Dr. Suchi graduated from Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan, and is a board certified pediatrician by the Japan Pediatric Society. Her doctoral and post-doctoral research in Japan and in the United States focused on various inborn errors of metabolism. Dr. Suchi subsequently returned to the United States and completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She then pursued a pediatric pathology fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she remained for three years as attending pathologist. She is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology as well as pediatric pathology by the American Board of Pathology. Dr. Suchi joined the Department of Pathology at Medical College of Wisconsin in September, 2005. She practices pediatric pathology at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.
Her current interests have been clinical and research aspects of pediatric gastrointestinal disease and pancreatic pathology. A chapter on pancreatic pathology authored by Dr. Suchi will appear in the third edition of Pediatric Pathology edited by Stocker et al.
List of recent publications:
Suchi M, MacMullen C, Thornton PS, Ganguly A, Stanley CA, and Ruchelli ED.: Histopathology of congenital hyperinsulinism: A retrospective study with genotype correlations. Ped. Devel. Path. 6: 322-333, 2003.
Suchi M, Thornton PS, Adzick NS, MacMullen C, Ganguly A, Stanley CA, and Ruchelli ED.: Congenital hyperinsulinism: Intraoperative biopsy interpretation can direct the extent of pancreatectomy. Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 28: 1326-1335, 2004.
Kawai Y, Moriyama A, Asai K, Coleman-Campbell CM, Sumi S, Morishita H, and Suchi M.: Molecular characterization of histidinemia: Identification of four missense mutations in the histidase gene. Human Genetics 116: 340-346, 2005.
Suchi M, MacMullen C, Thornton PS, Adzick NS, Ganguly A, Ruchelli ED, and Stanley CA.: Molecular and immunohistochemical analyses of the focal form of congenital hyperinsulinism. Modern Pathology 19: 122-129, 2006.