Poonam Vohra, MBBS
Professor
Pathology
School of Medicine

Vohra completed her medical degree as well as residences in pathology and transfusion medicine at the Government Medical College in Patiala, India. She completed postdoctoral research in cytopathology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India.

Vohra served as a neuropathology research assistant at UCSF before attending the University of Massachusetts Medical School to complete a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology. She returned to UCSF to complete a fellowship in cytopathology.

• Age and Race-Based Differences in Anal Cytology: Implications for Screening and Prevention of Anal Cancer Disparities: A Single Institutional Study.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2023 Timothy Gilpatrick, Steven Long, Seyedreza Mousavi, Peyman Samghabadi, Poonam Vohra
• American Society of Cytopathology Survey on Pathologist Performed Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2023 Daniel Kurtycz, Zubair Baloch, Ronald Balassanian, Terrance Lynn, Poonam Vohra, Maoxin Wu
• CSF Cell Block Cytology: Utility and Performance at Two Academic Medical Centers.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2023 Hyeji Yoon, Jill Grochowski, Ronald Balassanian, Gioia Iezza, Poonam Vohra, Nancy Greenland
• Fungal Infection of Lymph Nodes Diagnosed by Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy: Utility of Cytomorphology, Culture, and Molecular Testing.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2023 Emily Kelly, Poonam Vohra, Steven Long, Ronald Balassanian
• Implementation of ThyroSeq v3 Molecular Testing for Underserved Patients with Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2023 Hannah Lee, Daniel Qazi, Steven Long, Peyman Samghabadi, Poonam Vohra
• Practicing US-FNA: ASC Study Group Recommendations Based on Survey and Literature Analysis.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2023 Maoxin Wu, Poonam Vohra, Ronald Balassanian, Terrance Lynn, Zubair Baloch, Daniel Kurtycz
• Genetic and Immunohistochemical Profiling of Mammary Hidradenoma and Comparison to Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma.
  Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc 2023 Black MA, Neumann NM, Krings G, Najjar S, Troxell ML, Wang A, Devine WP, Vohra P, Gasper C, Chen YY, Cohen JN, Bean GR
• Utility and performance of cell blocks in urine cytology: Experience at three teaching hospitals.
  Cancer cytopathology 2023 Greenland NY, Khorsandi N, Peng Y, Balassanian R, Tabatabai ZL, Tiffany Shing TW, Vohra P
• Urine cytology in patients with gender confirmation surgery and hormone therapy: evaluation of urine cytology performance in an underserved patient population.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2023 Khorsandi N, Ding CC, VandenBussche CJ, Verduzco CS, Greenland N, Vohra P
• Less Common Triple-Negative Breast Cancers.
  2022 Poonam Vohra, Yunn-Yi Chen, Gregor Krings
• Comprehensive Review of Metastatic Breast Carcinoma in Cytology Specimens.
  Journal of Molecular Pathology 2022 Swikrity U. Baskota, Daniel Qazi, Ashish Chandra, Poonam Vohra
• Performance of Transformation Zone and Nucleated Squamous Cell Component in Anal Cancer Screening in Correlation with Histologic Follow-up: An Institutional Experience.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2022 Seyedreza Mousavi, Carlo De La Sancha Verduzco, Tze Wai Tiffany Shing, Matthew Rosenbaum, Poonam Vohra
• Urine Cytology in Patients with Gender Confirmation Surgery and Hormone Therapy: Highlighting the Performance of Urine Cytology in an Underserved Patient Population.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2022 Chien-Kuang Cornelia Ding, Christopher VandenBussche, Carlo De la Sancha, Nancy Greenland, Poonam Vohra
• Utility and Performance of Cell Blocks in Urine Cytology: Experience at Three Teaching Hospitals.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2022 Nancy Greenland, Yue Peng, Ronald Balassanian, Z. Laura Tabatabai, Tze Shing, Poonam Vohra
• Interventional cytology benefits patients undergoing thyroid FNA.
  Cancer cytopathology 2022 Vohra P, Khanafshar E, Balassanian R
• Prostate Cancer in Male-to-Female Transgender Individuals: Histopathologic Findings and Association With Gender-affirming Hormonal Therapy.
