About the author of this blog

About the creater of this blog

I am Dr.Prashant Jani,a dynamic and progressive Oncopathologist with more than 13 years of experience.

EDUCATION
2001-2005- FRCPC Anatomic Pathology Residency,University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1994-1997 - M.D.General pathology,University of Pune, India
1987-1994 – M.B.B.S.University of Pune, India

WORK EXPERIENCE

Aug.2005 – Current date

o Anatomic Pathologist, Thunder Bay Regional Health sciences Centre and Northern Ontario Cancer Research Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
o Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory medicine.Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Ontario, Canada.
o Responsibilities included surgical pathology with large number of oncopathology specimens; cytopathology and autopsy .Thunder Bay Regional health Sciences centre is a teaching hospital with work load of more than 20,000 surgical pathology specimens per year, 3000 cytopathology specimens per year and up to 200 autopsies per year.
o Teaching medical students, nursing students and residents is an integral part of the service.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:

 03/2001- 05/2005- Resident, Anatomic Pathology, University of Toronto, Canada
 01/1997 – 1/2001-Private Consultant Pathologist, Pune India
 01/1997 –01/2001-Cytopathologist, Care India Medical Society Pune, India.
 06/1997 –02/1998-Cytopathologist, B.J. Medical College, Pune, India.
 01/1994 –12/1997-Blood Transfusion Officer, Red Cross Blood Bank, Pune,India.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

1) D-240 expression on luminal surface of pulmonary airspaces in normal developing and adult lung but is lost in conditions associated with intra alveolar infiltrates.
 Poster presentation-Unites states and Canadian Academyof Pathology,2005,San Antanio,USA
2) Aberrant expression of CD4 and CD7 T cell antigens in Atypical B cell –
Chronic Lymphocytic leukemia.
 Poster presentation at American Society of Clinical Pathology, Nov.2005, Chicago,
USA.
 Prashant Jani,Abdel Walkett, and Hong Chang,Am J Hematol.2007 Jan;82(1):73-6.
3) CD 138 expression in Merkel cell carcinoma:A potential diagnostic pitfall in hematological malignancies.
 Poster presentation at Annual meeting of Canadian Association of Pathologist,
June,2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
4) Synchronous adrenocrtical and renal cell carcinoma: A rare association
 Poster presentation at Annual meeting of Canadian Association of Pathologist,June,2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
 Prashant Jani, D.El-demallawy , The Canadian Journal of Urology, 2007 Jan;56(11):933-50.
5) Value of CD 138 in normal and Pathological endometrium
 Poster presentation at Annual meeting of Canadian Association of Pathologist,
June, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
6) Application of immunohistochemistry in classification of ovarian tumors
 Poster presentation at American Society of Clinical pathology,Oct.2004 San
Antonio, USA
7) An approach to duodenal biopsies.
 S.Serra,P.Jani J Clin Pathol. 2006 Nov;59(11):1133-50. 2006
8) Massive Bone Marrow Involvement by Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma with an Unusual Histologic Pattern and an Unknown Primary Site: A case Report with Morphologic, Immunohistochemical, Ultrastructural, and Cytogenetic Studies
 Prashant Jani, Charles Ye, Nov.2007,Journal of Clinical pathology.

Invited Speaker :

1) Role of Pathologist in management of breast Cancer- Dec.2006
Faculty and Course coordinator,Practicing pathologist association meeting, ,B.J Medical College, University of Pune, Maharashtra, India.
2) Her2/neu and Breast Cancer: May 2008
Faculty , Northern Ontario Cancer Research Foundation meeting Ontario, Canada.
3) Cancer Pathology Course : Jan.2007 and 2008
Faculty Lakehead University,Thunder Bay,Ontario,Canada.
4) Surgical pathology CME –Feb.2009
Course co-ordinator and faculty at B.J.Medical College and Sasson Genreal hospitals, Pune,India

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES:
 2005- 2009 – Thunder bay Regional health Sciences and Northern Ontario School
of Medicine, Ontario, Canada
 2001- 2005 – University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

MEMBERSHIP College of American Pathologist (CAP)
 American Society of Clinical Pathology.
 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
 Ontario Medical Association.(OMA)
 United States and Canadian Academy Of Pathology(USCAP)