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Dr. Lisa Rooper is Director of the Head and Neck Pathology service at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pathology and Oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She earned her MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago and completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency and surgical pathology fellowship at Johns Hopkins, where she also trained in head and neck/endocrine pathology under Dr. William Westra and Dr. Justin Bishop. Dr. Rooper's research centers on improving the diagnosis, classification, and prognostication of head and neck neoplasms, with a particular interest in salivary, sinonasal, and neuroendocrine tumors. She has published more than 75 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in these areas and serves on the editorial boards for the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Modern Pathology, Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology, Head and Neck Pathology, Oral Oncology, and PathologyOutlines.com. Dr. Rooper lectures locally and nationally on a broad range of head and neck and endocrine topics and has won several resident teaching awards.

Dr. Lisa Rooper
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