UNMC’s Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology added three new but familiar faces to its faculty lineup. Drs. Ketav Desai and Pranav Renavikar, who completed fellowships here in June, started July 1 as assistant professors. Dr. Ashley Hein, who finished her residency here in 2023-2024, began on Aug. 1 as an assistant professor.
Dr. Desai, whose duties include serving as director of the clinical pathology lab at the Bellevue Medical Center, did fellowships here in hematopathology and molecular genetic pathology. Before that, he did his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville. He earned an MBBS from Pramukhswami Medical College in Gujarat, India, and did his MD pathology residency at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College & Hospital in Puducherry, India.
Dr. Renavikar, whose duties include serving as chair of the Tissue Committee and as director of the anatomic pathology lab at the Bellevue Medical Center, completed a fellowship here in surgical pathology. A year earlier, he completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology here. He served as chief resident for 2023-2024. Dr. Renavikar earned an MBBS at B.J. Medical College in Pune, India, and conducted basic laboratory research in immunology at University of Iowa Healthcare before coming to UNMC.
“After my thorough and rewarding training years here, I am excited to continue as faculty,” he said. “My primary areas of practice are cardiovascular and thoracic pathology, head and neck pathology, liver and transplant pathology, and cytology. I look forward to clinical and research collaborations with colleagues on campus.”
Dr. Hein is returning to UNMC after a one-year fellowship in gastrointestinal and liver pathology at Weill Cornell in New York, NY. In addition to doing her residency here in anatomic and clinical pathology, the Omaha native earned her MD here in 2020 and was a research technologist at UNMC before that.
“I’m excited to be back!” she said.