CURRENT POSITION:

Associate Pathologist, Pathology Associates of Lexington, P. A. @ Lexington Medical Center, 2720 Sunset Blvd., West Columbia, SC 29169, Telephone: 803-791-2410

MEDICAL LICENSES:

South Carolina: 26515

New York: 180062

SPECIALTY BOARDS:

Certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (November 19, 1997)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Society of Clinical Pathologists

College of American Pathologists, Laboratory Inspector, 1996-present

The New York Pathological Society

The New York Pathologists Club

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:

Class of 1983 South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, S.C., (B.S. in Biology)

POST GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:

Fellow in Surgical Pathology, 7/97-6/98 & Instructor in Pathology, Tisch University Hospital & Bellevue (New York University School of Medicine).

Resident in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology, 7/93-6/97 St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center of New York, New York, NY

Resident in General Surgery, 7/86-6/89, St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center of New York, New York.

Class of 1986, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (M.D.)

PRIOR CAREER POSITIONS:

Director of Anatomic Pathology 06/05-04/07, Downstate Clinical Laboratory (DCL)

Anatomic Pathologist, Quentin Medical Laboratory, Jacksonville, Florida 32207, 5/1/87 - 3/88

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology 1/06-12/07, Medgar Evers College (CUNY) - Biology Department, Brooklyn, NY

Attending Pathologist 4/99-7/01, 7/02-9/06, Interim Director - Anatomic Pathology, Maimonides Medical Center/Pathology Consultants of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

President and Laboratory Director, 2/00-11/04, OmegaPath Diagnostics Corporation, Utica, NY

Associate Pathologist, 7/98-3/99, Central Pathology Services, P.C., Sisters of Charity Health Care System, St. Vincent's of Staten Island.

Consultant, Hematology-Oncology Associates of St. Vincent's 1/96-7/96 (designed quality management program & operations manual for office-based hematology lab.).

MILITARY SERVICE:

7/89-7/91 Chief Medical Officer (as a general medical officer), USS Yosemite (AD-19), Lieutenant, United States Navy Medical Corps & Responsible for Primary Medical Care to crew of 800 active duty military & Director of Quality Management/Utilization Review.

8/91-6/93 Assistant Chief Medical Officer, San Diego Branch Medical Clinic @ Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy Medical Corps Quality Management/Utilization Review Services @ San Diego Naval Hospital.

PRESENTATIONS:

1. Listeria Monocytogenes Endocarditis, case presentation to the New York Pathologists Club, January, 1996, New York, NY.
2. The Changing Pattern of AIDS Defining Diseases: Autopsy Analysis of 335 Cases with Comparative Findings Between the 1980s and the 1990s. Abstract and Presentation at International Academy of Pathology Meeting, 1996.
3. Cytodiagnosis By Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) of 5 Unusual Cases of Meningioma by Cohen J-M, Chhieng D.C., Yang G, Jones R., Zagzag D, Cangiarella JF. Abstract presented to Modern Pathology Journal.

(latest CV update 1/08)