Yuri Nikiforov MD, PhD

Dr. Yuri Nikiforov, MD, PhD, is Vice-Chair for Molecular Pathology and Director, Division of Molecular and Genomic Pathology. Dr. Nikiforov oversees the operations of the Molecular and Genomic Pathology laboratory in the Clinical Lab Building and clinical sign-out in the Division. He also serves as Co-Director of the Multidisciplinary Thyroid Center at UPMC.

Yuri Nikiforov received his M.D. with honors from Minsk State Medical Institute in Belarus in 1985 and Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from the same institution in 1991. He completed an internship in Pathology and served as Assistant Professor at the Department of Pathology at Minsk State Medical Institute until he moved to the U.S. in 1993. He completed his postdoctoral research fellowships in thyroid pathology with Dr. Douglas Gnepp at Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University (1993-1994) and in thyroid cancer genetics with Dr. James Fagin at the Division of Endocrinology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA School of Medicine (1994-1995) and Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Cincinnati (1995-1997).

After completing residency in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Cincinnati in 2000, he joined the Department of Pathology as an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Pathology. In August of 2006, Dr. Nikiforov became Director of the Molecular Anatomic Pathology Division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and, in 2013, was promoted to the Vice-Chair for Molecular Pathology and Director of the newly formed Division of Molecular & Genomic Pathology.