Pathology
The pathology department has a 12-member faculty, assisted by 21 technicians, 6 clerical staff, and 12 service staff. This department provides the diagnostic services of Surgical Pathology, Cytology (including FNAC), and Autopsy pathology to the CMC Hospital, its ancillary departments, and to other private, and Government clinics and hospitals in the country. In addition, the Department is involved in teaching Pathology to students in varied medical and paramedical disciplines, as well as carrying out research studies in different areas of medicine.
Diagnostic services provide reports on over 20,000 pathology specimens, 250 autopsies, and 10,000 cytology specimens (including FNACs) annually. The Department has facilities for intra-operative consultation with a frozen section and Stereotactic biopsy service, histochemistry, immunocytochemistry, immunoflourescence, DNA flowcytometry, and also plans to soon develop facilities for molecular cytogenetics. The consultant staff include those with special interrest, experience, and expertise in Gastrointestinal pathology, Haematopathology, Hepatic pathology, Dermatopathology, Ophthalmic pathology, Nephropathology, and Neuropathology.
The Department provides inservice training to postgraduate resident trainees in pathology (intake of two trainees per year for a three-year course) providing a rich experience of a wide variety of disorders seen in the tropics. Postgraduate trainees of other specialities (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiotherapy, Dermatology, Hematology, Clinical Pathology, and Microbiology) also spend varying periods of time in pathology.
Research
Research interests and contributions have chiefly been in the field of leprosy, neuphropathology, neurosciences, haematopathology, gastrointestinal pathology, hepatology and DNA flowcytometry of solid tumors. Several collaborative studies are conducted on issues of mutual interest with the faculty of other departments.
Faculty and their areas of special interest
| Susy Kurian MBBS, MD, | Professor and Head of Department Cytology and Gastrointestinal Pathology |
| Sheila Nair MBBS, MD, | Professor Haematopathology |
| Anila Korula MBBS, MD, | Professor Nephropathology and Cardiac Pathology |
| Banumathi Ramakrishna MBBS, MD, | Professor Hepatopathology |
| Mary Jacob MBBS, MD, | Professor Ophthalmic Pathology and Dermatopathology with expertise in Lesion |
| Joyce Ponnaiya MBBS, MD, | Professor Forensic Medicine and Perinatal Pathology |
| Geeta Chacko MBBS, MD, | Professor Neuropathology |
| Anna Pulimood MBBS, MD, | Associate Professor Gastrointestinal Pathology |
| Susanna Thomas MBBS, MD, | Associate Professor (on leave) |
| Noel Walter MBBS, MD, FRCPath, | Associate Professor Forensic Medicine and Orthopaedics Pathology |
| Swapnil Vijay Karnik MBBS, MD, | Lecturer Nephropathology and Haematopathology |
| Rekha Rozario MBBS, MD, | Lecturer Hepatopathology and Haematopathology |
| Marie Therese M. MBBS, MD, | Lecturer General Biopsy and Surgical Pathology |
| Apurva Shah MBBS, MD, | Lecturer Neuropathology and General Biopsy and Surgical Pathology |