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Author Profiles
Raheel Rizwan, MD
Geisinger Medical Center
Dr. Rizwan is a resident physician in the Anatomic and Clinical Pathology program at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. He completed medical school in Karachi, Pakistan, and worked at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital as a researcher before joining Geisinger Medical Center. Dr. Rizwan is interested in Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology and Dermatopathology. He will be completing a fellowship in Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic (2024-2025) and plans to subsequently pursue a dermatopathology fellowship.
Jerad M. Gardner, MD
Geisinger Medical Center
Dr. Gardner is the Section Head of Bone and Soft Tissue pathology and an attending dermatopathologist at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. He received his M.D. from Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, and did his pathology residency training at Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas. He completed fellowships in soft tissue pathology and in dermatopathology at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He has over 130 peer-reviewed publications and is author of the book Survival Guide to Dermatopathology. He has given over 300 invited lectures. Dr. Gardner is very active on social media (YouTube, Kiko, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook) where he educates students, doctors, and patients.
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An 82-year-old man with unilateral upper extremity lymphedema and a large fungating mass
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