Education

Columbia University, New York, NY, BA, 05/2007, Biology
New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, MD, 05/2011, Medicine
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, Resident, 06/2014, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, Fellow, 06/2015, Infectious Disease Pathology
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, Fellow, 06/2016, Cytopathology
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, Chief Resident, 06/2017, Clinical Pathology

Honors & Awards

  • 2011
    Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Student Service Leadership Project Award for the NYU School of Medicine Health Education Literacy Project
  • 2011
    NYU School of Medicine Excellence in Pathology
  • 2013
    Arthur Purdy Stout Society Study Stipend
  • 2013
    American Society of Clinical Pathology Resident Council Subspecialty Grant
  • 2016
    Binford-Dammin Society of Infectious Disease Pathologists, Jerome H. Smith Award, 1st place for Best USCAP Poster on Infectious Disease Pathology, 2015
  • 2016
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Honor Award for Rapid and Sustained Improvements in Infection Prevention and Control in West Africa during the Ebola Epidemic
  • 2017
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Honor Award for Outstanding Support in Monitoring the Persistence of Ebola Virus in the Semen of Male Survivors
  • 2017
    UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine Award for Clinical Excellence, Clinical Pathology

Selected Publications

  1. Ng DL, van Zante A, Griffin A, Hills NK, Ljung BE A large thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy cohort with long-term population-based follow-up.  View on PubMed
  2. Kimambo AH, Vuhahula EA, Mwakigonja AR, Ljung BM, Zhang L, Van Loon K, Ng DL Evaluating Estrogen Receptor Immunohistochemistry on Cell Blocks From Breast Cancer Patients in a Low-Resource Setting.  View on PubMed
  3. Ruiz-Cordero R, Ng DL Neurotrophic receptor tyrosine kinase (NTRK) fusions and their role in cancer.  View on PubMed
  4. Zamecnik CR, Rajan JV, Yamauchi KA, Mann SA, Loudermilk RP, Sowa GM, Zorn KC, Alvarenga BD, Gaebler C, Caskey M, Stone M, Norris PJ, Gu W, Chiu CY, Ng D, Byrnes JR, Zhou XX, Wells JA, Robbiani DF, Nussenzweig MC, DeRisi JL, Wilson MR ReScan, a Multiplex Diagnostic Pipeline, Pans Human Sera for SARS-CoV-2 Antigens.  View on PubMed
  5. Ng DL, Goldgof GM, Shy BR, Levine AG, Balcerek J, Bapat SP, Prostko J, Rodgers M, Coller K, Pearce S, Franz S, Du L, Stone M, Pillai SK, Sotomayor-Gonzalez A, Servellita V, Martin CSS, Granados A, Glasner DR, Han LM, Truong K, Akagi N, Nguyen DN, Neumann NM, Qazi D, Hsu E, Gu W, Santos YA, Custer B, Green V, Williamson P, Hills NK, Lu CM, Whitman JD, Stramer SL, Wang C, Reyes K, Hakim JMC, Sujishi K, Alazzeh F, Pham L, Thornborrow E, Oon CY, Miller S, Kurtz T, Simmons G, Hackett J, Busch MP, Chiu CY SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and neutralizing activity in donor and patient blood.  View on PubMed
  6. Whitman JD, Hiatt J, Mowery CT, Shy BR, Yu R, Yamamoto TN, Rathore U, Goldgof GM, Whitty C, Woo JM, Gallman AE, Miller TE, Levine AG, Nguyen DN, Bapat SP, Balcerek J, Bylsma SA, Lyons AM, Li S, Wong AW, Gillis-Buck EM, Steinhart ZB, Lee Y, Apathy R, Lipke MJ, Smith JA, Zheng T, Boothby IC, Isaza E, Chan J, Acenas DD, Lee J, Macrae TA, Kyaw TS, Wu D, Ng DL, Gu W, York VA, Eskandarian HA, Callaway PC, Warrier L, Moreno ME, Levan J, Torres L, Farrington LA, Loudermilk RP, Koshal K, Zorn KC, Garcia-Beltran WF, Yang D, Astudillo MG, Bernstein BE, Gelfand JA, Ryan ET, Charles RC, Iafrate AJ, Lennerz JK, Miller S, Chiu CY, Stramer SL, Wilson MR, Manglik A, Ye CJ, Krogan NJ, Anderson MS, Cyster JG, Ernst JD, Wu AHB, Lynch KL, Bern C, Hsu PD, Marson A Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serology assays reveals a range of test performance.  View on PubMed
