About Us

This young 21st century promises a revolution, already manifest, in diagnostics and therapeutics. As one of two hospital-based departments in the University of Pennsylvania Health System with a primary focus on clinical diagnostics, the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine will continually be called upon to help pave the way for PENN Medicine's full participation in this ongoing transformation. Moreover, as the locus for infusional therapeutics, the Department also will be asked to embrace those next-generation therapeutics which involve the infusion of cells, proteins, and genes. These pivotal roles in patient care will be complemented by the Department's traditional, broadbased contributions to the education and research missions of the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Combining the full gamut of possible activities found within Pathology departments— Anatomic Pathology, Neuropathology, Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Medicine, and Experimental Pathology—the Department has solidified its national reputation as one of the leading fully-integrated academic departments of its kind. It has also positioned itself at the crossroads of the intellectual life of the School of Medicine, as the home to many of the School's centralized resource laboratories and with substantive ties to multiple centers, institutes, departments and other schools on campus.