Accepting new patients
Eizaburo “Sabu” Sasatomi, M.D., Ph.D.
Accepting new patients
- Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
Expertise
- Pathology
Special focus
- GI Pathology
About me
Eizaburo “Sabu” Sasatomi, MD, PhD, a specialist in GI and Liver Pathology. Dr. Sasatomi has extensive experience in academic medicine and most recently served as the Director of Liver Pathology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before his anatomic pathology residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), he worked for over three years as a postdoctoral fellow in their division of molecular anatomic pathology, using microdissection-based genotyping of human cancers as the principal method of molecular genetic analysis. His current research interests include the correlation of morphological and molecular features with outcome in patients with hepatobiliary and pancreatic neoplasms and the mechanism and diagnosis of chemotherapy-induced liver injury.
Education and training
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Degrees
- M.D., 1989, Saga Medical School
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Residency
- Anatomic Pathology Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, 2003-2006
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Fellowship
- Division of Liver and Transplantation Fellowship, Pathology University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, 2006-2007
- Molecular Anatomic Pathology Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, 2000-2003
Memberships and associations:
- Anatomic Pathology (American Board of Pathology), 2006
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