We offer a one-year accredited fellowship in surgical pathology that provides advanced, focused, and intensive training in diagnostic surgical pathology.

Specific rotations include: "hot seat", frozen section, sign out of consultation material by subspecialty (including immunohistochemistry and other special diagnostic techniques), junior attending and elective time.

Selective/elective time may be designed to pursue additional training in subspecialty areas of pathology (gynecologic, soft tissue, breast, gastrointestinal, renal, cardiopulmonary,genitourinary, pediatric, head & neck, transplantation), or other areas including molecular pathology, dermatopathology, cytopathology, hematopathology, and/or research.

Fellows participate in departmental and interdepartmental conferences, as well as medical student and resident teaching. Fellows share night/weekend call for surgical pathology.

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.

Michael Ozawa, MD, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology (Surgical Pathology)
Medical Director of Clinical Laboratory, South Bay Cancer Center
Director, Surgical Pathology Fellowship Program

Dr. Ozawa is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology with subspecialty focus in Cytopathology, Head and Neck pathology, and Thoracic pathology. He completed his M.D., Ph.D. training at the McGovern Medical School and the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. He then completed residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology followed by fellowship training in Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology at Stanford University. He is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology as well as Cytopathology. His interests include pulmonary neoplasms as well as neoplasms of the Head and Neck. He also has developed collaborative research interests in utilizing fine needle aspiration (FNA) techniques in the growing clinical application of Chimeric Antigen T Cell (CAR-T) therapy.

Stanford Profile

Rabia Bhalli, MD
Medical School: Army Medical College, Pakistan
Residency:  George Washington University Hospital

Tyler Jankowski, DO
Medical School: Kansas City University of Medicine, Kansas City
Residency: University of California, San Francisco

Andrea Krajisnik, MD
Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson
Residency: Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

Susan K. Potterveld, DO
Medical School: Des Moines University, Des Moines
Residency: University of Colorado, Aurora

Brandon Say, MD
Medical School: Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston- Salem
Residency:  Stanford Medicine, Department of Pathology

Joanna Solarewicz, DO
Medical School: A.T. Still University, Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Rush University Medical Center

Seena Tabibi, MD
Medical School: Southern Illinois University, Springfield
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

Haijuan Gao, MD
Medical School: Xi’an Jiaotong Univeristy, College of Medicine, China
Residency: University of California, Irvine

Lap K. Huynh, MD
Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles
Residency: Stanford Medicine, Department of Pathology

Tiffany Lee, DO
Medical School: West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center

Veronica V. Nicholas, DO
Medical School: Western University of Health Sciences
Residency: Stanford Medicine, Department of Pathology

Visesh I. Ravikumar, MD
Medical School: University of Nevada, School of Medicine, Reno
Residency: University of Colorado, Aurora

Cooper D. Rutland, MD
Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina, College of Medicine, Charleston
Residency: Stanford Medicine, Department of Pathology

Gisele Toumi, MD
Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison
Residency: Stanford Medicine, Department of Pathology