Genitourinary Pathology Fellowship

Overview

At Stanford we offer a dedicated Genitourinary Pathology Fellowship (ACGME accredited) that will provide in-depth training in GU pathology with the goal of becoming a specialist in the field. The Stanford Genitourinary Pathology Service is rich with both routine GU pathology and advanced consultative material to learn from. Graduated responsibility opportunities include a Junior Attending rotation, presenting at GU tumor boards, teaching opportunities (such as departmental fellow-led teaching conferences), and service as a point person and consultant on GU-pathology-related issues.

Elective and research time can be used to pursue additional subspecialty training in other areas (such as GYN, GI, or renal pathology) or to work on research projects. Departmental resources and support are available for clinicopathologic and translational research projects.

The Department of Pathology accepts 1 GU pathology fellow per year.

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.

Rotations

We offer a one-year GU fellowship that provides advanced, focused, and intensive training in diagnostic genitourinary pathology:

GU service fellowship rotation (consults, in house overflow cases, second reviews,
tumor board coverage, overall service point person)
“Junior Attending” rotation (fellow reviews GU cases with assigned residents at “sign-out” and works up cases as if going to finalize independently, with hand-off to GU pathology faculty for report finalization and discussion)
Frozen section rotation
Surgical pathology selectives (including “Hotseat”: preliminary review of all cases prior to residents with focus on GU bench)
Research
Elective
Vacation and educational/conference leave (4 weeks total)

Sample Rotation Schedule

Each Block is 4 weeks; 13 blocks x 4 weeks per block = 52 weeks (1 year). One Genitourinary (GU) service fellow rotation may be at the VA. Elective is any rotation within the Department of Pathology at SHC, including research. Selective is any surgical pathology rotation within the Department of Pathology, including medial renal pathology and hot seat. The GU fellow is permitted 3 weeks of pre-scheduled vacation and 1 week of conferences at times approved by the program director.

Deadlines

Application due end of August, 2 years prior to start date; applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
Current open position(s): 2024-2025.

Applying

Duration: 1 year
Prerequisites: 3 yrs AP or 4 yrs AP/CP
Director: Chia-Sui (Sunny) Kao, MD

In general, applications should be submitted by August 30^th in the calendar year that is two years before your fellowship start date (for example, application due date is August 30th, 2018 for GU fellowship starting July 1^st, 2020). Interviews will occur in early fall.

Send applications electronically to:

Emily Chan, MD, PhD
Email: Emily.chan@ucsf.edu
(Please note: Emily Chan is new incoming faculty and will
be handling all future GU Fellowship applications)

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Fellowship Program Coordinator

Rachael Buenafe-Jacinto
Tel: (650) 725-8383
Email: rjacinto@stanford.edu

Current Fellows

Patrick Mullane, MD
Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Residency:Emory University School of Medicine

Incoming Fellows

Casey Morrison
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Genitourinary Faculty

Chia-Sui 'Sunny' Kao, MD

Associate Professor of Pathology and Urology
Director, Genitourinary Pathology
Director, Genitourinary Pathology Fellowship

Dr. Kao is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Stanford University. She earned her bachelor and medical degrees from Indiana University. She completed her pathology residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Indiana University School of Medicine, followed by a Genitourinary Pathology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is board certified in both Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology (American Board of Pathology). She was recently awarded ASCP’s 2016 40 under Forty. Her research interests include testicular neoplasms as well as bladder and kidney cancers.

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John Higgins, MD

Professor of Pathology
Co-Director, Post-Sophomore Fellowship in Pathology
Director, Residency Program 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.

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Megan Troxell, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology
Co-Director, Post-Sophomore Fellowship in Pathology
Director, Surgical Pathology Fellowship Program

Dr. Troxell is a Professor of Pathology at Stanford University Medical Center. She completed Anatomic Pathology residency followed by surgical pathology and renal/immunohistochemistry fellowships at Stanford. Her clinical work encompasses GU, medical/transplant renal, and breast pathology, with research interests in each of these areas.

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Alarice Lowe, MD

Associate Professor of Pathology

Dr. Lowe joined the School of Medicine faculty in 2019. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology from MIT and her medical degree at UCSD, prior to residency and cytology fellowship at UCLA. In 2011, she joined the faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital where she developed a research focus on Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) and the application of CTC technology to improve clinical diagnostics. Clinically, her interests focus on Cytopathology and Genitourinary Pathology.

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Emily Chan, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology

Dr. Chan is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Stanford University (starting July 2023). She completed her MDPhD at New York University and Anatomic Pathology residency with subspecialty Genitourinary Pathology training at University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). She is AP board-certified. Dr. Chan has been a GU attending at UCSF for the past five years where she has successfully mentored numerous trainees in projects, publications, and career planning. Her teaching philosophy is that every opportunity to teach is an opportunity to learn and grow; she enjoys teaching and learning from her trainees on a daily basis

Ankur Sangoi, MD

Professor of Pathology

Dr. Sangoi is a Professor of Pathology at Stanford University (starting May 2023). He earned his bachelor and medical degrees from Saint Louis University. He completed Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency with subspecialty Genitourinary Pathology training at Stanford, and is AP/CP board-certified. He was in a busy private practice for many years while continuing active kidney, bladder, and prostate pathology research and publications, before returning back to academia to pursue more focused efforts in genitourinary pathology research and teaching residents/fellows.

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