Placenta Pathology

Dr. Lage graduated from medical school at Washington University, St. Louis and undertook her residency in Pathology at Stanford University and Washington University, St. Louis.  During that time, she also did a year of residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Dr. Lage then took a Fellowship in Surgical Pathology at Washington University, St. Louis, under Dr. Walter Bauer.  Following completion of her fellowship, she took a faculty position at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Women’s and Perinatal Pathology, Harvard Medical School, under Drs. Shirley Driscoll and Christopher Crum.  She moved to Georgetown University in Washington DC where she continued her work in obstetric and gynecologic pathology with a focus on placental and perinatal pathology as well as general surgical pathology.  At Georgetown, she worked on the prostate cancer SPORE grant with Dr. Edward Gelmann, medical oncologist, at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and on an NIH grant in placenta and perinatal research with Dr. Carolyn Salafia, placental pathologist.   At Georgetown University, she had the opportunity to work with Drs. Ernest E. Lack and Elizabeth Montgomery.  In 1999, she was recruited to the Medical University of South Carolina where she continued her work in placental pathology, hosting a number of international fellows studying placental pathology.  Subsequently, she was recruited to the University of Mississippi where she continues her work in obstetric and gynecologic pathology and in general surgical pathology.

 

Dr. Lage has taught obstetric and gynecologic pathology to a number of medical students, dental students, post-graduate students, residents and/or fellows at the various medical schools where she has worked including Harvard Medical School, Georgetown University, and the Medical University of South Carolina.  She has taught a one-year fellowship for residents in Obstetric and Placental Pathology at the University of Mississippi.  She has taught residents, and visiting fellows and faculty, basic placental and perinatal pathology everywhere she has worked—these fellows are now practicing in various locations in the US and abroad, including Japan, Korea, Croatia and Germany. 

 

Dr. Lage has given lectures and unknown slide review sessions, and chaired platform presentations in placental pathology and topics in gynecologic pathology and general surgical pathology at various pathology society meetings including the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the College of American Pathologists and the American Society for Clinical Pathology.  Her next seminar will be in May 2017, in placental pathology and gestational trophoblastic diseases for The American Society for Clinical Pathology.   She has served in the past on the Pathology Section of the Gynecologic Oncology Group annual meetings, College of American Pathologists Cancer Protocol Templates, on various committees for the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the College of American Pathologists, and the Society for Pediatric Pathology, and on the most recent WHO Classification of Tumours of Female Reproductive Organs, 4th Edition. Ohgaki, Ed.  Gynecologic Pathology, Chapter 6:  Gestational Trophoblastic Disease, 2014.  In 2011, she was selected as a US News and World Report, Top Pathologists in the United States, and Top 1% of Pathologists in the United States, an honor that has been repeated.  She has won annual teaching awards from medical school students at Georgetown University and the Medical University of South Carolina.