Description
Diagnose diseases in fetuses, infants, children, and adolescents by analyzing organs, tissues, and body fluids; perform perinatal and pediatric autopsies; direct pediatric laboratory services; and consult with pediatric care teams.
- • Testify in depositions or trials as an expert witness in pediatric or perinatal cases.
- • Review pediatric cases by correlating autopsy, surgical pathology, cytology, and lab findings.
- • Perform perinatal, fetal, and pediatric autopsies to determine cause of death.
- • Examine placentas and products of conception for obstetric and neonatal complications.
- • Interpret pediatric surgical pathology specimens, including small biopsies and resections.
- • Evaluate pediatric cytology specimens, including FNAs and body fluids.
- • Identify congenital anomalies, metabolic disorders, genetic syndromes, and pediatric tumors.
- • Conduct and interpret pediatric infectious disease testing, including PCRs and serology.
- • Conduct genetic and genomic analyses (DNA/chromosomes) for inherited and developmental disorders.
- • Analyze and interpret pediatric lab tests in chemistry, immunology, microbiology, and flow cytometry.
- • Communicate diagnostic findings to pediatricians, neonatologists, surgeons, and oncologists.
- • Consult on test selection, specimen handling, and result interpretation for pediatric patients.
- • Write pediatric pathology reports summarizing analyses, results, and clinical implications.
- • Participate in pediatric tumor boards and perinatal mortality or morbidity reviews.
- • Develop or validate assays and instruments optimized for pediatric specimens.
- • Manage pediatric pathology and laboratory services; supervise staff, residents, and fellows.
- • Educate medical students, residents, fellows, and lab personnel in pediatric pathology.
- • Keep current with pediatric and perinatal pathology literature, conferences, and professional societies.
- • Conduct research and present findings on developmental disease, pediatric cancer, or rare disorders.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
