Department of Pathology - Division of Clinical Pathology
CHAIR
Clifford Harding, MD, PhD, Department Chair - 216-368-3611
KEY CONTACTS
Christine Schmotzer, MD, Division Chief, Clinical Pathology - 216-844-0399
Adam Baldwin, Vice President - 216-844-5678
DEPARTMENT INQUIRIESPlease call 216-844-LABS (5227).
Clinical Chemistry and Immunology
Co-Leaders: Christine Schmotzer, MD, and Jamie Noguez, PhD
Distinguishing Features
- Subspecialty oversight with access to expert consultative services, including routine and complex testing for oncology, infectious diseases, allergy and autoimmune conditions, and endocrine biomarkers
- Newly installed automated high-throughput processing system with significant turnaround time advantages
- Therapeutic drug monitoring assays supporting transplant, cardiac and infectious disease therapeutics
Complex Special Coagulation Testing
Leader: Katharine Downes, MD
Distinguishing Features
- Offers manual and automated specialized testing for evaluation, diagnosis and management of bleeding and thrombosis disorders in neonatal, pediatric and adult populations
- Expert consultation services and interpretive reporting performed seven days a week by pathologists
- Technical expertise in specialty coagulation testing with dedicated laboratory technical oversight
Hematological Diseases
Co-Leaders: Howard Meyerson, MD; Linda Sandhaus, MD; Erika Moore, MD; Rose Beck, MD, PhD
Distinguishing Features
- Flow cytometry expertise for benign and malignant hematology disorders
- Morphologic assessment of bone marrow and lymph node pathologies
- Expert specimen triaging and integration of molecular testing for diagnosis and ongoing patient management
Microbiology
Co-Leaders: Michael Jacobs, MD, and Daniel Rhodes, MD
Distinguishing Features
- Newly installed automated high-throughput microbiology processing system with significant turnaround time advantages
- State-of-the-art molecular assays for stool and respiratory pathogens
- Maldi-TOF mass spectrometer technology for rapid identification of infectious isolates
Center for Inherited Disorders of Energy Metabolism
Co-Leaders: Jirair Bedoyan, MD; Shulin Zhang, PhD
Distinguishing Features
- Laboratories focus on disorders of mitochondrial function, including defects of pyruvate metabolism, fatty acid oxidation, the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain
- Clinical conditions associated with these disorders include major disabilities affecting the central nervous system, skeletal muscle, heart and other organs
- Integrates serologic and enzyme-based assays with next-generation sequencing results
- Provides unique support services to specialized pediatric genetics consultative service
Therapeutic Apheresis Service
Leader: Katharine Downes, MD
Distinguishing Features
- Expert consultation services and oversight by attending physicians subspecialty boarded in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, with evaluation for more than 90 conditions treated with apheresis procedures
- Performance of all specialized apheresis procedures available, including therapeutic plasma exchange, red cell exchange, platelet depletion and white cell depletion, in pediatric and adult populations
- Technical expertise in apheresis procedure performance and patient management by apheresis nurses