Department of Pathology Alumni Newsletter, Issue 5

Message from The Director of Cytopathology: Elham Khanafshar, MD, MS

It is hard to believe that I have already started my second year serving as the Director of Cytopathology at UCSF. We had a very busy year full of excitement due to our long-planned cytopathology division move. In September 2019, our division finally moved into its new home in the brand-new Bakar Precision Cancer Medicine Building (PCMB) located at the UCSF Mission Bay campus. We have an expanded state of the art in-house cytopathology laboratory and a four room Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Clinic equipped with the latest ultrasound machines which allow us to serve our patients with gold standard of care. We provide palpation-guided as well as ultrasound-guided FNA services with or without appointment...