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Stephen S. Raab

Stephen S. Raab MD

Pathology
St. john's, Newfoundland, Canada

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Dr. Stephen S. Raab, chief of laboratory medicine at Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, and professor of laboratory medicine at Memorial University, St. John's, has joined the Medical Center faculty as a professor of pathology.

After receiving his BA in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1983, Raab earned his MD at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse in 1988. During medical school, Raab had a Dana Fellowship in epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. He had postgraduate training in pathology as a resident and surgical pathology fellow from 1988-91 at Barnes Hospital, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri; a cytopathology fellowship from 1991-92 at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina; and a health policy fellowship from 1994-95 at the Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

Raab was an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, from 1992-96 and became an associate professor with tenure in 1997. Raab was director of cytology and director of outcomes research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Allegheny University of Health Sciences, Medical College of Pennsylvania, and Hahnemann University, Pittsburgh, in 1997. He concurrently performed research at the John G. Rangos Sr. School of Health Sciences, Duquesne University. Raab became a full professor at both institutions in 2001. In 2002, Raab joined the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he became chief of pathology at Shadyside Hospital. In 2007, Raab joined the University of Colorado Denver as a professor of pathology, vice chair of quality, and director of anatomic pathology. In 2011, he joined Memorial University and the Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority.

An active member of several professional societies, including the College of American Pathologists and the American Society for Clinical Pathology, Raab is the author or co-author of 213 articles in peer-reviewed scientific publications, eight book chapters, 225 abstracts, and numerous other published articles. A highly sought speaker, he has given hundreds of presentations at scientific meetings, conventions, and workshops internationally.
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