Gastrointestinal Pathology

Gastrointestinal Pathology

In addition to our own patients, the Gastrointestinal (GI) Unit provides consultation services for patients not formally affiliated with Mass General. The group oversees a large endoscopic volume, numerous hepatic biopsies and a large volume of resections of the gastrointestinal, hepatic, and pancreaticobiliary systems in adults and children.

Clinical Program

The Gastrointestinal Pathology subspecialty unit of Surgical Pathology at Mass General processes and delivers diagnoses for approximately 15,000 specimens per year. These include inpatient biopsies, endoscopic resections, EUS-FNA specimens and resections of the entire gastrointestinal, hepatic and pancreaticobiliary systems. In addition, the unit renders second-opinion (consultation) diagnoses on more than 500 cases per year.

Academic and Research Accomplishments

For detailed information regarding specific research interests and links to Pubmed, see individual faculty pages (listed at the end of the page).

Teaching and Educational Activities

The GI Pathology service supports numerous teaching and educational activities within Mass General, at the Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Clinical Conferences

• Weekly clinicopathologic conference with clinical GI unit
• Weekly Hepatology conference
• Weekly Inflammatory Bowel Disease clinicopathologic forum
• Monthly Pediatric surgery clinicopathologic conference
• Bi-monthly clinicopathologic conference with pediatric GI unit 
• Ad hoc liver clinicopathologic conference with Hepatology group
• Monthly multidisciplinary Pancreatic Cyst  Conference

Residency (Pathology and GI Clinical fellowship)

• Routine sign-out of cases with residents at double headed microscope
• Ad hoc review of GI pathology cases at the daily surgical pathology "outs" conferences
• Monthly "GI specialty" focused outs conference
• Weekly pathology review with clinical GI fellows

Post-Graduate Courses

• HMS Gastrointestinal Liver and Pancreatic Pathology course various members, lecturers)
• USCAP, ASCP and CAP Workshops (Pitman, various members, lecturers)
• Mass General Current Concepts in Surgical Pathology Annual Course (various members, lecturers)

Medical and Graduate Students

• Lectures and GI laboratory directorship, Harvard Medical School pathology course

Invited Major Lectures

Numerous invited lectures have been given by members of the GI Pathology Service in both national and international venues.

National Committees

Members of the GI Pathology Service serve actively on several National and International Committees, including:

• Gastrointestinal Pathology Society (various committees)
• AJCC/UICC task force for new staging of GI malignancies  
• World Health Organization Classification of Tumours of the Digestive System