Vânia Nosé
Vânia Nosé, M. D., Ph. D. is an Associate Chief and Director of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. She is a surgical pathologist with subspecialty expertise in endocrine pathology, primarily in thyroid pathology. Dr. Nosé's main areas of interest include the clinicopathologic and molecular genetic analysis of endocrine tumors mostly in thyroid pathology.
She is a consultant for challenging endocrine pathology cases for pathologists and clinicians locally, regionally, and internationally. Dr. Nosé has described a classification of pathology findings in inherited tumor syndromes and familial thyroid tumors, as well as thyroid pathology findings in distinct diseases and is past President of the Endocrine Pathology Society. Dr. Nosé has published extensively on endocrine pathology, tumor pathology, and also in molecular aspects of neoplasia. She has authored comprehensive textbooks titled “Diagnostic Pathology: Endocrine” and “Diagnostic Pathology: Familial Cancer Syndromes”, both in their second edition.
Peter M. Sadow
Dr. Sadow, Director of Head and Neck Pathology, is also a subspecialist in Genitourinary Pathology and a consultant in Endocrine Pathology. He began his first and only faculty position at Massachusetts General Hospital nearly two decades after getting his first research experience at MGH as a summer student while an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sadow's first project (and publication) involved the effects of thyroid hormone on tissue remodeling and wound repair. It was a desire to advance our knowledge of human disease that drove Dr. Sadow to pursue a combined MD/PhD program at the University of Chicago rather than pursuing his other academic passion of Egyptian art and archaeology, having studied Egyptology along with biology as an undergraduate. Even as a pathologist at MGH, and he was in Egypt with a Johns Hopkins excavation team during the Arab Spring in January of 2011.
Dr. Sadow's doctoral thesis at the University of Chicago utilized transgenic mouse models with altered thyroid hormone response genes in order to understand and advance our knowledge of the effects of thyroid hormone on human physiology. A desire to understand the pathophysiology of endocrine dysfunction led Dr. Sadow to pursue clinical training in Anatomic Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the hospital at which he was born, followed by subspecialty training in Endocrine, Genitourinary, and Head & Neck Pathology.
His clinical and research interests have continued in endocrine pathology, studying the mechanisms of endocrine carcinogenesis, primarily in the thyroid & adrenal glands.
In addition to his clinical & research interests, Dr. Sadow has a prominent teaching roles in the hospital, medical school, and in continuing medical education courses.
WC Faquin, M.D., Ph.D. Biosketch 2019
Dr. Faquin is the Chief of Otolaryngologic Pathology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear and a subspecialist in Head and Neck Pathology & Cytopathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and is recognized for his contributions to the study of thyroid, salivary gland, and HPV-related cancers of the head and neck. He has authored over 270 peer-reviewed publications, and has co-authored books on head and neck cytohistology, salivary gland cytopathology, and thyroid cytopathology. Dr. Faquin is the Editor-in-Chief for Cancer Cytopathology which is one of the 3 journals of the American Cancer Society. He is a co-author of the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology, co-chair of the College of American Pathologists Evidence-Based Guidelines Committee for the testing of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas for high-risk HPV, and co-chair of the Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology sponsored by the ASC and IAC.