Dianon A LabCorp Company - Department of Uropathology

James B. Amberson, MD - Divisional Medical Director, DIANON Systems
Office location: Stratford, CT
Telephone: 203-381-4058

Dr Amberson is board-certified in anatomic pathology and cytopathology. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed residency training in pathology at the New York Hospital–Cornell University Medical Center. Dr Amberson was a cytopathology fellow under Leopold Koss, MD, at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. He also holds an MBA from Columbia University. Before joining DIANON Systems, Dr Amberson was assistant professor of pathology at the Cornell University School of Medicine. He has authored articles in general pathology, urology, flow cytometry, and image cytometry.

Gerard O’Dowd, MD - Medical Director, Uropathology, Oklahoma Laboratories
Office location: Oklahoma City, OK
Telephone: 405-290-4000, x4330

Dr O’Dowd received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr O’Dowd performed his pathology residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Utah Medical Center and did an additional fellowship year of anatomic pathology in FNA cytopathology with Dr William Frable at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr O’Dowd was an instructor in pathology at the George Washington University Affiliated Hospital and was a staff pathologist at the Washington Hospital Center. He has authored extensive articles in uropathology.

Edward Poole, MD - Associate Director, Uropathology
Office location: Oklahoma City, OK
Telephone: 405-290-4000, x4338

Dr Poole is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. After graduating from the University of Kansas Medical School, Dr Poole was a surgical intern at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. He then returned to the University of Kansas as a surgical resident and subsequently transferred to pathology. Dr Poole completed both a residency and fellowship in surgical pathology and cytology. He joined the UroCor division of DIANON Systems in the fall of 1994. He has seen more than 120,000 prostate biopsies and has contributed to articles regarding suspicious focus on prostate needle biopsy and twelve-core needle biopsy sampling. He is a member of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology and the College of American Pathologists.

Arundhati Chatterjee, MD - Director, Cytology and Uropathology, DIANON-North Carolina
Office location: Research Triangle Park, NC
Telephone: 919-361-7734

Dr Chatterjee is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and cytopathology. She received her medical degree from the University of Calcutta, India, and completed her pathology residency and a fellowship in anatomic pathology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr Chatterjee's experience includes serving as pathologist and chief of clinical pathology at Womak Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC, during which time she developed a special interest in uropathology and worked closely with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Dr Chatterjee has extensive diagnostic experience in uropathology and urine cytology.

James Tepperberg, PhD - Co-director, Cytogenetics, DIANON-North Carolina
Office location: Research Triangle Park, NC
Telephone: 800-833-3933, x 7732

Dr Tepperberg is board-certified in clinical cytogenetics. He received a master’s degree in genetics from West Virginia University, and a PhD in genetics and developmental biology from West Virginia University with thesis research at Duke University. He did his postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina. Dr Tepperberg supervises the molecular cytogenetics laboratory where he is responsible for the diagnosis, interpretation, and development of prenatal, postnatal, and cancer fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) testing. He also supervises staff continuing education and journal club, and he is involved with computer and library searches for patient-related cytogenetic problems. Dr Tepperberg is a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics and a member of the American Society of Human Genetics and the Southeastern Regional Genetics Group.

Michael Bookbinder, MD
Office location: Stratford, CT
Telephone: 203-380-4120

Dr Bookbinder is certified by the American Board of Pathology. He received his medical degree from the Brown University Program in Medicine, Providence, RI. Dr Bookbinder has more than 20 years of experience in anatomic and clinical pathology. He was also an associate clinical professor at Yale University School of Medicine. Prior to joining DIANON Systems, Dr Bookbinder was a laboratory director at United Hospital in Port Chester, NY.

Rosina de Campo, MD
Office location: Stratford, CT
Telephone: 203-381-4956

Dr de Campo is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and cytopathology. She received her medical degree from the University of Uruguay and completed her residency training at the University of Colorado. Dr de Campo also completed fellowships in surgical pathology at the University of Texas Galveston Medical Branch and uropathology at the University of Colorado. She was director of the pathology department at the Denver Clinic-Accord Medical Center. She was also a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Prostate Diagnostic Center, University of Colorado. Dr de Campo has worked at DIANON Systems since 1999.

Ninrong X. Giebisch, MD, PhD
Office location: Stratford, CT
Telephone: 203-381-4917

Dr Giebisch is board-certified in anatomic pathology and cytopathology. She received her medical degree from Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, and her doctorate in neuroscience from Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences-Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She completed her residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a cytopathology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Afterward, Dr Giebisch worked as an attending pathologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Before joining DIANON Systems, Dr Giebisch was an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Connecticut Health Center.

Youming Huan, MD
Office location: Stratford, CT
Telephone: 203-381-4071

Dr Huan is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. She earned her medical degree from West China University of Medical Sciences, People’s Republic of China. Dr Huan received residency training in pathology through the Western Reserve Care System/NEOUCOM program in Youngstown, Ohio, and the Mount Sinai Medical Center program in New York, NY. She completed a fellowship in surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY. Prior to joining DIANON, Dr Huan was an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City where she practiced general surgical pathology.

Mary F. Lachman, MD
Office location: Stratford, CT
Telephone: 203-380-4593

Dr Lachman is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and cytopathology. She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo and completed her fellowship in surgical pathology and cytopathology at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. Dr Lachman has extensive experience in cytopathology and gynecologic pathology. She joined DIANON Systems from the department of pathology at Yale University, where she was an assistant professor and served as director of cytopathology. She is a fellow of the College of American Pathologists, and a member of the American Society of Cytopathology and the American Medical Writers Association. Dr Lachman has authored numerous articles in general pathology and cytology.

Lin Li, MD, PhD
Office location: Stratford, CT
Telephone: 203-380-4177

Dr Li is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. She received her medical degree from Zhongshan University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China. She also earned a master’s degree and PhD from the Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College/Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, China. Dr Li completed a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY, and a fellowship in genitourinary pathology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, NY. Dr Li was an instructor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo, from 1998-2001 and a research instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at that same institution from 2001 to 2002.

Joseph Nasuti, MD
Office location: Stratford, CT
Telephone: 203-380-4154

Dr Nasuti is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and cytopathology. After graduating from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, he was a resident and chief resident at Pennsylvania Hospital and a cytopathology fellow at Jefferson Medical College. From 1998 to 2001, he was an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Nasuti has authored numerous articles in cytology.

Xiao-Cong Peng, MD, PhD
Office location: Oklahoma City, OK
Telephone: 405-290-4000, x4337

Dr Peng is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. He completed his training in anatomic and clinical pathology at New York University Medical Center. He extended his stay at NYU Medical Center for a surgical pathology fellowship. He moved to Oklahoma City in October of 1999 after a year of practicing general surgical pathology and cytopathology in a private lab in New York City. Dr Peng also holds a doctorate in toxicology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has research experience in analytical chemistry and molecular biology.

Peter Ramos, MD
Office location: Oklahoma City, OK
Telephone: 405-290-4339

Dr Ramos is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. He received his medical degree from the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico. He completed a pathology residency at the Hospital of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was a fellow in surgical pathology at the University of Minnesota and a fellow in oncologic pathology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Prior to joining DIANON, Dr Ramos was a staff pathologist at Mennonite General Hospital in Puerto Rico.

Usha Vasa, MD - Associate Medical Director, Cytopathology
Office location: Oklahoma City, OK
Telephone: 405-290-4000, x4341

Dr Vasa is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology, cytopathology, and blood banking. She received her medical degree from Medical College, M.S. University, India, and completed her residency training at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center (affiliated with Rutgers University), Bellevue Hospital, and New York University Medical Center. Dr Vasa was a cytopathology fellow at the University of Illinois and a blood-banking fellow at American Red Cross Blood Services, Tristate Region, Chicago. She joined the UroCor Division of DIANON Systems in 1994 and has been practicing urologic pathology since that time. Dr Vasa is a member of the College of American Pathologists, the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, and the International Academy of Cytology.

Ming Yin, MD
Office location: Research Triangle Park, NC
Telephone: 800-533-0567, x3671

Dr Yin is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. He received his medical degree from Harbin Medical University in the People’s Republic of China. He completed a residency in surgery at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University and received a PhD from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Dr Yin also completed a residency in surgery at the University of Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC, and a pathology residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His work experience includes serving as an attending surgeon/urologist at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, a postdoctoral scientist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and a research assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. Prior to joining DIANON, Dr Yin was a clinical fellow in genitourinary pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He serves as a reviewer for Transplant International and is the author of a number of published articles.

Wei Zhang, MD
Office location: Stratford, CT
Telephone: 203-381-4902

Dr Zhang is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. He received his medical degree from Shanghai Medical University in the People’s Republic of China. He completed residency training in pathology at Shanghai Medical University/ Zhongshan Hospital and in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, Md. Dr Zhang was a fellow in genitourinary pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, and in cytopathology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the College of American Pathologists, and the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.

Jin Zhao, MD
Office location: Research Triangle Park, NC
Telephone: 919-361-7700, x3253

Dr Zhao is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. She received her medical degree from Southeast University Medical College (former Nanjing Railway Medical College) in Nanjing, China. She completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, Bronx, New York, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worchester, Massachusetts. She also completed her fellowship training in surgical pathology with an emphasis on genitourinary pathology in the Department of Pathology at Laboratory Medicine, MCP Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. Prior to joining DIANON Systems, Dr Zhao served as Laboratory Director for LabCorp’s Marlton, New Jersey, and Albany, New York, laboratories.

Consulting Pathologist
In addition to its staff pathologists, DIANON Systems utilizes the services of a consulting physician to review complex cases.

Jonathan I. Epstein, MD - Professor of Pathology, Urology, and Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr Epstein is an internationally recognized authority in uropathology. He has authored more than 300 articles, four books, and 22 book chapters in the field. Dr Epstein graduated from Boston University School of Medicine. He trained in anatomic pathology at Johns Hopkins where he was chief resident and completed a fellowship in oncologic pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.