PATHOLOGY RESIDENCY PROGRAM
"The Pathology Training Program at Winthrop strives for an optimal learning experience through teaching and supervision, with residents exposed to a wide range of unusual and challenging cases."
Virginia Donovan, MD
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Message from the Chairman
With a total of 10 residency positions and 11 full-time attending pathologists, the Pathology Training Program at Winthrop-University Hospital provides residents with an optimal learning experience through teaching and supervision. They are exposed to a wide range of unusual and challenging tertiary care cases, as well as more commonly encountered conditions. The Department processes 18,000 surgical pathology and 3.1 million clinical pathology specimens annually.
The surgical services are enhanced by a strong regional referral base and include very active cardiothoracic and gynecologic oncology components. What's more, Winthrop has an eminent regional Poison Control Center onsite.
Proximity and convenient access to New York City ensure abundant exposure to pathology conferences of national and international caliber, and the local Nassau County Society of Pathologists provides educational opportunities of equal quality. The combination of on- and offsite learning provides residents with a comprehensive educational opportunity of superb quality and intensity.
Virginia Donovan, MD
Chairman, Department of Pathology
Winthrop-University Hospital
259 First Street
Mineola, NY 11501
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Introduction & Philosophy
In the Anatomic Pathology Program, an optimal pathologist-to-resident ratio provides an excellent learning opportunity. Using double-headed microscopes, residents fully participate with their attending pathologist.
Active learning, across the full spectrum of disease, is enhanced by regularly scheduled, consultant-conducted slide seminars in pediatric pathology, pulmonary pathology, renal pathology, orthopaedic pathology and dermatopathology. Similar in-house instruction covers neuropathology, cytopathology, Ob/Gyn pathology and routine diagnostic gross and microscopic surgical pathology, as well as autopsy pathology. Pathologists' assistants ensure that residents are not overburdened with service commitments.
Invited experts participate in a year-round seminar series providing updates on current topics in pathology. Complex and difficult cases are regularly reviewed at multi-headed slide conferences, which increase the residents' exposure to case material. A liberal conference and elective rotation policy encourages residents to pursue areas of special interest.
The comprehensive Clinical Pathology Program is supported by a full-service hospital laboratory that processes over 3 million specimens annually. With an impressive MD and PhD faculty, expert instruction in all aspects of clinical pathology is offered, and didactic lectures enhance exposure to an enormous amount of clinical material in the lab and at the bedside. Residents participate in on-call decision-making. Quality improvement and lab management strategies are incorporated into the curriculum, and a wide variety of interdisciplinary activities round out the total learning experience. Subspecialty laboratory rotations include cytogenetics, virology and molecular pathology.
Residents present seminars on chosen topics and participate in all levels of departmental research activity. The majority of Winthrop's pathology residents publish in refereed journals during their training period, and the success rate in passing the pathology boards has been high in recent years.
Following their training, residents apply for and obtain prime fellowships in areas of their choice. Job placement following fellowship has been good.
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Program-At-A-Glance
- Eight-positions, fully accredited four-year AP/CP or three-year AP residency program
- Two fellowship positions in surgical pathology available for residents completing their pathology residency training - priority given to residents who require a fifth year for board eligibility
- Major Teaching Affiliate of the Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York, Stony Brook
- State-of-the-art equipment, including multi-headed microscopy, telepathology, Internet/Medline link and laser disc teaching collection; Kodachrome teaching collections also available
- Recent graduating residents successfully passed boards
- Residents participate in research projects and publications with senior staff members
- Generous benefits, including on-site subsidized housing convenient to Manhattan, as well as Long Island's beaches.
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Curriculum & Rotation Schedule
PGY-1
9 months - Anatomic Pathology
3 months - Clinical Pathology
PGY-2
6 months - Clinical Pathology
6 months - Anatomic Pathology
PGY-3
6 months Anatomic Pathology
6 months Clinical Pathology
PGY-4
5 months Anatomic Pathology
3 months CP
4 months CP and AP electives including research
Rotation Schedule for AP/CP4
YEAR ONE
Anatomic Pathology (9 Months)
- Surgical Pathology (5 Months)
- Autopsy Pathology (3 Months)
- Cytopathology (1 Month)
Clinical Pathology (3 Months)
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YEAR TWO
Clinical Pathology (6 Months)
- Clinical Chemistry (2 Months)
- Hematology (2 Months)
- Blood Banking (2 Months)
Anatomic Pathology (6 Months)
- Surgical Pathology (3 Months)
- Autopsy Pathology (1 Month)
- Forensic Pathology (1 Month)
- FNA Cytology (1 Month)
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YEAR THREE
Anatomic Pathology (6 Months)
- Surgical Pathology (2.5 Months)
