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FACULTY

Rachna Jetly, MD, MPH

Vice Chair, Department of Pathology
Professor of Clinical Pathology
Professor of Internal Medicine
William A. Rock, Jr. Endowed Professor of Pathology

Pathology
Academic Office:

Center for Advanced Learning and Simulation
Department of Pathology
2021 Perdido St., 7th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112

Clinical Office:

University Medical Center - New Orleans
2000 Canal St.
New Orleans, LA 70112

Bio

Dr. Jetly has over 15 years of Clinical Pathology experience. She serves LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans as the William A. Rock, Jr. Endowed Professor, Vice Chair of the Pathology department, a Professor of Clinical Pathology, and a Consultant Pathologist for the Louisiana Tumor Registry. She also serves as the Director of the Hematology, Flow Cytometry and Electrophoresis Laboratories at the University Medical Center-New Orleans where she supervises operations and service of these laboratories. In addition to her clinical responsibilities in Hematopathology and Surgical Pathology, Dr. Jetly serves as the Director of the Hematopathology rotation for the LSUHSC-NO Pathology residents and the Hematology/Oncology fellows and has been instrumental in developing the bi-weekly Hematopathology clinico-pathological conferences to complement their training. In addition, Dr. Jetly has created interesting Hematopathology case slide-sets which serve as self-learning tools for the Pathology trainees. She has also developed the month-end resident driven didactic conferences that focus on a benign and malignant Hematopathology topic, and the saved electronic versions of these conferences assist in Pathology residents' board review preparations. Dr. Jetly implemented and is the editor for an educational "Case of the Month" series on the Pathology department website where our residents and faculty present interesting cases with discussions on the topic and its differential diagnoses, and this educational resource is available to both internal and external medical professionals. She also serves as the Director of the Hematology Block for LSUHSC-NO L2 medical students and is an advisor for the LSUHSC-NO medical technology program.

Dr. Jetly is a fellow of the College of American Pathologists and American Society of Clinical Pathology, and a member of the American Society of Hematology. She is a member of the Copping Teaching Award Nomination Committee, Curriculum Development Committee, L1 and L2 Students Promotion Committee, and Internal Funding Review Panel Committee within the LSUHSC-NO School of Medicine, chairperson for the Clinical Competency Committee and a member of the Program Evaluation Committee within the LSUHSC-NO Pathology Department, and a member of the Cancer Committee and Pathology Quality Committee at
UMC-NO.

Recent awards include: 2022 LSUHSC Pathology Resident Education and Commitment.

Education

Degrees:
Doctor of Medicine
Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur, MP, India

Master of Public Health
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Residency:
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Residency
Tulane University School of Medicine/Charity Hospital

Fellowship:
Hematopathology Fellowship
Tulane University School of Medicine

Affiliated Hospitals

University Medical Center-New Orleans
Lallie Kemp Medical Center
New Orleans East Hospital

Publications

Chen, Lily; Ananthula, Aneesha MD; Goel, Richa MD; Germain, Monique MD; Safah, Hana MD; Subbiah, Suki MD; Jetly, Rachna MD.Case Series: Clinical Cases of Human T-Lymphotrophic Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) Positive Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATLL) Acute Subtypes. Southern Regional Meeting 2023. Accepted for an Oral Presentation 

Jack L. Harbert, Hina Samad, Rachna Jetly. Follicular Lymphoma Patient with Incidental Concomitant Plasma Cell Myeloma on a Staging Bone Marrow Biopsy. Southern Regional Meeting 2023

Liz Yang, Fernanda Da Silva Lameira, Wenjing Qiu, Rachna Jetly. Helicobacter pylori-associated Gastric Hyperplastic Polyposis with Synchronous Gastric Adenocarcinomas and Extranodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma of Mucosa Associated Lymphoid Tissue in a Single Gastrectomy Specimen- Case Report with Literature Review. College of American Pathologists Abstracts, 2022 

Maryam Sadough Shahmirzadi, Nisha Loganantharaj, Rachna Jetly-Shridhar. Gluteal Region Plasmablastic Lymphoma in a Crohn’s Disease Patient Treated with Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor and Immunosuppressive Therapies: Report of a Rare Case with Literature Review. American Society of Clinical Pathology Abstracts, 2022 

Jihuan Chen, Rachna Jetly, Ellen Connor. A Rare Case of Primary Cardiac T-cell Lymphoma in an Immunocompetent Adult. American Society of Clinical Pathology Abstracts, 2022

Bing Han, Ian Watson, Rachna Jetly, Carole Bitar, Alun R. Wang. Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma involving skin and oral mucosa with a bland cytology. The American Society of Dermatopathology Abstracts, 2022

Adams TN, Jetly-Shridhar R, Tran D, Boulmay BC. Blurry Vision as a Presentation of Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia: A Case Report With Review of Current Management. Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports. 2022;10. doi:10.1177/23247096211052187

Rachna Jetly-Shridhar, Tingting Li, Mei-Chin Hsieh, Brent Mumphrey, Xiaocheng Wu. Impact of WHO-2017 Guidelines and Sociodemographic Factors on Pathology Evaluation of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas in Louisiana. United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Abstracts, 2021 

Jack Logan Harbert, Fernanda Da Silva Lameira, Sharon E Fox, Gordon L. Love, Rachna Jetly-Shridhar. Quantitative Analysis of Megakaryocytes in Autopsy Lungs and Bone Marrow of Patients with COVID-19. United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Abstracts, 2021. 

Wenjing Qiu, Hina Khokhar, Tracy Dewenter, Rachna Jetly-Shridhar. Challenge in Early Diagnosis of Rare Lymphomas – A Case of Monomorphic Epitheliotropic Intestinal T-cell Lymphoma Masquerading as Enteritis. College of American Pathologists Abstracts, 2021

Fernanda da Silva Lameira, Anh Q. Nguyen, Sharon Fox, Rachna Jetly. A Rare Cause of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis on an Autopsy Report. Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Medical Research Day, 2021 

Caitlin Sullivan, Arya Loghmani, A. Abbas, Katharine Thomas, H. Hall, G. Destin, Rachna Jetly, S. Guillory, S. Walvekar, Rajasree Chowdry. Subcutaneous Panniculitis like T-cell Lymphoma presenting with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis. Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Medical Research Day, 2021 

Sullivan C, Loghmani A, Thomas K, Jetly-Shridhar R, Chowdry RP. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis as the Initial Presentation of Subcutaneous Panniculitis-Like T-Cell Lymphoma: A Rare Case Responding to Cyclosporine A and Steroids. Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports. December 2020

Xie J, Chaaya G, Jetly-Shridhar R, Atkinson TS. Double hit: Evans syndrome after Malignant Thymoma treatment and Parvovirus B19 infection. BMJ Case Reports. 2020;13:e233485 

Research

Translational Research