Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship

Rama Gullapalli, MD, PhD
Dr. Rama Gullapalli is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Gullapalli completed his clinical pathology residency and molecular genetic pathology fellowship from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and trained under Dr. Jeffrey Kant. Dr. Gullapalli is triple board-certified in clinical pathology, molecular genetic pathology and clinical informatics from the American Board of Pathology. Dr. Gullapalli is an enthusiastic educator and, as the Director of the Molecular Genetic Pathology (MGP) Fellowship program, seeks to create translational research project opportunities for interested MGP fellows to pursue during the fellowship. Dr. Gullapalli is a physician-scientist whose research interests focus on understanding the environmental drivers of hepatobiliary diseases (focusing on cadmium heavy metal toxicology and plastic pollution). Dr. Gullapalli has expertise in optical engineering, clinical molecular diagnostics and clinical/translational bioinformatics.

Devon Chabot-Richards, MD
Dr. Chabot-Richards received her MD degree from the University of New Mexico, where she also completed her Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency and fellowships in Hematopathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology. She is currently Medical Director of the Molecular Diagnostics and Oncology Laboratory and Associate Director of the Transplant and Histocompatibility Laboratory at TriCore Reference Laboratories. Dr. Chabot-Richards, an enthusiastic teacher of residents and fellows, is the department Vice-Chair for Education. 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.

Bonnie Carmichael, MD
Dr. Carmichael received her medical school degree from the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. This was followed by a Pathology AP/CP residency and a Cytopathology Fellowship at the University of New Mexico. She completed her Molecular Pathology fellowship at the University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. She currently works with the Pathology Associates of Albuquerque (PAA) and serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Practice. Additionally, Dr. Carmicheal has been the laboratory medical director at Plains Regional Medical Center since 2008 and has served as a medical director at four other rural hospital labs in New Mexico. Dr. Carmichael brings extensive experience in lab directorship to the program and serves as a valuable resource for community and private pathology practice related issues. Her clinical interests include Surgical Pathology, Molecular Pathology, Cytopathology, and Clinical Pathology. 

Karissa Culbreath, PhD, D(ABMM)
Dr. Culbreath is an Associate Professor and Director of Infectious Disease, Research and Development at TriCore Reference Laboratories. Her interests include medical microbiology and immunity, infectious diseases(research and diagnostics), and infectious diseases diagnostics capacity development in international and domestic resource-limited settings.

David Czuchlewski, MD, MEd
Dr. Czuchlewski received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his MD from the Icahn 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 practices both hematopathology and molecular genetic pathology and serves as the medical director of the Cytogenetics laboratory at TriCore Reference Laboratories. Dr. Czuchlewski has received multiple teaching awards and is the co-author of several textbooks, including Foucar's Bone Marrow Pathology 3rd edition and Blood and Bone Marrow Pathology 4th edition.

Amer Mahmoud, MD
Dr. Mahmoud graduated from Jordan University of Science and Technology Medical School. He completed residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at University of Tennessee in Memphis, followed by fellowships in hematopathology, molecular genetic pathology and surgical pathology at UNM. He currently works at Pathology Associates of Albuquerque (PAA) and is a clinical associate professor at UNM. He serves as medical director of hematology at the core TriCore Reference Laboratory as well as multiple other Presbyterian health care system labs serving urgent care sites and a critical access hospital. Dr. Mahmoud has over 15 years of experience with CAP lab accreditation program that includes performing numerous CAP inspections, acting as the New Mexico State Commissioner, and serving on the CAP Checklists Committee.

Jordan Redemann, MD
Dr. Redemann received his undergraduate degrees and MD from the University of Oklahoma. He completed residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of New Mexico followed by fellowships in Hematopathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology at UNM. His interests include digital pathology, artificial intelligence, and third generation sequencing.

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 Emeritus of Pathology. 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.

Sarah Dean, PhD
Dr. Dean received her doctorate from the University of New Mexico where she studied molecular biology and environmental microbiomes with a focus on high-throughput Next Generation Sequencing. She is currently the Assay Development Scientist for TriCore Reference Laboratory's Molecular Oncology Department, an assistant clinical professor for UNM's Department of Pathology, and adjunct faculty in the school of Math, Science, and Engineering at CNM. Her primary interests include Next Generation Sequencing and science education.

Barbara J. Masten, PhD
Dr. Masten is a Professor, Clinician Educator and Scientific Director of Histocompatibility, TriCore Reference Laboratories. Her current interests include Transplantation Immunology with an emphasis on solid organ and hematopoietic stem cells, Medical Laboratory Sciences education, and Immunology with an emphasis on dendritic cells.

Hongyan Xie, MD, PhD
Dr. Xie received her medical degree from China followed by a PhD degree from Kansas State University. She completed American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) accredited fellowships in the fields of clinical cytogenetics and clinical molecular genetics and is currently ABMGG board certified in these areas. She currently serves as the medical director of the Cytogenetics Laboratory at TriCore Reference Laboratories and also is an adjunct faculty in the UNM Department of Pathology. She seeks to educate UNM molecular fellows in the area of clinical cytogenetics.  

Joseph Kaminsky, MD
Degree: MD from University of Tennessee
AP/CP Residency: University of Tennessee

Clay Kibler, MD
Degree: MD from University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine
AP/CP Residency: The University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Vasef M and Auerbach A. Diagnostic Pathology: Molecular Oncology 3rd Edition. Elsevier; 2023 December. ISBN: 9780443112201.

Foucar K, editor. Diagnostic Pathology: Blood and Bone Marrow 3rd Edition. Elsevier; 2023 July. ISBN: 9780323878784. Contributing authors: D Babu, D Chabot-Richards, B Coffman, K Culbreath, D Czuchlewski, K Karner, M Rollins-Raval, M Vasef, and QY Zhang.

Foucar K, Reichard K, Czuchlewski D. Bone Marrow Pathology: ASCP Integrative Hematopathology Series 4. ASCP Press, Chicago 2019.