Gillian L. Hale
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Gillian L. Hale, MD, MPH

Languages spoken: English

  • Dr. Gillian Hale is an associate professor of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She specializes in gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic pathology and has a particular interest in infectious disease pathology, with over 5 years of prior experience at the Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch (IDPB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a public health laboratory fellow, and then as a staff pathologist.

    Dr. Hale earned an MPH from Dartmouth College after a Fulbright Fellowship in Trinidad and Tobago, and then spent two years at CDC/IDPB as a laboratory fellow. She earned her MD from George Washington University and completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency and a gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She worked for over three years as a staff pathologist at CDC/IDPB before joining the pathology department at the University of Utah. Dr. Hale has research interests in liver pathology and infectious disease pathology. She is an active member of the Binford-Dammin Society of Infectious Disease Pathologists and is a member of the Pathology Society of Trinidad and Tobago.

    Specialties

    • Pathology, Anatomical

    Board Certification

    American Board of Pathology (Anatomic & Clinical)

  • Dr. Gillian Hale is an associate professor of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She specializes in gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic pathology and has a particular interest in infectious disease pathology, with over 5 years of prior experience at the Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch (IDPB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a public health laboratory fellow, and then as a staff pathologist.

    Dr. Hale earned an MPH from Dartmouth College after a Fulbright Fellowship in Trinidad and Tobago, and then spent two years at CDC/IDPB as a laboratory fellow. She earned her MD from George Washington University and completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency and a gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She worked for over three years as a staff pathologist at CDC/IDPB before joining the pathology department at the University of Utah. Dr. Hale has research interests in liver pathology and infectious disease pathology. She is an active member of the Binford-Dammin Society of Infectious Disease Pathologists and is a member of the Pathology Society of Trinidad and Tobago.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pathology -Primary
    Board Certification
    American Board of Pathology (Anatomic & Clinical)

    Education history

    Chief Resident Anatomic Pathology - University of California, San Francisco Medical Center Chief Resident
    Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathology - University of California, San Francisco Medical Center Fellow
    Chief Resident Clinical Pathology - University of California, San Francisco Medical Center Chief Resident
    Anatomic and Clinical Pathology - University of California, San Francisco Medical Center Resident
    Professional Medical Medicine - George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences M.D.
    Dartmouth College M.P.H.
    Undergraduate Cellular Neuroscience - Colgate University B.A.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Brothwell MJ, Cao G, Maschek JA, Poss AM, Peterlin AD, Wang L, Baker TB, Shahtout JL, Siripoksup P, Pearce QJ, Johnson JM, Finger FM, Prola A, Pellizzari SA, Hale GL, Manuel AM, Watanabe S, Miranda ER, Affolter KE, Tippetts TS, Nikolova LS, Choi RH, Decker ST, Patil M, Catrow JL, Holland WL, Nowinski SM, Lark DS, Fisher-Wellman KH, Mimche PN, Evason KJ, Cox JE, Summers SA, Gerhart-Hines Z, Funai K (2024). Cardiolipin deficiency disrupts CoQ redox state and induces steatohepatitis. bioRxiv. (Read full article)
    2. Stokes NL, Patil A, Adeyi O, Bhalla A, Brown I, Byrnes K, Calderaro J, Chen D, Chen W, Cooper C, Dhall D, Frankel W, Gooch GG, Gonzalez RS, Hammer S, Hale G, Lagana S, McKenzie C, Allende DS, Moreira RK, Nakhleh R, Nalbantoglu I, Pai RK, Salomao M, Schaeffer DF, Shih A, Shin JS, Simoes CC, Vij M, Rela M, Xue Y, Yantiss RK, Sabatto BZ, Graham RP (2024). Validation of Metallothionein Immunohistochemistry as a Highly Sensitive Screening Test for Wilson Disease. Mod Pathol, 38(1), 100628. (Read full article)
    3. Toy G, Colletier K, Hale G, Valentine J, Gawron AJ, Sossenheimer M, Peterson K, Aparicio R, Fang JC (2023). Incidence of retained biopsy specimens after esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy. Endosc Int Open, 11(7), E653-E659. (Read full article)
    4. Leonard NB, Hale GL, Boylan KE, Ou Z, Zhang C, Kim R, Chandna S, Dong ZM, Evason KJ (2023). Histologic features of allograft livers in patients treated for rejection before biopsy. Hum Pathol, 135, 11-21. (Read full article)
    5. Dong ZM, Fang J, Byrne KR, Bronner MP, Hale GL (2021). Histologic mimics and diagnostic pitfalls of gastrointestinal endoscopic lifting media, ORISE™ gel and Eleview®. Hum Pathol, 119, 28-40. (Read full article)
    6. Denison A, Bhatnagar J, Jahan-Tigh R, Fair P, Hale G (Accepted for publication, April 20, 2021). Detection of Coxsackievirus A6 in Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Skin Biopsy Specimens using Immunohistochemistry and Real-Time Reverse-Transcriptase PCR   . J Clin Virol Plus, 1(1-2).
    7. Shafizadeh N, Hale G, Bhatnagar J, Alshak NS, Nomura J (2018). Mycobacterium chimaera Hepatitis: A New Disease Entity. Am J Surg Pathol, 43(2), 244-250. (Read full article)

    Review

    1. Hale GL (2023). Flaviviruses and the Traveler: Around the World and to Your Stage. A Review of West Nile, Yellow Fever, Dengue, and Zika Viruses for the Practicing Pathologist. [Review]. Mod Pathol, 36(6), 100188. (Read full article)
    2. Guarner J, Hale GL (2019). Four human diseases with significant public health impact caused by mosquito-borne flaviviruses: West Nile, Zika, dengue and yellow fever. [Review]. Semin Diagn Pathol. (Read full article)