Mihai Merzianu MD

Mihai Merzianu

Mihai Merzianu
MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences

Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences


Specialty/Research Focus

Anatomic Pathology; Clinical Pathology

Contact Information
K275 Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, New York 14263
Phone: (716) 845-7701
merzianu@buffalo.edu



Education and Training:

  • Fellowship, Hematopathology Fellow July 2004-June 2005, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX (2005)
  • MD, Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy (2005)
  • Fellowship, Oncologic Pathology Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (2004)
  • Residency, Resident - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center/Beth Israel Medical Center New York, NY (2003)
  • BA, Baccalaureate, Mathematics-Physics, Fratii Buzesti College, Craiova, Romania (1987)

Employment:

  • Director of Surgical Pathology, Pathology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY (2021-present)
  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology, Dept. of Pathology & Anatomical Sciences, SMBS SUNY at Buffalo (2006-present)
  • Professor of Oncology, Pathology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (2022-present)

Awards and Honors:

  • Mentored Leon Barnes Awardee (Dr. Simpal Gill, UB Pathology resident) Best Head & Neck poster presentation at United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) (2013)
  • Edith Sprout Teaching Award (2012)
  • Neville Colman Outstanding Resident Award (2003)

Research Expertise:

  • Head and Neck Pathology Hematopathology

Journal Articles:

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Books and Book Chapters:

  • (2017)

Abstracts:

  • Nagrale V, Wong J, Balakrishna J, Merzianu M. (2024) Pseudoglandular histiocytic proliferation with myelofibrosis and bone marrow necrosis: a rare mimicker of two neoplasms in a benign disease. Poster presentation to EAHP/SH 2024 workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia. EAHP/SH 2024 workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia. (Sep) Poster
  • Dove E, R Merzianu M. (2024) Incidental, Clinically Silent Early Kaposi Sarcoma Involving an Isolated Lymph Node in an Immunocompetent Patient. Presentation at EAHP/SH 2024 workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia. (Sep), (EAHP2024-LYWS 385)
  • Young A, Merzianu M. (2024) Solitary Extracutaneous Juvenile Xanthogranuloma of Submandibular Gland Associated with Pancytopenia: First Description of an Unusual Presentation with Molecular Characterization. Poster presentation at CAP annual meeting. (May) Poster
  • Guo L, Merzianu M. (2024) Fulminant EBV-associated infection with secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Platform presentation at SH-EA4HP Workshop, Cincinnati, OH, 2025. (Jan) Oral

Professional Memberships:

  • United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
  • North American Society of Head and Neck Pathology
  • Western New York Society of Pathologists
  • Society for Hematopathology

Presentations:

  • "Lymphomas Under 26: What’s New?" Eighteenth Annual Hematology/Hematopathology Symposium. Waterloo, NY. May 2025 (2024)
  • "Acute Leukemia, Unclassifiable" 26th International Clinical Cytometry Society Meeting. Portland, OR 2011
  • "Oral carcinogenesis-the pathologist perspective" Invited presentation, Department of Pathology, Mayo clinic, Rochester, MN (virtual). 08/06/2021
  • "Oral Preneoplastic Lesions" Oral Cancer: Early Detection, Management and Rehabilitation. Partners in Practice Symposium Series (RPCI, Columbia University and Johns Hopkins). Buffalo, NY 2014
  • "Sentinel lymph node biopsy v neck dissection." Grand Rounds Presentation at the Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Pathology. Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India May 2017
  • "T/NK Lymphoma, Nasal Type" Seventh Annual Hematology/Hematopathology Symposium. Johnson City, NY 2012

Service Activities:

  • ; Adhoc reviewer: Modern Pathology, Head and Neck Pathology, Laryngoscope, Endocrine Practice, Head and Neck, Human Pathology (2024–2025)

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Contact Information

K275 Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, New York 14263
Phone: (716) 845-7701
merzianu@buffalo.edu