Ira Jay Bleiweiss

Ira Jay Bleiweiss, M.D. is a Professor of Anatomic Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He is director of the Breast Pathology subspecialty service at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980. He received his medical degree from St. Georges University School of Medicine Grenada, West Indies, in 1984. He completed his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and fellowship in Surgical Pathology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center from 1984 to 1989. After fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1989 to 1990, Dr. Bleiweiss returned to Mount Sinai, Department of Pathology to become Professor, Director of Surgical Pathology and Director of Anatomic Pathology. With more than 25 years of experience he oversees a completely subspecialized service dedicated to diagnosing breast lesions in specimens from hospital, as well as private practice outpatient settings. He is well-known nationally and internationally for his expertise in breast pathology and is the author of more than 100 peer reviewed publications, largely related to breast cancer, many in the area of radiologic-pathologic correlation of image-guided breast core biopsies, a subject on which he co-authored a textbook. His focus is distinctly multidisciplinary, and he is a past President of the International Society of Breast Pathology.