Leadership

Professors of Pathology (Chairs)

James Tyson, Professor of Pathology and Morbid Anatomy, 1877-1889
Juan Guiteras, Professor of Pathology, 1889-1898
Simon Flexner, Professor of Pathology, 1899-1903
Allen J. Smith, Professor of Pathology, 1903-1910
Richard M. Pearce, Professor of Pathology, 1910-1911
Allen J. Smith, Professor of Pathology and Chair, 1911-1926
Eugene L. Opie, Chair, Department of Pathology, 1926-1932
Edward B. Krumbhaar, Chair, Department of Pathology, 1932-1948
Balduin Lucké, Chair, Department of Pathology, 1948-1954
Dale Coman, Chair, Department of Pathology, 1954-1967
Peter Nowell, Chair, Department of Pathology, 1967-1973
David T. Rowlands. Jr., Chair, Department of Pathology, 1973-1979
Arnold Rawson, Chair, Department of Pathology, 1979-1980
Leonard Jarett, Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 1980-1998
Mark Tykocinski, Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 1998-2008
John E. Tomaszewski, Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2008-2011
David B. Roth, Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2011-2023
Kathleen T. Montone, Interim Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 2023
George Jabboure Netto, Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2023-

Vice Chairs

Mike Feldman, inaugural Vice Chair for Clinical Services, 2017-2023
Warren Pear, inaugural Vice Chair for Research, 2017-2021
Nicole Aqui, inaugural Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, 2020-
Li-San Wang, Vice Chair for Research, 2021-
Kathleen Montone, Executive Vice Chair, 2023-
Michael Cancro, Vice Chair for Faculty Development & Academic Affairs, 2023-
Andrew Fesnak, Vice Chair for Education, 2023-
Charlene Bierl, Vice Chair for Quality and Patient Safety, 2024-
 

William Pepper Laboratory Directors

William Pepper, Jr., 1894-1898
Alfred Stengel, 1898-1911
Herbert Fox, 1911-1942
J. Harold Austin, 1942-1950
Robert F. Norris, 1950-1968
Howard M. Rawnsley, 1968-1976
Pascal J. Viola, 1976-1979
David B.P. Goodman, 1980-1983
Donald S. Young, 1984-2008
Irving Nachamkin, 2009-2020
Charlene Bierl, 2020-
 

Anatomic Pathology Division Directors

Horatio T. Enterline, 1955-1980 (under Department of Surgery until 1967)
Giuseppe G. Pietra, 1980-1994
Virginia LiVolsi, 1994-1999
David Elder, 1999-2011
John E. Tomaszewski, 2005-2009 (Co-Director)
John Brooks, 2011-2013
Kumarasen Cooper, 2013-2015
Kathleen T. Montone, 2015-
 

Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology Division Directors

Harold A. Wurzel, Founding Director Blood Bank, 1962-1985
Leslie Silberstein, 1985-2003
Donald Siegel, Founding Director Transfusion Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology, 2003-
 

Neuropathology and Neurodegeneration Division Directors

Nicholas K. Gonatas, 1980-2000
J. Carl Oberholtzer, 2000-2006
Zissimos Mourelatos, 2007-
 

Hematopathology Division Directors

Megan S. Lim, 2015-2022
Kathleen T. Montone (interim), 2022-2023
Olga Pozdnyakova, 2024-
 

Precision and Computational Diagnostics Division Directors

Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson, Founding Director, 2015-2022
Vivianna Van Deerlin (interim), 2022-
 

Division of Diagnostic Innovation Directors

Li-San Wang, 2022-

Cancer and Immunobiology Division Directors

Darcy B. Wilson, 1980-1985 (Director, Experimental Pathology)
Mark I. Greene, 1985-2014
Warren Pear, 2014- (Founding Director, Cancer and Immunobiology Division)