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Poojaben Dhorajiya, MBBS

Poojaben Dhorajiya portrait
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
pdhorajiya@kumc.edu

Professional Background

My primary clinical focus is Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology and I also have interest in Breast 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.

Education and Training
  • Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • 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 and pancreaticobiliary pathology. I studied incidental gallbladder cancers as well as management and prognosis of various gallbladder subtypes.

Publications
  • 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. SURGEON-JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGES OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH AND IRELAND, 19 (6), E379-E385
  • 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.. 2021. A single institution 10-year experience with adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder - histopathologic variance and prognosis. HPB, 23, S526. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hpb.2021.06.137