Charuhas Deshpande, MD
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
My areas of clinical expertise:
Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology,
Cardiovascular Pathology,
Genitourinary Pathology
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
- Residency: Seth G.S. Medical College
- Residency: Tata Memorial Hospital
- Residency: Oklahoma Children's Hospital OU Health
- Residency: Northwestern Memorial Hospital
- Fellowship: Tata Memorial Hospital
- Fellowship: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Pathology - Anatomic Pathology, 2008
- American Society of Clinical Pathologists, National
- College of American Pathologists, National
- International Association for Study of Lung Cancer, International
- Pulmonary Pathology Society, National
- United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, International
- Penn Lung Cancer Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Pavlisko EN, Neely ML, Wikenheiser-Brokamp KA, Fishbein GA, Litzky L, Farver CF, Pal P, He M, Illei PB, Deshpande C, Robien MA, Kirchner J, Frankel CW, Lang JE, Belperio JA, Palmer SM, Sweet SC; Clinical Trials and Organ Transplantation (CTOT)-47 consortium. Diagnostic alignment to optimize inter-rater reliability among lung transplant pathologists , J Heart Lung Transplant, 44(2): 2025,173-181
Marmarelis ME, Scholes DG, McGrath CM, Priore SF, Roth JJ, Feldman M, Morrissette JJD, Litzky L, Deshpande C, Thompson JC, Doucette A, Gabriel PE, Sun L, Singh AP, Cohen RB, Langer CJ, Carpenter EL, Aggarwal C. Brief Report: Impact of Reflex Testing on Tissue-Based Molecular Genotyping in Patients With Advanced Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer , Clin Lung Cancer, 25(3): 2024,262-265.e2
Kennedy GT, Azari FS, Bernstein E, Deshpande C, Kucharczuk JC, Delikatny EJ, Singhal S. Three-Dimensional Near-Infrared Specimen Mapping Can Identify the Distance from the Tumor to the Surgical Margin During Resection of Pulmonary Ground Glass Opacities , Mol Imaging Biol , 25(1): 2023,203-211
Clifford W Sandlin, Song Gu, Jun Xu, Charuhas Deshpande, Michael D Feldman, Matthew C Good Epithelial cell size dysregulation in human lung adenocarcinoma , PLoS One, 17(10): 2022
Kennedy GT, Azari FS, Bernstein E, Marfatia I, Din A, Deshpande C, Galvis N, Sorger J, Kucharczuk JC, Singhal S. First-in-human results of targeted intraoperative molecular imaging for visualization of ground glass opacities during robotic pulmonary resection , Transl Lung Cancer Res, 11(8): 2022,1567-1577
Abdeen S, Bdeir K, Abu-Fanne R, Maraga E, Higazi M, Khurram N, Feldman M, Deshpande C, Litzky LA, Heyman SN, Montone KT, Cines DB, Higazi AA. Alpha-defensins: risk factor for thrombosis in COVID-19 infection. , British Journal of Haematology, 194(1): 2021,44-52
Bryski MG, Frenzel-Sulyok LG, Delikatny EJ, Deshpande C, Litzky LA, Singhal S. Molecular imaging can identify the location to perform a frozen biopsy during intraoperative frozen section consultation. , PLoS One, 16(6): 2021,e0252731
Predina JD, Haas AR, Martinez M, O'Brien S, Moon EK, Woodruff P, Stadanlick J, Corbett C, Frenzel-Sulyok L, Bryski MG, Eruslanov E, Deshpande C, Langer C, Aguilar LK, Guzik BW, Manzanera AG, Aguilar-Cordova E, Singhal S, Albelda SM. Neoadjuvant Gene-Mediated Cytotoxic Immunotherapy for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Safety and Immunologic Activity , Molecular Therapy, 29(2): 2021,658-670
Thompson JC, Davis C, Deshpande C, Hwang WT, Jeffries S, Huang A, Mitchell TC, Langer CJ, Albelda SM. Gene signature of antigen processing and presentation machinery predicts response to checkpoint blockade in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and melanoma , J Immunother Cancer., 8(2): 2020,e000974
Bauml JM, Mick R, Ciunci C, Aggarwal C, Davis C, Evans T, Deshpande C, Miller L, Patel P, Alley E, Knepley C, Mutale F, Cohen RB, Langer CJ. Pembrolizumab After Completion of Locally Ablative Therapy for Oligometastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Phase 2 Trial. , JAMA Oncology, 1(2): 2019,1283-1290