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Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
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Faculty

Mary L. Ostrowski, M.D. Professor of Pathology

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Internship

  • University of Florida (Gainesville, FL) 1980-1981

Residency

  • University of Florida (Gainesville, FL) 1982-1984

Fellowship

  • Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) 1984-1985

Specialty

  • Surgical Pathology

  • Cytopathology

Board Certification

  • Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, June, 1986

  • Cytopathology, June, 1991

Area of Interest

  • Surgical Pathology

  • Thyroid Pathology

  • Head and Neck Pathology

  • Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology

  • Genitourinary Pathology

  • Cytopathology

Current Position

  • Associate Professor of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine

Professional Positions Held

  • Associate Professor of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, July, 2006 - present

  • Pathologist, Brown and Associates Medical Laboratories, Houston, TX, 2004 – 2005

  • Associate Professor of Orthopedics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 2003-2004

  • Associate Professor of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 2001-2004

  • Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 1992-2001

  • Assistant Professor, University of Florida at Jacksonville, 1985-1991

Honors and Awards

  • International Skeletal Society Membership

  • Marquis Who's Who in Medicine and Health Care 2003 - 2006

  • America's Top Doctors, Consumer Research Council, 2003, 2004

Membership on professional organizations

  • United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology

  • College of American Pathology

  • American Society of Cytopathology

  • Texas Society of Pathology

  • Texas Society of Cytopathology

  • Harris County Medical Society

  • Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists

Representative Publications

  1. Journals
  2. Granville L, Chirala M, Cernoch P, Ostrowski M, Truong LD. Fungal sinusitis: histologic spectrum and correlation with culture. Hum Pathol 35(4): 474-481, 2004
  3. Ostrowski ML, McEnery KW. Cartilaginous lesions of the skeleton. Am J Clin Pathol 117(suppl 1): S3-25, 2002
  4. Castro CY, Ostrowski ML, Barrios R, Green LK, Popper HH, Powell S, Cagle PC, Ro JY. Relationship between Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the lung. A clinicopathologic study of six cases and review of the literature. Hum Pathol 32: 863-872, 2001
  5. Jahan-Pawar B, Huberman RM, Donovan DT, Schwartz MR, Ostrowski ML. Oncocytic mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the salivary glands. Am J Surg Pathol 23: 523-529, 1999
  6. Ostrowski ML, Inwards CY, Strickler JC, Witzig TE, Wenger DE, Unni KK. Osseous Hodgkin disease. Cancer 85: 1166-1178, 1999
  7. Bocklage T, Di Tomasso J, Ramzy I, Ostrowski ML.Tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: Cytologic features and differential diagnostic considerations. Diagn Cytopathlol 17: 25-29, 1997
  8. Ostrowski ML, Spjut HJ. Lesions of the bones of the hands and feet. Am J Surg Pathol 21: 676-690, 1997
  9. Ostrowski ML, Merino MJ: Tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: a reassessment and immunohistochemical study with comparison to the usual type of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. Am J Surg Pathol 20: 964-974, 1996
  10. Books
  11. Cagle PC, editor, and Allen TC, Barrios R, Bedrossian C, Haque AC, Ostrowski ML, and Zander DS, associate editors. Color Atlas and Text of Pulmonary Pathology, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005
  12. Ostrowski ML, Spjut HJ. Ostrowski ML, Spjut HJ. “Chondromyxoid fibroma” In: World Health Organization Classification of Tumours. Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of Soft Tissue and Bone (Eds. Fletcher C, Unni KK, Mertens F), IARC Press, Lyon, 2002
  13. Laucirica R, Ostrowski ML. “Flow Cytometry and Image Analysis”, In: Clinical Cytopathology and Aspiration Biopsy, 2nd edition (Ed. Ramzy, I.) New York, McGraw-Hill, 2000, pp 549-560
  14. Ostrowski ML, Ramzy I. “Respiratory Infections and Other Benign Lesions”, In: Clinical Cytopathology and Aspiration Biopsy, 2nd edition (Ed. Ramzy, I.) New York, McGraw-Hill, 2000, pp 161-182