Dr. R. Patrick Dorion

R. PATRICK DORION, M.D.
Director, Hematology
Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Hematopathology


100 North Academy Avenue
Danville, PA 17822-0131
1 800 695 6491

Dr. Dorion is an Associate of Geisinger Medical Laboratories at Geisinger Medical Center where he serves as the Medical Director of the Hematology Laboratory.

Education:

He received his M.D. from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and received his pathology residency training at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. He completed a fellowship in Hematology at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond.

Certifications:

Dr. Dorion is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology as well as hematopathology. His areas of specialization include hematopathology and coagulation studies, head and neck pathology, soft tissue and bone pathology, thyroid pathology and gastrointestinal pathology.

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

Boctor FN, Dorion RP. Malaria and hereditary elliptocytosis. Am J Hematol 83. 753, 2008.

Forman SB, Tyler WB, Dorion RP, Elston DM. Breast carcinoma in a male: Importance of hormonal receptor expression and possibility of a familial cancer syndrome. J Am Acad Dermatol 57. 731-732, 2007.

Sewell DL, Elston DM, Dorion RP . "Anisotrichosis": a novel term to describe pattern alopecia. J Am Acad Dermatol 56. 856, 2007.

Stammers A, Dorion RP, Trowbridge C, Yen B, Klayman M, Murdock JD, Woods E, Gilbert C. Coagulation management of a patient with factor V Leiden mutation, lupus anticoagulant, and activated protein C resistance: a case report. Perfusion 20. 115-120, 2005.

Dorion RP, Shaw JH. Intracytoplasmic Filamentous Inclusions in the Peripheral Blood of a Patient With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, a Bright Field, Electron Microscopic, Immunofluorescent, and Flow Cytometric Study. Arch Pathol Lab Med 127. 618-620, 2003.