Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Allegheny General Hospital engages in research involving the essential nature of diseases and the anatomic and physiological deviations from the normal that constitute disease.

Currently, the Department's core areas of research include:

• Immunohistochemical studies for improved diagnosis, prognosis and predictive information for malignancies, under the direction of Dr. Jan F. Silverman.
• Outcomes research and cost/benefit analysis, under the direction of Dr. Stephen Raab, Director of Outcome Studies.
• Digital Imaging applications, under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Prichard.
• Prognostic and predictive molecular markers as determined by immunohistochemistry for early stage lung cancer, in collaboration with the Lung Center.
• Molecular markers for early diagnosis of lung cancer in high risk patients, in collaboration with Drs. Stanley Shackney of Human Oncology, and Peter Kaplan, Pulmonary.
• Applications of laser cytometry, in collaboration with Dr. Stanley Shackney.
• Applications of FNA cytology for diagnosis of malignancy, under the direction of Dr. Stephen Raab.
• A variety of clinico-pathologic studies.

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