Specialty Pathology: Anatomic Facility Oakland Medical Center Department of Pathology Address Hospital Building, Ground Floor 280 W. MacArthur Blvd. Oakland CA 94611 Map & Directions Telephone 510-752-7411 Information: (510) 752-6813 Fax: (510) 752-7562

Hours

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Closed	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm	8:30 am 5:30 pm	Closed

(Laboratory Hours of Operation for Blood Drawing and Specimen Collection)

About Me

I am one of six staff pathologists at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Center. As a pathologist, I seldom interact personally with the many patients I serve. Instead, my role in healthcare is to serve as a consultant to other physicians who see patients directly. As a pathologist, I examine cells and tissues which are removed from patients. I work closely with physicians from many different medical and surgical specialities to ensure that diseases are correctly diagnosed and appropriately treated. In the course of a day, I will examine biopsies and excisions from many different locations in the body, such as the skin, the colon, the breast, and the female cervix. Here are a few examples of clinical situations in which a physician would turn to the pathologist for a diagnosis:

• A woman finds a mass in her breast. Is it a benign cyst, or is it a breast cancer?

• A man is evaluated for shortness of breath. A chest X-ray shows a mass in the lung. Is it a lung cancer, or is it a case of tuberculosis?

• A mother finds a swollen lymph node in her child’s neck. Is it because of a viral illness or a childhood cancer?

These scenarios illustrate one of the main reasons why I chose Pathology as a speciality. It provides the opportunity to participate in the care of all kinds of patients. I also felt that the practice of pathology would continue to be very interesting and intellectually challenging throughout my professional career. This has proven to be the case. My special areas of professional interest are breast pathology and gynecologic cytopathology (the interpretation of Pap smears).

I have worked at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Center since 1994, when I completed my residency and fellowship training at UCSF. In my opinion, Kaiser is a wonderful place to practice medicine because physicians are able to focus on the practice of medicine rather than business. Physicians are uniformly encouraged to provide the best possible care for their patients, and they are supported in their pursuit of clinical excellence by the leadership of the medical group.

My Credentials

Medical school	UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Residency	UC San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Fellowship	UC San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Board certification	Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical, American Board of Pathology
Board certification	Cytopathology, American Board of Pathology

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