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Pathology Team

Dr. Malcolm Hayes Medical Director
Dr. Jasenka Matisic
Dr. Samson Ng

 

Laboratory Manager

Olga Pavlenko

 

Pathology Team

 
Malcolm Hayes, B.Sc., M.B.,Ch.B., LRCP, MRCS, M.Med. Path, FRCPath, FRCPC – Medical Director

In addition to his work at Perceptronix, Malcolm Hayes is a pathologist at the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) in Vancouver. Dr. Hayes has worked at the BCCA since 1993 and has broad expertise in surgical pathology and cytopathology and major interests in breast, skin, gynecological and soft tissue pathology. He is a Clinical Professor of pathology at the University of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologist of UK. He has many years of expertise in diagnostic immunohistochemistry based on employment of this technique in the work up of a large volume of challenging consultation cases referred to the BCCA "Primary Unknown" tumour group.

Malcolm Hayes
Jasenka Matisic, MD, FRCP(C)

Dr. Matisic is an experienced general pathologist with special interest in gynecological and non-gynecological cytopathology and gynecological histopathology. She spent 24 years with the BCCA, and for the last seven was the Medical Leader for the Cervical Cancer Screening Program. Dr. Matisic has been an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Chair of the Canadian Society of Cytology. She received her medical degree from the University of Zagreb and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (Pathology).

Jasenka Matisic
Samson Ng, BSc, DMD, MSc, FRCD(C), FDSRCSEd, Dip. ABOM, Dip. ABOMP

Samson Ng is a dual certified specialist in Oral & Maxiollofacial Pathology and Oral Medicine in both Canada and the USA. He received his dental qualification from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and completed a general practice residency and an Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology residency program at UBC/Vancouver General Hospital, Canada. Dr. Ng's practice focuses on oral mucosal and temporomandibular (TMJ) disease and his clinical research focuses on early detection of oral pre/cancer and photodynamic therapy for oral pathogens.

Samson Ng

Laboratory Manager

 

Olga Pavlenko, BSc, MSc

Olga Pavlenko is a laboratory Manager at PMI Labs. She received Bachelor degree in Biology and held MSc in Physiology from Kharkiv National University, Ukraine. After graduation, she worked at the Institute of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine with a focus on stem cell research and its clinical application.  

She joined PMI Labs in 2005 to work in the quantitative cytology laboratory. After PMI Labs' expansion, she works in the anatomic pathology laboratory that includes histology, quantitative cytology, diagnostic cytology and immunohistochemistry services.  In addition, she enhanced a laboratory structure with supporting documentation based on International Standards Organizations (ISO) guidelines to meet regulatory requirements of the Diagnostic Accreditation Program (DAP) and Health Canada.

 

Olga Pavlenko

 


       

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