Maureen F. Zakowski MD, JD

Dr. Maureen F. Zakowski received her medical degree in 1984 and completed a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. Following that, she did a fellowship in Oncologic Surgical Pathology and an additional fellowship in Cytopathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. She is board-certified in Anatomic Pathology and Cytopathology.

Dr. Zakowski joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering and rose to the level of full attending and full professor at the Weill Cornell School of Medicine; she is the first woman in pathology to achieve that status, having risen from junior level. While on staff, she was responsible for general surgical pathology and cytopathology and ran the cytopathology fellowship training program and later all the pathology fellowship programs for over a decade. When the department became subspecialized, she headed the Thoracic Pathology Team. In 2016, she joined the faculty at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City as Thoracic and Cytopathology and Professor of Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine there. In 2017 she became the Director of the Cytopathology Division.

Dr. Zakowski has lectured nationally and internationally on all subjects related to pathology, but especially thoracic cytology and molecular pathology. She serves on many pathology journal editorial boards and has authored or co-authored 150 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters in these areas, as well as several live and online workshops.