Hassan Nakhla MD
Hassan Nakhla
MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Specialty/Research Focus
Anatomic Pathology; Clinical Pathology; Surgical Pathology
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This faculty member is affiliated with UBMD, practicing physicians who are also professors in the Jacobs School.
View this physician on UBMDProfessional Summary:
I spend my professional time working in anatomic pathology service work, clinical pathology service, administrative activities and teaching pathology residents from SUNY Pathology residency program.
I serve as the medical director for the clinical laboratories at DeGraff Memorial Hospital, director of Outreach Services at Kaleida Health and as assistant director to the Center for Laboratory Medicine, Williamsville (Flint). I had also served as the laboratory director of the Erie County Public Health Laboratory STD clinic.
I serve the Department of Pathology and Anatomic Sciences at Kaleida Health as a general pathologist in anatomic and clinical pathology. My primary areas for service work include surgical pathology and cytopathology as an attending pathologist rotating among the Kaleida hospital sites.
Each of these positions has been valuable to me in learning how different groups work together and how different groups of clinicians see and set expectations for a pathology department.
Education and Training:
- Fellowship, Surgical Pathology, SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (2007)
- MD, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY (2006)
- Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (2006)
- MD, Medicine, University of Baghdad, College of Medicine (1992)
- MD
Employment:
- Medical Laboratory Assistant Director, Pathology, Wyoming County Community Hospital (2019-present)
- Medical Laboratory Director, Pathology, DeGraff Medical Park, Kaleida Health, (2011-present)
- Laboratory Director, DeGraff Memorial Medical Park (2011-present)
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University At Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (2007–2023)
Research Expertise:
- Surgical Pathology and Pulmonary Pathology.
Journal Articles:
- Weiguo Liu, Hassan Nakhla, Wilfrido Mojica, Frank Chen. (1900) Expression of TTF-1 in Small Cell Carcinoma of Urinary Bladder. North American Journal of Medicine and Science, Volume 2 July 2009 (Jan).
- Liu W, Nakhla H, Mojica M, Chen F. (2009) The Expression of TTF-1 in Small Cell Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder. NAJMS (Jan), 2(3): 94-96.
- Francis L, Bonilla E, Soforo E, Neupane H, Nakhla H, Fuller C, Perl A. (2008) Fatal toxic myopathy attributed to propofol, methylprednisolone, and cyclosporine after prior exposure to colchicine and simvastatin. Clin Rheumatol (Jan), 27(1): 129-131.
- Nakhla H, Jumbelic MI. (2005) Sudden death of a patient with pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Arch Pathol Lab Med (Jun), 129(6): 798-799.
- Nakhla H, Chandan VS, Numann PJ, Landas SK. (2003) Pathologic quiz case: a 75-year-old woman with a breast lump. Cystic carcinoma of the breast. Arch Pathol Lab Med (Dec), 127(12): 436-437.
Abstracts:
- Zhonghua Liu, MD, PhD; Hassan Nakhla, MD. (2017) Appendiceal low grade mucinous neoplasm involving ovary: an unusual presentation. Zhonghua Liu, MD, PhD; Hassan Nakhla, MD. Poster presented at CAP Annual Meeting, Oct 2017. (Oct)
- (2017) Pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma, an unusual presentation of pneumothorax in a 35-year-old man. Zhonghua Liu, MD, PhD; Hassan Nakhla, MD. Poster presented at CAP Annual Meeting, Oct 2017. (Oct)
- (2016) Para-adrenal paraganglioma, how reliable can a needle biopsy diagnosis be? Zhonghua Liu, John Tomaszewski, Hassan Nakhla. Poster presented at ASCP Annual Meeting, Sept 2016. (Sep)
- Abhishek Kumar, MBBS, Kush Modi, MBBS, Hassan Nakhla, MD William Gibbons, MD. (2014) A Rare Case of Pulmonary Nodular Lymphoid Hyperplasia. Presented at the New York State Thoracic Society Annual Assembly, Jan 2014, (Apr)
- Nakhla H and El-Zammar O. (2007) Use of pHH3, Ki-67 and Survivin Immunoreactivity in Evaluating Urothelial Carcinomas of the Bladder. (Jan)
- Aly G. Saad, MD; Hassan Nakhla, MD; Paul W. Biddinger, MD; Ricardo Lloyd, MD; Yuri E. Nikiforov, MD, PhD. (2004) Benign Thyroid inclusions in cervical lymph nodes: Diagnostic Dilemmas. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Vol. 129, No. 4, pp. 547–576. Abstracts From the College of American Pathologists 2004 Annual Meeting. (Sep)
- Aly G. Saad, MD; Hassan Nakhla, MD. (2003) Smear preparation: An accurate and fast tool for the diagnosis of ependymomas during frozen section. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: Vol. 128, No. 2, pp. 139–152. Abstracts From the College of American Pathologists 2003 Annual Meeting. (Sep)
Professional Memberships:
- USCAP; Member (2007–2023)
- College of American Pathologists
Service Activities:
- Member; Thoracic Surgery Tumor Board (2020–2022)
- ; Annual Health Care Fair (2010–2022)