  The American journal of surgical pathology 2022 Baraban E, Ding CC, White M, Vohra P, Simko J, Boyle K, Guo C, Zhang M, Dobs A, Ketheeswaran S, Liang F, Epstein JI
• Cytomorphologic features of pediatric-type follicular lymphoma on fine needle aspiration biopsy: case series and a review of the literature.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2022 Lu KL, Menke JR, Ng D, Ruiz-Cordero R, Marinoff A, Stieglitz E, Gollapudi S, Singh K, Ohgami RS, Vohra P
• Cytologic features of micropapillary variant urothelial carcinoma in urinary tract cytology: Case series and review of literature.
  Diagnostic cytopathology 2022 Greenland NY, Peng Y, Vohra P, Tabatabai ZL
• The Diagnostic Dilemma of Urothelial Tissue Fragments in Urinary Tract Cytology Specimens.
  Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2022 Allison DB, Zhang ML, Vohra P, VandenBussche CJ
• Limitations and opportunities for tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in breast FNA.
  Cancer cytopathology 2022 Balassanian R, Vohra P
• Adequacy of Urine Specimens (Adequacy).
  2022 Z. Laura Tabatabai, Güliz A. Barkan, Monique Courtade-Saïdi, Daniel F. I. Kurtycz, Matthew T. Olson, Toyonori Tsuzuki, Christopher J. VandenBussche, Poonam Vohra
• Cytopathology of the Upper Urinary Tract.
  2022 Christopher J. VandenBussche, Jen-Fan Hang, Patrick J. McIntire, Yurina Miki, Stephen Peyton, Poonam Vohra, Mingjuan Lisa Zhang
• Cystic Neutrophilic Granulomatous Mastitis Regression with the Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Inhibitor, Adalimumab.
  European journal of breast health 2021 Chiu LW, Goodwin K, Vohra P, Amerson E
• Cytologic Features of Micropapillary Variant Urothelial Carcinoma in Urinary Tract Cytology.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2021 Nancy Greenland, Yue Peng, Poonam Vohra, Z. Laura Tabatabai
• Performance of the Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology (TPS) in Upper Urinary Tract Cytology – An Institutional Experience at a General Hospital.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2021 Chien-Kuang Cornelia Ding, Hannah Lee, Z. Laura Tabatabai, Nancy Greenland, Poonam Vohra
• Spectacular Cell Blocks: The Pull Back Technique for Producing Core Biopsy Equivalent FNA Cell Blocks.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2021 Lauren Eversmeyer, Poonam Vohra, Britt-Marie Ljung, Ronald Balassanian
• A Review of Effusion Cytomorphology of Small Round Cell Tumors.
  Acta cytologica 2021 Han LM, VandenBussche CJ, Abildtrup M, Chandra A, Vohra P
• Gastric-type endocervical adenocarcinoma and cervical cytology: Experience at a general hospital and review of the literature.
  Cytopathology : official journal of the British Society for Clinical Cytology 2020 Greenland NY, Wolsky RJ, Darragh TM, Vohra P
• A review of upper urinary tract cytology performance before and after the implementation of The Paris System.
  Cancer cytopathology 2020 Zhang ML, Miki Y, Hang JF, Vohra M, Peyton S, McIntire PJ, VandenBussche CJ, Vohra P
• A review of urinary cytology in the setting of upper tract urothelial carcinoma.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2020 Zhang ML, VandenBussche CJ, Hang JF, Miki Y, McIntire PJ, Peyton S, Vohra P
• Primary mammary angiosarcomas harbor frequent mutations in KDR and PIK3CA and show evidence of distinct pathogenesis.
  Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc 2020 Beca F, Krings G, Chen YY, Hosfield EM, Vohra P, Sibley RK, Troxell ML, West RB, Allison KH, Bean GR
• Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy of Liver Lesions Yields Higher Tumor Fraction for Molecular Studies: A Direct Comparison With Concurrent Core Needle Biopsy.
  Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2019 Goldhoff PE, Vohra P, Kolli KP, Ljung BM
• Improved diagnostic precision of urine cytology by implementation of The Paris System and the use of cell blocks.
  Cancer cytopathology 2018 Chan E, Balassanian R, Tabatabai ZL, Lou H, Vohra P
• Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of Primary Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma Yields Higher Percentage of Tumor Cells for Molecular Studies: A 5-year Comparison Study to Needle Core Biopsy Sampling.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2018 Jeanette Ruiz, Z. Laura Tabatabai, Poonam Vohra
• Ultrasound-guided Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (USFNB) is an Effective Method to Measure HIV Reservoirs in Lymph Nodes: A Pathogenesis Study in a Series of 50 Cases.
  Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2018 Dianna Ng, Ronald Balassanian, Steve Deeks, Jeffrey Miliush, Rita Ung, Rebacca Hoh, Viva Tai, Poonam Vohra
• PP4.7 HIV persistence in lymph nodes from virally suppressed individuals: residual production VS latency.
  Journal of virus eradication 2017 M. Pardons, R. Fromentin, L. Leyre, A. Pagliuzza, P. Vohra, D. Ng, R. Hoh, M. Kerbleski, V. Tai, J. Milush, F. Hecht, S. Deeks, N. Chomont
• Concomitant Epstein-Barr Virus-associated smooth muscle tumor and granulomatous inflammation of the liver.
  Pathology, research and practice 2017 Can NT, Grenert JP, Vohra P
• Estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 expression in breast cancer FNA cell blocks and paired histologic specimens: A large retrospective study.
  Cancer cytopathology 2016 Vohra P, Buelow B, Chen YY, Serrano M, Vohra MS, Berry A, Ljung BM
• Genomic profiling of malignant phyllodes tumors reveals aberrations in FGFR1 and PI-3 kinase/RAS signaling pathways and provides insights into intratumoral heterogeneity.
  Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc 2016 Liu SY, Joseph NM, Ravindranathan A, Stohr BA, Greenland NY, Vohra P, Hosfield E, Yeh I, Talevich E, Onodera C, Van Ziffle JA, Grenert JP, Bastian BC, Chen YY, Krings G
• Less Common Triple Negative Breast Cancers.
  A Comprehensive Guide to Core Needle Biopsies of the Breast 2016 Poonam Vohra, Gregor Krings, Yunn-Yi Chen
• Nongynecologic metastases to fallopian tube mucosa: a potential mimic of tubal high-grade serous carcinoma and benign tubal mucinous metaplasia or nonmucinous hyperplasia.
  The American journal of surgical pathology 2015 Rabban JT, Vohra P, Zaloudek CJ
• Diagnostic utility and sensitivities of GATA3 antibodies in triple-negative breast cancer.
  Human pathology 2014 Krings G, Nystrom M, Mehdi I, Vohra P, Chen YY
• Breast metastasis from testicular leiomyosarcoma.
  The breast journal 2013 Kohi MP, Brasic N, Vohra P, Price ER, Joe BN
• Paget's disease of the breast masquerading as squamous cell carcinoma on cytology: a case report.
  Diagnostic cytopathology 2011 Vohra P, Ljung BM, Miller TR, Hwang ES, van Zante A
• An oncofetal protein IMP3: a new molecular marker for the detection of esophageal adenocarcinoma and high-grade dysplasia.
  The American journal of surgical pathology 2009 Lu D, Vohra P, Chu PG, Woda B, Rock KL, Jiang Z
• Insulin-like growth factor mRNA binding protein 3 (IMP3) is differentially expressed in benign and malignant follicular patterned thyroid tumors.
  Endocrine pathology 2009 Slosar M, Vohra P, Prasad M, Fischer A, Quinlan R, Khan A
• The role of sentinel lymph node biopsy in the management of breast cancer.
  Indian journal of pathology & microbiology 2007 Khan A, Vohra P, Quinlan RF
• Definition and diagnostic implications of gemistocytic astrocytomas: a pathological perspective.
  Journal of neuro-oncology 2006 Tihan T, Vohra P, Berger MS, Keles GE