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USC Catalogue 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Department of Pathology

Return to: Keck School of Medicine of USC  

Hoffman Medical Research Center 204
2011 Zonal Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9092
MS Student Adviser: Cheng-Ming Chuong, MD, PhD, (323) 442-1296

PhD Student Adviser: Florence M. Hofman, PhD, (323) 442-1153

FAX: (323) 442-3049

MD Student Adviser: Wesley Y. Naritoku, MD, PhD, (323) 409-4698

Faculty

Michael E. Selsted, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair

Renette and Marshall Ezralow Family Chair in Cancer Therapeutics: Parkash Gill, MD

Harold E. Lee Chair in Cancer Research: Michael F. Press, MD, PhD

Kenneth T. Norris Jr. Chair in Medicine and Hastings Professor of Medicine: Edward D. Crandall, MD, PhD

Rita and Edward Polusky Chair in Basic Cancer Research: Michael Lieber, PhD, MD

Rupert and Gertrude Stieger Vision Research Chair: Narsing Rao, MD

Gavin S. Herbert Professor of Vision Research: David R. Hinton, MD

Professors: T.C. Chen (Neurological Surgery); C.-M. Chuong; T.D. Coates (Pediatrics); Wendy Cozen (Preventive Medicine); E.D. Crandall (Medicine); L. Dubeau; A.L. Epstein; P.S. Gill (Medicine, Urology); S. Govindarajan; D. Hinton (Neurological Surgery, Ophthalmology); F.M. Hofman (Ophthalmology, Neurological Surgery); R.W. Jelliffe (Medicine); M.N. Koss*; P.R. Levitt (Pediatrics, Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Psychology); M.R. Lieber (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology); T.M. Mack (Family and Preventive Medicine); C.A. Miller (Neurology); A.J. Ouellette; P.K. Pattengale (Molecular Microbiology and Immunology); M.F. Press; F.P. Quismorio, Jr. (Medicine); N.A. Rao (Ophthalmology); S. Rasheed*; M.E. Selsted; D.K. Shibata; I.A. Shulman; M.R. Stallcup (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology); C.R. Taylor*; T.J. Triche (Pediatrics); H. Tsukamoto

Professors (Clinical Scholars): M.R.G. O’Gorman (Pediatrics); D.M. Parham

Associate Professors: S. Asgharzadeh, (Pediatrics); S. Bellusci (Surgery); A. Erdreich-Epstein (Pediatrics); B.H. Gross (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine); Y.M. Kim, (Pediatrics); A. Kovacs (Pediatrics); B.W. Kovacs (Obstetrics and Gynecology); J.R. Landolph (Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology); H.A. Liebman (Medicine); S.E. Martin; S.B. Turkel (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Pediatrics)

Associate Professor (Clinical Scholar): A.R. Judkins

Assistant Professors: E.P. Kartalov; K. Kobielak; T. Saito (Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Biology & Immunology); B. Stiles (Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences); D. Tian

Clinical Professors: R.D. Aller; C.A. Bell; H.N. Canawati; J.N. Carberry; J. Cicciarelli (Urology, Surgery); K.A. Frankel; F.H. Gilles (Neurological Surgery, Neurology); D.S. Harrington; R.E. Horowitz; G. Kanel; D.V. Kon; O.T. Kuzma (Medicine); D.H. Mills; J. Nelson; P. Nichols; R.Y. Osamura; P.N. Rao; C. Rogers; A.A. Roscher; L. Sathyavagiswaran (Medicine); S.-R. Shi; S.V. Sostrin; A. Verity

Clinical Associate Professors: C. J. Cobb; M.M. Cosgrove; T.E. Howard; G. Pezeshkpour; M. Pietruszka; A.S.S. Raza; J.S. Wollman

Clinical Assistant Professors: JD Augustine; A. Baltayan; E. Carpenter, Jr.; J.A. Chan; W. Chick; O. Chinwah; P.D. Colman; E.C. Dinovo; R. Djabourian; R. Gellibolian; K.E. Grimm; M.D. Haimowitz; J. Iqbal; M. Kennedy; M.T. Kiyabu; B. Kwok; B.J. Le Berthon; M.S. Lewis; K. Matsuda; V. Nelson; S.D. Oh; L.A. Pena; R. Phan; G. Pinsky; S. Prabhu; S.T. Pullarkat; L.A. Scheinin; R.A. Soni; J.P. Tovar; K.J. Young; S.K. Young

Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professors: F. Antelo; N.M. Green; M.A. Fajardo; Z. Pavlova

Professors of Clinical: J.A. Biegel; R.K. Brynes; P. Carpenter; D.L. Commins; J.F. Emerson; D.B. Endres; J.C. Felix (Obstetrics and Gynecology); A.L. Hiti; Y. Iwaki (Urology, Surgery); P. Mhawech-Fauceglia (Obstetrics and Gynecology); W.Y. Naritoku; A.E. Sherrod; H. Shimada; S. Wu (Pediatrics)

