Led by director Wenqing Cao, MD, NYU Langone’s Department of Pathology offers a 44-week post-residency fellowship in gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology. This fellowship is not accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Our subspecialty service handles more than 35,000 gastrointestinal cases, 1,100 liver cases, and 200 pancreas cases per year. The fellowship program includes education and training in diagnostic gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology, and emphasizes the characterization of non-neoplastic and neoplastic gastrointestinal, liver, and pancreas diseases, as well as liver transplant pathology.

Gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology fellows are trained in the macroscopic and microscopic evaluation of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases, medical liver and transplant cases, and consultations. Our fellows also learn gross examination, frozen section interpretation, histopathologic diagnosis, and molecular pathology relevant to prognosis, prognostication, and therapeutic treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver.

Fellows attend and present cases at intradepartmental conferences, such as our weekly multidisciplinary GI and hepatobiliary oncology conference, IBD conference, pancreatic tumor board, and medical liver and liver transplant pathology conference. They also participate in didactic presentations to pathology residents and are assigned to assist with unknown cases.

Fellows have independent and collaborative research opportunities sponsored by the department.

How to Apply

We have filled fellowship positions for the 2026–27 academic year. We are accepting applications for the 2027–28 academic year.

Learn more about how to apply.

Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology Faculty

Wenqing Cao, MD
Cristina H. Hajdu, MD
Rami Imam, MD
Sinisa Ivelja, MD
Weiguo Liu, MD, PhD
Qinghu Ren, MD, PhD
Katherine Sun, MD, PhD
Neil D. Theise, MD
Donghai Wang, MD
Rong Xia, MD
Sui Y. Zee, MD

Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology Fellowship Alumni

2022

Shahram Saberi, MD
Endocrine, Head and Neck Pathology Fellow, Yale School of Medicine

2021

Sunjida Ahmed, MD
Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Northwell Health

2020

Qing Chang, MD
Attending Pathologist, Northwell Health

2019

Jialing Huang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University

2018

Xiaodong Li, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of California at Irvine

2017

Azore-Dee Bradshaw, MD
Surgical Pathology, University of California

Contact Us

For more information about the Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology Fellowship, email Dr. Cao, director, at wenqing.cao@nyulangone.org or email us at pathologyeducation@nyulangone.org.