Massachusetts General Hospital

Biography

Associate Pathologist

Medical Director, Cytopathology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Email: mpitman@partners.org

Dr. Pitman received her anatomic, clinical and cytopathology training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and also trained in fine needle aspiration biopsy technique at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden with Dr. Torsten Lowhagen. Dr. Pitman is board certified in anatomical, clinical and cytopathology. She received her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and her BS degree in chemistry from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Dr. Pitman joined the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital following her training in 1991 and is currently Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Cytopathology Laboratory of the Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to cytopathology, Dr. Pitman is a member of the Gastrointestinal Surgical Pathology Unit. She has an active consultation practice in cytopathology in general, but in pancreatic cytology in particular, especially pancreatic cyst cytology.

Research

Dr. Pitman's primary research interests are in fine needle aspiration biopsy of the liver and pancreas. Her focus of research is on current methods of pre-operative diagnosis of pancreatic cysts, particularly mucinous cysts of the pancreas. She is co-author of Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of the Liver and Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of the Pancreas, and is co-author the 4th series AFIP fascicle on Tumors of the Pancreas with Drs. Ralph Hruban and David Klimstra.

PublicationsBibliography of Martha Bishop Pitman via PubMed