LMP welcomes new faculty

RYAN MARTINEZ, MD, PHD (MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY)

Dr. Ryan Martinez joined LMP as an instructor effective July 31.  Martinez earned an MD degree and a PhD degree (immunology and molecular pathogenesis) from Emory University in Atlanta. Since 2018 he has been a clinical pathology resident, a postdoctoral research fellow, and a molecular genetics pathology fellow, all in LMP.   Martinez was Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Student Scholar of the Year at Emory in 2016 and was winner of the Ernst Award for best scientific paper as an LMP resident in 2021.

MINGHAO ZHONG, MD, PHD (GENITOURINARY & GYN PATHOLOGY)

Dr. Minghao Zhong joined LMP as a professor effective July 31.  Zhong earned an MD degree from Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China, and a PhD in molecular, cell & developmental biology from the City University of New York.   Zhong was a postdoctoral research fellow in molecular and cellular biology at the Rockefeller University in New York and a pathology resident at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. He completed fellowships in molecular and genetic pathology, Icahn School of Medicine in New York, and in genitourinary pathology at Northwestern University. 

Zhong comes to us from Department of Pathology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut