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Pediatric Pathology Fellowship

Meet Our Fellows

2024-2025
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Mary Hansen Smith, MD

Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson
Residency: Pathology Residency, Anatomic Pathology/Clinical Pathology, University of Arizona College of Medicine/Banner University Medical Center – Tucson
Previous Fellowship: Hematopathology Fellowship, University of Arizona College of Medicine/Banner University Medical Center – Tucson

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Meifang Wu, MD

Medical School: Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Residency: Pathology Residency, Anatomic Pathology/Clinical Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Past Trainees: Where Are They Now?
2023-2024
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Mireille Bitar, MD

Director, Pediatric Neuropathology, Pediatric Pathologist
Assistant professor
University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW), Dallas, Texas

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Michael W. Harrell, MD

Forensic pathologist
Forensic pathology, pediatric forensic pathology 
Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

2022-2023
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Paul Zamiara, MD

Director, Perinatal Pathology, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology
Keck School of Medicine of USC

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Cristo J. Guardado Salazar, MD

Staff Pathologist, Valley Children’s Hospital, Madera, CA

2021-2022
Moe Takeda

Moe R. Takeda, DO

Faculty, Assistant Professor, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Christopher LePhong

Christopher LePhong, DO

Staff Pathologist, Valley Children’s Hospital, Madera, CA

2020-2021
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Crystal Bockoven, MD

Staff Pathologist, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin in Madison

Roshan Mahabir

Roshan Mahabir, MD, PhD

Deputy Medical Examiner, Michigan Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine

2019-2020
Joshua Byers

Joshua Byers, MD

Neuropathologist/Pediatric Pathologist, Children’s Hospital Oakland

Murad Alturkustani

Murad Alturkustani, MD

Pediatric Pathologist, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2018-2019
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Julie Huss-Bawab, MD

Deputy Medical Examiner, Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office   
Forensic Pathology Fellowship Director, ME Office/USC

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Nishant Tawari, MD

Pediatric Pathologist/Neuropathologist, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Phoenix Children’s Hospital

2017-2018
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Fang Bu, MD

Pediatric Pathologist, Children’s Minnesota

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Chelsea Maedler-Kron, MD

Pediatric Pathologist, Assistant Professor, Residency Program Director, McGil University, Montreal, Canada