Pathology

Pathology laboratories make great catches in two unusual cases

Pathologists, who are often referred to as the doctor’s doctor, play a critical role in diagnosing patients. That point was driven home by two challenging cases that came to UNMC in the last year. Last December, a patient came to Nebraska Medicine with a fever and other symptoms that didn’t yield a clear answer. Clinicians […]

Dec 10, 2025

Safina Hafeez, MD, an assistant professor in UNMC's Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, said a puzzling case turned out to be histoplasma. "It would have been very easy to miss," she said.

Department hosts visiting high school students

Groups of Brownell Talbot students visited the department four times this spring to learn more about what pathologists do.

Jun 2, 2025

Dr. Joseph Khoury, department chairman, talks with Brownell Talbot students about pathology.