Larissa Viana Furtado, MD
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Sao Joao Universitary Hospital CenterResidency
- University of Utah School of MedicineResidency
- University of Utah Medical CenterFellowship
- University of Michigan HealthFellowship
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.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Furtado is a Penn Medicine provider.
Qualifications and experience
- Pathology, 2022
- American Medical Association, National
- Association for Molecular Pathology, International
- ClinGen National Institutes of Health (NIH), National
- College of American Pathologists, National
All conditions and treatments
Research
Publications
Furtado LV, Jablonowski C, Kolekar P, Santiago T, Morton CL, Woolard A, Davidoff AM, Ma X, Murphy AJ. Capturing clinically actionable copy number alterations in Wilms tumor using nanopore sequencing , Res Sq: 2026
Dana Tlais, Qunyu Zhang, Jordan Roach, Christopher Tinkle, Xiaoyu Li, Tong Lin, Ayatullah Mostafa, Daniel Moreira, Rene McNall-Knapp, Sarah Rush, Brian Le, Sara Sinno, Apeksha Agarwal, Kevin Ginn, Sonia Partap, Arzu Onar-Thomas, Larissa Furtado, Asim Bag, Jason Chiang PTHP-03. Pediatric H3 G34-Mutant Diffuse Hemispheric Glioma: Unique biology and clinical behavior , Neuro-Oncology, 27(Supplement_5): 2025,v267
Putnam DK, Gout AM, Rahbarinia D, Jin M, Finkelstein D, Ma X, Zhang J, Wheeler DA, Furtado LV, Chen X. CanID: A Robust and Accurate RNA-seq Expression-based Diagnostic Classification Scheme for Pediatric Malignancies , Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics, qzaf122: 2025
Koo SC, Cardenas M, Stow P, Neary J, Wheeler DA, Shi Z, Furtado LV. Comparison of Molecular Testing Methodologies for CIC-Rearranged Sarcomas , Arch Pathol Lab Med, 149(10): 2025,913-921
Moreira DC, Pinto SN, Mikkelsen MK, Li X, Liu YC, Furtado LV, Chiang J. Evolution of pilocytic astrocytoma to diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor (DLGNT): bridging two distinct tumor types , Acta Neuropathol., 150(1): 2025,38
Hanna M, Spies N, Furtado LV. Pathology Meets AI: Translating AI frameworks into practice , CAPcasts: 2025
Sargen MR, Fitzhugh MH, Ko JS, Close AG, Horton SC, Malik F, Furtado LV, Bahrami A, Seynnaeve BKN, Pappo AS, Liu V, Cheung K, Pack SD, Xi L, Raffeld M, Lee I, Gagan J, Aldape K, Barr FG, Hewitt SM, Ferrone CK, Hayden A, Hatton JN, Goldstein AM, Pfeiffer RM, Widemann B, Malone MFW, Gross AM, Kaplan R, Yohe ME, Berrebi KG. Clinicopathologic Features, Management, and Outcomes Of Pediatric CRTC1::TRIM11 and MED15::ATF1 Tumors With Spitzoid Morphology: A Case Series , Pediatr Blood Cancer, 72(8): 2025,e31814
Mikkelsen MK, Li X, Yu K, High AA, Tan H, Furtado LV, Leelatian N, Bell J, Berry JD, Boué DR, Chien F, Coven SL, Dewan MC, Fangusaro J, Foster JB, Hoffman L, Kofler JK, Larkin T, Lazow M, May A, Mobley BC, Noun D, Posorske B, Schwartz J, Sheila I, Spiller S, Tanaka R, Qaddoumi I, Tinkle CL, Peng J, Robinson GW, Moreira DC, Chiang J. Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor (DLGNT): a comprehensive clinical and molecular analysis , Acta Neuropathol, 150(1): 2025,18
Schmidt RJ, Furtado LV, Fussell AM, Jordan D, Lebo M, Syed A, Temple-Smolkin RL, Venner E, Worthey E, Carter AB. Clinical Bioinformatician Body of Knowledge-Clinical Laboratory Regulation and Data Security Core: A Report of the Association for Molecular Pathology. , J Mol Diagn., 27(7): 2025,583-601
Lan BN, Anh NH, Diep PH, Chuong LT, Linh NV, An VV, Khoi NN, Truong NLT, Anh NT, Ninh TP, Santiago T, Furtado L, Rodriguez-Galindo C. Case Report: Diagnostic challenges and long-term survival of a child with bronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma , Transl Pediatr, 14(7): 2025,1700-1707