Residency and Fellowship Programs

Pathology Residency Program

Bhalla photo

 

Ritu Bhalla, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology 
Associate Professor of Urology
Program Director, Pathology Residency

 

 

Department of Pathology
2021 Perdido St., 7th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
Email: rbhall@lsuhsc.edu

 

 

Degrees

Education:

GSVM Medical College, Kanpur,India

Residency:

Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Summa Health System,Akron, OH
 

Fellowships:

1. GU Pathology at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI  2011
2. Surgical Pathology at Hartford Hospital,CT 2006
3. Cytopathology at Emory University Hospital,GA  2005

                                                                                       

Specialties

Genito-urinary Pathology
Cytopathology
General Surgical Pathology

 

Interests

Genito-urinary Pathology
Cytopathology

 

Affiliated Hospitals

UMCNO
Our Lady of the Angels
Lallie Kemp
New Orleans East Hospital
LSU St. Charles Clinic

 

Selected Publications and Presentations

Han B, Bhalla R, Lameira F, Vander Heide R, Love G. COVID-19 Autopsies and Personal Protective Equipment. Letter to editor. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. PMID: 32520590 DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2020-0341-LE.

Mehra R. Salami S, Lonigro R, Bhalla R, Siddiqui J, Cao X, Spratt DE, Palapattu G, Palanisamy N, Chinnaiyan AM, Tomlins SA.  Association of ERG/PTEN status with biochemical recurrence after radial prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer. Med Oncol. 2018 Oct 5;35(12):152. DOI: 10.1007/s12032-018-1212-6

Hicks C, Ramani R, Sartor O, Bhalla R, Miele L, Dlamini Z and Gumede N. An Integrative Genomics Approach for Associating Genome-Wide Association Studies Information With Localized and Metastatic Prostate Cancer Phenotypes. Biomark Insights. 2017 Mar 16;12:eCollection 2017

Girardo C, Fakhri N, Khokhar H, Jetly R, Bhalla R. CDX2 Expression in Primary and Metastatic Prostatic Adenocarcinoma: A Retrospective Study.  Poster Presentation ASCP 2020

Fakhri N, Bhalla R, Leiomyosarcoma of urinary bladder, a review of two cases.  Accepted for poster presentation ASCP 2020