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Jagmohan S. Sidhu, M.D.
medical director of Centrex Clinical Laboratories, oversees all of the pathology services for the company.  He received a medical degree from Punjabi University in Patiala, India and serves as a clinical professor at Upstate Medical University at Syracuse.  He did his residency in clinical and anatomic pathology at NY Medical College Valhalla, Mount Sinai Hospital New York and University of Texas at Galveston. He also did a fellowship in Hematopathology at SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse.  Dr. Sidhu has received several awards and recognitions including recognition in a book publishing contest held by Harvard Medical School. He has been a nominee for "The Doctors of Excellence" twice in recent years during his directorship of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at United Health Services Hospitals.  Dr. Sidhu is a member of numerous medical societies and hospital committees.

Lester D. Manzano, M.D.
iis the medical director and chairman of the Department of Pathology of Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare.  Dr. Manzano received a bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Toledo in Ohio and attended the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in Plymouth, Montserrat, in the West Indies. Dr. Manzano completed his Pathology training at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, followed by a Hematopathology Fellowship at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Indiana.   He is a member of several professional societies including the Central New York Academy of Medicine and the College of American Pathologists.


Mustafa Kaakour, M.D.
is pathologist and director of Centrex Cytopathology and Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare Point of Care Ancillary Testing Sites.  Dr. Kaakour received a bachelor's degree in Biology-Chemistry and his medical degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and was a resident in Pathology for three years at the AUB Medical Center.  He interned at Methodist Hospitals of Dallas and was a resident in Pathology at Methodist Hospital of Dallas and later at New York University Medical Center.  Dr. Kaakour assisted in teaching pathology lab sessions to second year medical students at NYU Medical Center. Dr. Kaakour is a member of several medical societies and professional associations.


Balshik Min, M.D.
is the laboratory medical director for Lewis County General Hospital.  Dr. Min received his medical degree from Seoul National University's College of Medicine in South Korea.  He completed his residency in Pathology at Harlem Hospital Center in New York and Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey.  Dr. Min has more than 30 years of pathology experience with Centrex Clinical Laboratories, Inc. and has served as laboratory medical director for Centrex Clinical Laboratories, Faxton Hospital and Rome Memorial Hospital in the past. He is a member of several professional societies including the American Medical Association and the College of American Pathologists.

 
Robert R. Coffin, M.D.
assistant director of Pathology and medical director of Little Falls Hospital Lab, received a bachelor's degree in Biology at Seattle Pacific and his medical degree from the University of Washington Medical School. Dr. Coffin interned at University Hospital in Seattle, Washington and completed a fellowship at Children's Hospital.  He is a member of the American Medical Association and the American Society for Clinical Pathology.

 Christian N. Ezidiegwu, M.D.
is an associate pathologist and medical director of Rome Memorial Hospital Lab.  Dr. Ezidiegwu has worked as an independent consultant/clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. Dr. Ezidiegwu graduated from the Enugu Campus of the University of Nigeria. After completing an internship in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, he went on as a trainee in Histopathology at Southampton University Hospital and the Royal London Hospitals of St. Batholomew's Hospital, the Royal London Hospital and St. Mark's Hospital in the United Kingdom. Following that, he was a clinical lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College at the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, United Kingdom, International Academy of Cytopathologists, European Board of Pathologists and, in the USA, a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists.  He is board certified in Anatomic, Clinical Pathology, Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine. Professional interests are in breast, gynecologic neoplastic and molecular pathology, general cytopathology, transfusion and transplant medicine.

Shridevi Karikehalli, M.D.
iis an associate pathologist and hematopathologist with Centrex Clinical Laboratories.  Dr. Karikehalli received a M.B.B.S degree at Government Medical College in Miraj, India followed by a diploma in Clinical Pathology.  Dr. Karikehalli was a resident pathologist at Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana and at Albany Medical Center. She was a Fellow in Hematopathology at Albany Medical Center, New York and a Cytopathology Fellow at Hartford Hospital, Connecticut. She is board certified in Hematopathology and Cytopathology.  Dr. Karikehalli is a member of several professional organizations including the International Academy of Pathology and the American Society of Hematology.

Lihong Xia, MD
completed her medical education at Tongji Medical University in China and served as a faculty pathologist in Jinan University School of Medicine in China.  Dr. Xia worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Columbia University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  Dr. Xia completed her residency training and Cytopathology Fellowship at Hartford Hospital, Connecticut.  She is board certified in Cytopathology and Anatomic/Clinical Pathology.

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