Zainab Hashim

MD Pathologist with dedicated postgraduate training in diagnostic pathology and focused clinical experience in Hematology at SKIMS Medical College & Hospital in a tertiary-care academic centre. Experienced in hematopathology reporting of hematological disorders, peripheral blood smear interpretation, bone marrow aspiration and trophine biopsy evaluation, with exposure to integrated ancillary investigations in the diagnosis of hematological disorders. Keen interest and research experience includes three first-author original research publications in hematopathology, bone marrow pathology and inflammatory biomarkers in malignancy, as well as a poster presentation on Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

Senior Resident – Hematology - SKIMS Medical College & Hospital - Soura, Srinagar, India

(2025-10)

• Evaluation of patients with a broad spectrum of hematological disorders in a tertiary-care academic setting.
• Performed/evaluated >500 bone marrow examinations, including bone marrow aspiration and trophine biopsy specimens.
• Comprehensive morphological assessment of bone marrow cellularity, erythroid, myeloid and megakaryocytic lineages, mitigation patterns, dysplasia and abnormal cellular infiltrates.
• Interpretation of peripheral blood smears with correlation to hematological parameters and clinical findings.
• Diagnostic work-up of anemia, pancytopenia, leukocytosis, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia and other cytopenias.
• Morphological evaluation of suspected acute and chronic leukemias and other myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms.
• Evaluation of marrow morphology in suspected myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative disorders.
• Clinicopathological correlation of morphological findings with relevant laboratory and ancillary investigations.
• Exposure to flow cytometry in the diagnostic evaluation of hematological neoplasms.
• Exposure to cytogenetic investigations, FISH and molecular hematology, with correlation of ancillary findings with morphology.
• Participation in academic case discussions, clinical meetings and multidisciplinary diagnostic evaluation.
• Teaching and academic interaction with undergraduate and postgraduate medical trainees.

MD - Pathology - Government Medical College, Jammu (2022 - 2025)

MBBS - Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College (2014 - 2020)