CLINICAL INFORMATICS CYTOPATHOLOGY HEMATOPATHOLOGY SURGICAL PATHOLOGY This is a two-year ACGME-accredited fellowship This one-year fully accredited program This is a one-year, fully accredited fellowship This is a one-year program designed to give includes cross-disciplinary learning for physicians provides advanced training in diagnostic in hematology/hematopathology with an the fellow experience working at the junior from different medical specialties. Training cytology. The experience includes daily optional non-accredited second year faculty level. The fellowship is based at the includes specialized coursework in foundational sign-out of gynecologic and dedicated to research in hematopathology. University Hospital, with annual surgical CI as well as healthcare analytics, cybersecurity, nongynecologic specimens as well as The hematopathology fellowship includes pathology volume of 24,000 specimens. and data science. Fellows will work with the training in the performance and comprehensive training in laboratory program director to develop an individualized interpretation of fine needle aspiration hematology and interpretation of tissue Clinical duties include daily review of RUSH learning plan including foundational knowledge biopsies. Participation in conferences and biopsies performed for hematolymphoid and STAT cases, serving as first-line as well as elective opportunities (e.g., healthcare teaching of pathology residents and disorders. The accredited year of fellowship consultant to resident and student trainees, business intelligence, machine learning/artificial cytotechnology students is required. training includes core training in the clinical frozen section interpretation, organization intelligence, population/community health, hematology laboratory at University Hospital of conferences, participation in surgical bioinformatics for large scale-nucleic acid Involvement in clinical research is also and the flow cytometry, molecular pathology quality improvement activities, sequencing and clinical metabolomics, sensor encouraged. Cytology specimens from the diagnostics and cytogenetics laboratories in and review of outside consult cases. data/internet of things). Each fellow will actively University Hospital and the South Texas the South Texas Reference Laboratories at participate in healthcare analytics and process Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. UTHSCSA. Clinical training includes There are 8 AP faculty, and participation in improvement projects to analyze data from Murphy Division, approximate total 20,000 interpretation of peripheral blood films, body scholarly activities is essential. Electives are different data sources (clinical, operational, annually, of which 5,000 are fluid preparations, bone marrow aspirates available in Cytopathology, financial, community, etc.). The program nongynecologic specimens. The latter and biopsies, lymph node and other tissue Dermatopathology, Hematopathology, includes faculty from multiple clinical group includes approximately 1,000 fine diagnosis, work-up of patients with Breast, Bone and Soft Tissue, Pulmonary, departments at UTHSCSA and University Health needle aspiration biopsies. hemostasis/thrombosis disorders, flow Immunocytochemistry, Molecular, System (UHS) as well as outside faculty with cytometry immunophenotyping, Nephropathology, and Neuropathology. considerable experience in data science, applied There are 4 faculty who do cytopathology, cytogenetics, molecular diagnostics, and analytics, predictive modeling, and machine 2 of which are fellowship trained. immunohistochemistry. The program learning/artificial intelligence, based at: The emphasizes integration of multi-parameter University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), The Number of positions: 2 studies in the diagnosis of diseases of the Number of positions: 2 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and Health hematopoietic and lymphoid systems and Access San Antonio (HASA). Applications: delivery of quality patient care. The fellow Applications: CAP Standard Application accepted. actively participates in teaching medical CAP Standard Application accepted. Numbers of positions: 1 per academic year students and residents. Send inquiries to: Philip T. Valente, MD, Number of positions: 2 Send inquiries to: Daniel Mais, MD, Applications: Director, Dept. of Pathology, UT Health San Applications: Director, Dept. of Pathology, UT Health San CAP Standard Application accepted. Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7750, CAP Standard Application accepted. Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7750, San Antonio, TX 78229 Send inquiries to: Maria Gomez San Antonio, TX 78229 Phone: (210) 567-4010 Send inquiries to: Maria Gomez Dept. of Pathology, UT Health San Antonio, Phone: (210) 567-4010 Fax: (210) 567-4637 Dept. of Pathology, UT Health San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7750, San Antonio, Fax: (210) 567-4637 Email: [email protected] 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7750, San Antonio, TX 78229 E-mail: [email protected] TX 78229 Phone: (210) 567-4010 Phone: (210) 567-4010 Fax: (210) 567-4637 Fax: (210) 567-4637 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] CLINICAL INFORMATICS Bradley B. Brimhall, M.D. – Director TRANSFUSION MEDICINE Dr. Brimhall is the Medical Director of Clinical Informatics/Healthcare Analytics/Bioinformatics, as well This is a one-year fully accredited fellowship as staff pathologist on hematopathology and transfusion medicine services. He is active in regional, state, and in blood banking/transfusion medicine. The national collaborative healthcare analytics and process improvement projects. He is board certified in APCP primary training site is a tertiary care teaching The Department of Pathology at UT Health San pathology as well as CI. He was invited to serve on the hospital offering services in multiple national Clinical Informatics Practice Analysis Task Force Antonio, has been in existence since 1966 and sponsored by the American Medical Informatics specialties, including solid organ Association. His research endeavors focus on laboratory now consists of 32 full time faculty members as utilization/quality, population/community health, and transplantation, cardiovascular, Level 1 machine learning/artificial intelligence. well as adjunct faculty members from the trauma, and neonatal intensive care. A community. The Pathology Residency Training fellowship affiliated hospital is a national CYTOPATHOLOGY Program currently consists of 16 residents and referral center for bone marrow Philip T. Valente, M.D. – Director 6 Fellows. The clinical activities of the Dr. Valente is the Director of Cytology at University transplantation. Exposure to the operations of Hospital and Director of the Cytopathology Fellowship. department are housed in the University Health He is also Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics and a blood and tissue center is provided at the Gynecology and works closely with the OB-GYN System, University Hospital, South Texas department. A native of New York City, Dr. Valente has large regional blood and tissue center. The been teaching medical students, residents and fellows Veterans Health Care System, Audie Murphy at the UTHSA for over twenty-five years. He has been fellow receives training in immunohematology, active in many local, state and national professional Division, and the Health Science Center South societies and is currently on the Executive Board of the histocompatibility, relationship testing, donor American Society of Cytopathology. He has been listed center supervision, therapeutic apheresis, Texas Pathology Reference Laboratories, and in the Best Doctors in San Antonio Magazine. transfusion therapy, hemostasis, flow offer a full range of diagnostic activities for patient care. The faculty is respected nationally cytometry, molecular pathology. Education is HEMATOPATHOLOGY based upon participation in daily activities, and internationally for their diagnostic and investigational expertise. The research activities Kenneth N. Holder, M.D. - Director consultations, conferences, didactic sessions. Dr. Holder is a board-certified hematopathologist. of the department are broadly based and Clinical duties include consultation and diagnosis of Teaching pathology residents is an integral part benign and malignant hematopoietic disorders and of the fellowship. The fellow may choose and include research on the basic mechanisms of coagulation disorders. Dr. Holder is engaged in teaching cellular injury and death, pulmonary dysplasia, future physicians and pathologists as co-director of the complete a project during the year. UTHSA medical student hematology module. His Completion of an ACGME accredited residency chondrogenesis, bone and tooth development, research interests include genetic and prostate cancer, plasma cell myeloma and immunophenotypic abnormalities of anaplastic large cell program, preferably in Pathology, is required. lymphoma and angiogenesis in large B-cell lymphomas. Facilities include University Hospital; South translational studies of breast cancer. The Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. department recognizes the critical role of SURGICAL PATHOLOGY Murphy Division; South Texas Blood and Tissue Pathology as a discipline that touches all of Daniel Mais, M.D. – Director medicine and research and our goal is to foster FELLOWSHIPS Expertise is in all areas of diagnostic Surgical Pathology, Center; DNA Reference Laboratory; South particularly hepatic, pulmonary , and collaborative studies. neuropathology. Dr. Mais is the Director of Surgical Texas Reference