- Autopsy Pathology (1 Month)
- Cytopathology (0.5 Month)
- IC, FC and IA (1 Month)
- Electron Microscopy
Clinical Pathology (6 Months)
- Cytogenetics (1 Month)
- Molecular Pathology (01 Month)
- Supervision of Blood Bank, Immunology and Hermatology (2 Months)
- Immunology (2 months)
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YEAR FOUR
Anatomical Pathology (5 Months)
- Autopsy Pathology (1 Month)
- Surgical Pathology (2 Months)
- Cytopathology (1 Month)
- Forensic Pathology (1 month)
Clincal Pathology (3 Months)
- Supervision of Chemistry, Microbiology and Medical Informatics (2 Months)
- Vivology
Electives (4 Months)
Choices:
- Clinical Pathology (1 Month) minimum in any special area
- Anatomic Pathology (1 Month) in any special area
- AP/CP Research (2 Months) minimum in AP/CP research
- Immunohistochemistry, Flow Cytometry and Image Analysis
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Electives
Residents are offered the following elective rotations:
| ANATOMIC |
CLINICAL |
| Cytology |
Blood Bank |
| Molecular Pathology |
Cytogenetics |
| Flow Cytometry |
Special Hematology |
| Forensics |
Hematology |
| Dermatopathology |
Immunology |
| Renal Pathology |
Microbiology |
| Electron Microscopy |
Chemistry |
| Neuropathology |
Special Chemistry |
| Frozen Section |
Virology |
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Faculty
- Chair, Chief, Clinical Pathology
Virginia Donovan, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, SUNY Stony Brook
- Attending Pathologist, Administrative Medical Director, Anatomic Pathology
Allan L. Schuss, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, SUNY Stony Brook
- Attending Pathologist, Chief Immunopathology
George K. Turi, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, SUNY Stony Brook
- Attending Pathologist, Chief, Cytopathology
Mala Gupta, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, SUNY Stony Brook
- Blood Bank Medical Director
Joseph Ciofolo, MD, Instructor, Department of Pathology, SUNY Stony Brook
- Assistant Attending Pathologist, Neuropathologist
Steven A. Drexler, MD, Instructor, Department of Pathology, SUNY Stony Brook
- Associate Attending Pathologist
Poonam Khullar, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical PAthology, SUNY Stony Brook
- Microbiologist
Paul E. Schoch, PhD
- Cytogeneticist
Prasad Koduru, PhD
- Molecular Biologist
Sylvia Spitzer, PhD (SUNY Stony Brook)
- Assistant Attending Pathology
Maria Plummer, MD
- Assistant Attending Pathologist
Morris Edelman, MD
- Assistant Attending Pathologist
Andrea Flieder, MD
Interests
| V. Donovan, MD |
Clinical Pathology, Hematopathology |
| A. Schuss, MD |
Breast Pathology, Flow Cytometry |
| G. Turi, MD |
Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Hematopathology & GI Pathology |
| P. Khullar, MD |
Gyn Pathology |
| S. Drexler, MD |
Neuropathology |
| M. Gupta, MD |
Cytopathology |
| J. Ciofolo, MD |
Blood Bank |
| M. Plummer, MD |
Clinical Pathology, Hematopathology |
| M. Edelman, MD |
Pediatric Pathology, Head and Neck Pathology |
| A. Flieder, MD |
Breast Pathology |
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Conferences
Teaching conferences conducted at the multiheaded microscope cover: cytology, neuropathology, dermatopathology, OBGYN pathology, pulmonary pathology, renal pathology, cardiovascular pathology, orthopaedic pathology and pediatric pathology, autopsy pathology, intraoperative consultation, and daily diagnostic conference. Weekly gross pathology conferences occur in conjunction with autopsy presentations.
Interdisciplinary Conferences
Residents participate in a variety of interdisciplinary conferences including Surgical Morbidity and Mortality, GYN Tumor Board, Radiology-Pathology Conference and Department of Medicine Clinical Pathological Correlation Conference.
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Multi-headed microscope
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Research
Residents are required to participate in research projects under the direction of senior staff members in anatomic and clinical pathology, with participation in publications arising from this research.
Some recently-completed and in-progress resident research projects include:
- Calcification in Untreated Mediastinal Hodgkin's Lymphona
- Retroperitoneal Supprative Lymphadenitis Complicating Staphyloccus aureus Acute Bacterial Endocarditis
- Pseudoangiomatous Stromal Hyperplasia Presenting as a Nipple Mass
- Norcaridia Asteroids and Crypotoccus Neoformans
- Pheochromocytoma Multisystem Crisis in a Patient with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2B and Pyelonephritis
- Significance of Small Vessel Infiltrates in Temporal Artery Biopsies Negative for Temporal Arteritis
- Safety and Efficacy of Intratracheal Recombinant Human Clara Cell Protein in Hyperoxic Lung Injury
- Juvenile Granulosa Cell Tumor
- Aortic Sarcoma: An Unusual Case of Incidental Diagnosis of Aortic Angiosarcoma Sent as Aortic Plaque
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Graduates and faculty of residency program at black tie graduation reception.
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Career Placement
- Renal Pathology Fellowship - University of Washington, Seattle
- Blood Bank Fellowship - Thomas Jefferson Hospital
- Staff Pathologist - Pulmonary Division, AFIP
- Staff Pathologist - Bay State Medical Center
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Application Procedure
For further information, contact:
Candace Bergen, Residency Coordinator
Department of Pathology
Winthrop-University Hospital
259 First Street
Mineola, NY 11501
Tel: (516) 663-2450
Fax: (516) 663-4584
E-mail: cbergen@winthrop.org
