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David B. Roth, M.D., Ph.D., Irene Diamond Professor of Immunology
Chair, Department of Pathology

I would like to welcome you to our Department of Pathology website. I hope that this website reflects the remarkable strengths and exceptional dedication of our pathologists as well as the experimental and forward-thinking spirit that characterizes our Department. You will find a great deal of information here—some of it perhaps arranged in unconventional ways—but the site is organized so that you can find comprehensive information that is both useful and easy to locate.

It is also designed to offer you an extensive overview of the Department and its mission. We invite you to take a closer look at us and the work that we do here, whether you are a scientist, a physician, a prospective colleague, or a patient.

I am convinced that the scientific spirit and intellectual vigor of any academic department depends on bringing people from different backgrounds together under the kind of productive conditions that foster the open and stimulating exchange of ideas. Our Department’s vision is characterized by a common enterprise: the ideal of a scholarly community built around the shared development, creation, and dissemination of knowledge.

In this endeavor, our primary focus is threefold. We provide clinical care, including anatomic pathology and laboratory medicine, we value scientific research, encompassing a translational approach that bridges the gap between the research bench and the bedside, and we emphasize education, providing training for scientists, pathologists, graduate students, and medical students.

To this end, I have taken a multi-pronged approach to integrate the clinical and basic science sides of the Department. This includes an integrative approach that helps future pathologists—our graduate students, fellows, and residents—move easily between the foundations of basic research, translational science, and clinical medicine.

We also seek to expand and build on our scientific community. We are looking for scholars of extraordinary promise and achievement—scientists with the intellectual scope to shape their fields, the aspiration to train students who can surpass them, the agility of mind to traverse disciplines, and an appreciation for the unparalleled resources of NYU and New York City.

I genuinely hope that this site will stimulate your interest in the New York University School of Medicine and Hospitals Center and our Department of Pathology. I believe we have something exhilarating, extraordinary and unique to offer; if our vision inspires you, please let us know.