Ronald Balassanian MD

Cytopathology, Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Assistant Professor, Pathology, UCSF School of Medicine

1600 Divisadero St# UcsfSan Francisco, CA 94143
Phone+1 415-514-6642
Fax+1 415-353-7676

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Education & Training

University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 1997 - 2000
NYU Grossman School of MedicineInternship, Transitional Year, 1996 - 1997
University of Vermont College of MedicineClass of 1996

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Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1998 - 2028
MA State Medical License 2007 - 2014
PA State Medical License 2004 - 2008
NY State Medical License 2002 - 2006
American Board of Pathology Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
American Board of Pathology Cytopathology

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Detection of actionable mutations in the cerebrospinal fluid and concordance/discordance with extracranial mutations in patients with metastatic breast cancer and lept...
Laura A Huppert, Samantha Fisch, Lindy Her, Christine Hodgdon, Susie Brain
Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology. 2026-01-01
1 citations
FNA biopsy of breast specimens effectively harvests cells for patient-derived organoids modeling ductal carcinoma in situ.
Julia Ye, Nadine Goldhammer, Poonam Vohra, Shruti Warhadpande, George C de Castro
Cancer Cytopathology. 2025-11-01
1 citations
The utility of next-generation sequencing in metastatic prostate cancer FNA biopsies.
Deepika Sirohi, Chien-Kuang Cornelia Ding, Bradley A Stohr, Ronald Balassanian, Poonam Vohra
Cancer Cytopathology. 2025-09-01

Abstracts/Posters

Development of a Pathway-Directed Drug Screen Platform for Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma Using Patient-Derived Xenograft Models
Ronald Balassanian, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/8/2019

Lectures

Cytology Seminar
University of California, San Francisco, California - 5/23/2012

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