I am a board-certified pathologist with >25-year experience in light-, immunofluorescence-, and high-resolution confocal microscopy. I worked as a staff pathologist at the UAB Hospital and HSF for 18 years. From October 2021, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology. In my research projects, I have been involved in numerous collaborative studies and evaluated human, mouse, and rat tissues. Pathologic assessments have included organs and tissues from models of bacterial and viral infection, immune-complex deposition diseases, and histopathology of female reproductive organs ranging from precancerous lesions to invasive carcinoma. My role in these studies was to evaluate and grade histopathologic changes, perform immunofluorescence staining and do high-resolution imaging studies using laser scanning confocal microscopy. Image analysis involved morphometric and colocalization studies. My previous experience involved human islet cells isolation and pre-transplant preparation, pump perfusion of rat kidney and heart, quantification of extracellular matrix in kidney and heart, acute and chronic renal rejection, and HIV-virion identification in the intestinal tissue. Most recently, I evaluated a passive mouse model of IgA nephropathy using image analysis with morphometric, densitometric, and co-localization studies.
I am offering following services through Histopathology Service Center supported by the Microbiology Department:
• Histopathologic examination of human, mouse, and rat tissues
(Bacterial and viral infection, immune-complex deposition diseases, precancerous lesions, invasive carcinoma)
• Grading of histopathologic changes in hematoxylin-eosin-stained tissues
• Evaluation of immunohistochemical staining
• Image analysis (measurement of length and area, quantification)
• High-resolution brightfield images of the tissue/lesions
• The whole slide imaging (stitching)
• Results provided in Excel sheet
• Collaboration on writing the manuscript and poster presentation
