Anthony Andrew Gal, MD

Surgical Pathology
Pulmonary Pathology

Professor
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Other Appointments/Positions

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Pathology Division(s):
Anatomic Pathology

Education:

B.A. with Distinction, in Chemistry   University of Virginia, Charlottesville, - 1979

M.D.   Medical College of Virginia, 1979 - 1983

AP/CP Residency   Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center, 1983 - 1987

Regular Clinical Fellowship   American Cancer Society, 1987 - 1988

Fellowship in Surgical Pathology   Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1987 - 1988

Research Interests:

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I am involved in the histopathologic diagnosis of biopsies from the lungs, pleura, and mediastinum. Furthermore, I am also involved in numerous clinicopathological and translational studies in thoracic pathology with colleagues in pulmonary medicine, thoracic surgery, oncology, and other basic scientists. My primary research interests are in lung cancer, where I am director the Lung Pathology and Molecular Analysis Core for the Emory Lung Cancer Program Project;
http://sisyphus.emory.edu/lungcancer/. In addition, I serve as an integral member and investigator in the Emory Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Center http://www.medicine.emory.edu/pulm/ild/ .

Clinical Focus:

Surgical pathology, pulmonary, pleural, and mediastinal pathology, infectious disease pathology, medical history

Specialty Boards:

1987 Diplomate Anatomical and Clinical Pathology

Selected Publications:

Published and Accepted Research Articles -

Zhong D, Guo L, de Aguirre I, Liu X, Lamb N, Sun S&, Gal A, Vertino PM, Zhou W. LKB1 mutation in large cell carcinoma of the lung. Lung Cancer, 2006;53:285-294.

Gal AA. The centennaial anniversity of the frozen section procedure at the Mayo Clinic. Arch Pathol Lab Med, 2005; 129: 1532-5.

Gal AA, Staton GW. Current concepts in the classification of interstitial lung diseases. Am J Clin Pathol, 2005; 123(S1):S67-S81.

Halkos ME, Gal AA, Ferendi F, Kerendi F, Miller DL, Miller JI. The role of thoracic surgeons in the diagnosis of idiopathic interstitial lung diseases. Ann Thorac Surg, 2005;79:2172-9.

Gal AA, Cagle, PC. The 100-Year anniversary of the description of the frozen section procedure in JAMA. JAMA 2005; 294: 3135-7.

Gal AA. Use and abuse of the lung biopsy. Adv Anat Pathol, 2005; 12: 195-202

Gal AA, Sheppard M, Nolen JDL, Cohen CC. p53, cellular proliferation, and apoptosis-related factors in neuroendocrine tumors of the thymus. Mod Pathol, 2004; 17: 33-9.

Gal AA, Bryan JA, Kanter K, Lawrence EC. Cytopathology of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis complicating lung ransplantation. J Heart Lung Transpl, 2004; 23; 135-8.

Squallaci S, Gal AA. Galanin immunoreactivity in a laryngeal paraganglioma: case report and literature review. Pathologica 2004; 96:111-6.

Halkos ME, Miller JI, Mann K, Miller DL, Gal AA. Thoracic presentations of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders. Chest 2004 126: 2013-2020.

Edelstein E, Gal AA, Mann KP, Mansour KA. Surgical resection of endobronchial plasmacytoma. Ann Thorac Surg, 2004; 78:1448-9.

Jarmuz TM, Roser S, Rivera H, Gal A, Roman R. Transforming growth factor 1, myofibroblasts, and tissue remodeling in the pathogenesis of subglottic stenosis: potential role of gastroesophageal reflux. Annals Otol Rhinol Laryngol, 2004; 13: 488-97.

Pham RV, Vydareny KH, Gal AA. High-resolution computed tomography appearance of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection after exposure to hot tub: case of hot-tub lung. J Thorac Imaging 2003; 18: 48-52.

Bhattacharya SH, Gal AA, Murray KK. Laser capture microdissection MALDI for direct analysis of archival tissue. J Proteome Res 2003; 2: 95-8.

Kendall DM, Gal AA. Interpretation of tissue artefacts in transbronchial lung biopsy specimens. Ann Diag Pathol 2003; 7: 20-4

Arbiser ZK, Guidot DM, Pine JR, Giltman LI, Gal AA. Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis mimicking idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Ann Diag Pathol 2003; 7: 82-6.

Tadros T, Strauss RM, Cohen C, Gal AA. Galanin immunoreactivity in paragangliomas, but not in carcinoid tumors. Appl Immunochem Molec Diag 2003; 11: 250-2.

Gal AA, Marchevsky A, Travis WD. Protocol for the examination of specimens from patients with lung cancer. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2003; 127: 1304-13.