{"id":248460,"date":"2026-07-15T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=248460"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:18:48","slug":"pathology-residents-now-at-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/07\/pathology-residents-now-at-uconn\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathology Residents Now at UConn"},"content":{"rendered":"

This July, the UConn School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Pathology and Laboratory began training two residents in its newly established and nationally accredited Pathology Residency.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been decades since UConn has had a residency program training future pathologists.<\/p>\n

\"The
The UConn School of Medicine new pathology residency is directed by Dr. Gahie Nam (UConn Photo\/Sean Flynn).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new Pathology Residency plans to accept two new residents each year, for training within the 4-year Anatomic Pathology\/ Clinical Pathology program. It is led by Program Director Dr. Gahie Nam, a faculty member at the UConn School of Medicine for the last 6 years who trained at Brown University. She is medical director for UConn Health\u2019s Surgical Pathology and Histology within the Anatomic Pathology division of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time for a new residency training program to launch at UConn in pathology as the future of the field is rapidly evolving right now.\u00a0 Pathology is going digital! We are transitioning from the sole use of the microscope and glass slides to digitalized slides. Now with the digital revolution, glass slides can be scanned and made more accessible rapidly to our faculty, trainees, and healthcare providers for use during patient consultations, education and research,\u201d says Nam.<\/p>\n

\"Pathology
Pathology residents 2026 at UConn’s medical school (UConn Photo\/Sean Flynn)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The two, inaugural pathology residents began training this July after being selected from a very competitive, large pool of candidates.<\/p>\n

Dr. Sonam Talreja\u00a0<\/strong>joins UConn after being a pathology research fellow at the University of Michigan focusing on inflammatory and immunological disease related to skin, gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary systems. She graduated from Chandka Medical College, Pakistan and received MBBS in 2014. She subsequently completed M.Phil in Surgical Pathology where she received a Best Teaching Award in Pathology from the medical students. She then worked as a Pathology lecturer in her home country of Pakistan where she continued to teach third year medical students\u2019 pathology and assisted surgical pathology service work.<\/p>\n

Dr. Gabriel Pastrana<\/strong>\u00a0joins after previous exposures to surgical pathology and cytopathology in various academic hospital settings and has recently published an interesting case report of Bladder Washing Cytology in the Detection of High-Grade Prostatic Adenocarcinoma. He graduated from the University of Medicine & Health Sciences, St Kitts receiving his MD with high honors in 2025. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan in 2020.<\/p>\n

Talreja and Pastrana\u00a0are both excited to be part of the new UConn pathology residency.<\/p>\n

Pastrana\u00a0shares, “Something resonates with me about the chance not just to train within a program but to help build one, to contribute to its culture and identify from the very beginning.”<\/p>\n

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Looking into the microscope at kidney cancer tissue is one of the new 2026 UConn pathology residents Dr. Sonam Talreja (UConn Photo\/Sean Flynn).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOur UConn pathology team is very passionate about what we do! As an academic medical institution, at UConn we love to teach and train the future generation of experts. We are very excited about these two talented trainees coming to UConn for pathology residency training. They are passionate about pathology just like us, and are a great fit for our team,\u201d says Nam.<\/p>\n

These pathology residents and future ones are training at UConn School of Medicine across a vast mixture of training and clinical rotations during the four-year residency program. They will train in surgical pathology, autopsy, cytology, molecular pathology, dermatopathology, neuropathology, and medical renal, microbiology, blood bank\/ transfusion medicine, chemistry, immunology, urinalysis, hematopathology, coagulation, flow cytometry, lab management, and elective\/research time.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.
Dr. Sonam Talreja and Dr. Gabriel Pastrana (UConn Photo\/Lauren Woods).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition, residents will also have opportunity for training rotations outside of UConn Health with its affiliated institutions and rotations such as Pediatric Pathology at Hartford Hospital, the Forensic Pathology at the Office of the State Medical Examiner, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine\u2019s molecular pathology team, and even the Connecticut American Red Cross to learn about its donor blood bank services.<\/p>\n

\u201cUConn looks forward to once again training the next generation of pathologists to enter our state\u2019s healthcare workforce,\u201d concludes Nam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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