Dr. Pankowsky is a graduate of The University of Texas Medical School Medical School at Houston. He earned a concurrent Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering (Bioengineering) at Rice University. He completed his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals of Cleveland. During that time he published papers on male breast cancer and developed a model for studying blood protein adherence to artificial surfaces. He has fellowship training in Surgical Pathology at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI and subspecialty training in Hematopathology at Loyola University in Chicago, IL. He is board certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Hematology. He was an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Emory University School of Medicine from 1992-1995. He has been with Pathologists’ Laboratory, PC since 1998. He holds several US and foreign patents in the area related to multiparameter immunophenotyping of cells. Working closely with members of Tennessee Oncology, he has helped develop a procedure for a painless bone marrow biopsy and many such procedures are performed at our covered hospitals. He is an active member of the community and currently serves on the board at Akiva Day School. His volunteer activities have included walking for Light the Night for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society and helping to build access ramps for Access Nashville.

Dr. Paul DiGiovanni graduated Magna cum laude from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earning the Distinguished Service to the University Award before attending Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. He received the award for Academic Distinction upon graduation in 1989, and continued at Vanderbilt as a resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and then as a surgical pathology fellow. During his fellowship, Dr. DiGiovanni worked in the Breast Pathology Consultation Service under the tutelage of Dr. David L. Page. He moved from the Nashville area in 1996 to upstate New York, where he practiced pathology in the community hospital setting. In 2006 Dr. DiGiovanni was recognized as the Physician of the Year at Cortland Regional Medical Center in Cortland, New York. He held public office as a county legislator in 2004-5 and served as President of the Medical Staff at Cortland for three years. Dr. DiGiovanni is the founder, in 1987, of the Vanderbilt Doctors' "Rotisserie League" (Fantasy Baseball) League, which just completed its 20th season. Dr. DiGiovanni is certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. He lives in Franklin with his wife Angela, also a Vanderbilt Medical School graduate (and pediatrician), and their four children, twins Domenic and Emilia (14), Gianluca (7), and Gabriele (5).

Dr. Angela Byrd-Gloster earned her medical degree from the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. She also completed her residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of South Florida. During her final year of residency Dr. Byrd-Gloster functioned as a Fellow in Oncologic Surgical Pathology at Moffit Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida. Following residency, she served in the United States Navy as a Staff Pathologist at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina and National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. During these tours of duty she also performed many collateral duties including Head of Clinical Laboratory, Chair of Tissue and Transfusion Committee and Pathology Liaison for Multidisciplinary Breast Tumor Board. For the outstanding performance of these duties she received the Navy Achievement Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal. Dr. Byrd-Gloster is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology.

Dr. Brian Carlson received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. His residency was at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. Dr. Carlson began with Pathologists' Laboratory, PC in 1982. Dr. Carlson is certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology.

Dr. Westermeier attended Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York before attending medical school at the Faculte de Medecine de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France. While in high school, Dr. Westermeier received the National Merit Scholar award; in medical school he received the “Mention Internationale” which is the highest possible award in France for medical school theses. Dr. Westermeier did his pathology internship and residency at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco, California. He is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology by the College of American Pathologists.