Biography
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Jeffrey S. Ross, MD Cyrus Strong Merrill Professor and Chair Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Albany Medical College Albany, NY |
Jeffrey S. Ross is a graduate of Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, and The State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine in Buffalo, NY. He served as an intern resident and fellow in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. He was certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology in 1974.
Following his training, Dr. Ross served as Chief of Pathology at the Moncrief United States Army Hospital in Fort Jackson, SC. From 1977–1989 he was a member of the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, reaching the rank of Professor and Assistant Dean, while continuing as Research Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1989 he became the Cyrus Strong Merrill Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Albany Medical College, and Pathologist-in-Chief at the Albany Medical Center Hospital in Albany, NY.
The Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department at Albany Medical Center is a large academic pathology and clinical laboratory practice which provides services to a network of community hospitals, multi-specialty physician groups, governmental agencies, extended care facilities, and for-profit regional and national laboratory companies throughout upstate New York and western New England. This program was privatized in 2002 as Affiliated Pathology Services, Inc. (APS) with Dr. Ross serving as owner, President, and Chief Executive Officer. In addition to the Albany Medical Center, APS provides pathology services at the Health Alliance Hospitals of Kingston, NY.
Dr. Ross has received numerous academic awards, three patents in molecular diagnostics (HER2 gene amplification detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization), and is the author of more than 600 peer-reviewed scientific articles and abstracts, 4 textbooks and numerous book chapters in the fields of pathology, molecular diagnostics, oncology, and translational cancer research.
At Albany Medical College, Dr. Ross directs an extramurally funded research laboratory in molecular pathology. Since 2000, he has been a member of the NIH Clinical Oncology Study Section. He serves on the editorial boards and reviewer lists of numerous scientific journals, and is Associate Editor for Basic Science of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology. Dr. Ross has served in multiple leadership positions for the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the College of American Pathologists, the International Academy of Pathology, the Association of Pathology Chairs, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.