Norge Vergara, MD
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Accepting new patients
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 education and training
- Medical School: Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara
- Residency: Mount Sinai Morningside
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Residency: Staten Island University Hospital (North Site)
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 and Clinical Pathology, 2013
- Cytopathology
- American Society of Clinical Pathology, National
- American Society of Cytopathology, National
- College of American Pathologists, National
- The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Anna Budina 1, Norge Vergara 2, Farah El-Sharkawy Navarro 3, Jennifer J D Morrissette 2, Anupma Nayak 2 High-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma with Divergent Prostatic Differentiation Mimicking a Collision Tumor in a Bladder Diverticulum , Int J Surg Pathology: 2026
Luiz M Nova-Camacho 1, Andres M Acosta 2, Kiril Trpkov 3, Ankur R Sangoi 4, Allaume Pierre 5, Angela Chou 6, Asli Yilmaz 3, Aurélien Morini 7, Ângelo Rodrigues 8, Christopher Dm Fletcher 9, Delia Perez-Montiel 10, Fiona Maclean 11, Félix Contreras 12, Francisco Javier Queipo 13, Gorka Muñiz Unamunzaga 13, Hector Mesa 14, Inés de Torres 15, Irune Ruiz 16, Isabel Alvarado-Cabrero 17, João Lobo 18, Lauren Schwartz 19, Liang Cheng 20, Mahmut Akgul 21, María García-Martos 22, Matthew B Palmer 19, Manju Aron 23, Maria Rosaria Raspollini 24, Manuel Manrique Celada 16, Michael Hwang 14, Muhammad T Idrees 14, Nathalie Rioux-Leclercq 5, Nicole Zalles 25, Norge Vergara 19, Priti Lal 19, Sara Wobker 26, Solène-Florence Kammerer-Jacquet 5, Susan Prendeville 27, Théau Tilmant 28, Thomas M Ulbright 14, Virginie Verkarre 28, Katrina Collins 14, Sean R Williamson 25, Angel Panizo 29 Metastatic solid tumors to the testis: a clinicopathologic evaluation of 157 cases from an international collaboration , Human Pathology, 139(no issue): 2023,37-46
Ju-Yoon Yoon 1, Jason N Rosenbaum 1 2, Norge Vergara 1, Roger B Cohen 3, Robert B Wilson 4 Bayesian approach to interpreting somatic cancer sequencing data: a case in point. , Journal of Clinical Pathology, 74(6): 2021,no pages
Abhishek Shah, Priti Lal, Erik Toorens, Matthew B Palmer, Lauren Schwartz, Norge Vergara, Thomas Guzzo, Anupma Nayak Acquired Cystic Kidney Disease-associated Renal Cell Carcinoma (ACKD-RCC) Harbor Recurrent Mutations in KMT2C and TSC2 Genes , American Journal of Surgical Pathology , 44(11): 2020,1479-1486
John T Nathanson, MD; Shivani Kastuar, MD; Kimberly A Forde, MD; Charles M Vollmer, MD; Evan S Siegelman, MD; Norge Vergara, MD; Danielle Fortuna, MD; Nuzhat A Ahmad, MD. A multidisciplinary pancreatic cyst conference reduces low risk cyst resections , Gastroenterology, 158(6): 2020,s-603
Abhishek Shah, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania (Primary Presenter), Priti Lal, University of Pennsylvania, Lauren E. Schwartz, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Matthew Palmer, University of Pennsylvania, Norge Vergara, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Anupma Nayak, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) and Associated Tumors and Cysts , USCAP 2020, Los Angeles, CA: 2020
Lal, Priti, MD; Schwartz, Lauren, MD; Vergara, Norge, MD; Gustafson, Karen, MD, PhD; Elder, David, MB, ChB; Xu, Xiaowei, MD, PhD "A Diagnostically Challenging Case of Primary Urethral Melanoma Mimicking High Grade Urothelial Carcinoma" , CAP 2019, Orlando, FL: 2019
Nayak A, Depasquale B, Vergara N, Guzzo TA, Lal P. Villous Adenoma Arising in the Native Bladder Mucosa and the Upper Urinary Tract With Coexisting Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Following Augmentation Cystoplasty. , International Journal of Surgical Pathology , 27(4): 2019,450-456
Elhanafi S, Mahmud N, Vergara N, Kochman ML, Das KK, Ginsberg GG, Rajala M, Chandrasekhara V. Comparison of endoscopic ultrasound tissue acquisition methods for genomic analysis of pancreatic cancer. , Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 34(5): 2019,907-913
Shabason JE1, Chen J, Apisarnthanarax S, Damjanov N4, Giantonio B, Loaiza-Bonilla A, O'Dwyer PJ, O'Hara M4, Reiss KA, Teitelbaum U, Wissel P, Drebin JA, Vollmer C, Kochman M, Mick R, Vergara N, Jhala N, Doucette A, Lukens JN, Plastaras JP, Metz JM, Ben-Josef E. A phase I dose escalation trial of nab-paclitaxel and fixed dose radiation in patients with unresectable or borderline resectable pancreatic cancer , Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, 81(3): 2018,609-6014