Dita Gratzinger MD, PhD

Dr. Dita Gratzinger is a hematopathologist who is dedicated to excellent patient care, educating the hematopathologists of tomorrow, and improving both by harnessing strengths across institutional and disciplinary lines. Dr. Gratzinger studies the architecture of supporting cells in the microenvironment as well as diagnosis of lymphoma on small volume specimens and has a special interest in the role of patient-specific factors in the manifestation of hematolymphoid disease.

She is the founding chair of a multi-institutional consortium, the Cyto-Heme Interinstitutional Collaborative, which brings together hematopathologists, cytopathologists, and oncologists to optimize the benefits of small volume biopsy to lymphoma patients. She also heads the Stanford hematopathology fellowship program and is leading an initiative to empower independence during hematopathology training through entrust able professional activities. Dr. Gratzinger received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, her M.D. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and completed her anatomic pathology residency, surgical pathology fellowship, and hematopathology fellowship at Stanford University.