Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship
Overview
We offer a one-year fellowship in gynecologic pathology (ACGME accredited) that provides advanced, focused, and intensive training in diagnostic gynecologic pathology.
- Specific rotations include: "hot seat", frozen section, sign out of consultation material (including immunohistochemistry and other special diagnostic techniques), “junior” attending sign-out, placental pathology, research, and elective time.
- Elective time may be designed to pursue additional subspecialty training in other areas of surgical pathology, including dermatopathology, or in molecular pathology, cytogenetics, hematopathology, and/or research or other areas depending on fellow interest and/or career goals.
- Fellows participate in departmental and interdepartmental conferences, as well as medical student and resident teaching.
- Departmental resources and support are available for clinicopathologic and translational research projects.
Stanford establishes PGY levels for new fellows based on the successful completion of all prerequisite training required for entry into your fellowship program. Stanford does not recognize additional training beyond the prerequisite training requirements when establishing the PGY level for entry into the program.
Program Leadership
Ann Folkins, MD will serve as Fellowship Program Director and Austin McHenry, MD, PhD as Associate Program Director for the 2028–2029 academic year. Terri Longacre, MD and Brooke Howitt, PhD, current program directors, are expected to remain integral to the division's educational, consultative, clinical, and research activities during this period.
Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship Program Directors
Teri A Longacre, MD
Emerita Richard L. Kempson MD, Endowed Professor of Surgical Pathology
Director, Gastrointestinal Fellowship Program
Director, Gynecologic Fellowship Program
Dr. Teri Longacre received a B.A. from St. John’s College, a B.S. from the University of New Mexico, and an M.D. from the University of New Mexico. She trained as a resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of New Mexico and pursued subspecialty fellowships in hematopathology, gastrointestinal pathology and general surgical pathology at Stanford Medicine, where she is now the Director of Gynecologic Pathology as well as Director of Gastrointestinal Pathology. She is actively involved in resident and fellow teaching in the residency and surgical pathology fellowship programs at Stanford and has established ACGME subspecialty fellowships in Gynecologic Pathology and Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathology. During her career, she has mentored more than two dozen residents and fellows who have entered into successful academic careers both nationally and internationally.
Brooke Howitt, PhD
Professor of Pathology (Gynecologic Pathology)
Irene Adler Endowed Scholar
Associate Director, Gynecologic Pathology Service
Associate Director, Gynecologic Fellowship Program
Vice Chair for Faculty Development
Dr. Howitt is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she also obtained her medical degree. She completed Residency in Anatomic Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by a fellowship in Women’s and Perinatal Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her clinical work encompasses gynecologic, sarcoma, and genitourinary pathology, with research interest in molecular pathogenesis of gynecologic malignancies.
Gynecologic Pathology Faculty
Keegan Barry-Holson, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology (Anatomic & Clinical Pathology)
Austin McHenry, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology (Gynecologic)
Dr. McHenry completed his Fellowship in Gynecologic Surgical Pathology at Stanford University following his Residency in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology at Yale University School of Medicine. He earned his MD from the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago and holds a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His main areas of academic interest include diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive markers of endometrial carcinoma, molecular classification in gynecologic malignancies, uterine smooth muscle tumors, gestational trophoblastic disease, and ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors.
Current Gynecologic Pathology Fellows 2026-27
Carol Rizkalla, MBBS, BCh, BAO
Medical School: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; Residency: University of Washington, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seattle, WA
Minami Tokuyama, MD
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Residency: Stanford University Department of Pathology, Stanford, CA
Andrew Sanchez, MD
Medical School: University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Residency: Stanford University Department of Pathology, Stanford, CA
Incoming Gynecologic Pathology Fellows
Alumni Gynecologic Pathology Fellows
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