Professor, Pathology & Immunology

Titles

Director, Gynecologic and Breast Pathology Fellowship
Assistant Dean for Admissions, Washington University School of Medicine

Education

A.B., Princeton University (2000), Chemistry, certificate in French Language and Culture

MD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2008)

PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2008)

Resident and Chief Resident: Anatomic Pathology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2008-2011)

Surgical Pathology Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis (2012)

Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis (2013)

Boards

2019 – Physician, Michigan Board of Medicine

2019 – Board Certified in Clinical Informatics, American Board of Pathology

2014 – Physician, Illinois State Medical Licensing Board

2011 – Physician and Surgeon, Missouri Board of Healing Arts

2013 – Board Certified in Molecular Genetic Pathology, American Board of Pathology and American Board of Medical Genetics

2011 – Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology, American Board of Pathology

Recognition

2025 – Co-chair, Education Committee, International Society of Gynecological Pathologists

2025 – Distinguished Alumni Scholarship Program (DASP) honoree, WashU Medicine

2024 – Prix Belgrand-Chevassu, Académie Nationale de Médecine (France)

2023 – Exceptional Educator Award, Academy of Educators, WUSM

2023 – Alpha Omega Alpha, WUSM

2020-2022 – Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellow

2020­–Pres – Member, Gynecologic Expert Panel, AJCC Cancer Staging System, 9th ed.

2019 – Academy of Educators, WUSM

2019 – Distinguished Service Teaching Award from the Class of 2021, WUSM

2018 – Distinguished Service Teaching Award from the Class of 2020, WUSM

2015 – Distinguished Service Teaching Award from the Class of 2017, WUSM

2014–2018 – Member, Gynecologic Expert Panel, AJCC Cancer Staging System, 8th ed.

2013 – Distinguished Service Teaching Award from the Class of 2015, WUSM

2011 – Surgical Pathology Innovation Award, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

2011 – Leonard Berwick Residency Teaching Award, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Service to the Department

2021 – 2024: Mid-Career Faculty Representative, Office of Faculty Development

2020 – Present: Education Leadership Steering Committee

2018 – 2024: Anatomic Pathology didactics organizer

2017 – 2024: Chair of the AP/CP Residency Clinical Competency Committee

2014 – 2020: Anatomic and Molecular Pathology Conference Award Committee

2014 – 2017: Clinical liaison for soft tissue and bone pathology

2014 – 2019: Supervisor of pathologists’ assistants

2013 – 2020: Associate Director of Selective (Surgical) Pathology Fellowship program (5 trainees/year)

2013 – Present: Reference pathologist for gynecologic oncology trial eligibility

2012 – 2020: Section head for gynecologic pathology in WUMS 2 pathology course (teach 8.5 lecture hours, 3 lab hours/year)

Service to the University

2021-2023: Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Medical Students, Member, Executive Committee, LCME Self-Study Task Force

2013 – Present: Member, Committee on Admissions; 2016 – Present, Chair of the South Subcommittee; 2020 – Present, Assistant Dean for Admissions

2021: Chair, Technical Standards Task Force

2020-2021: Phase 2 Design/Build Team, Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship, Gateway Curriculum

2020-2021: Content Expert for Basic-Clinical Science Integration (Pathology), Gateway Curriculum

2020-present: Thread leader, Genetics and Genomics, Gateway Curriculum

2014 – 2015: Member, Research and Graduate Education Committee, LCME Self-Study

2014 – 2017: Member, Executive Council of the Washington University Medical Center Alumni Association

Research Interests

My research relates to clinicopathologic correlations, prognostic factors and biomarkers in gynecologic pathology. I am interested in using molecular and clinical data to better understand tumors that are histologically mixed, such as uterine carcinosarcomas (which contain both carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements) and endometrial carcinomas with mixed endometrioid and serous components. In another set of projects, I am applying image analysis to diagnostic and predictive questions in gynecologic cancer. In my team science role, I serve as co-director of the Biospecimen, Metabolomics and Pathology (BMP) Core for the Route 66 Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Endometrial Cancer, managing tissue-related translational research needs for components of this NCI-funded SPORE.


Selected Publications


Assistant

Administrative Assistant II