Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

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Assistant Professor - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

MBBS - Grant Medical College, Bombay, India, 1985.
• MD(Path) - Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay University, India.
• Pathology residency: UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson University, New Jersey
• Specialty training: Hematopathology - University of Cincinnati, OH. Clinical Cytogenetics - University of Pittsburgh, PA.

Research Interests: Automated bone marrow analysis, Genetics of hematological malignancies.

Dr. Alvares is a medical graduate of Bombay University, India, where she also did a three-year Pathology residency. She completed a three-year accredited fellowship in Clinical Cytogenetics at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She completed a Pathology residency at the UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson University, New Jersey and subsequently did two years of Hematopatholgy fellowship training at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. She is currently Board Certified in anatomic and clinical Pathology and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Pathology, and is Board Eligible in Hematopathology. She is also Board Eligible in Clinical Cytogenetics, and has passed the cytogenetics part of the American Board of Genetics exam. Dr. Alvares is an active member of the hematopathology and surgical pathology diagnostic service. She also teaches pathology residents, medical students and heme-onc and pathology fellows. She is an invited reviewer of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

• Mazzella F, Alvares C, Kowal-Vern A, Schumacher H.  The Acute Erythroleukemias. Clinics in Lab Med 2000; 20(1):119-137.
• Alvares CJ, Mazzella FM, Schumacher H. Genetics of the Chronic Leukemias. J Clin Ligand Assay (In press).
• Mazzella FM, Alvares CJ, Schumacher H. Techniques of Molecular Analysis in Hematology. J Clin Ligand Assay (In press).
• Perrotta G, Alvares C, Schumacher H. The peripheral blood smear (PBS): preparation, examination and utilization. Lab lines 2000; 6:3.
• Mazzella F, Kowal-Vern A, Cotelingam J, Shrit A, Cotelingam J, Rector J, Alvares C, Schumacher H. "Proposed WHO Classification of Acute Myeloid Leukemias. A Letter to the Editor. Mod Path 2000; 13(1):101-102.

Abstracts

• Alvares CJ, Schumacher H, Cualing HD. Ulex Europaeus agglutinin (UEA-1): a sensitive marker for megakaryocytes and megakaryoblasts in paraffin-embedded tissue. Mod Path (In Press); Lab Investig (In press).
• Fan G, ALvares C, Shen RL, Roberts L, Van Hove L, Schisano T, Schumacher H. Cell-Dyn 4000 Hematology analyzer can decrease manual effort in evaluating non-diagnostic bone marrows. Lab Hematol 2000; 6(1):#P16, 39.
• Alvares C, Hurtubise P, Fan G, Al Ahmadie H, Cualing H and Schumacher H. Correlation of bone marrow immunophenotypic analysis with morphology - an evaluation of the flow sample. Mod Path 2000; 13(1):#1296, 220A. Lab Investig 2000; 80(1):#1296, 220A.
• Alvares C, Hendrix H, Collier J, Cualing H. CD1a - a useful immunohistochemical marker in diagnosis of early lesions of Mycosis Fungoides. Mod Path 2000; 13(1) :#335, 60A. Lab Investig 2000; 13(1):#335, 60A.

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Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0529 ; (513) 558-4500