Massachusetts General Hospital

Biography

Elena F. Brachtel

Assistant Pathologist
Massachusetts General Hospital

Assistant Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

Email: ebrachtel@partners.org

Dr. Brachtel received her M.D. degree from the University of Hamburg Medical School, Hamburg, Germany. After her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Paul Racz at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, she worked as a house officer in England in internal medicine and surgery, before entering a residency in pathology at the University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg. She did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C. before completing a residency in anatomic pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital followed by a fellowship in cytopathology. Her areas of expertise are breast pathology and cytopathology, with a special interest in digital imaging.

Updated 10/18/2011

Research

Dr. Brachtels current research involves projects on the pathology of breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, 3D imaging of breast cancer, and breast cytology. She is MGH site PI in a multicenter clinical trial to test a molecular assay for diagnosis of cancers of uncertain primary, and is collaborating in translational research. Other research interests include:

• Involvement of the nipple in breast cancer

• Role of BTG2 in human breast cancer

• Digital imaging in breast cancer diagnosis

• Pathologic changes in breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Updated 12/30/2011

PublicationsBibliography of Elena F. Brachtel via PubMed