Pathology Fellowship
Samir Kahwash, MD
Vice Chair for Education and Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Program
Department of Laboratory Medicine
(614) 722-5427
The Department of Laboratory Medicine at Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, offers an ACGME-approved, one or two-year fellowship training in Pediatric Pathology. Our program is flexible with regard to elective choices and research projects.
Our staff includes a doctoral staff of 18 including 10 American Board of Pathology Certified Pediatric Pathologists. We process more than 8,000 surgical pathology cases, 100 autopsies and 400 bone marrows per year. Faculty subspecialties and areas of interest include Pediatric Tumor Pathology, Perinatal Pathology, Electron Microscopy, Pediatric Hematopathology, Neuropathology and Muscle Pathology, Pediatric GI Pathology, Cardiac Pathology, Informatics and non-gyn Cytology. We have a full-service histology laboratory and digital imaging center within the department.
The Clinical Laboratories perform approximately 1.7 million tests per year. Divisions of the Clinical Laboratory include Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics, Transfusion Medicine, Special and routine Hematology, Special and routine Chemistry, Microbiology, Virology, TDM/Toxicology, Metabolic Disease Testing, Outpatient and Reference Laboratory Services. Both Clinical Laboratory and Anatomic Pathology departments are housed in 50,000 square feet of a new building at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Learning and research opportunities are greatly enhanced by the fact that Dr. Stephen Qualman, Chief of our department, is also the Director of the Center for Childhood Cancer (where 11 additional cancer scientists conduct research) and the Director of the Children’s Oncology Group Biopathology Center. Our department is also home for the archives of the Children’s Cancer Group and Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study.
Combined, these resources offer wide opportunities to join cutting-edge NIH-funded research in both basic and clinical science.
Our Pediatric Pathology Fellowship program has been accredited since 1953, making it perhaps the first training program in the field.
Contact Information:
Samir Kahwash, MD
Vice Chair for Education and Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Program
Department of Laboratory Medicine C1871
Nationwide Children's Hospital
700 Children’s Drive
Columbus, OH 43205
(614) 722-5427
Samir.Kahwash@NationwideChildrens.org
