Mihai Merzianu, MD

Specialty: Anatomic Pathology
Clinical Chief & Director of Surgical Pathology
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

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Locations

Roswell Park Main Campus
1-800-ROSWELL (1-800-767-9355)

Cancers Treated:

Bone Marrow Head Neck Larynx Leukemia Lymphoma Multiple Myeloma Pharynx Thyroid Parathyroid Undiagnosed

Specializing In:

  • Oral squamous cell carcinoma and precursor lesions
  • Salivary gland cancer
  • HPV-associated head and neck cancers
  • Thyroid neoplasia
  • Leukemia
  • Lymphoma

Research Interests:

  • Identifying markers for early detection, prognostic stratification and accurate classification of head and neck cancer and precursor lesions
  • Thyroid neoplasms of follicular origin
  • Early HPV-associated head and neck neoplasia
  • Histiocytic and dendritic tumors
  • Quality assurance and patient safety in anatomic and hematopathology
  • Prognostic markers and classification of acute myeloid leukemia and B-cell neoplasms

Positions

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

  • Professor of Oncology
  • Clinical Chief & Director of Surgical Pathology
  • Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo

  • Assistant Professor of Pathology & Anatomical Sciences

Background

Education and Training

  • MD - University of Medicine, Timisoara, Romania

Residency

  • St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Beth Israel Hospital, New York, NY

Fellowship

  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX

Board Certification

  • Anatomic Pathology, American Board of Pathology
  • Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology
  • Hematology, American Board of Pathology

Professional Memberships

  • United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
  • Society for Hematopathology
  • North American Society of Head and Neck Pathology
  • Western New York Society of Pathologists
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Publications

Liu Z, Seshadri M, Gupta V, Papanicolau-Sengos A, Merzianu M. INI1-Deficient Thyroid Carcinoma is an Aggressive Disease with Epithelioid and Rhabdoid Phenotype. A Case Report, Survey of INI1 Expression in Thyroid Lesions and Literature Review. Head Neck Pathol. 2021 Dec;15(4):1246-1252. PMID:34057693

Merzianu M, Groman A, Hutson A, Cotta C, Brynes RK, Orazi A, Reddy V, Teruya-Feldstein J, Amre R, Balasubramanian M, Brandao G, Cherian S, Courville E, Czuchlewski D, Fan G, Grier D, Hoehn D, Inamdar KV, Juskevicius R, Kaur P, Lazarchick J, Lewis MR, Miles RR, Myers JB, Nasr MR, Qureishi HN, Olteanu H, Robu VG, Salaru G, Vajpayee N, Vos J, Zhang L, Zhang S, Aye L, Brega E, Coad JE, Grantham J, Ivelja S, McKenna R, Sultan K, Wilding G, Hutchison R, Peterson L, Cheney RT. Trends in Bone Marrow Sampling and Core Biopsy Specimen Adequacy in the United States and Canada: A Multicenter Study. Am J Clin Pathol. 2018 Oct 1;150(5):393-405. PMID: 30052721

Folaron M, Merzianu M, Duvvuri U, Ferris RL, Seshadri M. Profiling the Stromal and Vascular Heterogeneity in Patient-derived Xenograft Models of Head and Neck Cancer: Impact on Therapeutic Response. Cancers (Basel). 2019 Jul 6;11(7):951. PMID: 31284584

Rigual NR, Cheney RT, Iwenofu OH, Li Q, Loree TR, Popat SR, Merzianu M. Idiosyncrasies of scalp melanoma. Laryngoscope. 2007 Aug;117(8):1354-8. doi: 10.1097/mlg.0b013e31806146e5. PMID: 17592396.

Merzianu M, Medeiros LJ, Cortes J, Yin C, Lin P, Jones D, Glassman A, Kantarjian H, Huh Y. inv(16)(p13q22) in chronic myelogenous leukemia in blast phase: a clinicopathologic, cytogenetic, and molecular study of five cases. Am J Clin Pathol. 2005 Nov;124(5):807-14. PMID: 16203287.