Pathology Chairman's Message
The Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is fully committed to providing world-class training to all residents and fellows. Irrespective of your ultimate endpoint to become a community practitioner or a professor in an academic medical center, we will help you reach that goal by providing an extremely rich, diverse and supportive environment.
Pathology training at UT Southwestern is unique. We have a very large and diverse faculty, all of whom are specialists representing each of the major pathology disciplines. Unlike many academic medical centers, almost all diagnostic activities at the UT Southwestern Medical Center are under the control of our Department. Both residents and fellows experience graded responsibility through in-depth, thoughtful and complete training in all areas of pathology. It is our view that a strong academic environment with access to newly emerging diagnostic technologies is essential to the preparation of any pathologist in the 21st century, regardless of the ultimate practice setting. Therefore, our program is enhanced by extensive exposure to traditional anatomic and clinical pathology admixed with molecular diagnostics including cytogenetics, proteomics and metabolomics, advanced flow cytometric and image analysis and informatics. These activities are provided through our clinical settings that include a large county hospital (Parkland Hospital), Dallas Coroner’s Office, two private University Hospitals (Zale-Lipshy Hospital and St. Paul Hospital), a tertiary care private pediatric hospital (Children's Medical Center), a large university outpatient clinic (Aston Clinic) and the Dallas VA Medical Center. In combination, we boast nearly 2000 in-patient beds, more than a million annual outpatient visits, 250 medical and 1500 forensic autopsies per year. Our facilities continue to expand and modernize with a new Parkland as well as UT Southwestern Hospital scheduled for opening in 2014.
Many of our residents take advantage of our superb basic, translational and clinical research activities. Several residents typically attend and present at a national or international meeting at the conclusion of their academic activities. We also offer an academic track (CP or AP only) that includes at least 1 year of investigation but may extend further for interested trainees. For those residents the Laboratory of Molecular Pathology within our Department offers many opportunities to study the cell and molecular biology of disease with our accomplished and well-funded faculty. This Division comprises approximately 15 faculty members and is currently in a dynamic growth phase as new investigators are being added in neuroscience, cancer biology and immunology. For residents with a strong background in biomedical science, the UT Southwestern Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) provides full support for a 3-year research experience after completion of a 24-month core curriculum in Anatomic or Clinical Pathology.
I hope that you will visit Dallas and experience the uniqueness of our program, vibrancy of our institution and satisfaction of our trainees. I am certain you will not be disappointed.
James S. Malter, MD
Professor and Chairman
Senator Betty and Dr. Andy Andujar Distinguished Chair in Pathology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd
Dallas, TX 75390-9072