Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship
Overview
The Molecular Genetic Fellowship in the Department of Pathology currently has three funded fellowship positions per year.
This is an ACGME-accredited fellowship.
The Stanford Molecular Genetic Pathology program serves the adult and pediatric populations at Stanford and also sees referrals from Northern California and the rest of the nation.
The program is interdisciplinary and includes participation of faculty in the Departments of Pathology, Medicine, Pediatrics (Division of Medical Genetics) and Genetics. Laboratory rotations include formal training in Molecular Genetic Pathology, Biochemical Genetics, Cytogenetics, and Molecular Microbiology/Virology.
Fellows will be trained in assay development, quality assurance, and results interpretation in the Molecular Pathology Laboratory at Stanford and the Kaiser-Permanente Regional Molecular Diagnosis Laboratory, a large reference laboratory for the Kaiser system which offers a testing menu that is complimentary to that of Stanford.
Fellows are expected to complete a translational research project resulting in a clinical test for patient care during the fellowship.
Stanford University offers an outstanding environment for research opportunities in medicine, technology, and computational data sciences relevant to molecular pathology.
Eligible candidates for the Molecular Genetic Pathology fellowship must be board certified or board-eligible by the American Board of Pathology or the American Board of Medical Genetics.
Deadlines
Fellowship positions for 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 have been filled.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Applying
Please download, fill out and send the application along with the following: a CV, a personal statement, and three letters of recommendation. These should be submitted electronically to:
Mirela Puljic
Email: mirelap@stanford.edu
and
James Zehnder, MD
Email: Zehnder@stanford.edu
Fellowship Program Coordinator
Gabby Barela
Email: gbarela@stanford.edu
Current Fellows
Jack Tung, MD, PhD (2020-2021)
Emory University School of Medicine
Julianna Weiel, MD (2020-2021)
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Simon Chen, MD (2020-2021)
Washington University School of Medicine
Incoming Fellows
Maggie Black, MD (2021-2022)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jyoti Kumar, MD (2021-2022)
Ross University School of Medicine
Lauren Lawrence, MD (2021-2022)
University of California Keck School of Medicine
Molecular Genetics Faculty
Helio Costa, PhD
Instructor in Pathology (Genomics & Molecular Genetic Pathology),
and Medicine (Data Management Systems)
Helio Costa, PhD, is a geneticist with expertise in genomics, molecular biology, molecular oncology, and bioinformatics. He is currently an Instructor within the Departments of Pathology and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford Medical School. Dr. Costa's research utilizes next-generation sequencing to develop new clinical genome and transcriptome profiling methods with the end goal of translating these tools to clinical diagnostic tests for implementation at Stanford Health Care. His research group is also interested in developing data science and machine learning methods to model and predict clinical outcomes and aid in clinical decision support. He is the founding director of the Stanford Clinical Data Science Fellowship where post-doctoral fellows engage in interdisciplinary clinical research and embed in health care workflows learning, building and deploying real-world health data solutions in the Stanford Health Care system. Additionally, he is an Attending Geneticist, and Assistant Lab Director of the Molecular Genetic Pathology Laboratory for Stanford Health Care. Dr. Costa received his BS in Genetics from University of California, Davis, his PhD in Genetics from Stanford University School of Medicine, and his ABMGG Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics fellowship training from Stanford University School of Medicine.
