David P. Ng, MD, FCAP

Associate Professor (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties

• Hematopathology
• Flow cytometry
• Machine learning

Education

• Medical Degree—University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
• Residency—Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Fellowship—Hematopathology, University of Washington

Certification/Affiliations

• American Board of Pathology (Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Hematology)

Research Interests

• Minimal residual disease testing
• Clinical flow cytometry
• Deep learning applications in flow cytometry
• Natural language processing
• Automated quality control

Awards

• Janis Giorgi Young Investigator Award, International Clinical Cytometry Society
• The John H. Rippey Grant for Laboratory Quality Assurance

Recent Publications

• Zuromski LM, Durtschi J, Aziz A, et al. Clinical validation of a real-time machine learning-based system for the detection of acute myeloid leukemia by flow cytometry. Cytometry B Clin Cytom. 2025. Published online Feb 2025.
• Spies NC, Rangel A, English P, et al. Machine learning methods in clinical flow cytometry. Cancers (Basel). 2025;17(3):483.
• Davis PM, Ravkov E, de Geus M, et al. Synthetic abnormal mast cell particles successfully mimic neoplastic mast cells by flow cytometry. Cytometry B Clin Cytom. 2024;106(6):437-447.
• Dinalankara W, Ng DP, Marchionni L, et al. Comparison of three machine learning algorithms for classification of B-cell neoplasms using clinical flow cytometry data. Cytometry B Clin Cytom. 2024;106(4):282-293.
• Ng DP, Simonson PD, Tarnok A, et al. Recommendations for using artificial intelligence in clinical flow cytometry. Cytometry B Clin Cytom. 2024;106(4):228-238.
• Vander Mause ER, Baker JM, Dietze KA, et al. Systematic single amino acid affinity tuning of CD229 CAR T cells retains efficacy against multiple myeloma and eliminates on-target off-tumor toxicity. Sci Transl Med. 2023;15(705):eadd7900.
• Kuceki G, Nguyen C, Ng D, et al. Oral diffuse large B-cell lymphoma presenting as a bland nodule. JAAD Case Rep. 2023;36:34-37.
• Gociman S, Wada DA, Bowen AR, et al. Young woman with annular and purpuric plaques in the setting of high fevers: answer. Am J Dermatopathol. 2023;45(5):344-345.
• Gociman S, Wada DA, Bowen AR, et al. Young woman with annular and purpuric plaques in the setting of high fevers: challenge. Am J Dermatopathol. 2023;45(5):e32-e34.
• Ng DP, Karner KH. BCR-ABL1 (p210) transcript kinetics. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2022;146(9):1140-1143.
• Ng DP, Miles RR, Anderson EF, et al. Flow cytometry is more sensitive than fluorescence in situ hybridization for detecting minimal residual disease. Am J Clin Pathol. 2021;156(4):715-716.
• Ng DP. Flow cytometric myeloma measurable residual disease testing in the era of targeted therapies. Int J Lab Hematol. 2021;43 Suppl 1:71-77.
• Ng DP, Zuromski LM. Augmented human intelligence and automated diagnosis in flow cytometry for hematologic malignancies. Am J Clin Pathol. 2021;155(4):597-605.