Director Ashraf Khan, MD

The section of surgical pathology is one of the largest components of Anatomic Pathology, with some 25 attending pathologist having subspecialty expertise complimented by nearly 40 other personnel. The section is equipped with state of the art laboratories and accessions approximately 60,000 specimens per year of diverse type. At our daily consensus conference faculty bring their challenging cases to discuss with colleagues

We provide surgical pathology diagnostic service to UMass Memorial Health system hospitals, its community affiliates and clinics and many other private practice physician groups in central Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Our Mission is to:

• Provide the highest quality of patient care and the most accurate diagnosis
• Maximize our clinical efficiency and provide shortest possible turn around time for the surgical pathology specimens processed in our laboratory
• Serve as consultants to our clinical colleagues and maintain effective and proper communication with them
• Advance clinical and translational research
• Train future generations of pathologists by supporting our residency and fellowship programs