Dr. Michael Laposata, MD, PhD
Pathologist | Clinical Pathology
301 University Blvd Galveston TX, 77555About
Dr. Michael Laposata is a pathologist practicing in Galveston, TX. Dr. Laposata is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Laposata can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Laposata may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1981
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PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
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Dr. Michael Laposata is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston and Director of the MD PhD Program at the university. He received his MD and PhD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship and residency in Laboratory Medicine (Clinical Pathology) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He took his first faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1985, where he was an Assistant Professor and Director of the hospital’s Coagulation Laboratory. In 1989, he became Director of Clinical Laboratories at the Massachusetts General Hospital and was appointed to the faculty in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, where he became a tenured full Professor of Pathology. Dr. Laposata joined Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 2008 where he was the Edward and Nancy Fody Professor of Pathology and Medicine. Additionally, he was Pathologist-in-Chief at Vanderbilt University Hospital and Director of Clinical Laboratories.
He has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications in basic and clinical research. His work on diagnostic errors earned him an appointment to the 21 member panel of the National Academy of Medicine which issued the 2015 report on Improving Diagnosis in Healthcare.
Dr. Laposata is the recipient of 14 major teaching prizes at Harvard, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
His textbook, in its third edition, Laposata’s Laboratory Medicine, has been translated into multiple languages. It is used globally by those learning laboratory medicine and those using the clinical laboratory. In a peer nominated survey performed by The Pathologist, a journal reporting on the practice of pathology, the November 2015 issue identified Dr. Laposata as the most influential pathologist in the United States, and the third most influential pathologist in the world.
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