Mariza de Peralta Venturina, MD

Director, Immunopathology

Clinical Specialties:
Cytopathology
Surgical Pathology

Email: Mariza.Venturina@cshs.org    
Phone: 310-423-8650

Education and Training

  • University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Manila, Philippines; MD
  • Residency in Internal Medicine, University of the Philippines - Philippine General Hospital, Manila
  • Residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Texas, Medical Branch in Galveston and Health Science Center in Houston, TX
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Surgical Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Cytopathology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Hematopathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Medical Board Certification

  • Board Certified, Anatomic Pathology
  • Board Certified, Clinical Pathology
  • Board Certified, Cytopathology

Clinical and Research Interests

  • Renal and urinary cytology
  • Diagnostic immunohistochemistry in cytopathology and surgical pathology

Awards and Activities

  • Participant in clinical trials of prostate cancer prevention and treatment
  • Authored book chapters on urinary and renal cytopathology

Selected Publications

  • Aladily TN, Medeiros LJ, Amin MB, Haideri N, Ye D, Azevedo SJ, Jorgensen JL, de Peralta-Venturina M,et al. Anaplastic large cell lymphoma associated with breast implants: a report of 13 cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2012;36:1000-8.
  • Walts AE, Bose S, Fan X, Frishberg D, Scharre K, de Peralta-Venturina M, Zhai J, Marchevsky AM. A simplified Bethesda System for reporting thyroid cytopathology using only four categories improves intra- and inter-observer diagnostic agreement and provides non-overlapping estimates of malignancy risks. Diagn Cytopathol. 2012;40 Suppl 1:E62-8.
  • Bhagavathi S, Sharathkumar A, Hunter S, Sung L, Kanhere R, Venturina MD, Wilson JD. Activated B-cell immunophenotype might be associated with poor prognosis of primary central nervous system lymphomas. Clin Neuropathol. 2008;27:13-20.

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