The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of UC Physicians is devoted to excellence in patient care by providing a full range of professional and technical services to patients cared for at our health system facilities. The department maintains busy surgical pathology services encompassing the full range of surgical pathology subspecialties including neuropathology, neuromuscular pathology, hematopathology, and medical kidney biopsy. It handles numerous non-gynecologic and gynecologic cytology cases and performs 80-100 autopsies annually. The clinical labs, which are directed by the department’s faculty, also offer testing encompassing all major clinical pathology subspecialties. This includes a new Precision Medicine Laboratory that provided next-generation sequencing of a broad spectrum of solid tumors and a new Toxicology Laboratory offering testing for therapeutic drugs and drugs of abuse. An extensive network of point-of-care testing exists to support these needs throughout the health system.
The department is responsible annually for the interpretation of approximately 14,500 surgical pathology cases, 3,860 non-gynecologic and 5,870 gynecologic cytology specimens, 870 hematopathology cases, renal biopsies, neuromuscular cases and the performance of 100 autopsies.
The department also has a rich history of involvement in undergraduate medical and postgraduate medical education, and graduate school education. It offers a fully accredited residency training program in anatomic and clinical pathology, and a gastrointestinal pathology fellowship program. It co-sponsors the Pathobiology and Molecular Medicine Program graduate school program with the Department of Internal Medicine.
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