Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, MD, PhD, was born in Ancona, Italy. From 2004 until 2018, she served as Director of Genitourinary Pathology in the Department of Pathology at Cleveland Clinic. She was also Professor of Pathology at the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
She is board-certified in anatomic pathology with many clinical interests, including benign and pre-neoplastic (HGPIN) conditions of the prostate gland, prostate cancer, bladder and kidney cancer.
Dr. Al Diffalha is an American Board Certified Anatomic/Clinical pathologist. He completed his gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and pancreas pathology fellowship training at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer center and Tampa General Hospital in Tampa FL 2016-2017 as well as general surgical pathology fellowship training at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center between 2015-2016 with breast focus. Dr. Al Diffalha achieved his residency training in Anatomic and clinical pathology at Loyola University Medical Center (LU...
Virginia Duncan, M.D., a graduate and chief resident in the UAB Anatomic Pathology Residency, will join the division as Assistant Professor. Board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, she completed her fellowship in Pediatric and Perinatal Pathology at the University of Washington. Her research interests focus on pediatric pathology; specifically the clinicopathologic aspects of entities spanning the perinatal period from fetus to neonate.
Dr. Fatima was born and raised in Pakistan. She received her MBBS degree from Rawalpindi Medical College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan and was an officer in medicine and surgery, 6 months each, in Pakistan. Afterwards, she came to the United States to complete her residency in pathology at the University of Toledo, Toledo Ohio (2002-2006) followed by fellowships in cytology (2006-2007) at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI and renal pathology (2009-2011) at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Du...
Dina Kokh, M.D., is a board certified anatomic and clinical pathologist and cytopathologist. She completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Maryland, followed by a fellowship in cytopathology. Kokh subsequently a pursued fellowship in gynecologic pathology at Stanford University. Her research interests include gynecologic and breast pathology/cytopathology.
Diana Lin, M.D., joins the division as an assistant professor whose research interests focus on cytopathology and head and neck pathology. This includes molecular characterization of thyroid tumors, specifically focusing on the sequencing of cytologic smears. Lin completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Rush University Medical Center and a cytopathology fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, MD, PhD, was born in Ancona, Italy. From 2004 until 2018, she served as Director of Genitourinary Pathology in the Department of Pathology at Cleveland Clinic. She was also Professor of Pathology at the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
She is board-certified in anatomic pathology with many clinical interests, including benign and pre-neoplastic (HGPIN) conditions of the prostate gland, prostate cancer, bladder and kidney cancer.
I am a board-certified gynecologic pathologist with 21-year expertise in light-, immunofluorescence-, and high-resolution confocal-microscopy. I work as a staff pathologist at the UAB hospital and examine surgical tissues and provide the diagnoses. In my research projects, I have been involved in numerous collaborative studies and evaluated human, mouse and rat tissues. Pathologic findings have ranged from bacterial and viral infection, immune complex deposition and histopathology of female repr...
Assistant Professor
Medical Director of the Immunohstochemistry Laboratory of the UAB Pathology Department
Dr. Siegal was born in New York where he attended college. He received his medical degree from the University of Louisville and his PhD from the University of Minnesota. He was a Resident and Research Fellow at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and completed both a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, NIH and a surgical pathology fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Prior to coming to UAB in 1990, he was a tenured faculty member at the University of North Carolina ...
I'm a Board-certified anatomic and clinical pathologist practicing general surgical pathology, in particular head and neck and gynecologic pathology. I am interested and active in resident education.
Leonard H. Robinson Award for Excellence in Resident Education in Anatomic Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2016. Hal G. Lankford Pathology Resident Award, Dept. of Pathology, Creighton University Medical Center, 2012
Jessica Tracht, M.D., is a UAB Pathology graduate who completed a fellowship in cytopathology at UAB and served as chief resident in clinical pathology at our program. Subsequently, she pursued a gastrointestinal pathology fellowship at Emory University. Tracht is interested in clinical research in cytopathology and gastrointestinal tumors. She has a special interest in pancreatic neoplasms, and in developing optimal screening parameters for cervical cancer screening.
Dr. Wei obtained his M.D. from China Medical University (Shenyang, China) and received his Ph.D. from Okayama University in Japan. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, Missouri) prior to coming to UAB, where he finished his pathology residency followed by a surgical pathology fellowship. He obtained additional clinical subspecialty training at Emory, Mt. Sinai and Harvard Universities. Dr. Wei is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical ...