Adjunct Professor of Clinical: L.A. Baxter-Lowe

Professors of Research: J. Groffen (Pediatrics); E. Heisterkamp (Pediatrics)

Associate Professors of Clinical: M. Aron; D.B. Casebolt; A.N. Fedenko (Orthopaedic Surgery); X. Gai; D. Hawes; S. He (Ophthalmology); G.H. Kim (Dermatology); Y. Ma; G. Raca; S. Saitta; I. Siddiqi; L.L. Wang (Surgery); P.M. Ward; G.D. Zeger

Assistant Professors of Clinical: R.C. (She) Bender; M. Bhasin; M. Burnett (Neurology); S. Chopra; A.J. Correa; B.K. DeClerck (Dermatology); J. Dien Bard; W.A. Elatre; X. Fu; H.T. Hardy; J.P. Hudgins; K.M. Hurth; J. Ji; K. Lai; L. Li; F. Medeiros; K.A. Nash*; M.J. Oberley; L. O’Brien; A.C. Perumbeti; P. Sanchez (Pediatrics); N.M. Shillingford; M.E. Sibug Saber (Ophthalmology); J.M. Smith; S. Tatischev; J.G. Vallone; M. Vegara-Lluri; M. Warren; Y. Wang; S. Zhou

Associate Professors of Research: K. Asahina; R.B. Widelitz

Assistant Professors of Research: D.E. Feldman; T. Jiang; R.A. Moats (Radiology); P. Tongaonkar; P. Wu; Jun Xu; D. Zhu

Research Assistant Professors: P. Hu; N.W. Marten; Y. Ouyang

Adjunct Research Associate Professor: S.A. Imam

Resident Clinical Instructors: Z. Ashraf; L. Aye; M. Boonyasampant; C. Chang; T. Chong; C. Costales; K. Duncan; A. Fong; J. Friedman; V. Garza; M. Goebel; W. Guo; S. Hamidi; T. Jenkins; T. Jong; B. Kay; T.H. Kim; X. Li; V. Martin; A. Mehta; R. O’Connell; N. Plaza; S. Walia; C. Wei; D. Yau; E. Yung; H. Zhang

Resident Clinical Instructors – Fellows: A. Garcia; A. Hagiya; C. Magana; W. Pasch; O. Press; K. Qidwai; B. Song; L. Szymanski; S. Vadat; Y. Zhao

Emeritus Professors: S.B. Chandor; P.T. Chandrasoma; B.N. Nathwani; J.W. Parker; P. Roy-Burman; N.E. Warner; E.T. Wong

Emeritus Associate Professor: A.D. Cramer

Emeritus Clinical Professors: M. Greenblatt; G.G. Hadley; W.H. Kern; D.S. Shillam; R.J. Schroeder

Emeritus Clinical Associate Professor: W.C. Smith

Emeritus Clinical Assistant Professors: R.L. McClure; J.K. Waken

Emeritus Professors of Clinical: K.-M. Chan; J.F.P. Dixon; C.B. Inderlied; T.T. Noguchi (Emergency Medicine, Surgery)

Emeritus Associate Professor of Clinical: W.P. Lewis

Emeritus Assistant Professor of Clinical: R.B. Hopper

Emeritus Professor of Research: T.L. Lincoln

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.

The Department of Pathology provides training for both medical and graduate students. Medical students are trained in general, systemic and cellular pathology, providing them with an understanding and visualization of the basic processes underlying symptoms and clinical courses, as well as the ability to evaluate laboratory findings. This department also contributes to the training of residents and fellows at the LAC+USC Healthcare Network, Keck Hospital of USC and the USC Norris Cancer Hospital, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Coroner/Medical Examiner’s Office, providing these residents and fellows with an intensive residency program in anatomic and clinical pathology and offering subspecialty fellowship training in surgical pathology, cytopathology, hematopathology and neuropathology.

The Department of Pathology has a Master of Science program. The two-year MS program provides training in the latest technologies and concepts of biomedical research and provides the graduate with enhanced opportunities for positions in biotechnology companies, teaching colleges and various health department/governmental positions.

With more than 87 full-time faculty and 37 residents and fellows in training, the USC Department of Pathology is one of the largest pathology departments in the United States. The department is particularly strong in areas of surgical pathology, cytopathology, hematopathology, immunocytochemistry, immunopathology, neuropathology, and AIDS-related research. The department maintains active research programs in hematopathology, neuropathology and translational cancer research and has begun to expand its base in radioimmunoimaging and immunotherapy. It also has ongoing research projects in the new areas of molecular and genetic pathology. Residency training has added months in dermatopathology and molecular pathology at Keck Hospital of USC and in cytogenetics at CHLA. The hematopathology fellowship has increased fellowship items from two to three fellows and added Norris Cancer Hospital and CHLA as affiliated institutions, making this one of the leading hematopathology fellowships in the nation.

