Program Offered

The program, which utilizes a consortium of three teaching hospitals, is approved for four years of combined training in Anatomical and Clinical Pathology. NJMS-Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine encourages resident participation in the research activity of the Department and provides an opportunity to qualified candidates for obtaining a PhD in Pathology from the UMDNJ-Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Residents also participate in teaching of medical students. Two years of the program involve training in Autopsy and Surgical Pathology, including Cytopathology, Neuropathology, Forensics, and Cyto- and Histochemistry. Two more years are devoted to Clinical Pathology with rotations in the Divisions of Clinical Chemistry, Blood Bank, Microbiology, Coagulation, Tissue Typing, Serology, Immunology, Flow Cytometry, Molecular Pathology, and Hematology. However, a more prolonged period in an area of special interest, or research, can be substituted for one or two rotations. Elective subspecialty training is available to interested individuals in areas of Surgical Pathology, Pediatric Pathology, Neuropathology, and other areas of Clinical Pathology. A residency appointment in the program involves rotational assignments through University Hospital and the affiliated institutions during the four-year training period with limited PGY-5 Anatomic Pathology positions available. The integrated program, utilizing the particular strengths at each of the hospitals, exposes the trainees to a wide variety of material, expertise, and practice settings.

TYPES AND NUMBERS OF APPOINTMENTS

The program has 14 residents for 4/5-year training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology including two possible PGY-5 AP subspecialty positions.

FACILITIES

UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School Integrated Residency Program in Pathology includes three major teaching affiliates of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey: UMDNJ University Hospital , Hackensack University Medical Center and Veterans Affairs Medical Center in East Orange . The faculty at each of the participating units hold academic appointments at UMDNJ-NJMS. Combined hospital bed capacity of the affiliates is 1,670, the annual number of autopsies is 300 (excluding still births), surgical pathology specimens 37,700, and cytopathology specimens 20,000. The New Jersey Medical School and Veterans Affairs Medical Center have active research programs and fully staffed and well established electron microscopy, neuropathology, toxicology, cytopathology, immunofluorescence, molecular diagnostics, cellular immunology, cellular and subcellular cancer research, and tissue culture facilities.

COMMUNITY

The University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark Campus, is in the major cultural, educational, commercial, transportation, and population center of New Jersey and is just a short distance from New York City .

STIPENDS AND MAINTENANCE

Salary is based on level of postgraduate training beginning at approximately $42,000. An appointment provides generous fringe benefits including four weeks vacation, a State Health Benefits Program including medical, dental, drug prescription, and eye care programs, and a book allowance.

STAFF

University Hospital-N.J. Medical School

Stanley Cohen MD Professor and Chairman. Seena C. Aisner MD Professor and Vice Chairman; Chief, Laboratory Services and Director, Anatomic Pathology. B. Bachl MD Assistant Professor; Director, Clinical Chemistry and Acting Chief, Clinical Pathology. Subal Bishayee PhD Associate Professor. P.A. Bocarsly-Fitzgerald PhD Associate Professor. M. Burday PhD Associate Professor; Director, Microbiology. E.S. Cho MD Associate Professor; Director, Neuropathology. F. Coffman PhD Assistant Professor. Marion Cohen PhD Associate Professor. K. Das MD Assistant Professor. N. Ende MD Professor. A. Grygotis MD Assistant Professor; Director, Informatics. Meera Hameed MD Associate Professor and Director, Surgical Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics. D. Heller MD Professor; Director, Pediatric and GYN Pathology. M.Y. Khan MD Associate Professor. K.M. Klein MD Professor;, Director, Residency Program. Ranie Koshy MD Assistant Professor; Director, Transfusion Medicine. M. Lambert PhD Professor. W.C. Lambert MD,PhD Professor; Director, Dermatopathology. Ronald M. Maenza MD Professor Emeritus. R. Mannino PhD Associate Professor. N. Mirani MD Associate Professor and Vice Chairman. D. Moore MD Associate Professor; Director, Serology and Immunovirology. J.M. Oleske MD Professor Pathology and Pediatrics; Director, Pediatric Immunology. N.M. Ponzio PhD Professor and Vice Chairman. E.S. Raveche PhD Professor. L.R. Sharer MD Professor; Associate Director, Neuropathology. G.P. Studzinski MD,PhD Professor.

Hackensack University Medical Center

Joseph M. Lombardo MD,PhD Clinical Associate Professor and Chairman Pathology. P.K. Bhattacharyya, MD Attending Pathologist. Carol Fehmian MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Director, Blood Bank. Michael Goldfischer MD Clinical Assistant Professor and Attending Pathologist. Min Woo Han MD Clinical Assistant Professor and Attending Pathologist. Sami Harawi MD Clinical Associate Professor and Vice-Chairman. Patrice Hassoun MD Clinical Assistant Professor and Attending Pathologist. Christopher Koenig MD Clinical Assistant Professor and Attending Pathologist. Marlene Lengner MD Clinical Assistant Professor and Attending Pathologist. Ciaran Mannion MD Attending Pathologist. Stephen Peters MD Clinical Assistant Professor; Director, Residency Program.

Veterans Affairs Medical Center at East Orange

Jin K. Choe MD, DMSc Clinical Associate Professor; Acting Chief, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Michael Naumoff PhD Chemist. Sharon M. Smith PhD Associate Professor; Director, Microbiology. Clara R. Yook MD Assistant Professor; Director, Hematology.

CRITERIA FOR APPLICANTS

1. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or hold permanent immigrant status ("green card").
2. Candidates must be completing a U.S. or Canadian medical school or have graduated from an international medical school approved by the WHO and acceptable to the
3. ECFMG within the past 10 years.
4. Candidates must have taken and passed USMLE Steps I and II (on first attempts); and, if an IMG, must hold a valid ECFMG certificate at the time of application.
5. Candidates must complete the Electronic Residency Application, which includes submission of all official documents (medical school transcript, Dean's letter, diploma with English translation if appropriate and three letters of recommendation) by Nov. 15 of the year preceding the starting date.
6. Candidates must participate in the National Resident Matching Program.
   Preference will be given to candidates who have successfully completed USMLE Step III.

• Address inquiries to:
• Maureen Riddle
• Coordinator of Integrated Residency Program
• Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• UMDNJ-N.J. Medical School
• 185 S. Orange Avenue
• Newark , NJ 07103-2757
• Phone: (973) 972-5722 or e-mail: riddlemt@umdnj.edu

This information is adapted from the entry in the 2003-2004 IPCI Directory of Pathology Residency Training Programs.