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Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
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Faculty

Hong (Amy) Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor

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Education

  • M.D., Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, 09/1985 – 08/1990

  • Ph.D., Pathology/Structural Biology, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Houston, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, TX, 08/1993 – 09/2000

Residency

  • Residency (AP/CP), Department of Pathology, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, 2000 - 2004

Fellowship

  • Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Houston, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2004 – 2005

Specialty

  • Anatomic Pathology

Board Certification

  • American Board of Pathology, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 2004

Area of Interest

  • Clinical: Anatomic pathology

Current Position

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine

  • Staff pathologist, Ben Taub General Hospital

Professional Positions Held

  • Staff Pathologist, Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005 - 2006

Honors and Awards

  • Fleming-Davenport Fund for cancer research, 2007

Membership on professional organizations

  • United States and Canadian Association of Pathologists (USCAP) since 2001

  • College of American Pathologists (CAP) since 2001

  • American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) since 2001

  • American Society of Mass Spectrometry (1995-1997)

  • University of Texas-Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Science Alumni Association since 1999

Representative Publications

  1. Zhang H, Liu J, Cagle PT, Allen TC, Laga TA, Zander DS. Distinction of Pulmonary Small Cell Carcinoma from Poorly Differentiated Squamous Cell Carcinoma: An Immunohistochemical Approach. Modern Pathology 2005; 18(1): 111-8
  2. Zhou ZH, Zhang H, Jakana J, Lu XY, Zhang JQ. Cypovirus Structure at 8 Å by Electron Cryomicroscopy - Structural Basis of Capsid Stability and Multifunctional RNA Processing Apparatus. Structure 2003; 11: 651-663
  3. Zhang H, Yu XK, Lu XY, Zhang JQ, Zhou ZH. Molecular and viral stability revealed by structural analyses ofchemically-treated cypovirus capsids. Virology 2002; 298 (1): 45-52
  4. Yu XK, Lu XY, Zhang H, Zhou ZH, Zhang X, Zhang JQ. Structure of Cytoplasmc Polyhedrosis Virus from Bombyx mori. Acta Biochemica et Biophysica Sinica 1999; 31(5): 563-566
  5. Zhang H, Zhang J, Yu X, Lu X, Zhang Q, Jakana J, Chen DH, Zhang X, Zhou ZH. Visualization of protein-RNA interactions in Cytoplasmic Polyhedrosis Virus. Journal of Virology 1999; 73 (2): 1624-1629