Massachusetts General Hospital

Biography

Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Lauwers research has focused on oncologic surgical pathology in the gastrointestinal tract. Dr. Lauwers has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews and book chapters and has been a regular invited speaker at all major national and international pathology meetings. He is also Adjunct Professor of Pathology at Saitama Medical University in Japan.  Dr Lauwers serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, as well as Modern Pathology and is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is co-author of several text books and a co-editor of the upcoming 4th edition of the "Tumors of the Esophagus and Stomach" published by the AFIP, and co-editor of the 5th edition of Morson and Dawson's Textbook of Gastrointestinal Pathology (2013).

Email: glauwers@partners.org

Updated 11/28/2012

Research

Dr. Lauwers' research focuses on clinicopathologic studies of the gastrointestinal tract and hepatic malignancies. Specific interests include the early diagnosis and biologic behavior of premalignant lesions, particularly in the stomach and esophagus (Barrett esophagus).

Publications

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1. Black-Schaffer WS, Floyd AD.  Selection of operating wavelength-pair for two-wavelength microspectrophotometry.  Am J Anat 1976; 146:455-60.  Erratum.  Am J Anat 1976; 147:265.
2. Gonzalez-Crussi F, Black-Schaffer S.  Rhabdomyosarcoma of infancy and childhood.  Problems of morphologic classification.  Am J Surg Pathol 1979; 3:157-71.
3. Sherman ME, Black-Schaffer S.  Diagnosis of thymoma by needle biopsy.  Acta Cytol 1990; 34:63-8.
4. Pitman MB, Black-Schaffer WS, Sherman ME.  The diagnosis of adenoid cystic carcinoma in respiratory material.  American Society of Clinical Pathologists Check Sample Program in Cytopathology 1991; 19:1-3.
5. Pitman MB, Sherman ME, Black-Schaffer WS.  The utility of fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of metastatic pulmonary adenoid cystic carcinoma.  Otolaryngology:  Head and Neck Surgery 1991; 104:441-7.