The department provides diagnostic laboratory services for the LAC+USC Medical Center, the USC Norris Cancer Hospital, the Doheny Eye Institute, Keck Hospital of USC and the USC Clinical Laboratories Group. Approximately 40 of the department’s full-time faculty members work in service laboratories throughout the LAC+USC Medical Center, where they are supported by 37 residents and fellows and a technical and clerical staff numbering in excess of 500. The USC Norris Cancer Hospital and Research Institute and Keck Hospital of USC houses 18 full-time pathologists, two fellows, three residents and approximately 25 clerical and support staff.

Graduate Programs

General Admissions

Applicants to the graduate program in pathology must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with an undergraduate major in one of the natural sciences; a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 for undergraduate work is required. Applicants must submit undergraduate transcripts and letters of recommendation from two undergraduate teachers with their application. All applicants must take the general portion of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). A combined score of at least 1100 for the verbal and quantitative scores is required. International students whose native language is not English must submit scores from the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) or the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) examination. Personal interviews by members of the department’s graduate committee may be requested.

Original application materials, except letters of recommendation, should be sent to the Office of Admission, University of Southern California. To expedite consideration of the application, applicants should also send photocopies of the application, transcripts and GRE scores to the Pathology Department’s graduate committee secretary, Lisa Doumak. Letters of recommendation should be addressed directly to the secretary, graduate committee. Applications are considered for admission to both the fall and spring semesters.

Residency and Fellowship Programs

The Department of Pathology offers six first-year residency positions and 24 residency positions in its fully ACGME-accredited four-year training program in anatomic and clinical pathology at the LAC+USC Medical Center. Training is offered in autopsy and surgical pathology, neuropathology, cytology, microbiology, hematopathology, immunohematology, clinical chemistry, toxicology, immunopathology, cytogenetics, instrumentation, laboratory management, clinical informatics, electron microscopy, molecular pathology and other specialty areas. The Department of Pathology also offers the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) fully accredited fellowship training in cytopathology (four positions), hematopathology (three positions), neuropathology (one position), and surgical pathology (seven positions).

Programs

Master’s Degree

Courses

Pathology (Keck School of Medicine)

  • PATH 500a Basic and Applied Systemic Pathology

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Clinical, gross, and microscopic study of basic disease processes. Pathophysiology of major organ systems; etiology, pathogenesis and histopathology of important diseases; oral manifestations, clinical recognition.

  • PATH 500b Basic and Applied Systemic Pathology

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Clinical, gross, and microscopic study of basic disease processes. Pathophysiology of major organ systems; etiology, pathogenesis and histopathology of important diseases; oral manifestations, clinical recognition.

  • PATH 531 Cell Biology

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in INTD 531 )

  • PATH 550 Introduction to Pathology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in INTD 550 )

  • PATH 551 Pathobiology of Disease

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in INTD 551 )

  • PATH 553 Methods in Cellular and Clinical Pathology

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Includes advanced techniques in cell biology, protein and immunochemistry. A practical approach to acquaint new graduate students with current methodologies and applications used in biomedical research.
    Duplicates Credit in former PATH 552a.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • PATH 554 Methods in Molecular Pathology

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Theory and practice methods useful in experimental pathology; experimental design; statistical analysis; literature analysis; laboratory and radiation safety.
    Duplicates Credit in former PATH 552b.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • PATH 555 Biochemical and Molecular Bases of Disease

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in INTD 555 )

  • PATH 561 Molecular Biology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in INTD 561 )

  • PATH 570a Seminar in Pathology

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Recent advances in the understanding of diseased cells and tissues are reported and discussed using standard seminars, as well as autopsy organ reviews.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • PATH 570b Seminar in Pathology

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Recent advances in the understanding of diseased cells and tissues are reported and discussed using standard seminars, as well as autopsy organ reviews.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • PATH 570c Seminar in Pathology

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Recent advances in the understanding of diseased cells and tissues are reported and discussed using standard seminars, as well as autopsy organ reviews.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • PATH 570d Seminar in Pathology

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Recent advances in the understanding of diseased cells and tissues are reported and discussed using standard seminars, as well as autopsy organ reviews.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • PATH 571 Biochemistry

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in INTD 571 )

  • PATH 572 Systems Physiology and Disease I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in INTD 572 )

  • PATH 573 Systems Physiology and Disease II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in INTD 573 )

  • PATH 575 Frontiers of Pathology

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Weekly research lectures by leading investigators in the field of homeostatic response to injury such as cell death, inflammation, fibrosis and regeneration.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • PATH 581 Essentials of Animal Experimentation

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Fa
    A course providing basic information on the issues and responsibilities of investigators using animals in biomedical research.
    Recommended Preparation: graduate standing.

  • PATH 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • PATH 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • PATH 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • PATH 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • PATH 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • PATH 631 Viral Oncology

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in INTD 630 )

  • PATH 650 Stem Cell Biology and Medicine

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in INTD 650 )

  • PATH 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • PATH 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • PATH 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • PATH 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • PATH 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • PATH 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit