Renown Pathology is growing and features expertise in numerous subspecialty areas, allowing patients and referring clinicians to feel confident in every diagnosis and staging.
A team of eight full-time pathologists and three full-time pathology assistants, the pathology group at Renown Health includes subspecialists in hematopathology, cytopathology and more. Melanie Fox, DO, subspecializes in genitourinary pathology and frequently diagnoses prostate, bladder and kidney cancers. Jennifer Jeung, MD, is fellowship-trained in gastrointestinal (GI) pathology and is helping lead Renown Health’s effort to obtain designation through the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer.
“My fellowship training allows me to provide expert-level diagnoses for a wide variety of conditions affecting the GI tract,” Dr. Jeung says. “These conditions include inflammatory bowel disease, gastrointestinal malignancies, patterns of GI tract medication injury, GI tract infections and autoimmune conditions impacting the digestive organs.”
The group’s go-to expert for breast pathology, Christie Elliott, MD, is division chief of Pathology at Renown Health, medical director of the Renown Regional Medical Center and Renown South Meadows Medical Center labs, and interim chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Once a patient transport employee at Renown Health, Dr. Elliott takes pride in serving her community. Behind every tray of slides, she says, is a patient, and that awareness guides her vision for the future of pathology at the health system.
“As our volume of work increases along with northern Nevada’s population, we plan to keep pace,” Dr. Elliott says. “We have excellent turnaround times for getting results to referring providers and patients, and we intend to maintain them. We’re keeping track of the specialties in which Renown Health is recruiting and plan to complement those efforts by bringing to our group pathology experts in those fields.”
The pathology team’s growth continues. Two more full-time pathologists will join later this year, and the group is recruiting for another. Call 775-982-4152 to contact Renown Lab Services.
An expansion of the lab space and clinical and anatomic pathology services at Renown South Meadows Medical Center is helping facilitate the growth of specialty services in South Reno. On the clinical pathology side, the medical center’s newly enlarged lab space features the same advanced instrumentation available at Renown Regional Medical Center. This equipment allows the pathologists to provide more analyzer-based services.
In terms of anatomic pathology, the pathologists have increased the breadth of their on-site microscopy evaluations supporting cancer and cardiac catheterization services, among others. When, for example, pulmonologists perform endobronchial ultrasounds, a pathologist sits in the room with them and evaluates tissue samples to let them know whether they’ve reached the lesion.
