Expert Details

Medicine, Especially Pathology (Laboratory Medicine), Women's Health, Cervical Cancer, Breast Cancer

ID: 724890 Massachusetts, USA

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Expert has practiced diagnostic surgical pathology for over 20 years, with special interest and experience in gynecologic and gastro-intestinal pathology. She has participated in several clinical trials with pharmaceutical clients in these areas, and has practical knowledge of what is needed for FDA approval of new diagnostic tests and treatments, especially in the fields of drug and vaccine development for gynecologic disease and for improved diagnostic testing for breast cancer.

She has developed protocols and conducted clinical trials for drug testing in several areas of medicine.



As a practicing pathologist, Expert has a working knowledge of disease processes, natural history, and progression, and assessment of treatment options.

As part of her professional responsibilities, Expert has ongoing experience in assessing the efficacy of certain drug regimens on the histological appearance of pre-malignant and malignant lesions in the female reproductive tract.

Expert is familiar with normal and abnormal histologic appearances of most of the organ systems in the human body.

She is competent to review biopsy material for drug development or for review of original diagnosis and confirmation of diagnosis in contested cases.

As a student of diseases of the female and male reproductive systems, Expert is competent to review histological (biopsy) material from these systems and to assess treatment efficacy from this perspective, as well as to confirm or offer a differing opinion in previously diagnosed biopsy material.

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Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1968 Degree: MD Subject: Medicine Institution: University of Maryland

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2000 to 2008 Employer: Quest Diagnostics Title: Senior Staff Pathologist Department: Anatomic Pathology
Responsibilities:
Diagnosis of all diseases by way of tissue biopsy and related studies
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1992 to 2000 Employer: United Pathology Associates Title: Partner in PC Department: Pathology
Responsibilities:
Partner in professional practice: anatomic and clinical pathology

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
She has performed case reviews for the law firm of Santangelo, Benvenuto and Slattery in New City, NY. These reviews included record reviews, research and conferences with defense attorneys in order to determine the appropriate defense in medical malpractice cases. Reviews largely consisted of careful study of all histologic materials and patient charts, plus research on the latest relevant diagnostic test methods and controversies in the field.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
College of American Pathologists, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, US and Canadian Society of Pathologists
Licenses / Certifications
State Licenses in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey
Publications and Patents Summary
Has 10 publications plus numerous articles on women's health in popular press (non peer-reviewed) and numerous radio spots and several video new releases on public health issues.

Fields of Expertise

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