Interview: Dr. Jason Park (USA)

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Jason Park, MD, PhD, FCAP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at UT Southwestern Medical School. He is the Medical Director of the Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory at Children’s Health, Children’s Medical Center Dallas. Dr. Park’s clinical and research interests are in genomic medicine, gastrointestinal diseases, and clinical informatics. He is the author/co-author of over 100 journal articles, book chapters and abstracts. He serves as a member of the Editorial Boards of Clinical Chemistryand Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. His research has resulted in 13 issued U.S. patents on cancer diagnostics, cancer therapeutics and nanotechnology.

Dr. Park trained in a combined MD and PhD program at Thomas Jefferson University and was a pathology resident and chief resident in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. After residency, he was a clinical fellow in gastrointestinal and liver pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Pathology (clinical informatics, clinical pathology and anatomic pathology) as well as the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (molecular diagnostics).