Hematopathology Fellowship

David Czuchlewski, MD, MEd
Dr. Czuchlewski graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and received his MD degree from the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, followed by fellowships in hematopathology and molecular genetic pathology at UNM. He currently directs the Hematopathology Division and serves as Medical Director of the Genetics and Cytometry Laboratories at TriCore.

Dr. Czuchlewski has twice been awarded the UNM School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award for residency/fellowship education, and recently received his Master of Education in the Health Professions degree from Johns Hopkins University. He has served on education committees for the College of American Pathologists, the American Society for Clinical Pathology, and the Society for Hematopathology. Dr. Czuchlewski also co-directs the medical student Hematology course at the UNM School of Medicine.

Kathy Foucar, MD
Dr. Foucar received her BS and MD degrees from the Ohio State University, and completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at UNM and the University of Minnesota. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Pathology with over 30 years of experience in diagnostic hematopathology. She is the author/co-author or editor of thirteen books on neoplastic and non-neoplastic hematopathology, including the landmark textbook Bone Marrow Pathology, and has contributed over 120 peer-reviewed publications to the literature. A renowned teacher and diagnostician, she is a former president of the Society for Hematopathology and was recently awarded the Berard-Dorfman Founders Award from the Society for Hematopathology and the H.P.Smith Award for Distinguished Pathology Educator from the American Society for Clinical Pathology for her outstanding contributions to the field.

Carla S. Wilson, MD, PhD
Dr. Wilson received her BS degree from Cornell University and her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She completed medical training and residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at UNM, with fellowship training in hematopathology at the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA. She served on the faculty of the University of Arkansas before moving to UNM, where she is currently Medical Director of the Flow Cytometry Laboratory at TriCore. Her research has concentrated on plasma cell neoplasms and gene expression profiling of patients with acute leukemia. She is co-author of the AFIP fascicle Non-neoplastic Disorders of the Bone Marrow. Dr.Wilson is the recipient of the UNM School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award for residency/fellowship education and has served on multiple education and curriculum committees for the College of American Pathologists. She is currently a member of the Hematopathology Test Development and Advisory Committee for the American Board of Pathology.

Mohammad Vasef, MD
Dr. Vasef received his MD from the University of Tehran, and completed an anatomic and clinical pathology residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, an affiliate of Case Western Reserve University. After a fellowship in hematopathology at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, he joined the faculty of the University of Iowa, where he was co-director of the molecular pathology laboratory. At UNM he is currently Professor of Pathology and Director of the Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship program. Dr. Vasef has published widely on the application of molecular techniques in diagnostic hematopathology. He is the lead author of the textbook Molecular Oncology in the Diagnostic Pathology Series of Amirsys/Elsevier.

Qian-Yun Zhang, MD, PhD
Dr. Zhang received her medical degree from West China University of Medical Sciences/Sichuan University Medical Center and her PhD from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. After post-doctoral research at the University of Michigan, she trained in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences and at UNM, where she also completed her hematopathology fellowship. She is currently Medical Director of the University Hospital Hematology Laboratory, the clinical laboratory of the Clinical and Translational Science Center, and the Cytogenetics Laboratory at TriCore. Dr. Zhang’s major research interest is B-cell chronic leukemias. She has served on national committees for the College of American Pathologists and the Centers for Disease Control,and on the Education Committee of the International Society for Laboratory Hematology. She received the UNM School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award for her work teaching medical students, including co-directorship of the medical school Hematology course.

Marian A. Rollins-Raval, MD, MPH
Dr. Rollins-Raval graduated cum laude from Princeton University and received her MD and MPH from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency and her hematopathology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. She then joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina before being recruited to UNM, where she currently leads the Coagulation Laboratory at TriCore. She has published extensively on both hematopathology and coagulation medicine and has served on multiple national committees for the American Society for Apheresis. She is the recipient of the Phil Blatt Clinical Pathology Faculty Teaching Award at UNC.

Devon Chabot-Richards, MD
Dr. Chabot-Richards graduated cum laude from UNM, where she also received her MD degree and completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency and fellowships in hematopathology and molecular genetic pathology. She is currently Medical Director of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory and Associate Director of the Transplant and Histocompatibility Laboratory at TriCore. Dr. Chabot-Richards, an enthusiastic teacher of residents and fellows, is Associate Director of the Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship program. She has received multiple teaching awards, and has served on committees devoted to furthering resident and fellow education for the Association for Molecular Pathology and the American Society for Clinical Pathology. 

Kaia Adams, MD
Degree: MD, MS from Saba University School of Medicine, Saba, Dutch Caribbean
AP/CP Residency: South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD

Michael Franklin, DO
Degree: DO from Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine 
AP/CP Residency: University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Jordan Redemann, MD
Degree: MD from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine  
AP/CP Residency: University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Andres Mindiola Romero, MD
Degree: MD from University of Zulia School of Medicine, Maracaibo, Venezuela 
AP/CP Residency: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center