The UAB Department of Pathology is proud to recognize Anna Yemelyanova, M.D., as the inaugural Hazel Gore, M.D., Endowed Professorship in Gynecologic Pathology, generously supported by the Gore family. The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved the nomination October 1.

Yemelyanova joined our team as Professor in the Division of Anatomic Pathology and Director of the Gynecologic Pathology Section in spring of 2018. In addition, Dr. Yemelyanova has the role of Associate Director of our Division of Genomic Diagnostics and Bioinformatics, led by Interim Division Director Shuko Harada, M.D.

Anna Yemelyanova, M.D.

Yemelanova’s previous professional appointments include Associate Professor of Pathology at the Gynecologic Pathology Division at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Division of Gynecologic Pathology at Johns Hopkins University.

She has formal training in Molecular Genetic Pathology, having received her Doctor of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine from Russian State Medical University in Moscow, Russia. Yemelyanova completed her residency at Washington Hospital Center Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and fellowships at The Department of Pathology, Division of Gynecologic Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Division of Molecular Genetic Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. Her research interests focus primarily on HPV-related lesions of the gynecologic tract; in particular, biomarkers of HPV-related cancer precursors. She is also conducting research on the development of diagnostic markers of endometrial carcinoma.

Yemelyanova is the author of the textbook, “Differential Diagnoses in Surgical Pathology: Gynecologic Tract,” a guideline for solving challenging diagnoses in gynecologic pathology. She serves as Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology.

Hazel Gore, M.D., a pioneering woman in medicine in Alabama who served on the faculty of the UAB Departments of Pathology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, was among a select few gynecological pathologists from around the world honored in the journal Pathology by Dr. Robert H. Young, Harvard Medical School, for her influence in the development of modern gynecologic pathology.

Read the article about Dr. Gore's induction into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.

The photo above shows Dr. Hazel Gore with her mentee, Carolyn Kinzer-Bezanson, M.D., now Carolyn "KB" Wall, who a was a UAB Pathology resident who worked with Dr. Gore.

"I loved Dr. Gore," Wall says. "She taught me a lot of gyn pathology. I still have slides from her collection and surgical pathology reports with black and white pictures of interesting cases that she kept in a notebook while she was working with Dr. Arthur Hertig at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gore helped me so much in my training as she put me in touch with Dr. Kurt Benirschke, a world renowned placental pathologist, and through the connection with Dr. Gore, I trained one month with Dr. Benirschke during my residency. That training with Dr. Benirsckhe has proven invaluable to me in my work."