FELLOWSHIPS

Hematopathology Fellowship

We will start accepting applications for 2027- 2028 academic year on September 1, 2025. 

We will be participating in the NRMP Match for Hematopathology Fellowship. Interested applicants should send the below required documents to HemePathFellowship@pennmedicine.upenn.edu:

  • Complete Application Form
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Personal Statement
  • USMLE Score Reports
  • Three Letters of Reference
  • Copy of ECFMG Certificate (International medical graduate only)
  • Copy of Visa/Permanent Resident Card (If Applicable)

 

Program Description 

The fellowship Core Curriculum encompasses 43 weeks in the following rotations:

  • Adult Hematopathology (29-30 weeks)
  • Flow cytometry (1 week)
  • Special hematology laboratory (1 week)
  • Coagulation Laboratory (2 weeks)
  • Next Generation Sequencing and Cytogenetics (2 weeks)
  • Molecular Diagnostics (2 weeks)
  • Pediatric Hematopathology (CHOP) (5-6 weeks)
  • Elective/Research (4 Weeks)*

*Elective/research time may be spent on research projects and/or additional elective time in one of the core areas or other subspecialty areas (i.e. dermatopathology/cutaneous lymphoma service).

Also provided are 4 weeks PTO (vacation) and up to 1 week educational time for presentation of a poster/platform or attending a review course

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As a tertiary referral center, the University of Pennsylvania receives adult and pediatric patients from around the world with diverse hematologic disorders, both neoplastic and benign.

Hematopathology fellows at the University of Pennsylvania divide their time between the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The combined services annually process about 2400 bone marrow biopsies, 650 in house lymph nodes and other tissue specimens, 1400 extramural cases, and several hundred cases submitted in consultation by pathologists and/or oncologists from the United States and abroad.

Fellows work closely with faculty during all stages of diagnostic decision-making, from the generation of preliminary reports, to the ordering and interpretation of appropriate tests, to the integration of clinical history, morphologic findings, flow cytometry and other laboratory studies.

Fellow education is emphasized and reinforced in a variety of formal and informal settings. Training takes place at the microscope, through a comprehensive series of didactic lectures given by faculty, and during supervised electives in related clinical laboratories (coagulation, molecular pathology, cytogenetics, and genomics). Fellows present at multidisciplinary and hematopathology-specific teaching conferences, and teach other trainees (medical students, residents and fellows from pathology and other disciplines, and medical technologists).

Fellows are expected to undertake at least one academic project and to present at national meetings. There are numerous opportunities for research, with fellow participation supported by all members of the division as well as the Center for Personalized Diagnostics.

Faculty: HUP

Olga Pozdnyakova, MD, PhD
Director, Division of Hematopathology, HUP
Director, Hematopathology Fellowship Program 
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Pooja Devi, MBBS, MD
Associate Director, Hematopathology Fellowship Program 
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Siddharth Bhattacharyya, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Dale Frank, MD 
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Adam Bagg, MD
Emeritus Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Gabriel Caponetti, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Annapurna Saksena, MBBS, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Dana Martin, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Dorottya Laczko, MD, PhD
Instructor, Division of Hematopathology

Faculty: CHOP

Michele Paessler, DO
Division Chief, Hematopathology, CHOP
Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Gerald Wertheim, MD, PhD
Director, Hematopathology, CHOP
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Elizabeth Margolskee, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Hematology Laboratory, CHOP    
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Vinodh Pillai, MBBS, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine