ARUP Hematopathologists at ASH 2022

ARUP is a national and academic, nonprofit reference laboratory with advanced hematology testing.

Meet Our Hematopathologists

Tracy I. George, MD

President and Chief Scientific Officer; Medical Director of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties: Systemic mastocytosis and myeloid/lymphoid neoplasms with eosinophilia

Internationally recognized expert in mast cell disease
President of the International Society for Laboratory Hematology
2014 recipient of the College of American Pathologists Lifetime Achievement Award

Kristi J. Smock, MD

Chief Medical Director of Research and Development in Traditional Laboratory Medicine; Medical Director of Hemostasis/Thrombosis Laboratory, ARUP Laboratories
Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties: Hemostasis/thrombosis (anticoagulant drug measurement tests, lupus anticoagulant testing, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia [HIT], and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura [TTP])

American Society for Clinical Pathology 40 Under Forty Honoree
President of the North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory Association
Vice Chair of the College of American Pathologists Hemostasis and Thrombosis Committee
Treasurer of the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Societies of North America
Leads ARUP’s research efforts in coagulation, flow cytometry, and transfusion medicine

Jay L. Patel, MD, MBA

Executive Director, PharmaDx and Clinical Trials, ARUP Laboratories
Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties: Myeloid neoplasms and molecular diagnostics

Renowned expert on the applications of next generation sequencing technologies in the diagnosis and prognostication of hematolymphoid malignancies and benign hematologic disorders
Savant in the management and development of companion diagnostics

Peng Li, MD, PhD

Medical Director of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Assistant Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties: BCR-ABL1 testing, hereditary myelodysplastic syndromes, and acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

Contributor to recent groundbreaking research on diagnostic pathways for DDX41-associated myeloid neoplasms

Robert S. Ohgami, MD, PhD

Chief Medical Director of Research and Development in Integrated Oncology and Genetics, ARUP Laboratories
Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties: Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasms

Associate Editor for Frontiers in Oncology
Contributing author for the World Health Organization (WHO) 2022 Hematopathology Blue Book
Berard-Dorfman Founders Award, Society for Hematopathology

Archana Mishra Agarwal, MD

Medical Director of Hematopathology and Special Genetics, ARUP Laboratories
Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties: Hemolytic anemias

Research interests in hemolytic anemias and approaches to anemia, laboratory diagnosis of hemoglobinopathies and thalassemias, and special genetics

Madhu P. Menon, MD, PhD, FCAP

Medical Director of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties: Mature B- and T-cell lymphomas

First author of a research publication that describes the pathology and molecular characteristics of primary central nervous system (CNS) T-cell lymphoma, a rare entity
Publications in Blood and the Journal of Clinical Investigation on erythropoietin signaling and the JAK-STAT pathway
Research interests in indolent lymphoma prognosis using molecular profiling of the diagnostic tumor sample; circulating tumor DNA

Abdulrahman Saadalla, MB, BCh

Medical Director of Immunology Core Lab and Coagulation, ARUP Laboratories
Assistant Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties: Immunology and coagulation

Our hematopathologists also serve as faculty members at the University of Utah School of Medicine and provide consultations on difficult-to-diagnosis cases, including appropriate testing and result interpretation.

Full biographies of our hematopathologists can be found here.

Tracy I. George, MD
President and Chief Scientific Officer; Medical Director of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Archana Mishra Agarwal, MD
Medical Director of Hematopathology and Special Genetics, ARUP Laboratories
Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Peng Li, MD, PhD
Medical Director of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Assistant Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Madhu P. Menon, MD, PhD, FCAP
Medical Director of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Robert S. Ohgami, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Director, Research and Development in Integrated Oncology and Genetics, ARUP Laboratories
Professor of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Jay L. Patel, MD, MBA
Executive Director, PharmaDx and Clinical Trials, ARUP Laboratories
Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Allison F. Carey, MD, PhD
Medical Director of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Timothy Hanley, MD, PhD
Medical Director of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Jeffrey R. Jacobsen, MD
Medical Director of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Kristin Hunt Karner, MD
Medical Director of Hematopathology and Molecular Oncology, ARUP Laboratories
Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Rodney R. Miles, MD, PhD
Section Chief of Hematopathology, ARUP Laboratories
Professor of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Karen A. Moser, MD
Medical Director of Hematopathology and Hemostasis/Thrombosis Laboratory
Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

David P. Ng, MD, FCAP, BSEE
Medical Director of Hematopathology and Hematologic Flow Cytometry, ARUP Laboratories
Assistant Professor (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Anton Rets, MD, PhD
Medical Director of Hematopathology and the Immunohistochemistry Laboratory, ARUP Laboratories
Assistant Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Anna M. Shestakova, MD, PhD
Medical Director of Hematopathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology
Assistant Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Margaret Williams, MD
Medical Director of Hematopathology
Assistant Professor of Pathology (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

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