Gastrointestinal (GI) Pathology Fellowship
Overview
The ACGME-accredited fellowship in gastrointestinal pathology is designed to offer advanced, focused and intensive diagnostic training in gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, and pancreas pathology, including medical liver and transplant.
- Specific rotations include: "hot seat", frozen section, sign out of consultation material (including immunohistochemistry and other special diagnostic techniques) 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, hematopathology, and/or research.
- 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.
Deadlines
The program is no longer accepting applications for the 2023-2024 fellowship.
Applying
Please submit completed application electronically to Phyllis Bettencourt: phyllis2@stanford.edu.
Fellowship Program Director
Teri Longacre, MD
Professor of Pathology, Kempson Endowed Chair in Surgical Pathology
Director, GI Pathology Fellowship Program
Director, Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship Program
Email: longacre@stanford.edu
Fellowship Program Coordinator
Markell Stine
Email: markell@stanford.edu
Current Fellows
Kyra Berg, MD
Medical School: University of British Columbia
Residency: University of British Columbia
Cindy Wang, MD
Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Residency: University of Chicago School of Medicine
Dana Razzano, MD
Medical School: Saint George's University School of Medicine
Residency: Westchester Medical Center
Cytopathology Fellowship: Yale University School of Medicine
Steven Chirieleison, MD, PhD
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Residency: Stanford University School of Medicine (AP3)
Incoming Fellows
Recep Nigdelioglu, MD (2022-2023)
Clark Tolson Nichols, MD (2022-2023)
Jeenal Gordhandas, MBBS (2022-2023)
Gastrointestinal Faculty
Teri A Longacre, MD
Richard L Kempson Enodowed Professor of Surgical Pathology
Director, Gastrointestinal Pathology
Director, Gynecologic Pathology
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.
John Higgins, MD
Professor of Pathology
Co-Director, Post-Sophomore Fellowship in Pathology
Associate Residency Program Director for Anatomic Pathology
Dr. Higgins is a Professor of Pathology. He earned his MD from Stanford University and completed his training in anatomic pathology at Stanford where he also did fellowship training in immunodiagnosis. He has a particular interest in renal neoplasia.
