Department of Pathology

John A. Burns School of Medicine
651 Ilalo Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Tel: (808) 692-1130
Web: https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/education/departments/pathology/index.html

Faculty

K. S. Thompson, MD (Chair & Residency Program Director)—pediatric pathology, anatomic pathology, genetics
D. Horio, MD (Vice Chair)—anatomic and clinical pathology, immunopathology
B. J. Kaya, MD—neuropathology, anatomic pathology
L. Kim, MD (Associate Program Director)—renal pathology
W. Kim, MD—clinical pathology
C. Lum, MD—dermatopathology, molecular pathology
A. Powers, MD—transfusion medicine, clinical pathology
D. Shimizu, MD—GYN pathology, anatomic pathology
J. H. Uyehara-Lock, MD—neuropathology, anatomic pathology
K. Vierkoetter, MD—OBGYN pathology, breast pathology

* Graduate Faculty

The Academic Program

Pathology (PATH) is the study of aberrations or deviations of organs or systems that result in disease. Instruction in pathology is open to undergraduate, graduate, medical students, and residents. All medical students may elect to take PATH 515  as a part of the problem-based learning curriculum. The required PATH 541  provides essential autopsy experience of all second, third, and fourth-year medical students. Third and fourth-year students may choose electives PATH 545  and PATH 599  that consist of instruction in laboratory medicine relevant to practicing physicians of all specialties, and include topics in clinical pathology, anatomic pathology, clinical immunology, molecular diagnostics, and directed research projects.

The department directs an integrated residency program in pathology. Residents are based at the Queen’s Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Blood Bank of Hawaiʻi, and the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office. Clinical faculty come from all the community hospitals and provide gross and microscopic specimens for evaluation, clinic-pathologic correlations, seminars, and lectures.