Vinod Shidham, M.D.
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Dr. Shidham received his M.D. from Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur (Maharashtra State), India in 1975. He did his residency at Allegheny University Hospital, PA from 1994-97 and fellowship there in 1998. He joined the Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, WI in USA in July, 1998. Dr. Shidham is Director of the Cytopathology fellowship training program and he also directs fine needle aspiration biopsy service.
His areas of interest include cytopathology (fine needle aspiration biopsy- both technical and interpretation, serous cavity fluid cytopathology, pulmonary cytopathology, intraoperative cytopathology, emerging technologies in cytopathology, molecular cytopathology) and surgical pathology (soft tissue tumors, gastrointestinal pathology).
Selected publications:
Shidham VB, Komorowski R, Neuberg M, Walker A, Campbell BH, Chang C, Dzwierzynski WW. Prevention of an additional surgery for regional lymphadenectomy in melanoma: Rapid intraoperative immunostaining of sentinel lymph node imprint smears. Diagnostic Pathology 2006, 1:32 doi:10.1186/1746-1596-1-32
Shidham VB, Pandit AW, Rao RN, Basir Z, Shidham A. Tissue Harvester with Functional Valve (THFV): Shidham’s device for reproducibly higher specimen yield by fine needle aspiration biopsy with easy to perform steps BMC Clinical Pathology 2007, 7:2
Shidham VB, Kumar N, Narayan R, Brotzman GL. Should LSIL with ASC-H (LSIL-H) in cervical smears be an independent category? A study on SurePathTM specimens with review of literature. CytoJournal 2007, 4:7
Shidham VB and Atkinson BF. Editors and contributors ‘Cytopathologic Diagnosis of Serous Fluids’ Multi-author book with 15 chapters, Elsevier (W. B. Saunders Company) First edition, 2007