Virginia Commonwealth University Service 

Director of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology
Director of Electron Microscopy, Department of Pathology
Chairman, Residency Training Committee 1978 - 1979
Member, Medical Student Teaching Committee
Pathology Coordinator for Musculoskeletal System - M-II. 1977 - 1981
Pathology Co-coordinator for CNS Lab
Coursemaster of Neuroscience - M-II 1985 -1993
Member of committees and adviser for Ph.D. students in Neurobiology on many occasions

Licenses & Certifications

Medical Licenses (Current)
Virginia

Board Certifications
American Board of Pathology, Anatomic Pathology, 1967
American Board of Pathology, Neuropathology, 1968

Education

Postgraduate Medical Training
1958 - 1960 Internship and residency in Internal Medicine at N.R.S. Medical College Hospital
1960 - 1961 Medical Officer, Internal Medicine, Bangur Hospital, Calcutta, India
1962 (Jan-Dec) Rotating internship at Griffin Hospital, Derby, Connecticut
1963 - 1965 Residency and chief residency in Pathology, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Bronx, New York
1965 - 1966 Trainee in Neuropathology, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center

Graduate Education
1952 - 1957 N.R.S. Medical College of the University of Calcutta
Calcutta, India: M.B.B.S. Degree

Undergraduate Education
1950 - 1952 University of Calcutta, India

Editorial Boards

Ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology and other Journals
Member of the Review Committee of Human Pathology 1989 - 1998
Editorial Consultant for Surgical Neurology Since 1992 -1996
Served on the Neuropathology Review Committee of the Brain tumor study group, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 1974 - 1976
Member of the Constitution Committee, American Association of Neuropathologists, 1977 - 1981
Member of the Membership Committee, American Association of Neuropathologists, 1987 - 1990
Member and advisor of the Neuropathology Resource Committee of the College of American Pathologists, 1992 - 1999

Professional Organizations

College of American Pathologists
American Association of Neuropathologists
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
International Society of Neuropathology
Society for Neuroscience (Central Virginia Chapter)

Research

Co-investigation in "Cerebral Microcirculation in Experimental Hyper­tension" NIH 1 ROl HL 21851-01, 1-1-78 to 12-31-78 (Principal Investigator: Hermes A. Kontos, M.D. - Medicine)
Co-investigator - HL 21851 July 1981 - June 1984 (Principal Investigator: Hermes A. Kontos, M.D. - Medicine) Collaborative Research with Department of Medicine, Neurosurgery, Neurology (from time to time).

Selected Publications

Laine FJ, Shedden AI, Dunn MM, Ghatak NR: Acquired intracranial herniations: MR imaging findings. Am J Rad 165:967-973, 1995.

Russo CP, Frederickson K, Smoker WRK, Ghatak NR, Naidich TP. Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma. Inter J Neuroradiology 2: 570-578, 1996.

Noble ER, Smoker WRK, Ghatak NR. Atypical skull base paragangliomas.
A J N R 18: 986-990, 1997. Amaker BH, Ghatak NR, Jebrail SA, Kornstein M: Primary T-cell rich B-cell lymphoma masquerading as meningioma. Arch Pathol Lab Med 124: 1700-3’ 2000.

Cassarino DS, Quezado MM, Ghatak N, Duray PH: Lyme associated parkinsonism: A neuropathological case study. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2003;127:1204-1206.

Tashjian V, Doppenberg EM, Broadus WC, Pavot P, Tye G, Perez J, Ghatak N.Diagnosis of Erdheim-Chester disease by using CT guided biopsy. J Neurosurg 101:521-527, 2004.

Idowu MO, Mudge M, Ghatak NR. Kayexalate (sodium polystyrene sulfonate) aspiration. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2005; 129:125.  

MacLean RC, Hafez N, Tripathi S, Childress CG, Ghatak NR, Marciano-Cabral F. IdentificationofAcanthamoeba sp. In paraffin-embedded CNS tissue from an HIV+ individual by PCR: Diagnostic Microbiology and Immunology. (In press)

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