Pathology Informatics at MGH is led by John Gilbertson MD, Associate Chief of Pathology and Director of Pathology Informatics. It is organized into a service arm, a fellowship program and fourteen, fully independent faculty members, each with independent research facilities, funding and points of view. Major centers of research interest include:

• Pathology Imaging

• Integration of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Systems

• Pathology support for bio-repositories

• Cancer Outcomes

• Pathology communications across the entire total testing cycle, especially at the key levers of test ordering, interpretation and outcomes

Pathology Informatics Fellowship @ MGH

MGH supports a formal, clinical fellowship in Pathology Informatics. Information is available at the education section of our web site.

Pathology Informatics Faculty @ MGH

The interests of our faculty range across the entire spectrum of pathology informatics. Each faculty member has independent facilities and funding. While most of our faculty are based at MGH, several of our faculty are based in other institutions and are related through shared collaborations, projects and systems. Our faculty includes:

John Gilbertson, MD

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Chief, Pathology Service
Director of Pathology Informatics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Gilbertson's faculty page

Dr. Gilbertson is Director of the Division of Pathology Informatics and the Pathology Informatics Fellowship Program. His research interests include imaging, robotics, pathology support for translational research, outcomes and LIS development. He is a member of DICOM WG 26, the HL7 Pathology SIG and co-director of the annual APIII Conference.

View a recent presentation by Dr. Gilbertson.

Anand Dighe, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director of the MGH Core Laboratory
Assistant Director of Pathology Informatics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Dighe's faculty page

Dr. Dighe’s expertise is in the development of information and decision support systems that supplement the LIS’s functionality across the entire total testing cycle. His research and development projects focus on the role of the clinical lab at order entry and result interpretation, web-based applications for clinician education, the role of search engines in clinical information systems, the role of informatics in laboratory management, the development of expert systems for laboratory test selection. He is the leader of the on-line laboratory handbook system.

View a recent presentation by Dr. Dighe.

James Michaelson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Departments of Surgical Oncology and Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Michaelson's faculty page

Dr. Michaelson is Director of Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine and LifeMath.net at MGH. His group has expertise in the development and management of long term outcomes data and the use of that data in preventive medicine, analysis of cancer survival and health communications.

View a recent presentation by Dr. Michaelson.

Kamran Badizadegan, MD

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Pathologist, Gastrointestinal and Pediatric Pathology,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Affiliated Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
Dr. Badizadegan's faculty page

Dr. Badizadegan’s collaboration with the G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory at MIT focuses on the use of optical spectroscopy in the diagnosis of neoplastic lesions in humans, as well as developing optical spectroscopic methods for the study of cells and cellular functions in vitro.
           
Gary J. Tearney, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Department of Dermatology and Pathology
Faculty, MGH Wellman Center for Photomedicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Tearney's faculty page

Dr. Tearney's research at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine has contributed substantially to a new imaging modality, optical coherence tomography (OCT). OCT provides cross-sectional images of tissue microstructure at a resolution of 10 µm. In addition, his lab is developing an endoscopic confocal microscopy system that is capable of obtaining images at a resolution of 1.0 µm through an endoscope accessory port.

David C. Wilbur, MD

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Director Cytopathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr Wilbur's faculty page

Dr Wilbur is Director of Cytopathology at MGH. His Cytopathology Imaging Facility focuses in the development and implementation of computerization in cytopathology, including automated screening, telecytology, whole slide imaging in cytology including validation of instrumentation and protocols.

Yukako Yagi, PhD

Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr, Yagi's faculty page

Dr, Yagi is Director of the Histopathology Imaging Facility at MGH. The facility has extensive experience in pathology image capture and telepathology, and works with academic and industrial partners to develop a wide range of image capture, management, display and analysis applications and implement them in pathology practice.

Bruce A. Beckwith, MD

Chief of Laboratory Medicine
Department of Pathology
North Shore Medical Center, Salem, MA

Dr. Beckwith is Chief of Laboratory Medicine at North Shore Medical Center, a hospital of the Partners HealthCare System. He has extensive experience in operational informatics, bio-repository informatics and pathology imaging. He is the Chairman of DICOM Working Group 26 (Pathology) and is a member of the CAP Informatics Committee.

View a recent presentation by Dr. Beckwith.

Frank Kuo, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director of Pathology Information Technology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Kuo is a molecular pathologist and Director of Pathology Information Technology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has extensive experience in operational informatics, data management. He is Director of the Harvard VSL program and member of the executive council of the MGH Pathology Informatics Fellowship Program.

Lynn Bry, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Medical Director, Clinical Laboratories
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Bry is an expert in tissue collection and bio-repositories and the Director of the Crimson Bio-Specimen Core in the Partners HealthCare System. She is also the founder of the Mad Scientist Network, a web based "ask a scientist" service that has been active since 1995.

View a recent presentation by Dr. Bry.

Mark Boguski, MD, PhD

Academic Rank Pending
Director of Pathology Informatics
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Boguski has recently joined the staff of Beth Israel Deaconess and the Harvard Center for Biomedical Informatics from the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research where he launched a new division of Genome and Proteome Sciences. He is the former Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Rosetta Inpharmatics (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co.) and the founding Director of the (Paul) Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.