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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After earning a bachelor's degree and 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 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 is a member of the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators.
Ramachandran currently chairs the Undergraduate Medical Educators Section of the Association for Academic Pathology, a nonprofit society serving as the voice of academic departments of Pathology in the United States and Canada. She is an Associate Director of the UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program and serves as the Faculty Mentoring Facilitator for UCSF Pathology.
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
Publications (15)
Top publication keywords:
Education, Medical, GraduateHepatitis B, ChronicHemangioblastomaKeratinsFatty LiverImmunohistochemistryPathology, ClinicalClinical CompetenceMeningeal NeoplasmsPathology, SurgicalFocal Nodular HyperplasiaZinc Finger Protein GLI1Gene RearrangementLimbic EncephalitisDura Mater
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A Departmental Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Survey, and Identification of Action Items, to Improve the Climate in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in One Academic Medical Center.
Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 2026 Kayraklioglu N, White K, Ramachandran R, Bakhtary S, Calkins SM, Lang U -
Expanding the Spectrum of GLI1-rearranged Neoplasms of the Gastrointestinal Tract to Include Monophasic Keratin-positive Epithelial Neoplasms.
The American journal of surgical pathology 2024 Bahceci D, Kim GE, Kakar S, Balitzer DJ, Nguyen ED, Ramachandran R, Umetsu SE, Joseph NM -
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)
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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 -
Immunohistochemical approach for the diagnosis of a liver mass on small biopsy specimens.
Human pathology 2017 Choi WT, Ramachandran R, Kakar S -
A seeding-searching-ensemble method for gland segmentation in H&E-stained images.
BMC medical informatics and decision making 2016 Zhang Y, Yang L, MacKenzie JD, Ramachandran R, Chen DZ -
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