Atlas of Hematopathology

Dr. Faramarz Naeim is Professor Emeritus of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. He graduated from Tehran University School of Medicine and received his training in Pathology at Mallory Institute of Pathology, Boston City Hospital and Department of Pathology at UCLA School of Medicine. He has provided clinical services as a hematopathologist for 43 years, 30 years at UCLA, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and 13 years at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Naeim has published several books and book chapters in hematopathology and numerous articles in peer review journals. Dr. Rao is an established Elsevier author. Current projects include analysis of cytogenetic abnormalities in Paget's disease patients and analyzing the mouse karyotypes for identifying XXY males among the offspring of female chimeras from embryonic stem-cells. His cytogenetics laboratory is a training site for interested residents, fellows and medical students. Dr. Sophie Song is a practicing board-certified hematopathologist. Dr. Song has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, post-doctoral training in Cellular Immunology, and in-depth technical knowledge in flow cytometry that was developed while working as a research scientist at Biotech industry. Following her research experiences, Dr. Song completed her Pathology residency and Hematopathology fellowship at UCLA, and became faculty member at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCLA in 2003. Since 2005, she has served as the Director of Clinical Flow Cytometry and Bone Marrow Laboratories at UCLA. Dr. Ryan T. Phan is a prolific author who has published in many leading academic journals, including Nature, Nature Immunology, Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Pathology. He received his B.A. in Biochemistry from University of California at Berkeley and Ph.D. in Cancer Genetics from Columbia University, New York. He completed his post-doctoral training in Cancer Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr Phan is the Director of Molecular Pathology and Cytogenetics Laboratory at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. He also serves as the Director of Pathology Residency Program at VA Los Angeles Medical Center.