Shriram Jakate

Personal Information

Display name

Shriram Jakate

Title

Director of Laboratory Services

Occupation

Pathologist

Institution

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Short Bio

Dr. Shriram Jakate is a Professor of Pathology, Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Director of Laboratory Services at Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) in Chicago. He directs a busy GI and liver pathology teaching program and provides diagnostic pathology services to over 30 adult and pediatric gastroenterologists, hepatologists and GI and liver surgeons at RUMC. About 100 liver transplants are performed at RUMC every year for last several years. He is well known for correlative and interpretive style of tissue diagnosis and nationally recognized for consultation via virtual microscopy and newly described conditions such as mastocytic enterocolitis, glycogenic hepatopathy and diffuse cirrhosis-like variant of hepatocellular carcinoma. His interests include evaluation of subtle morphological changes in the colon and duodenum in intractable diarrhea, use of jumbo biopsy forceps in recovery of tissue for diagnoses of gastrointestinal submucosal masses and surveillance of ulcerative colitis and Barrett's esophagus.

Publications

Jakate S, Yabes A, Giusto D et al. Diffuse Cirrhosis-like Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A clinically and Radiographically Undetected Variant Mimicking Cirrhosis. Am J Surg Pathol 2010 Jul 34(7):935-941.

Jakate S, Demeo M, John R, Tobin M and Keshavarzian A. Mastocytic Enterocolitis. Increased mucosal mast cells in chronic intractable diarrhea. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2006;130:362-367.

Torbenson M, Chen Y, Brunt E, Cummings O, Gottfried M, Jakate S, Liu Y, Yeh M, Ferrell L. Glycogen Hepatopathy: An Under-Recognized Hepatic Complication of Diabetes Mellitus. Am J Surg pathol 2006;30:508-513.

Giusto, D and Jakate S. Pseudomelanosis duodeni: Association with multiple clinical conditions and unpredictable iron stainability. Endoscopy 2008 Feb;40(2):165-7.

History

Member for

2 years 33 weeks