Sabina Desar, MD
Genitourinary and Head and Neck Pathology; Assistant Professor
Department: Pathology
Phone: (804) 628-5383
Email: Sabina.Desar@vcuhealth.org
Sabina Desar, MD is an assistant professor of pathology. She specializes in Genitourinary Pathology, Surgical Pathology and Head and Neck Pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System.
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Education
Postgraduate Medical Training
2024 Fellowship, Genitourinary Pathology, University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
2023 Fellowship, Surgical Pathology, University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
2022 Residency, Anatomic Pathology, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Medical Education
2013 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Sunsari, Nepal
Licenses & Certifications
Medical Licenses Active
2024 Commonwealth of Virginia
2022 Michigan Board of Medicine, Physician license
Board Certification
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Papers
Desar S, Berney DM, Smith SC. Somatic Tumor-Like Neoplasms Arising With Testicular Germ Cell Tumors: Distilling Evolving Understanding, Terminology, and Implications for the Practicing Surgical Pathologist. Adv Anat Pathol. 2026 Mar 1;33(2):68-80. Epub 2026 Feb 2. PMID: 41622830.
Desar S, Muthusamy S, Kenigsberg AP, Smith SC. Incidental Cystadenomas of the Seminal Vesicle: An Institutional Series. Int J Surg Pathol. 2025. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40905744.
Relan, A.; Desar, S.; Dunnette, B.; Shanley, R. & Giubellino, A. Inflammatory infiltrates in melanocytic lesions. Int. J.Morphol., 39;512‐19, 2021.
Huang N, Perez P, Kato T, Mikami Y, Okuda K, Gilmore R, Conde C, Gasmi B, Stein S, Beach M, Pelayo E, Maldonado J, Lafont B, Padilla N, Murrah V, Maile R, Sampaio De Melo M, Dikoglu E, Desar S, Ylaya K, Chung JY, Smith G, Vannella K, Kleiner D, Chertow D, Richert M, Nasir N, Das S, Lee R, Warner B. SARS‐CoV‐2 infection of the oral cavity and saliva. Accepted for publication in nature medicine. Manuscript # NMED‐A109277C.
Song K, Desar S, Pengo T, Shanley R, Giubellino A. Correlation of MET and PDL1 expression in Malignant Melanoma. Cancers (Basel). 2020.
Diggs LP, Ruf B, Ma C, Heinrich B, Cui L, Zhang Qianfei, McVey J, Wabitsch S, Heinrich S, Rosato U, Lai W, Subramanyam V, Longerich T, Loosen SH, Luedde T, Neumann UP, Desar S, Kleiner D, Gores G, Wang XW, Greten TF. CD40‐mediated immune cell activation enhances response to anti‐PD‐1 in murine intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. J Hepatol. Epub Dec 2020.
Abstracts/Meeting Presentations
Desar S, Muthusamy S, Smith SC. Exploration of the Potential Diagnostic Utility of MTAP Immunohistochemistry for Urothelial Lesions. CAP Annual Meeting, 2025, Poster Presentation.
Desar S, Cowen E, Lee CC, Merino MM. “Clinical, Morphologic and Molecular Characteristics of Cutaneous Leiomyomas, a Tool to Recognize Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer”. USCAP 111th Annual Meeting, 2022, Platform Presentation Dermatopathology.
Desar S, Giubellino A, Lee CC. “Report of a new Family with BAP1 Cancer Syndrome and Review of the Literature”. American Society of Dermatopathology, 2020, dual presentation.
Desar S, Sargen M, Cowen EW, Lee CC, “Intradermal nevus with extensive neurotization and neurofibroma‐like changes in a patient with BAP‐1 Tumor Predisposition Syndrome.” American Society of Dermatopathology, 2021, Poster Session 2, #251.
Chapter
“Blue nevus/Cellular Blue nevus” Pathology outlines. Ali Alani MD, Sabina Desar MD, Carlos Torres‐Cabala, MD.
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