Poojaben Dhorajiya, M.D.

Professional Background

My clinical focus is Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology. Before becoming a member of the faculty at KU Pathology, I pursued Pathology residency at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, where I was also a chief resident. During my residency, I participated in the resident education committee as well as in the ASCP Pathology ambassador committee. I stayed in New York for another year and completed Surgical pathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Following that I pursued GI and Liver Pathology Fellowship from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

• Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
• Clinical Fellowship, Oncologic Surgical Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
• Clinical Fellowship, Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA

Research

Overview

My academic research is focused on gastrointestinal, liver and pancreaticobiliary pathology. My research involves various medical liver diseases such as hepatic graft-versus-host disease, hepatic CVID, as well as gastrointestinal tract including inflammatory bowel diseases, colorectal cancers and pancreaticobiliary pathology.

• Solomon, Daniel, Leigh, Natasha, Bekhor, Eliahu, Feferman, Yael, Dhorajiya, Poojaben, Feingold, Daniela, Hofstedt, Margaret, Aycart, Samantha., N., Golas, Benjamin., J., Sarpel, Umut, Labow, Daniel., M., Magge, Deepa., R.. 2021. The role of molecular biomarkers in outcomes and patient selection for cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy for peritoneal metastases of colorectal origin. The Surgeon, 19 (6), e379-e385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surge.2020.11.002
• Yue, L., E, Samankan, S, Liu, X, Sharif, K., F, Everest, S, Singh, T, Dhorajiya, P, Baik, F., M, Khorsandi, A, Stevens, T., M, Brandwein-Weber, M, Urken, M., L. 2020. Ten patients with high-grade transformation of acinic cell carcinomas: Expression profiling of β-catenin and cyclin D1 is useful.. Pathology, research and practice, 216 (2), 152767
• Berger, Y., Sullivan, B.J., Leigh, N.L., Bekhor, E.Y., Dhorajiya, P., Mani, M., Magge, D.R., Cha, D., Sarpel, U., Hiotis, S.P., Labow, D.M., Ward, S.C., Golas, B.J., Cohen, N.A.. 2022. Gallbladder Cancer: A Single-Institution 10-year experience-Analysis of adenocarcinoma subtypes and tumors arising from intracholecystic papillary neoplasms. Annals of Surgical Oncology , 23, S526