Raga Ramachandran, MD, PhD
Professor
Pathology
School of Medicine
Dr. Raga Ramachandran is a surgical pathologist, a specialist in analyzing biopsies and tissue samples taken during surgery in order to help make treatment decisions. She focuses on liver and gastrointestinal diseases, and works with teams of medical students, residents, fellows and pathology assistants.
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Ramachandran participates in collaborative research in her role as the San Francisco site pathologist for the Hepatitis B Research Network, a consortium of hospitals with expertise in care for individuals with chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus. She also conducts education research that examines the impact of the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators' endowed chair program – which supports teaching excellence – on former chair holders.
After earning a master's degree in biological sciences at Stanford University, Ramachandran earned a doctorate in cell and molecular biology at the University of Pennsylvania. She also earned her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program. She completed residencies in anatomic and clinical pathology and fellowships in surgical pathology and gastrointestinal and liver pathology at UCSF.
Ramachandran is a member of the Group for Research in Pathology Education and the Undergraduate Medical Educators Section of the Association of Pathology Chairs. Also a member of the previously mentioned UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, she serves as the endowed chair in pathology medical student education.
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
Publications (12)
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Education, Medical, GraduateHepatitis B, ChronicHemangioblastomaFaculty, MedicalFatty LiverPathology, ClinicalInternship and ResidencyClinical CompetenceAdenocarcinoma, ScirrhousAdenoma, Liver CellMeningeal NeoplasmsPathology, SurgicalFocal Nodular HyperplasiaLimbic EncephalitisDura Mater
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Reply to Li, Henry, and Nguyen.
The American journal of gastroenterology 2022 Khalili M, Kleiner DE, King WC, Sterling RK, Ghany MG, Chung RT, Bhan AK, Rosenthal P, Lisker-Melman M, Ramachandran R, Lok AS -
Impact of an Innovative Endowed Chair Program on Medical Educator Recipients.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Chin-Hong P, Loeser H, Peterson A, Ramachandran R, O'Sullivan PS -
Hepatic Steatosis and Steatohepatitis in a Large North American Cohort of Adults With Chronic Hepatitis B.
The American journal of gastroenterology 2021 Khalili M, Kleiner DE, King WC, Sterling RK, Ghany MG, Chung RT, Bhan AK, Rosenthal P, Lisker-Melman M, Ramachandran R, Lok AS, ; and the Hepatitis B Research Network (HBRN) -
Perceptions of a Remote Learning Pathology Elective for Advanced Clinical Medical Students.
Academic pathology 2021 Tanaka KS, Ramachandran R -
Hepatic steatosis after pediatric liver transplant.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2017 Perito ER, Vase T, Ramachandran R, Phelps A, Jen KY, Lustig RH, Feldstein VA, Rosenthal P
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Immunohistochemical approach for the diagnosis of a liver mass on small biopsy specimens.
Human pathology 2017 Choi WT, Ramachandran R, Kakar S -
Role of residents in medical student teaching.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 2013 Ramachandran R -
Immunohistochemical pitfalls and the importance of glypican 3 and arginase in the diagnosis of scirrhous hepatocellular carcinoma.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc 2013 Krings G, Ramachandran R, Jain D, Wu TT, Yeh MM, Torbenson M, Kakar S -
A young woman with systemic lupus erythematosus and extensive mesenteric vasculitis involving small and medium vessels.
Arthritis care & research 2012 Ashouri JF, Davis JL, Farkas A, Durack JC, Ramachandran R, Dall'Era M -
T cell and B Cell immunity can be reconstituted with mismatched hematopoietic stem cell transplantation without alkylator therapy in artemis-deficient mice using anti-natural killer cell antibody and photochemically treated sensitized donor T cells.
Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2011 Xiao TZ, Singh K, Dunn E, Ramachandran R, Cowan MJ -
Acute hyperglycemia worsens hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats.
Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2009 Behrends M, Martinez-Palli G, Niemann CU, Cohen S, Ramachandran R, Hirose R -
Intradural extramedullary leptomeningeal hemangioblastomatosis and paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis diagnosed at autopsy: an unlikely pair.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 2008 Ramachandran R, Lee HS, Matthews B, Shatzel A, Tihan T