Welcome to Penn State Hershey Pathology
The Department of Pathology includes the Divisions of Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology and Experimental Pathology. Faculty members’ expertise covers the full spectrum of major pathology subspecialties in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. Faculty in Experimental Pathology include highly successful scientists who have made significant contributions to our understanding of skin pigmentation, cancer genomics, viral oncogenesis, cancer detection, DNA mutagenesis, and polycystic ovary disease.
Faculty members participate in four major categories of activities:
- Providing direct patient care by contributing to diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of a variety of samples.
- Medical and scientific direction of the clinical laboratories with responsibility for providing high quality laboratory data in a cost-effective and timely fashion.
- Teaching students, residents, physicians, and paramedical personnel about pathologic evaluation of disease and the applications of laboratory medicine to patient care.
- Developing new knowledge about the pathogenesis of disease and its classification and prognostic evaluation.
The educational experience for residents consists of a rich and diverse mixture of experiential and didactic clinical learning experiences that prepare trainees for Board certification and future practice in an academic, private practice, or commercial laboratory setting. More...
Department Directories/Resources
The test requirements listed in our Laboratory Service Manual can be found at the following link:
TEST REQUIREMENTS
The critical test results defined by the laboratory and approved by the Medical Staff Executive Committee can be found at the following link:
CRITICAL TEST RESULTS
- College of American Pathologists (CAP)
- United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP)
- American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP)
- Association of Clinical Scientists (ACS)
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
- American Association of Blood Banks (AABB)
- American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI)
- Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)
- Association of Pathology Chairs (APC)
- Program Directors Section of APC (PRODS)
- Group for Research in Pathology Education (GRIPE)
To view information about our current open faculty positions, please click on the corresponding link.
- 31174 Staff Physician – Anatomic Pathology Department
- 30538 Staff Physician – Anatomic Pathology Department
- 30541 Staff Physician – Anatomic Pathology Department
- 30543 Staff Physician – Anatomic Pathology Department
Applications or recommendations for candidates should be submitted to:
Dani S. Zander, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Pathology, H083
Penn State M.S. Hershey Medical Center
Penn State College of Medicine
500 University Drive, P.O. Box 850
Hershey, PA, 17033
Email: dzander@hmc.psu.edu
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