Applause and Accolades
•Yu Liu's, “An Incidental Finding of Appendiceal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor with Abundant Skeinoid Fibers: A Rare Case Report with Insights from a Comprehensive Literature Review" was published in Diagnostics. April 2025
•Michael Webber's, "Time of Death Estimation in Forensic Pathology: A Brief Assessment of Methods and Reliability" was published in WIREs Forensic Science. April 2025
• Ayesha Younus', "Eosinophilic vacuolated tumor (of kidney)" was published in Pathology Outlines. February 2025
• Asra Feroze accepted a gynecologic pathology fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Foundation (2026).
•Haibo Wang accepted a breast pathology fellowhsip at Yale University (2026).
•Angelle Jolly's, "Death Due to Embolic Renal Cell Carcinoma", selected as a Blue Ribbon Finalist for oral presentation at ASCP 2024.
•Ayesha Younus', “Diagnostic And Post-Therapeutic Histopathology Of Hansen’s Disease in a Man With
Rheumatoid Arthritis", selected as a Blue Ribbon Finalist at ASCP 2024.
•"Prediction of Final Gleason Score in Radical Prostatectomy Utilizing Global Gleason Score, Highest Gleason Score and Largest Volume Gleason Score Parameters in Needle Core Biopsies", authors: Dr. Asra Feroze, Dr. Julia Rivera, Dr. Yu Liu,Dr. Haibo Wang, Dr. Ritu Bhalla, was not only presented in the Stowell-Orbison award category of posters but was selected as the first 6 best posters by the AIPNA (Association of Indian Pathologists in North America). USCAP 2024
• Yu Liu's "Blastoma of the digestive system in adults: A review," accepted for publication in the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery as the first author. 2024
•Michael Webber accepted a forensic pathology fellowship at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (2025).
•Michael Webber, DO and Jihuan Chen, MD, PhD, announced as 2024 Chief Residents.
•Zaid Khreefa's "Pathogenesis and Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the Intestine, Liver, and Pancreas" published in the Cells Journal and selected as the cover. January 2023
•Julia Rivera's "Sertoli Cell Nodule" was published in Pathology Outlines (2023)
• Liz Yang accepted a gastrointestinal pathology fellowship at University of Rochester, New York (2025).
•Jihuan Chen accepted a gastrointestinal pathology fellowship at UC Irvine (2025).
• Jihuan Chen's poster, "A Rare Case of Primary Cardiac T-Cell Lymphoma in Immunocompetent Adult", selected as a blue ribbon finalist in the Case Study Category, ASCP 2022
• Michael Webber's poster, "Benign Multicystic Peritoneal Mesothelioma as a Rare Cause of Death", selected as a blue ribbon finalist in the Case Study Category, ASCP 2022.
• Zaid Khreefa's poster on ‘Liver Injury in COVID-19: Direct Evidence of Hepatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Associated Histopathologic Findings', selected as ‘Third Place' in the Junior Member Abstracts for the CAP22 Annual Meeting (October 2022).
• Christopher Girardo, nominated as UMC Outstanding Resident of the Year (2021-2022).
• Liz Yang, nominiated as UMC Outstanding Intern of the Year (2021-2022).
• Dr. Ritu Bhalla-recipient of the UMC Attending Physician of the Quarter Award (January 2022).