
Our team of Gastrointestinal Pathologists at Duke is dedicated to providing state of the art diagnostic services related to neoplastic and non-neoplastic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreaticobiliary system.
Faculty
Chanjuan Shi, MD, PhD, is the section head of gastrointestinal (GI) pathology. Her particular areas of interest are GI neuroendocrine tumors and pancreaticobiliary pathology. Her research interests include 1) Pathobiology of GI and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and 2) Identification of diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic biomarkers for GI cancers.
Fengming Chen, MD, PhD, joined Duke Pathology as an assistant professor in July 2022, primarily practicing in GI and liver pathology. Her academic interests include clinical and translational research related to the gastrointestinal system, liver, and pancreas.
Wei Chen, MD, is an assistant professor of Pathology who also is part of the Autopsy Pathology Division.
Cynthia Guy, MD, is a professor of Pathology. She is gastrointestinal and liver pathologist with more than 20 years of clinical diagnostic experience, and is active in translational research.
William Jeck, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Pathology with areas of research and particular interest in rapid molecular detection of fusion oncogenes in bone and soft tissue neoplasms.
Shannon McCall, MD, is an associate professor of Pathology, director of the Duke BioRepository & Precision Pathology Center (BRPC) and co-leader of the Duke Cancer Institute’s Precision Cancer Medicine & Investigational Therapeutics (PCMIT)
Avani Pendse, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of Pathology specializing in gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary surgical pathology and cytopathology. Her research pursuits include investigation to improve the morphologic and proteomic based understanding of gastro-intestinal disease. In her role as the Associate Director of Proteomics of the Duke BioRepository and Precision Pathology Center, she is currently focused on developing multiplex immunohistochemistry panels to study immunologic and oncologic diseases.
Gina Sotolongo, MD, joined Duke faculty as an assistant professor of Pathology. She primarily will be involved in Gastrointestinal Pathology sign-out and also contributes to Hematopathology services. A graduate of the FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Florida, Sotolongo completed her Duke Anatomic Pathology/Clinical Pathology (AP/CP) residency in 2023, serving as co-chief resident from 2022-2023.
Kevin Tanager, MD, is an assistant professor in Gastrointestinal Pathology and Liver Pathology. Tanager's recent academic interests include the association between primary sclerosing cholangitis & inflammatory bowel disease, as well as comparing detection methods of occult metastatic colorectal cancer.