How I Diagnose Acute Leukemia?/ Hematopathology

Dr. Sanam Loghavi

Assistant Professor, Department of Hematopathology, Division of Pathology/Lab Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Dr. Loghavi is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Department of Hematopathology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She received her M.D. degree from Islamic Azad University-Tehran Branch in 2004 after which she completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles followed by fellowship training in surgical pathology, hematopathology and molecular pathology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She joined the faculty at MD Anderson in 2015. Dr. Loghavi specialized in hematologic malignancies, in particular myeloid neoplasms and her research interests include molecular risk stratification in hematologic neoplasms and measurable residual disease detection by flow cytometry and next generation sequencing. She is the Medical Director of the ECOG/ACRIN Leukemia Bank at the Central Biorepository and Pathology Facility at MD Anderson and is a co-investigator on several national and internationally run clinical trials hematologic malignancies. Dr. Loghavi has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed original publications and review articles and multiple book chapters and serves as a reviewer for major pathology and hematology and oncology journals. She is an active member of the American Society of Hematology, the United States and Canadian Association of Pathology among other professional societies and serves on multiple national educational committees including the Education Committee for International Clinical Cytometry Society and the Hematopathology Committee for the College of American Pathologists.