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By Daniel M. Knowles, MD

Welcome New Faculty

It is a great pleasure to announce the appointment of three additional individuals, Drs. Sun-mi Chung, Anjali Saqi and RhondaYantiss, to the faculty of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Each individual has been appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Medical Collegeand Assistant Attending Pathologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Sun-mi Chung, MD Anjali Saqi, MD Rhonda Yantiss, MD

Dr. Sun-mi Chung received her medical degree (AOA) from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1999, beganher graduate education in surgery at Stanford University and then switched careers, entering the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell campus pathology training program in 2000. Dr. Chungserved as Chief Resident for the 2002/2003 academic year. Following completion of her training in anatomic pathology, she completed a fellowship in gastrointestinal pathology under Dr.David Klimstra at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She joined the Department in August 2005. Dr. Chung will devote her professional time and activities to gastrointestinal pathology.

Dr. Anjali Saqi received her medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate in 1996 and completed acombined anatomic pathology and clinical pathology residency at the Cornell campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in 2000. Subsequently, she completeda surgical pathology fellowship at the Columbia campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and a cytopathology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Saqi joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in July 2002. She relocated to the Weill Cornell Medical Center in July, 2005. Dr. Saqi divides her clinical diagnostic service responsibilities between general surgical pathology and cytopathology. She has already developed an excellent clinical research program in cytopathology, contributing nearly 20 peer-reviewed publications, primarily involving cytopathology, to the medical literature.

Dr. Rhonda Yantiss received her medical degree from the Harvard Medical School in 1996 and completed her training in anatomic pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she servedas Chief Resident in anatomic pathology in her last year of training. She subsequently completed a fellowship in gastrointestinal pathology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2001 and was appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 2001 where she worked until her recruitment to the Weill Cornell Medical Center in May, 2005. Despite her relatively junior status, Dr. Yantiss has already established a national reputation in gastrointestinal pathology, the area in which she will focus herclinical, educational, and research activities at the Weill Cornell Medical Center. She has already contributed approximately 20 abstracts and more than 25 peer-reviewed publications to the medical literature.

Each of these three individuals will contribute significantly to the clinical diagnostic services of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,to the training and education of the pathology housestaff and to the clinical research programs of this Department and other clinical departments in the Medical Center.

 
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