Pathology

The Department of Pathology at Montefiore Medical Center is one of the largest and most comprehensive medical center laboratories on the east coast. With a staff of nearly 500 associates and more than 50 pathologists and PhDs, our laboratories generate over 7,000,000 laboratory test results, interpretations, and diagnostic consultations each year.

If you live in the Bronx or surrounding Westchester or Manhattan communities, chances are we’ve touched your life at some point, as we provide laboratory testing for many different sites, such as: community clinics, schools, nursing homes, homeless shelters, and mobile testing units. The Department of Pathology also houses Montefiore Medical Laboratories (MML), which serves as the reference laboratory to many hospitals and clinics in the community. Montefiore Medical Center is one of a select few hospitals in the New York metropolitan area offering reference lab services to the medical community. We are also actively involved in the community, training nurses in our School Health Program to bring the highest quality of clinical pathology care to students of all ages.

Since its establishment in 1963, the Department of Pathology has worked toward the goal of making lives better everyday by consistently staying at the forefront of: the most technologically advanced diagnostic systems, outstanding service to physicians and patients, the highest national quality assurance standards, which include turnaround time of test results, and quality control of testing. Our department is also credited for several groundbreaking developments, including the following:

Establishing methods for understanding the pathophysiology of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
Creating methods for in-situ molecular analysis of genetic diseases
Establishing methods for measuring the immunoserology of AIDS
Setting the criteria for diagnosis of subclinical thyroid disease and thyrotoxicosis
Formulating the American Thyroid Association criteria for the use of laboratory tests in thyroid disease

Expertise & Clinical Services

Our laboratories are supervised by a team of extraordinary board-certified pathologists and physicians with expertise in many areas, such as: hematology, endocrinology, rheumatic diseases, microbiology, virology, head and liver disease, and AIDS. In addition to laboratory medicine, our award-winning team includes some of the best in the field of diagnostic surgical pathology and cancer diagnosis.

Additionally, our cytologists have garnered international acclaim for their work with women’s health and pregnancy, particularly with respect to Pap smears. We are also widely recognized for our WMD/biohazard experts’ achievements, as well as our contributions to clinical research.

A Commitment to Research

The Department of Pathology understands that tomorrow’s advancements derive from today’s training and research endeavors. We receive substantial funding from national health institutions and major organizations to conduct basic, translational, and clinical research in the mechanisms of disease and the development of new therapeutics, such as for Alzheimer’s disease. Our primary programs and areas of study include:

Alzheimer’s Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Neuro AIDS
Parasitology
Cancer Biology
Immunology
Vascular Biology
Cytology and Cytogenetics

We also have one of the best pathology programs in the country for the full spectrum of residents, graduates, and fellows at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and have trained many of the neuropathologists and cytopathologists across the nation. To learn more about our graduate studies in experimental pathology, fellowship opportunities, and molecular neuropathology training program, click here.