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Nisha Patel, DO

Assistant Research Physician


Laboratory Medicine


BS, University of the Sciences
DO, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine


Email: nisha.patel2@nih.gov
Phone:301-496-3170

Portrait of Dr. Nisha Patel
Nisha Patel, DO

Assistant Research Physician


Laboratory Medicine


BS, University of the Sciences
DO, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine


Email: nisha.patel2@nih.gov
Phone:301-496-3170


Dr. Nisha Patel is a staff clinician in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center specializing in hematopathology. Her clinical responsibilities include diagnostic evaluation of blood, bone marrow, and coagulation/hemostasis testing.


Dr. Patel received her medical degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2014. She then completed her residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. Dr. Patel subsequently completed a fellowship in Hematopathology at the Cleveland Clinic and joined the National Institutes of Health in August 2019.

She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology as well as Hematopathology by the American Board of Pathology.

Patel N, Slack GW, Bodo J, et al. Immune Escape Mechanisms in Intravascular Large B-Cell Lymphoma: A Molecular Cytogenetic and Immunohistochemical Study. Am J Clin Pathol. 2022;157(4):578-585.

Patel N, Dulau-Florea A, Calvo KR. Characteristic bone marrow findings in patients with UBA1 somatic mutations and VEXAS syndrome. Semin Hematol. 2021;58(4):204-211.

Kazandjian D, Hill E, Dew A, Morrison C, Roswarski J, Korde N, Emanuel M, Petrosyan A, Bhutani M, Calvo KR, Dulau-Florea A, Kwok M, Lee MJ, Lee S, Lindenberg L, Mailankody S, Manasanch E, Maric I, Mena E, Patel N, Tageja N, Trepel JB, Turkbey B, Wang HW, Wang W, Yuan C, Zhang Y, Braylan R, Choyke P, Stetler-Stevenson M, Steinberg SM, Figg WD Sr, Roschewski M, Landgren O. Carfilzomib, Lenalidomide, and Dexamethasone Followed by Lenalidomide Maintenance for Prevention of Symptomatic Multiple Myeloma in Patients With High-risk Smoldering Myeloma: A Phase 2 Nonrandomized Controlled Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021;7(11):1678-1685.

Obiorah IE, Patel BA, Groarke EM, Wang W, Trick M, Ombrello AK, Ferrada MA, Wu Z, Gutierrez-Rodrigues F, Lotter J, Wilson L, Hoffmann P, Cardona DO, Patel N, Dulau-Florea A, Kastner DL, Grayson PC, Beck DB, Young NS, Calvo KR. Benign and malignant hematologic manifestations in patients with VEXAS syndrome due to somatic mutations in UBA1 Blood Adv. 2021;5(16):3203-3215.

Patel N, Durkin L, Bodo J, Hsi ED. Immunohistochemical Expression of Lymphoid Enhancer Binding Factor 1 in CD5-Positive Marginal Zone, Lymphoplasmacytic, and Follicular Lymphomas. Am J Clin Pathol. 2020;153(5):646-655.

Patel N, Evans AG, Rothberg PG, Gonzalez RS. Incidental splenic findings in pancreatosplenectomy specimens resected for primary pancreatic lesions. Histopathology. 2019;75(5):746-754.

Patel N, Barron S, Findeis-Hosey JJ, Gonzalez RS, Huber AR: Clinicopathologic findings of intestinal perineuromas of the colon- an institutional experience of 78 cases. Journal of Gastrointestinal and Digestive System. 2018; 8(4): 571.

Patel N, Hoffman CM, Goldman BI, Bentley K, Burack WR, Evans AG. Green Inclusions in Neutrophils and Monocytes Are an Indicator of Acute Liver Injury and High Mortality. Acta Haematol. 2017;138(2):85-90.

Patel N, Sollinger C, D'Angio CT, Vinocur JM, Ackerman KG, Katzman PJ. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia with Liver Herniation into the Pericardial Sac in a 30-Week Gestation Infant. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2017;20(5):421-425.

Patel N, Conley GW, McElroy LA, Refaai MA: Isolated prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time and contact factor deficiencies: case series and management review. Anesthesiology Open Journal. 2016; 1(1): 19-23

Schmidt AE, Kirkley S, Patel N, et al. An alternative method to dithiothreitol treatment for antibody screening in patients receiving daratumumab. Transfusion. 2015;55(9):2292-2293


  • NIH Clinical Center CEO Award (science category), National Institutes of Health, 2021
  • Second Place Presentation: 38th Annual Research Day, University of Rochester Medical Center, 2018
  • First Place Presentation: 36th Annual Research Day, University of Rochester Medical Center, 2016
  • Strong Star Award, University of Rochester Medical Center, 2016
  • Strong Star Award, University of Rochester Medical Center, 2015
  • Louis A. Reber Memorial Research Award in Biochemistry, University of the Sciences, 2010

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