Faculty and Staff

Oklahoma City VA Health Care System
OU Health Sciences Center
925 NE 13th St, VAMC 113
Oklahoma City, OK 73104-5076

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Education:

• University of the West Indies
  Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
  Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB, BS)
  1988
• University of the West Indies
  Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
  Doctor of Medicine, Pathology (DM Path)
  1995
• University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  Houston, Texas
  Cytopathology Fellowship, 2001-2002
• Diplomate - American Board of Pathology
  Combined Anatomic & Clinical Pathology (September 2001)
• Diplomate - American Board of Pathology
  Cytopathology (November 2002)

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Fellowship:

• University of Texas Medical Branch
  Galveston, Texas
  Pathology Residency 
  (Combined Anatomic & Clinical), 1996-2000
• University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  Houston, Texas
  Selective Pathology Fellowship
  (Oncologic Surgical Pathology), 2000-2001

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Memberships:

• United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
• College of American Pathologists
• American Society of Clinical Pathology

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Select Honors & Accomplishments:

• First Place, Residents Award Competition
  American Society of Clinical Pathology/College of American Pathologists
  1999 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
  Sawh RN, Haque AK, Payne D, Seifert S, Wen J, Zwischenberger J, Cardenas V, Lee RW, Popov V.  Acute interstitial pneumonia: Ultrastructural evidence of a viral etiology.
• Pathology Residents' Award for Excellence in Teaching
  University of Texas Medical Branch
  Galveston, Texas, 2000
• Richard W. Leech Teaching Award (2002)
  Department of Pathology
  University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
• Richard W. Leech Teaching Award (2003)
  Department of Pathology
  University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
• Richard W. Leech Teaching Award (2005)
  Department of Pathology
  University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

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Select Publications:

1. Sawh RN, Lele SM, Borkowski JB, Ventura KC, Zaharopoulos P, Logroño R.   Fine-needle aspiration cytology of hemangiopericytoma: Report of two cases.  Diagnostic Cytopathology Sept. 2000; 23(3):187-91.

2. Sawh RN,  Borkowski JB, Broaddus R.  Metastatic renal cell carcinoma presenting as a hemorrhoid.  Report of a case.  Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Jul. 2002; 126(7):856-858.

3. Sawh RN, Caraway NP.  Needle-biopsy diagnosis of pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma.  ASCP Check Sample, Cytopathology Series Sept. 2002; 30(8):99-112.

4. Sawh RN, Malpica A, Deavers MT, Liu J, Silva EG. Benign cystic mesothelioma of the peritoneum: a clinicopathologic study of 17 cases and immunohistochemical analysis of estrogen and progesterone receptor status. Hum Pathol. 2003 Apr;34(4):369-74.

5. Siddiqui AA, Olansky L, Sawh RN, Tierney WM. Pancreatic metastasis of tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: diagnosis by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration. JOP. 2006 Jul 10;7(4):417-22.

6. Siddiqui AA, Olansky L, Sawh RN, Tierney WM. From the thyroid to the pancreas: a long journey. 
   Pancreas. 2006 Aug;33(2):200-2.

7. Smith M, Golwala H, Magharyous H, Trotter T, Sawh R, Lozano P: Right atrial B-cell lymphoma in a patient with ocular melanoma. J Card Surg Nov 2011:26(6):625-628.