Mikhail Roshal MD, PhD

Mikhail Roshal, MD, Ph.D. immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago in 1996. Subsequently, he matriculated in the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry medical scientist training program, completing his Ph.D. in 2003 and his MD in 2005. He completed a residency in laboratory medicine, followed by a hematopathology fellowship, at the University of Washington, Seattle Washington.

His doctoral research activities led to publications in the Journal of Virology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience, and Apoptosis. During his residency and fellowship education, his interests became more translational, focusing on immunophenotypic identification of acute myeloid leukemia propagating cells and tissue culture expression studies of Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodgkin lymphoma. He also became involved in the analysis of minimal residual disease and in clinical test development. These activities garnered research awards from the University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine as well as from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists. Dr. Roshal will be appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He will join our Division of Laboratory Medicine where he will serve as Chief, Hematology Laboratory, and also as Consultant, Flow Cytometry Laboratory.