Hematology and Coagulation

Amer Wahed is a graduate of Medicine, training initially in Internal Medicine at Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, England. He subsequently trained in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology from the University of Texas-Houston Medical School. After working for several years in a private setting, he joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas-Houston Health Sciences Center. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Associate Director of Clinical Chemistry and Immunology at Memorial-Hermann Hospital at the Texas Medical Center. He is also the Associate Director of the Pathology Residency Program at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School. Dr. Wahed has a strong interest in teaching and is actively involved in the education of medical students, graduate students, residents, and fellows. He has been recognized for his teaching contributions through awards from his department, as well as the Office of the Dean. He is also active in mentoring pathology residents in research and has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed journals. Amitava Dasgupta received his Ph. D in chemistry from Stanford University and completed his fellowship training in Clinical Chemistry from the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine at Seattle. He is board certified in both Toxicology and Clinical Chemistry by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Currently, he is a tenured Full Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Director of Clinical Laboratories at the University of Kansas Hospital. Prior to this appointment he was a tenured Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas McGovern medical School from February 1998 to April 2022. He has 252 papers to his credit. He is in the editorial board of four journals including Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Clinica Chimica Acta, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis.

1. Complete blood count (CBC) and peripheral blood smear examination2. Bone marrow examination and interpretation3. Red blood cell (RBC) disorders4. Hemoglobinopathies, and thalassemias 5. Benign white blood cell (WBC) and platelet disorders6. Myeloid neoplasms7. Monoclonal gammopathy and their detection8. Application of flow cytometry in diagnosis of hematological disorders9. Cytogenetics abnormalities and hematological neoplasa10. Benign lymph nodes11. B cell lymphomas 12. T cell and natural killer cell (NK) lymphomas 13. Hodgkin lymphoma14. Lymphoproliferative Disorders Associated with Immune deficiencies, Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell Neoplasms15. Essentials of coagulation16. Thrombophilia and their detection 17. Sources of errors in hematology and coagulation