The Liver Pathlology Service offers broad experience in adult and pediatric liver disease as well as primary tumors of the liver and liver disease in the transplant setting.

The Liver/Transplantation Surgical Pathology Section is comprised of a diverse group of dedicated diagnosticians, educators and researchers. We provide clinical excellence for a wide variety of both non-neoplastic and neoplastic diseases involving the liver and biliary tract. Our research interests are broad and include a spectrum of diagnostic and translational aspects of tumors and benign chronic liver diseases.

Faculty

Section Head Chanjuan Shi, MD, PhD, is a GI/Liver pathologist. She has over a decade of experience in liver pathology, including medical, transplant and neoplastic liver diseases. Her other areas of interest include digestive neuroendocrine tumor and pancreaticobiliary pathology.

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. 

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.

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.

Liver Pathology Service description