as the Medical Director of Anatomic Pathology. His special interests are hematopathology, general surgical pathology and gynecological and genitourinary pathology.
Jeremy Hart, M.D. is graduate of University of Kentucky. He completed his residency at UK in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. He also completed a Fellowship in Hematopathology at Vanderbuilt in 2015.
He is board-certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. He currently serves as the Medical Director of Clinical Laboratories.
Deema Alkapalan, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Damascus in Syria. She completed her residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She completed a Fellowship in Surgical Pathology at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics as well as another Fellowship at the University of Washington in Cytopathology.
She is board-certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology.
Donn Burns, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He completed a residency in pathology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.
Dr. Burns has been board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology since 1988. His special area of interest/expertise is in surgical pathology and cytopathology.
Ellen F. Krasik, M.D., Ph.D. is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of California San Francisco. She then completed fellowships in hematopathology and surgical pathology at UCSF followed by additional training in breast and gynecologic pathology.
Dr. Krasik is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and has subspecialty board certification in hematopathology. Her special interests are gynecologic, breast, and general surgical pathology and hematopathology. Meet Our Pathologists
Micaela Ross, M.D. is a graduate of Wake Forest University Medical School. She completed both her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology and her fellowship in hematopathology at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Ross is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and has a subspecialty board certification in hematopathology. Her special interests are hematopathology and general surgical pathology.
Heather L. Rutledge, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Louisville College of Medicine. She completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. She then completed fellowships in cytopathology and in surgical pathology at the University of Kentucky and in hematopathology at the Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Rutledge is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and has subspecialty board certifications in cytopathology and in hematopathology. Her special interests are general surgical pathology and hematopathology. She currently serves as the Medical Director of the Dearborn Cancer Care Laboratory (Lawrenceburg, IN).
Mohammad M. Yousef, M.D., FASCP is a graduate of the University of Jordan. He completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, Massachusetts. He then completed fellowships in surgical pathology and cytopathology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dr. Yousef is board certified in, anatomic and clinical pathology, and has subspecialty board certification in cytopathology. His special interests are general surgical pathology, GI and soft tissue pathology, fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology of thyroid, salivary glands and pancreas.