Zubair W. Baloch, MD, PhD
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Accepting new patients
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
- Medical School: Liaquat Medical College
- Residency: Hahnemann University Hospital
- Fellowship: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
اردو
Urdu
Sindhi
Sindhi
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
- Cytopathology
- Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 1995
- American Association for Clinical Endocrinologist, National
- American Society of Clinical Pathologists, National
- American Society of Cytopathology, National
- American Thyroid Association, National
- Arthur Prudy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologist, National
- College of American Pathologist, National
- Endocrine Pathology Society, International
- Endocrine Society, National
- Papanicolaou Society, International
- Philadelphia Endocrine Society, Local
- Philadelphia Pathology Society, Local
- United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, International
- University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. Tissue Committee., Local
- Penn Center for Head and Neck Cancer
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Layfield LJ, Cantley RL, Dodd L, Pantanowitz L, Baloch Z, Esebua M, Maleki Z, Ge B. Cytomorphologic Predictors of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma: Insights From a Multi-Center Logistic Regression Study , Diagn Cytopathol, 54(7): 2026,463-468
Torous VF, Heidarian A, Baloch ZW, Maleki Z, Montone K, Rossi ED, Faquin WC. Evaluating the role of metaplasia in the cytologic diagnosis of pleomorphic adenoma: A multi-institutional study of 253 cases , Cancer Cytopathol, 134(6): 2026
Canberk S, Azevedo MT, Cozzolino I, Arisi MF, Mericoz ÇA, Aydin O, Baloch ZW, Bellevicine C, Bongiovanni M, Firat P, Ince U, Kayhan CK, Kurtulan O, Liang S, Maleki Z, Magalhães BM, Vrdoljak-Mozetic D, Onder S, Ramqvist E, Raymond WA, Troncone G, Uguz A, Vale N, Vigliar E, Field AS, Schmitt FC, VanderLaan P. WHOverlap Multicentre Study: Dissecting the Insufficient/Inadequate/Non-Diagnostic Category and Its Overlap with the Benign Category in the WHO Reporting System for Lung Cytopathology , Acta Cytol, 70(2): 2026,160-174
Jin, Xueting, Koga, Shunsuke, Zhou, Xiao, Khan, Niaz, Baloch, Zubair Clinicopathologic characteristics of papillary thyroid carcinoma, tall cell subtype and subtype with tall cell features, an institutional experience (accepted for publication). , Hum Pathol, 161: 2025
Xu B, Viswanathan K, Barbesier M, Ladenheim A, Antonescu CR, Ghossein R, Lubin D, Magliocca K, Matar S, Mikula MW, Resta IT, Roy D, Sohn SY, Verma A, Prasad ML, Rooper L, Brandwein-Weber M, Baloch Z, Katabi N. Hyalinizing Clear Cell Carcinoma (HCCC) of the Head and Neck: A Multicenter Retrospective Study of 87 Cases Focusing on Prognostic Pathologic Features and Grading scheme , Mod Pathol: 2025
Hu AC, Passman JE, Baloch Z, Wachtel H. Adrenalectomy Leading to Early Diagnosis of ALECT2 Amyloidosis , Sage Open Pathol, 18: 2025,30502098251331780
Nachum S, Tondi Resta I, Baloch Z, Mandel SJ. Thyroid Nodules with Indeterminate Cytology and Negative Molecular Profile: Prevalence of Malignancy and Practice Paradigms for Surveillance , Thyroid, 35(3): 2025,265-273
Rossi ED, Agarwal S, Erkilic S, Hang JF, Jalaly JB, Khanafshar E, Ladenheim A, Baloch Z. Psammoma bodies in thyroid: are they always indicative of malignancy? A multi-institutional study , Virchows Arch, 485(5): 2024,853-858
Baran J, Bojarsky M, Halada S, Ricarte-Filho JC, Isaza A, Franco AT, Surrey LF, Bhatti T, Baloch ZW, Adzick NS, Mostoufi-Moab S, Kazahaya K, Bauer A. Low-Invasive Somatic Oncogenes and Lymph Node Metastasis in Pediatric Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Implications for Prophylactic Central Neck Dissection , Eur Thyroid J, 13: 2024,e230265
Arisi MF, Jin X, Ravish NA, Chand MT, Baloch Z. How important are the cytomorphologic subtypes of the salivary gland neoplasm of uncertain malignant potential (SUMP) category in the Milan system for reporting salivary gland cytology? An institutional experience 2018-2024 , Diagn Cytopathol: 2024