GI & Liver Fellowship

Program Overview

The Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California offers a one-year, non-ACGME-accredited fellowship position designed to provide extensive experience in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology, with a primary focus on diagnosis and clinicopathologic correlation. This program equips fellows with the necessary tools and experience to advance their careers in gastrointestinal and liver pathology.

The trainee will be a full-time GI/Liver pathology fellow with an appointment as a Faculty Fellow. The fellow will participate in regular gastrointestinal and liver pathology conferences and tumor boards. There will also be opportunities for involvement in clinical and laboratory research, as well as resident and student education.

Training for this position will take place at the Keck Medical Center of USC. The fellow will have eight weeks of elective time, which can be dedicated to research opportunities available at Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center or used for an outside rotation.

USC Keck Medical Center has an active liver transplant program, providing the fellow with extensive experience in post-transplant liver biopsies and liver explants. The fellow will also have the opportunity to participate in a clinical rotation with gastroenterologists to gain familiarity with endoscopic procedures. Additionally, the biopsy service is integrated with the GI Cytology Service.

Requirements

The candidate must have completed 3 years of Anatomic Pathology training or 4 years of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology training by the beginning of the fellowship training. The candidates are encouraged to have a year of surgical pathology fellowship training prior to the beginning of the GI/Liver fellowship.

The candidate must have a California Medical License by July 1st of their training year.

The candidate must be a U.S. green card holder or U.S. citizen.

Please submit the CAP Surgical Pathology Fellowship Application and 3 letters of recommendation (one from the Program Director and two from faculty members; letters from gastrointestinal pathologists are encouraged).

Types and Numbers of Appointments

One position for the non-ACGME-accredited 1-year fellowship is available.

Stipends

Funded at the PGY-5 level. For FY24-25, the annual stipend is $90,019.

Facilities

Keck Medicine of USC is the University of Southern California’s medical enterprise, one of only two university-based medical systems in the Los Angeles area. Keck Medicine combines academic excellence, world-class research and state-of-the-art facilities to provide highly specialized care for some of the most acute patients in the country.

Our internationally renowned physicians and scientists provide world-class patient care at Keck Hospital of USC, USC Norris Cancer Hospital, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, USC Arcadia Hospital and more than 100 unique clinics in Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Tulare and Ventura counties.

Keck Medical Center of USC, which includes Keck Hospital and USC Norris Cancer Hospital, is among the top 50 hospitals in the country in 8 specialties, as well as the top three hospitals in metro Los Angeles and top 10 hospitals in California, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-25 Best Hospitals rankings.

Community

Los Angeles County is a metropolitan community of approximately 10,000,000 people with an unmatched year-round climate, readily accessible mountains, beaches, snow and surf, and as wide a variety of cultural, social, educational, recreational and sporting events as can be found anywhere in the world.

Shefali Chopra, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology, Soft Tissue/Bone Pathology, Cytopathology
Keck Medical Center of USC

Yuna Gong, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology, Gynecologic Pathology
Keck Medical Center of USC

Evan Yung, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Gastrointestinal Pathology, General Surgical Pathology, Cytopathology
Keck Medical Center of USC

Amir Akbari, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Genitourinary Pathology, Gastrointestinal Pathology
Keck Medical Center of USC

David Yau, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Hematopathology, Breast Pathology, Gastrointestinal Pathology
Keck Medical Center of USC

Yanling Ma, MD
Professor of Pathology
General Surgical Pathology, Breast Pathology, Gastrointestinal Pathology
Keck Medical Center of USC

Sergei Tatishchev, MD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology, Breast Pathology
Keck Medical Center of USC

Applications

For more information, please contact:
Sergei Tatishchev, MD
Fellowship Program Director
Sergei.Tatishchev@med.usc.edu

Keck Medical Center of USC
HC4, Room 2415
1450 San Pablo Street
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9092
Telephone: (323) 865-6907

Submit your application to:

Yomaira Diaz
GI/Liver Fellowship Coordinator
Fax: (323) 441-8193
Email: Yomaira.Diaz@med.usc.edu

Please also cc Dr. Tatishchev