  7. Fung M, Chiu CY, DeVoe C, Doernberg SB, Schwartz BS, Langelier C, Henrich TJ, Yokoe D, Davis J, Hays SR, Chandran S, Kukreja J, Ng D, Prostko J, Taylor R, Reyes K, Bainbridge E, Bond A, Chin-Hong P, Babik JM Clinical outcomes and serologic response in solid organ transplant recipients with COVID-19: A case series from the United States.  View on PubMed
  8. Ng DL, Goldgof GM, Shy BR, Levine AG, Balcerek J, Bapat SP, Prostko J, Rodgers M, Coller K, Pearce S, Franz S, Du L, Stone M, Pillai SK, Sotomayor-Gonzalez A, Servellita V, Martin CSS, Granados A, Glasner DR, Han LM, Truong K, Akagi N, Nguyen DN, Neumann NM, Qazi D, Hsu E, Gu W, Santos YA, Custer B, Green V, Williamson P, Hills NK, Lu CM, Whitman JD, Stramer S, Wang C, Reyes K, Hakim JMC, Sujishi K, Alazzeh F, Pham L, Oon CY, Miller S, Kurtz T, Hackett J, Simmons G, Busch MP, Chiu CY SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and neutralizing activity in donor and patient blood from the San Francisco Bay Area.  View on PubMed
  9. Whitman JD, Hiatt J, Mowery CT, Shy BR, Yu R, Yamamoto TN, Rathore U, Goldgof GM, Whitty C, Woo JM, Gallman AE, Miller TE, Levine AG, Nguyen DN, Bapat SP, Balcerek J, Bylsma SA, Lyons AM, Li S, Wong AW, Gillis-Buck EM, Steinhart ZB, Lee Y, Apathy R, Lipke MJ, Smith JA, Zheng T, Boothby IC, Isaza E, Chan J, Acenas DD, Lee J, Macrae TA, Kyaw TS, Wu D, Ng DL, Gu W, York VA, Eskandarian HA, Callaway PC, Warrier L, Moreno ME, Levan J, Torres L, Farrington LA, Loudermilk R, Koshal K, Zorn KC, Garcia-Beltran WF, Yang D, Astudillo MG, Bernstein BE, Gelfand JA, Ryan ET, Charles RC, Iafrate AJ, Lennerz JK, Miller S, Chiu CY, Stramer SL, Wilson MR, Manglik A, Ye CJ, Krogan NJ, Anderson MS, Cyster JG, Ernst JD, Wu AHB, Lynch KL, Bern C, Hsu PD, Marson A Test performance evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serological assays.  View on PubMed
  10. Eslami A, Can NT, Ng DL Infectious disease diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy.  View on PubMed
  11. Balassanian R, Ng DL, van Zante A Stop using expired plasma for cell blocks.  View on PubMed
  12. Ng DL, Balassanian R Granulomatous inflammation diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration biopsy.  View on PubMed
  13. Silverstein J, Kidder W, Fisher S, Hope TA, Maisel S, Ng D, Van Ziffle J, Atreya CE, Van Loon K Hormone receptor expression of colorectal cancer diagnosed during the peri-partum period.  View on PubMed
  14. Ng DL, Vuhahula E, Zhang L, Waterhouse EG, White KL, Mushi BP, Nyeriga MS, Philipo GS, Mmbaga EJ, Sheth S, Van Loon K, Lee AY, Balassanian R Efficacy of an Intensive, Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy Training Workshop in Tanzania.  View on PubMed
  15. Herrick KL, Pena SA, Yaglom HD, Layton BJ, Moors A, Loftis AD, Condit ME, Singleton J, Kato CY, Denison AM, Ng D, Mertins JW, Paddock CD Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis, Arizona, USA.  View on PubMed
  16. Muehlenbachs A, Bollweg BC, Schulz TJ, Forrester JD, DeLeon Carnes M, Molins C, Ray GS, Cummings PM, Ritter JM, Blau DM, Andrew TA, Prial M, Ng DL, Prahlow JA, Sanders JH, Shieh WJ, Paddock CD, Schriefer ME, Mead P, Zaki SR Cardiac Tropism of Borrelia burgdorferi: An Autopsy Study of Sudden Cardiac Death Associated with Lyme Carditis.  View on PubMed
  17. Ng DL, Al Hosani F, Keating MK, Gerber SI, Jones TL, Metcalfe MG, Tong S, Tao Y, Alami NN, Haynes LM, Mutei MA, Abdel-Wareth L, Uyeki TM, Swerdlow DL, Barakat M, Zaki SR Clinicopathologic, Immunohistochemical, and Ultrastructural Findings of a Fatal Case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in the United Arab Emirates, April 2014.  View on PubMed
  18. Martines RB, Ng DL, Greer PW, Rollin PE, Zaki SR Tissue and cellular tropism, pathology and pathogenesis of Ebola and Marburg viruses.  View on PubMed

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