Michael Kashgarian MD
Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Pathology

Departments & Organizations
Yale Medical GroupCancer Center, Yale
Pathology: Surgical Pathology: Renal Pathology & Electron Microscopy | Pathology Research
Biography
Michael Kashgarian is professor emeritus of and senior research scientist in pathology. He received his medical degree from Yale School of Medicine in 1958, completed his residency in pathology at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center in 1963, and completed a fellowship in laboratory medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1964. While on the Yale faculty he established a diagnostic renal pathology and electron microscopy laboratory that bears his name. He was also a pioneer in understanding the process of organ rejection. Although Kashgarian has retired, he continues to serve as editor in chief of Yale Medicine.Education
- M.D., Yale University , 1958
Selected Publication
- Geller DS, Zhang J, Wisgerhof MV, Shackleton C, Kashgarian M, Lifton RP. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. A novel form of human mendelian hypertension featuring onglucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism. Aug;93(8):3117-23. 2008
Latest Honor and Recognition
- Elected Fellow(1996) , American Association for the Advancement of Science
Articles
Winter 2009
From the editor: Two faculty members move on, but remain close at hand
Eleven years ago when I started as a staff writer here at Yale Medicine, one of the first people I met was Michael...
Autumn 2012
A modest man remembered
Arthur Ebbert Jr., M.D., would by all accounts be embarrassed by the issue of Yale Medicine that you hold in your...

Winter 2007
Yale’s Army Medical Laboratory and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The two facilities established at Yale during World War I for training lab technicians for fieldwork and for studying...

Spring 2009
Article on physical exam recalls Klatskin's skill
I just received the Winter 2009 edition of Yale Medicine and enjoyed a number of articles, including the roast of...

Summer 2005
Diagnostic Atlas of Renal Pathology
by Agnes B. Fogo, M.D., and Michael Kashgarian, M.D. ’58, HS ’63, professor of pathology and molecular, cellular and...
Autumn 2008
1958 - 50th Reunion
Thirty-two members of our class of 72 graduates were in attendance. Many with their wives or significant others were...
Autumn 2003
1958 - 45th reunion
The 45th reunion of the Class of 1958 was an outstanding success with 20 members of the class entering into the...

Winter 2009
Pathologist honored with symposium
Michael Kashgarian, M.D. ’58, HS ’63, was the centerpiece of a Yale symposium in October, but the words of praise for...
Summer 1998
Michael Kashgarian, M.D.
Michael Kashgarian, M.D., professor of pathology and biology, received the James Colangelo Achievement Award by the...
Summer 2004
Michael Kashgarian, M.D., HS
Michael Kashgarian, M.D. ’58, HS ’63, professor of pathology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology,...
Winter 1999
Michael Kashgarian, M.D., HS
Michael Kashgarian, M.D. ’58, HS ’59-63, professor of pathology and biology, was lauded by the Gesellshaft für...

Autumn 2012
“A gentle man”
When Leon E. Rosenberg, M.D., HS ’63, became the dean in 1984, he immediately asked Arthur Ebbert Jr., M.D., to stay on...
Fall 1998
Personal warmth, hostile slogans for medical delegation to Iran
On their arrival at a hotel in the Iranian desert city of Shiraz, members of a medical delegation from the West,...



