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WAEL A. SAKR, MD
Professor of Pathology,
Vice Chair, Anatomic Pathology

Education:
University of Damascus
1974 - 1977 Basic Medical Sciences
1977- 1980 Clinical Medical Sciences
1980 Rotating Internship, Al Mowassa University Hospital Damascus, Syria

Training:
1982-1985 Residency: Anatomic Pathology, Booth Memorial Medical Center (Affiliated with New York University Medical Center)
1985 - 1987 Fellowship: Surgical Pathology, Immunohistochemistry, Flow Cytometry, Harper Hospital, Wayne State University

Hospital and Academic Appointments:
1987 - Staff Pathologist, Harper Hospital
1987 - Director, Immunohistochemistry Laboratory, Harper Hospital
1990 - Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology - Wayne State University School of Medicine

NIH-Funded Grant Support:
1) Director, Human Tissue Resources Core, Comprehensive Cancer Center of Detroit/Wayne State University (lOYc effort)

2) Co-Principal Investigator: Racial Differences in Prostatic Carcinoma, An Autopsy Study. (30~c effort and support)

Major Interests:

Urologic Pathology, Head and Neck Pathology

Representative Publications:

1. Sakr WA, Haas GP, Cassin BJ, Pontes JE, Crissman JD. Frequency of prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and invasive carcinoma in young males. (In press).

2. Sakr WA, Sarkar FH, Drozdowicz SM, Sreepathi P, Crissman JD. Measurement of cellular proliferation in human prostate by AgNOR, PCNA and SPF. The Prostate (In press).

3. Wolman SR, Macoska JA, Micale MA, Sakr WA. An approach to definition of genetic alterations in prostate cancer. Diagnostic Molecular Pathology, Vol 1:192-199, 1992. [Medline]

4. Coltrera MD, Zarbo RJ, Sakr WA, Gown AM. Markers for dysplasia of the upper aerodigestive tract: Suprablast expression of PCNA, p53 and K19 in alcohol fixed embedded tissue. Arn J of Pathol 141:817-825, 1992. [Medline]

5. Sakr WA, Hassan MK, Ensley JF, Zarbo RJ, Crissman JD. DNA Quantitation and Histologic Characteristics of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 113:1009-1014, 1989. [Medline]