Department of Pathology
Please visit our website at: http://www.bcm.edu/pathology/
Chair
Thomas M. Wheeler, M.D.
Mission Statement
To provide the highest quality pathology services in areas of patient care, graduate medical education and research available anywhere.
General Description
The Pathology Department at Baylor College of Medicine enjoys a national reputation for setting the standards for clinical practice, education of residents and fellows, and translational and basic research. Within the Texas Medical Center, we provide clinical and anatomic pathology services at Texas Children's Hospital, Ben Taub General Hospital, and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Administration Medical Center.
Since 1982, BCM has provided clinical and anatomic pathology services to many community health care centers in southeast Texas. Currently, BCM Pathology has contracts to provide pathology services for over 30 regional hospitals/medical centers and a number of surgery centers and outpatient facilities, providing high-quality pathology services within a 200 mile radius of Houston. Our affiliated institutions are served by board certified pathologists who are full-time Baylor faculty members. Outlying physicians work on a "real-time" basis with BCM pathologists in the Texas Medical Center using the latest techniques of telepathology and virtual slide technology, or by teleconferencing with clinical pathologists in several subspecialties (blood banking and transfusion medicine, clinical chemistry, microbiology, immunopathology and hematopathology).
More than 60 board certified pathologists supported by Ph.D. laboratory supervisors and scientists comprise BCM Pathology's clinical research and practice arm.
In anatomic pathology, we also have internationally-recognized experts who perform clinical and translational research along with diagnostic services in the Texas Medical Center and work on a daily basis with Baylor pathologists in our remote locations. These pathologists have access to departmental research tools such as confocal and fluorescent microscopy, electron microscopy, laser capture microdissection, virtual slide technology (Trestle) automated immunohistochemistry and tissue microarrarys from a variety of human cancers.
Our department has 4.7 million dollars in NIH and foundation sponsored basic and translational research grants in over 20,000 square feet of departmental laboratory space. The Department of Pathology has a focus in molecular and translational cancer biology, working closely with the NCI-Designated Dan L. Duncan Center at Baylor College of Medicine. The cancer-related programs include research in prostate cancer and ovarian cancer. Several investigators have research programs emphasizing the importance of RNA in mammalian pathophysiology including RNA splicing, small RNAs such as microRNAs and piRNAs and RNA-based molecular switches, the roles of post-translational processing in human diseases. Other departmental researchers have interests in infectious and non-infectious gastrointestinal diseases and research programs involving studies of hematopoietic stem cells.
Contact Us
Department of Pathology
Baylor College of Medicine
Cullen Building, Rm. 286A
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030
- Administrative Office: 713-798-4661
- Academic Offices: 713-798-4083
- Fax: 713-798-5838
- Email: path-it@bcm.tmc.edu