Anja C. Roden MD

Dr. Anja Roden is Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and is a board-certified Anatomic and Clinical Pathologist with a special interest in thoracic pathology. Dr. Roden received her medical training at Humboldt University in Berlin and the Technical University in Dresden, Germany. After training in general surgery and working in basic immunology science, she completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency, surgical pathology fellowship, and pulmonary Mayo Clinic scholarship at Mayo Clinic Rochester, US. Subsequently, she joined the staff of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Dr. Roden also serves as the Medical Director of the Immunostains Laboratory, the Pulmonary Pathology Fellowship Director, and the head of the thoracic transplant section.

Dr. Roden focuses her research on mediastinal neoplasms, mesothelioma, biomarkers, and pulmonary transplant. She published her work in over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts, wrote more than 40 book chapters, and was the co-editor of 2 books on mediastinal, pulmonary, and mesothelial neoplasms and non-neoplastic lung disease. Following her interests, she chairs the thymic carcinoma and mediastinal working groups of the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group, is a member of an International Mesothelioma Panel and an International Virtual Thymoma Panel, and the Immunohistochemistry Committee of the College of American Pathologists. She is president-elect of the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group, co-chair of the mediastinal working group of the European Society of Pathology, and chair of the pathology community network of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.