Girish Venkataraman
M.D.
Assistant Professor
Medical Director, Molecular Pathology
Pathology
CONTACT INFORMATION
Locations
Board Certifications
Anatomic Pathology - General Cert: AM Board of Pathology
Hematopathology - Subspecialty Cert: AM Board of Pathology
Publications
Peripheral T-cell Lymphomas of Follicular T-Helper Cell Derivation With Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg Cells of B-cell Lineage: Both EBV-positive and EBV-negative Variants Exist Nicolae,A.; Pittaluga,S.; Venkataraman,G.; Vijnovich-Baron,A.; Xi,L.; Raffeld,M.; Jaffe,E. S. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology 2013 ;37(6):816-826
Dysplastic squamous cells are frequently present in urine cytology specimens of patients with high-grade urothelial carcinoma. Sojitra,P.; Venkataraman,G.; Masoom,S.; Kapur,U.; Wojcik,E. M. Acta Cytologica 2012 ;56(4):408-412
Development of disseminated histiocytic sarcoma in a patient with autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome and associated Rosai-Dorfman disease. Venkataraman,G.; McClain,K. L.; Pittaluga,S.; Rao,V. K.; Jaffe,E. S. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 2010 ;34(4):589-594
EBV positive mucocutaneous ulcer--a study of 26 cases associated with various sources of immunosuppression. Dojcinov,S. D.; Venkataraman,G.; Raffeld,M.; Pittaluga,S.; Jaffe,E. S. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 2010 ;34(3):405-417
Diagnostic utility of antibody to smoothelin in the distinction of muscularis propria from muscularis mucosae of the urinary bladder: a potential ancillary tool in the pathologic staging of invasive urothelial carcinoma. Paner,G. P.; Shen,S. S.; Lapetino,S.; Venkataraman,G.; Barkan,G. A.; Quek,M. L.; Ro,J. Y.; Amin,M. B. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 2009 ;33(1):91-98
Renal FNA-based typing of renal masses remains a useful adjunctive modality: evaluation of 31 renal masses with correlative histology. Masoom,S.; Venkataraman,G.; Jensen,J.; Flanigan,R. C.; Wojcik,E. M. Cytopathology 2009 ;20(1):50-55
Morphometric signature differences in nuclei of Gleason pattern 4 areas in Gleason 7 prostate cancer with differing primary grades on needle biopsy. Venkataraman,G.; Rycyna,K.; Rabanser,A.; Heinze,G.; Baesens,B. M.; Ananthanarayanan,V.; Paner,G. P.; Barkan,G. A.; Flanigan,R. C.; Wojcik,E. M. Journal of Urology 2009 ;181(1):88-93
Diagnostic significance of 'atypia' in instrumented versus voided urine specimens. Kapur,U.; Venkataraman,G.; Wojcik,E. M. Cancer 2008 ;114(4):270-274
Associated cytologic findings on pap tests from patients with genital herpes: a retrospective cohort analysis in 82 cases over 11 years. Bargaje,A.; Venkataraman,G.; Wojcik,E. M. Acta Cytologica 2008 ;52(4):512-514
Urine cytology for surveillance of the remnant urothelium after radical cystectomy and urinary diversion Fok,C. S.; Liu,L.; Venkataraman,G.; Barkan,G. A.; Flanigan,R. C.; Wojcik,E. M.; Quek,M. L. Journal of Urology 2008 ;179(4 Supplement):249
High incidence of aneuploidy in low grade urothelial carcinomas Alvarez,A.; Venkataraman,G.; Quek,M.; Flanigan,R.; Wojcik,E. International Journal of Urology 2008 ;15(3):279-279
Interobserver agreement in the interpretation of chromogenic in situ hybridization for detection of human papillomavirus in gynecologic cytology: an appraisal of 55 cases. Kouria,G.; Venkataraman,G.; Mehrotra,S.; Wojcik,E. M.; Sinacore,J. Acta Cytologica 2007 ;51(3):494-496
Immunostaining for SYT protein discriminates synovial sarcoma from other soft tissue tumors: analysis of 146 cases. He,R.; Patel,R. M.; Alkan,S.; Hammadeh,R.; Weiss,S. W.; Goldblum,J. R.; Venkataraman,G.; Baila,H. Modern Pathology 2007 ;20(5):522-528
Validation of World Health Organization/International Society of Urologic Pathology 2004 classification schema for bladder urothelial carcinomas using quantitative nuclear morphometry: identification of predictive features using bootstrap method. Kapur,U.; Antic,T.; Venkataraman,G.; Durazo-Arvizu,R. A.; Quek,M. M.; Flanigan,R. C.; Wojcik,E. M. Urology 2007 ;70(5):1028-1033
Identification of patients with low-risk for aneuploidy: comparative discriminatory models using linear and machine-learning classifiers in prostate cancer. Venkataraman,G.; Heinze,G.; Holmes,E. W.; Ananthanarayanan,V.; Bostwick,D. G.; Paner,G. P.; Bradford-De La garza,C. M.; Brown,H. G.; Flanigan,R. C.; Wojcik,E. M. Prostate 2007 ;67(14):1524-1536
Utility of prostate biopsy morphometric sum optical density for identifying extraprostatic extension on subsequent prostatectomy. Bargaje,A.; Venkataraman,G.; Flanigan,R. C.; Wojcik,E. M.; Ananthanarayanan,V. Analytical & Quantitative Cytology & Histology 2006 ;28(6):343-345
Morphometric sum optical density as a surrogate marker for ploidy status in prostate cancer: an analysis in 180 biopsies using logistic regression and binary recursive partitioning. Venkataraman,G.; Ananthanarayanan,V.; Paner,G. P.; He,R.; Masoom,S.; Sinacore,J.; Flanigan,R. C.; Wojcik,E. M. Virchows Archiv 2006 ;449(3):302-307
Report of an angiosarcoma mimic: cutaneous aneurysmal fibrous histiocytoma. Venkataraman,G.; Hammadeh,R. APMIS 2006 ;114(10):744-748
Clear cell sarcoma of the small bowel: a potential pitfall. Case report. Venkataraman,G.; Quinn,A. M.; Williams,J.; Hammadeh,R. APMIS 2005 ;113(10):716-719
Tissue microarrays: potential in the Indian subcontinent Venkataraman,G.; Ananthanaranayanan,V. Indian journal of cancer 2005 ;42(1):9-14
Education
Medical School
Kilpauk Medical College
Residency
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Pathology: Anatomic & Clinical Pathology
Loyola University Medical Center, Pathology: Anatomic & Clinical Pathology
Fellowship
National Cancer Institute (NCI), Hematopathology
Languages
Hindi
Tamil
Interests & Hobbies
Photography
Computer Image Processing