Dr. Ather Naseemuddin Clinical Department HeadDepartment of Laboratory Medicine/PathologySaint John AreaMBBS, FRCPC, American Board of Pathology Dr. Ather Naseemuddin is an American Board-certified anatomical pathologist and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and residency training from the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in India before completing his anatomic and clinical pathology residency and his fellowship training in surgical pathology and cytology in the United States of America. Education Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery – Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, India, 2002 Medical Radio-diagnosis & Anatomic Pathology Residency – Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Residency – Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, West Hospital Centre, New York, NY, 2005-08 Surgical Pathology Fellowship – Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2008 Cytopathy Fellowship – Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, 2009 American Board Certification, Anatomic Pathology, 2009 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Anatomical Pathology), 2013 Affiliate Positions Assistant Professor of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University Research Lesson learned: Intraepidermal/in situ Merkel cell carcinoma should be considered in the list of differential for cutaneous intraepidermal malignancy.Poster ASDP annual meeting 2018. Ather Naseemuddin, MD1, Mojgan Ebrahimi, MD1, Hazem Aly, MD2, Tsetan Dolkar, MD1 Melanoma with pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia and rhabdoid features: Case report of melanoma with features of two rare morphologic variants.Poster ASDP annual meeting 2018. Mojgan Ebrahimi, MD1, Ather Naseemuddin, MD1, Robert Hayes, MD2, Tsetan Dolkar, MD1 DeBakey Surgitool mechanical heart valve prosthesis, explanted at 32 years. Butany J, Naseemuddin A, Nair V, Feindel CM.Cardiovasc Pathol. 2004 Nov-Dec; 13(6): 345-6. Cardiac tumors: diagnosis and management. Butany J, Nair V, Naseemuddin A, Nair GM, Catton C, Yao T,Lancet Oncol. 2005 Apr; 6(4):219-28. Infective Endocarditis in a Hancock bioprosthetic heart valve. Butany J, Naseemuddin A, Nair V, Borger MA DanielJ Card Surg. 2005 Jul-Aug; 20(4):389-92. Ochronosis and aortic valve stenosis. Butany J, Naseemuddin A, Nair V, Moshkovitz YJ Card Surg. 2006 Mar-Apr; 21(2):182-4. Poster- A Review of Prospective Audits in a Tertiary Care Hospital. AS Naseemuddin, AB Colanta, MT Friedman, Blood bank and Transfusion service, St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks, Anaheim, CA Oct 2007. Clinical Interests Forensic pathology and dermatopathology Process improvement in laboratory medicine