Dr. Ishani Mohapatra is a Consultant Histopathology and former Lab Head at Health City, Cayman Islands, with extensive tertiary-care pathology experience and specialized expertise in Neuropathology. She completed her MBBS and MD Pathology from Utkal University/SCB Medical College, Cuttack, followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Neuropathology at NIMHANS, Bengaluru.
She worked at Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon from 2009 to 2023, progressing from Attending Consultant to Associate Consultant, Consultant and Senior Consultant. She led Neuropathology and established/standardized services including neuromuscular and neuro-oncology laboratory work, muscle histochemistry, nerve and brain biopsy special stains, frozen sections, prognostic immunohistochemistry, and molecular neuro-oncology including FISH, NGS and RT-PCR.
Her academic work includes teaching DNB trainees across pathology, neurology, radiology, radiation oncology and neurosurgery, guiding and co-guiding 13 thesis topics, conducting multidisciplinary academic meetings and participating as faculty/speaker at national and international conferences. She has multiple original publications, a book chapter, conference presentations and peer-review experience in neurosciences.
She has also contributed to laboratory quality programmes, including SOP development and implementation aligned with NABL, NABH and JCI standards, staff training, and laboratory standardization.
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Special interesse
Neuropatologia
Neuro-oncologia
Neuromuscular pathology
Brain, nerve and muscle biopsies
Routine histopathology and cytopathology
Molecular neuro-oncology
Specialized immunohistochemistry
Laboratory quality and standardization
Gruppi nazionali
Neuropathological Society of India
Indian Society of NeuroOncology
USCAP
American associstion of Neuropathology
Premi e realizzazioni
Training in FISH and NGS at Neuro-oncology Workshop, ISNOCON 2018, AIIMS New Delhi
NABL ISO 15189:2012 training, MELAP New Delhi, 2021
NABH pre-entry level accreditation training, MELAP New Delhi, 2022
Updates of WHO Classification of Brain and Pituitary Tumors with Dr Arie Perry, AANP/USCAP Interactive Microscopy Course, 2024
Teaching rounds of AANP 2025-2026
Gold medal in 1st MBBS
Post doctoral fellow ship in Neuropathology, Established Medanta as a referral centre for neuro-oncology, brain, neuromuscular and temporal artery biopsy reporting
Maintained brain tumour and biopsy-proven temporal lobe epilepsy registries
Ricerca & Pubblicazioni
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Multiple original research articles and case reports in neuropathology, neuro-oncology, histopathology, cytopathology and related fields; book chapter on reviewed articles for BMC Neurology (October 2024) and BMC Urology (August 2024). Publications include work in Neuropathology, Neurology India, Asian Journal of Neurosurgery, Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, Molecular Neurobiology, Cytopathology and other journals. Annexure-1 for the full publication list.S-no Particulars of article Impact factor citation
1 Histological and immunohistochemical characterization of AT/RT :a report of 15 cases from India. Neuropathology 11/2009, 30(3): 251-259, 758 18
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CalCalcifying pseudoneoplasm(fibroosseus lesion) of neuroaxis( CAPNON)- A case report. Clinical Neuropathology 2010, 29(4);223,1.216
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Tubular aggregate myopathy:a phenotypic spectrum and morphologic study; Neurology India 2010: 58(5); 747-751 2.708 9
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ImeIntra medullary melanocytoma of thoracic spine: A rare case report"" in Asian journal of neurosurgery. 2014 9(1), 36-39.1.838 9
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TripTriple composite tumor of stomach: a rare combination of alpha feto protein positive hepatoid adenocarcinoma, tubular adenocarcinoma and large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma. Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology 2014, 57(1): 98-100.0.529 6
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Nuclear Respiratory Factor 1(NRF-1) Transcriptional activity- Driven gene signature association with severity of astrocytoma and poor prognosis of Glioblastoma, Molecular Neurobiology DOI10.1007/S12035-020-01879-2. 4.586
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A Liver mass in a case of gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach is not always a metastasis Cytopathology 2016,27,73-78 1.229
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Metastatic renal cell carcinoma presenting as bleeding pancreatic mass. Journal clinical and diagnostic research 9/2015 15-17 0.818 11
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CD45 negative in primary DLBCL of cerebellum: Neurology India 2015,63,2,276-279 2.708 2
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Unusually aggressive primary testicular Diffuse large B Cell Lymphoma with post therapy extensive metastasis; Journal of Clinical and diagnostic Research,2016July vol-10(7). 0.81 2
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Tumiform colonic endometriosis masquerading as Large Bowel Malignancy, International Journal Of Surgical Pathology Jan 2017 1.188
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Atypical central neurocytoma with leptomeningeal dissemination: A case report. Journal of Egyptian cancer Institute,32, Article no. 23, May 2020 0.305
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BRAFV600E positive Erdheim-Chester disease presenting as central nervous system space occupying lesions mimicking meningioma, demonstrating clinical improvement and tumor regression following BRAF inhibitor therapy: The importance of molecular diagnosis and targeted therapy in rare neoplastic disorders Magazine of European Medical Oncology,12(4),September 2018 0.85
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Core biopsy diagnosis of ALK Positive Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of lung: An interesting case, Turkish Journal of Pathology.October 2018 0.88 1
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Coexisting vestibular schwannoma with fibrous dysplasia: A rare occurrence Asian journal of Neurosurgery ,2019 14(4),1295-1297 1.838
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Modulated radiotherapy with concurrent and adjuvant temozolomide for anaplastic gliomas: Indian single-center data, Indian Journal of medical and paediatric oncology.2018 38(4),495-501 0.251
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Amyloidosis presenting as right adrenal mass—diagnosed on endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration: Indian journal of pathology and microbiology.2020 63(2).335-337 0.529
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Intraarticular glomus tumor- A rare presentation Letter to editor 2017 Turkish Journal of Pathology 0.88 3
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Primary testicular plasmablastic lymphoma: Unique case in 30 year old, Indian Journal of Medical Research 1.503 18
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Gastrointestinal Histoplasmosis , A case series, International Journal of Surgical Pathology, 2017;25(7). 1.188 13
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Unusual variant of Syncitial variant of nodular sclerosis- Classical Hodgkin's Lymphoma presenting as lung mass in a 15 year old child, Acta oncologica 2018, 1729-1732 3.298 2
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Acute haemorrhagic leucoencephalitis. Annals of Geriatric Education and Medical Sciences 2014
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Posterior pituitary tumors Management and out comes of monocentric cohort with pooled data analysis of patients having recurrent or persistent disease, Submitted in Endocrine connections 202110:4, 387-400
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