Payal Kapur, MD

Assistant Professor
Pathology, Urology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-590-8683
Office Fax: 214-590-1411

payal.kapur@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

Dr. Kapur completed her medical education in 1997 at the University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS), New Delhi, India. After completing a pathology residency in 2000 at Maulana Azad Medical Colledge, New Delhi, she was awarded the Dr RP Mathur Memorial Award for the best outgoing pathology resident. Subsequently, she came to Dallas and did a Residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at UT Southwestern Medical Center (2002-2006). She is certified in Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology by the American Board of Pathology.

Currently she is on faculty in the Department of Pathology at UT Southwestern as a dedicated Genitourinary Pathologist. She is the Pathology representative at the UT Southwestern weekly Multidisciplinary Sarcoma DOT Conference, Urology Spence Conference, and monthly Multidisplinary Renal Cell Carcinoma Tumor Board. She is actively involved in Anatomic Pathology residency education and received the Vernie A. Stembridge, M.D. Resident Teaching Award in 2010 and 2011. 

Dr. Payal Kapur is the Assistant Director (Anatomic Pathology) of UT Southwestern Pathology Residency Training, the Co-Director of UT Southwestern Tumor Registry Core Facility at Simmons Cancer Institution,  the Director of the Philip O’Brien Montgomery Visiting Lectureship, and the Director of the Anatomical Pathology Resident Education Seminar Series.

Dr. Kapur’s research is focused on characterizing adult genitourinary tumors and developing prognostic, therapeutic, and diagnostic biomarkers. She is currently involved in multiple collaborative projects in genitourinary and gastrointestinal pathology. 

Education

ResidencyParkland Health and Hospital System (2006)
InternshipParkland Health and Hospital System (2003)
ResidencyMaulana Azas Medical College (2000)
Medical SchoolUniversity College of Medical Sciences (1997)

Research Interests

Genitourinary Pathology

Publications

Featured
Characterization of inflammation in syphilitic villitis and in villitis of unknown etiology.

Kapur P, Rakheja D, Gomez AM, Sheffield J, Sanchez P, Rogers BB. , Pediatric and Development Pathology , September 2004; (7(5)):453-8

Featured
Study of the MIB-1 labeling index as a predictor of tumor progression in pilocytic astrocytomas in children and adolescents.

Bowers DC, Gargan L, Kapur P, Reisch JS, Mulne AF, Shapiro KN, Elterman RD, Winick NJ, Margraf LR. , Journal of Clinical Oncology , August 2003; (1; 21(15)):2968-73

Featured
Expression of cell cycle-related molecular markers in patients treated with radical cystectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder.

Youssef RF, Shariat SF, Kapur P, Kabbani W, Ghoneim T, King E, Cockburn A, Mosbah A, Abol-Enein H, Ghoneim M, Lotan Y, Human pathology, 2011 Mar; 42 (3):347-55

Featured
Prognostic value of cyclooxygenase-2 expression in squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder.

Youssef RF, Shariat SF, Kapur P, Kabbani W, Mosbah A, Abol-Enein H, Ghoniem M, Lotan Y, The Journal of urology, 2011 Mar; 185 (3):1112-7

Featured
Primary adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder: value of cell cycle biomarkers.

Kapur P, Lotan Y, King E, Kabbani W, Mitra AP, Mosbah A, Abol-Enein H, Ghoneim M, Youssef RF, American journal of clinical pathology, 2011 Jun; 135 (6):822-30

Featured
Bilharzial vs non-bilharzial related bladder cancer: pathological characteristics and value of cyclooxygenase-2 expression.

Youssef R, Kapur P, Kabbani W, Shariat SF, Mosbah A, Abol-Enein H, Ghoniem M, Lotan Y, BJU international, 2011 Jul; 108 (1):31-7

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Interplay between pVHL and mTORC1 pathways in clear-cell renal cell carcinoma.

Kucejova B, Peña-Llopis S, Yamasaki T, Sivanand S, Tran TA, Alexander S, Wolff NC, Lotan Y, Xie XJ, Kabbani W, Kapur P, Brugarolas J, Molecular cancer research : MCR, 2011 Jul; :1255-65

Featured
Immunohistochemical expression of neural cell adhesion molecule in Wilms tumors, nephrogenic rests, and fetal and postnatal renal cortices.

Kapur P, Rakheja D, Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society, 2011 Jan-Feb; 14 (1):16-9

Featured
Tissue microarray constructs to predict a response to chemoradiation in rectal cancer.

Huerta S, Hrom J, Gao X, Saha D, Anthony T, Reinhart H, Kapur P, Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver, 2010 Oct; 42 (10):679-84

Honors/Awards

Vernie A. Stembridge

Resident Teaching Award (2011)

Vernie A. Stembridge

Resident Teaching Award (2010)

Resident’s Case Presentation Award

For the essay entitled "Mosaic variegated aneuploidy: a case report". Society for Pediatric Pathology. (2004)

Gordon L. Vawter Award

Pathologist-in-training Award for platform presentation entitled "MIB-1 Labeling Index predicts progression free survival in a large group of pediatric pilocytic astrocytomas". Society for Pediatric Pathology. (2002)