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Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
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Faculty

M. Tarek Elghetany, M.D. Professor

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Education

  1. MD, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1979

Residency

  1. AP/CP Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Fellowship

  1. Hematopathology, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY

Specialty

  1. Hematopathology

Board Certification

  1. American Board of Pathology (AP/CP) 1988, American Board of Pathology, subspecialty Hematology 1989

Area of Interest

  1. Bone marrow failure syndromes

  2. Myelodysplastic syndromes

Current Position

  1. Professor of Pathology

  2. Director of Quality Assurance and Patient Safety, Texas Childen's Hospital

Honors and Awards

  1. 2009, AACC's Outstanding Speaker Award for presenting a mini-course at the annual meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Washington DC , July 2008

  2. 2008, Marquis Who's Who in America

  3. 2007, America 's Top Pathologists, Consumer Research Council of America

  4. 2007, Reuters Insight Expert

  5. 2007, Best Clinical Pathology Faculty Award for active participation in resident teaching, Department of Pathology, UTMB, Galveston , TX

  6. 2005, Best Clinical Pathology Faculty Award for active participation in resident teaching, Department of Pathology, UTMB, Galveston , TX

Membership on professional organizations

  1. Member, The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.

  2. Member, The International Society for Laboratory Hematology.

  3. Member, The Myelodysplastic Syndrome Foundation

  4. Member, The Society for Hematopathologists  

Representative Publications

  1. Elghetany MT , Davis BH. Impact of preanalytical variables on granulocytic surface antigen expression: a review. Cytometry B Clin Cytom 65:1-5, 2005

  2. Bryant BJ, Alperin JB, Elghetany MT . Paraplegia as the presenting manifestation of extramedullary megakaryoblastic transformation of previously undiagnosed chronic myelogenous leukemia. Am J Hematol 2007; 82:150-154

  3. Elghetany MT . Myelodysplastic syndromes in children: a critical review of issues in the diagnosis and classification of 887 cases from 13 published series. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2007; 131:1110-1116

  4. Al- Rahawan MM, Alter BP, Bryant BJ, Elghetany MT . Bone marrow cell cycle markers in inherited bone marrow failure syndromes. Leukemia Res 2008; 32:1793-1799