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Diagnostic Workup After Referral

Natasha Rekhtman  
Speaker of: Diagnostic Workup After Referral
Dr. Rekhtman received a Bachelor’s degree from New York University (New York, NY) and an MD, PhD degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY) with the Alpha Omega Alpha distinction and the award from the American Medical Women Association. She completed residency in pathology and a fellowship in surgical pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD), followed by a cytopathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC, New York, NY). After completing training in 2008, she joined MSKCC as a thoracic pathologist and cytopathologist, where she currently serves as an Attending Pathologist. Dr. Rekhtman’s research focuses on histopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular aspects of thoracic tumors, with the goal to advance the diagnostic criteria and define clinically relevant subsets and biomarkers. She has a special interest in investigating characteristics of lung carcinomas defined by specific genomic alterations and neuroendocrine cancers. Dr. Rekhtman has published over 150 papers and multiple book chapters. She is the main editor and author of the book titled “Quick Reference Handbook for Surgical Pathologists”, the 2nd edition of which was published in 2019. Dr. Rekhtman has been an invited speaker at multiple national and international conferences, and serves as a co-director of the annual MSKCC/Massachusetts General Hospital course on thoracic pathology. She is a member of the NCI Steering Committee for Thoracic Malignancies and International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer pathology panel, among others. She is a member of Editorial Boards of several journals, and serves as an Associated Editor at Modern Pathology.
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