Dr. Putnam is an associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Pathology, located at Primary Children's Hospital. She serves as Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for the Department of Pathology and Director of Anatomic Pathology Quality Assurance/Improvement Program for the Division of Pediatric Pathology.
Her interests include pediatric vascular lesions, soft tissue tumors, and sarcomas. She devotes most of her time to surgical pathology, teaching, developing undergraduate medical education curriculum, and authoring the medical textbooks Diagnostic Pathology: Non-Neoplastic Pediatric and Diagnostic Pathology: Pediatric Neoplasms with Elsevier.
Dr. Putnam received her medical degree, completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology and fellowship training in pediatric pathology, all at the University of Utah School of Medicine. An additional fellowship in general surgical pathology was completed at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. She is Board Certified in Anatomic, Clinical, and Pediatric Pathology.
Dr. Putnam is a member of several professional societies, including the College of American Pathologists, Society of Pediatric Pathology, Association of Pathology Chairs, and the International Association of Medical Science Educators. Her primary research interest is in pathology education.
