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Past Fellows

Vidya Nagrale, MBBS (2022-2023)

Medical School: MBBS, Seth G.S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India, 1991-1996
Residency:  Microbiology, Seth GS Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India, 2001-2004
Residency: AP/CP, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, 2010-2014
Fellowship: Oncologic Surgical Pathology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., 2014-2015
Current Positio​n: Interviewing for academic position


Jhanvi Kanotra, portrait

Jhanvi Kanotra, MBBS (2021-2022)

MBBS:  Government Medical College, Srinagar, India, 2000-2006
Residency:  Family Medicine, Shanti Mukand Hospital, New Delhi
Residency:  AP/CP, Louisiana State University Health Center, New Orleans, 2016-2019; University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, 2019-2020
Current Position:  Clinical Pathology Faculty, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
 


Rachel Starks, portrait

Rachel Starks, MD, PhD (2021-2022)

Graduate School: BS, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., 2000-2006
Medical School: MD, University of Kansas, Kan., 2010-2014
Residency: AP/CP, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, 2014-2018
Fellowship: Surgical Pathology Fellowship, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 2018-2019
Current Position: Faculty, Sanford Imagenetics, Sioux Falls, S.D.


Jon Thomason, MD

Jon Thomason, MD (2019-2020)

Graduate School: BS, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., 2000-2006
Medical School: MD, University of Kansas, Kan., 2010-2014
Residency: AP/CP, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, 2014-2018
Fellowship: Surgical Pathology Fellowship, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa 2018-2019
Current Position:  Pathologist, MAWD Pathology, Lenexa, Kans.


Harry Porterfield, DO (2018-2019)

Medical School: DO, Rocky Vista University, Parker, Colo., 2007-2012
Residency: AP/CP, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, 2012-2016
Fellowship: Medical Microbiology Fellowship, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, 2016-2017;
VA Quality Scholar Fellowship, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Health System, Iowa City, Iowa, 2017-2018
Current Position: Pathologist, National Institutes of Health, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, Md.


Shahanawaz Jiwani

Shahanawaz “DJ” Jiwani, MBBS, PhD (2017-2018)

Medical School: Jawahar Medical Foundation's Annasaheb Chudaman Patil Memorial Medical College, Dhule, India, 2000-2005
MS/PhD: University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla., 2007-2012
Residency: AP/CP, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Ark., 2013-2017
Current Position: Faculty, National Institute of Health/National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Md.


Brian Chang

Briang Chang, MD (2016-2017)

Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2008
Residency: University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, 2011-2015
Fellowship: Chemical Pathology, William Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, Mich., 2015-2016
Current Position: Pathologist, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston


Kimberly Cole, MD (2015-2016)

Medical School: State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, College of Medicine, Syracuse, N.Y., 2006
Residency: AP/CP, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 2006-2010
Fellowship: Breast Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 2010-2011
Current Position: Pathologist, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit


Jacqueline Lekostaj, MD, PhD (2014-2015)

Doctorate: Tumor Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, 2008
Medical School: Georgetown University, School of Medicine, Washington, 2010
Residency: AP/CP, McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, 2010-2014
Current Position: Pathologist, Genoptix, Carlsbad, Calif.


Ling Gao, MD (2013-2014)

Medical School: Shandong Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China, 1985
Residency: Internal Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Shandong Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China, 1987;
Anatomic Pathology, University of Chicago Hospital, Chicago, 2011-2012
Fellowship: Cytopathology, University of Chicago Hospital, 2012-2013
Current Position: Pathologist, Chicago


Anthony Snow, MD (2012-2013)

Medical School: Creighton University, School of Medicine, Omaha, Neb., 2008
Residency: AC/CP, Wake Forest University, Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C., 2012
Fellowship: Surgical Pathology, Brown University, Providence, R.I., 2013-2014
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Department of Pathology, Iowa City, Iowa


Gabriel Caponetti

Gabriel Caponetti, MD (2011-2012)

Medical School: University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003
Residency: AP/CP, Baystate Medical Center, Tufts University, School of Medicine, Springfield, Mass., 2009
Fellowship: Hematopathology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Neb., 2011
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Neb.