Anamarija Perry, MD
Associate Professor, Hematopathology
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Perry received an M.D. degree from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in Zagreb, Croatia (2004). She completed her pathology residency at the University of Cincinnati (2010), followed by a two-year training in hematopathology at the University of Nebraska (2012). From 2012-2017 she was an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. In 2017 she joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Pathology Department as an Associate Professor.

Dr. Perry practices hematopathology, with a special interest in lymphoma pathology. During her training and practice, she was a recipient of several awards. Her translational research focuses on the prognostic markers in lymphomas and she has published a number of articles in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

Jeffrey Myers, MD
A. James French Professor and Interim Director of Anatomic Pathology
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Myers received a B.A. in Biology from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota (1977), and an M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1981). He completed residency training at Washington University, Barnes and Affiliated Hospitals from 1981-1984 where he also served as an American Cancer Society Regular Clinical Fellow. In 1985 he completed a fellowship in Surgical and Pulmonary Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and joined the faculty. In 1989, he accepted a position at the Mayo Clinic Minnesota where he served as Chair, Division of Anatomic Pathology (1993-2002) and Chair of the Clinical Practice Committee's Innovation Work Group (2003-2005). Dr. Myers joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan in January 2006 as the A. James French Professor of Diagnostic Pathology and Director, Division of Anatomic Pathology.

Dr. Myers has served as an invited speaker nationally and internationally on over 300 occasions and has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, abstracts, and book chapters. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. He is a renowned expert in thoracic pathology but has also been practicing general surgical pathology for most of his career.

Kathleen R. Cho, MD
Peter A. Ward Professor and Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs
Section Head, Gynecologic Pathology
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Cho received her B.A. from Yale University in 1980 and her medical degree from Vanderbilt University in 1984. She subsequently performed an internship and residency in anatomic pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, serving as co-Chief Resident from 1987-1988. From 1988-1991, she was a clinical fellow (gynecologic pathology focus) and a research fellow in cancer genetics, both at Johns Hopkins. She joined the JHU faculty in 1991 as an Assistant Professor of Pathology, Oncology, and Gynecology and Obstetrics, and achieved the rank of Associate Professor in 1995. Dr. Cho joined the Pathology faculty at the University of Michigan in 1998, and currently serves as the Peter A. Ward Professor of Pathology and Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs.

Widely recognized as a leading authority in both the basic and clinical study of gynecologic malignancies, Dr. Cho has nearly 150 peer-reviewed publications and many other reviews and book chapters. Her work has provided critical insight into the molecular pathogenesis of cervical and ovarian cancer. Her group has engineered powerful animal models that can be used to study the biology of ovarian cancer and to test novel prevention, diagnostic and treatment strategies. Dr. Cho’s research is currently supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) and from the Ovarian Cancer Research Program of the Department of Defense. She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI, 2000), the Association of American Physicians (AAP, 2008) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM, 2015).

Dr. Cho has nearly three decades of experience as an actively practicing surgical pathologist, including many years of service as head of gynecologic pathology and director of the gynecologic pathology fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Celina G. Kleer, MD
Harold A. Oberman Collegiate Professor of Pathology
Co-Director, Breast Pathology
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Celina Kleer received her medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1993. She began her residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and completed her training at the University of Michigan where she specialized in breast pathology with Dr. Harold Oberman. In 1999 she joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Department of Pathology. In November 2007 Dr. Kleer became the first Harold A. Oberman Collegiate Professor of Pathology and reached the rank of full professor with tenure in 2011.

She is an active member of the surgical pathology team at the University of Michigan where she specializes in breast pathology. She has initiated the Breast Pathology Fellowship in 2002, one of the first in the U.S. In conjunction to her clinical work, Dr. Kleer is the principal investigator of an NIH-funded research laboratory at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center working to understand mechanisms of breast cancer invasion and metastasis, and to develop useful breast tissue-based biomarkers. Her work bridges basic science and clinical application, having published 149 peer-reviewed studies largely in breast cancer.

Dr. Kleer is a dedicated mentor to medical students, graduate students, and physicians both in the laboratory and in surgical pathology. She participates in NIH study sections and scientific Editorial Boards. In 2013, Dr. Kleer was the distinguished recipient of the Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award from the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). In 2014, Dr. Kleer was inducted into the League of Research Excellence at the University of Michigan Medical School. The same year, she was inducted as an Active Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Most recently, Dr. Kleer was presented with the 2020 Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP).

Kristine Konopka, MD
Assistant Professor of Thoracic Pathology
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Konopka received a B.A. in Biology from the University of Colorado in Boulder (2003) and M.D. from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2008). She completed her pathology training at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas, before moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2014 for her thoracic pathology fellowship training under the mentorship of Dr. Jeffrey Myers. Dr. Konopka subsequently stayed as faculty at Michigan Medicine where her primary area of interest resides with thoracic pathology, but she also participates in general surgical pathology, breast pathology, and frozen section services. Her current research activities surround the acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Andrew Sciallis, MD
Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Breast Pathology
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Andrew Sciallis received a B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame (2003) and an M.D. degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School (2007). He completed his pathology residency at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester) in 2011, followed by surgical pathology and cytopathology fellowships at the Mayo Clinic. In 2014 he completed a gynecologic pathology fellowship at the University of Michigan and joined the Michigan faculty as an Assistant Professor of Pathology.

Dr. Sciallis practices surgical pathology, with special emphasis on breast and gynecological pathology. He is an avid teacher of pathology residents, fellows, and medical students, and in 2017 he won Teacher of the Year Award, awarded by pathology trainees at the University of Michigan. Furthermore, he is an active translational researcher and has published a number of papers in his areas of practice. His current interests are in papillary neoplasms of the breast and endometrial carcinoma.

Stephanie Skala, MD
Assistant Professor
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Skala received a B.S. in Human Biology from the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California (2009), and an M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2014). She completed residency training at the University of Michigan from 2014-2018. She participated in the inaugural class for the Community of Medical Educators in Training (CoMET), and designed an introductory slide-based curriculum for incoming pathology residents. She served as a Member-at-Large on the American Society for Clinical Pathology Resident Council from 2016-2019. In 2019, she completed a fellowship in Gynecologic Pathology at the University of Michigan and joined the faculty.

Dr. Skala has presented abstracts at multiple local and national meetings. She has numerous publications in genitourinary and gynecologic pathology, one of which was featured on the cover of Modern Pathology. She is the recipient of multiple honors and awards. She is currently practicing gynecologic, genitourinary, and frozen section pathology at the University of Michigan.