Gastrointestinal & Hepatobiliary Pathology

Stanford’s Gastrointestinal & Hepatobiliary Pathology Service offers expert diagnosis for wet tissue and consult cases for neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, biliary tract, and pancreas. Our faculty has expertise in a wide spectrum of clinical specialties, including Barrett’s esophagus, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and premalignant dysplastic lesions and malignant lesions of the luminal gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, liver, and biliary tract.

Consultative Opinions & Case Reviews

Stanford’s Gastrointestinal & Hepatobiliary Pathology Service offers consultative opinions on challenging cases submitted from outside of the Stanford network. These consultations can be utilized to offer expert opinion, answer specific questions, perform corroborative studies for suspected or unusual disease entities, and to confirm diagnoses. This service includes assignment of a specialty pathology fellow to each case for individualized service.

Primary Pathology Diagnosis

Stanford’s Gastrointestinal & Hepatobiliary Pathology Service performs gross and microscopic examination and reporting of wet tissue cases. This includes:

Teri A. Longacre, MD

Gerald J. Berry, MD

David Bingham, MD

Lawrence Walden Browne, MD

Gregory Charville, MD, PhD

John Higgins, MD

Maggie Lam, MD

Richard Hildebrandt, MD

Jody Hooper, MD

Jeanne Shen, MD

Serena Tan, MD

Cindy Wang, MD

Ancillary Testing

Stanford’s Gastrointestinal & Hepatobiliary Pathology Service relies on a suite of ancillary testing offerings to support our expert diagnosis. Learn more about these offerings. Many of these techniques, such as molecular profiling and cytogenetics, can be performed on cytology as well as tissue sections.