OVERVIEW

The Division of Hematopathology has five (5) full-time faculty with expertise covering the entire spectrum in the field of hematopathology ranging from hematolymphoid malignancies and non-malignant blood and blood-related disorders. Our diagnostic morphologic services cover both the adult (Parkland Memorial Hospital, UT Southwestern Hospitals and Clinics) and childhood (Children’s Medical Center of Dallas) disorders; our diagnostic state-of-the-art Flow Cytometry facility provides reliable, accurate and timely immunophenotypic analysis of all hematolymphoid malignancies for the entire Dallas Fort-Worth metroplex, therefore, we have a wealth of peripheral blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes and lymphoid tissue, not only for training our fellows and residents, but also for clinical and translational research. In addition to our in-house materials, we also have a busy and active consultation service providing comprehensive morphologic, immunophenotypic, cytogenetic and molecular evaluation to our referring pathologists and hematologists/oncologists.

Overall aims:
Besides providing accurate diagnosis and minimal disease monitoring for our patients in a timely manner, one of our important missions is to provide in-depth training for our hematopathology fellows, residents and rotating medical students. Our overall goal is to make our fellows and residents competent and confident in diagnosis of any hematolymphoid disorder based on a variety of tissue types and materials available including peripheral blood, body fluid, bone marrow aspirate, core biopsy, fine needle aspiration of any tissue and organ as well as excisional biopsy of any tissue and organ system.

 

FACULTY:

• Nitin Karandikar, M.D., Ph.D. (Director)
• Huan-You Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
• Arnaldo Arbini, M.D.
• Weina Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
• Franklin Fuda, D.O.
• Charles Timmons, M.D., Ph.D.

DURATION: 

Basic: 2 months

Advanced: 2 months

PREREQUISITES:

None

OBJECTIVES

Patient Care

Medical Knowledge

Practice-based Learning and Improvement

Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Professionalism

Systems-Based Practice

CONFERENCES

• Clinical Pathology Lecture Series
• Clinical Pathology Rounds
• Pediatric Heme/Onc Tumor Board
• Heme/Onc Rounds
• Hemepath Unknown conference
• Multimodality Tumor Board
• Update in Pahtophysiology

BASIC READING

• WHO Classification: Tumors of Hematopoietic and Lymphoid tissues.
• Diggs et al. The Morphology of Human Blood Cells
• Kjeldsberg, et al. Practical Duagnosis of Hematologic Disorders.
• Foucar. Bone Marrow Pathology.
• Knowles, Neoplastic Hematopathology.
• Brunning and McKenna. AFIP Bone Marrow Fascicle.
• Warnke, et al. AFIP Lymph Node Fascicle.
• Williams. Hematology.
• Lee, et al. Wintrobe’s Clinical Hematology.
• Nathan and Oski.  Hematology of Infancy and Childhood.
• Bunn and Forget. Hemoglobin: Molecular, genetic, and clinical aspects.
• Fairbanks. Hemoglobinopathies and thalassemias. Laboratory methods and clinical cases.