Syed A. Hoda
Syed A. Hoda is a Professor of Pathology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and an Attending Pathologist at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Hoda is a surgical pathologist with a particular interest in diagnostic breast pathology.[1] He is "Triple-Boarded": being certified in Anatomical Pathology, Clinical Pathology and Cytopathology; and has been re-certified by the American Board of Pathology twice (first in 2001, and then again in 2011).
Dr. Hoda graduated at the top of his class from the Dow Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan. After a year of a rotating internship in Civil Hospital in Karachi, he began training in Anatomical and Clinical Pathology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (1985–1990) under Drs. Richard Reed and Michael Gerber. He served for a one-year period as Chief Pathology Resident at Tulane. Subsequently, he underwent sub-specialty fellowship training in Cytopathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City (1990–91) with Drs. Hajdu and Melamed among others; and another year of sub-specialty fellowship training in Oncological Surgical Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with Drs. Rosen, Rosai, Hajdu, Huvos and Lieberman among other giants of surgical pathology as his instructors.
Dr. Hoda has been associated with Weill Medical College of Cornell University and The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center since 1992- and has worked in one of the largest diagnostic breast pathology consultation services (over 2000 consultations/year). Dr. Hoda has worked closely with Dr. Paul Peter Rosen, the legendary giant of breast pathology for over 20 years. He took over as the Director of Dr. Rosen's long-running ASCP Short Course on Needle Course Biopsy of Breast some years ago and has co-authored 2 books with him: Rosen's Breast Pathology (4th ed, publication date: March 2014) and 2 editions o Breast Pathology: Diagnosis by Needle Core Biopsy. He has served the Department of Pathology at Weill-Cornell in multiple capacities and currently oversees resident teaching in anatomical pathology. Dr. Hoda has contributed over original 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has also co-authored a book entitled The Pap Test with Dr. Rana Hoda.
Dr. Hoda serves on the Editorial Boards of American Journal of Surgical Pathology, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Advances in Anatomical Pathology and The Breast Journal- and he also serves as the Book Review Editor for American Journal of Clinical Pathology and Advances in Anatomic Pathology, with over 89 published book reviews to his credit. He has served on a variety of committees in multiple organizations at the local, national and international levels- including as Secretary of the oldest continuously active pathology society: The New York Pathological Society and in various capacities in the multi-specialty New York Metropolitan Breast Cancer Group. Dr. Hoda is active on the regional, national and international lecture circuit. He has lectured at various pathology, medical oncology and surgery groups and forums; conducted short courses at various ASCP, CAP, IAP and USCAP meetings; and has lectured on diagnostic breast pathology and cytopathology issues and topics in numerous educational and scientific meetings in several countries in five continents including Canada, China, England, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.
Dr Hoda has been regularly listed as one of New York Magazine's Best Doctors, including in 2013. He is also currently listed in the "Best Doctors in the USA" published by U.S. News & World Report. Dr Hoda is included in Castle-Connolly's listing of Best Doctors in New York and in United States of America for several years [2]
Dr. Hoda's spouse, Rana, is a Professor of Pathology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Director of Cytopathology at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Raza Hoda, their son, is a pathology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr Syed Hoda's extra-curricular interests include collecting Moghul-era miniatures, lithographs from the era of the Raj, arabesque design and calligraphy. Dr. Hoda is especially interested in 19th century English literature, and his favorite authors include Lewis Caroll, Oscar Wilde and Somerset Maugham.
References
- ↑ Syed Amir Fazal Hoda, M.B.,B.S
- ↑ "New York's Best Doctors - Pathologists". 2008-06-16. Retrieved 2008-06-09.