51949-Hou, Tieying

Tieying Hou, M.D., PhD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Section Head of Head and Neck Pathology

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IU Health Pathology Laboratory
350 W 11th Street, Rm 4032
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Bio

Tieying Hou, MD, PhD is an AP/CP certified pathologist, serves as section head of head and neck pathology. Dr. Hou received her medical degree from Medical school of Qingdao Univ, completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology (AP) and Clinical Pathology (CP) at the University of Buffalo, where she served as Chief Resident in the last year.  She then advanced my training through fellowships in Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Dr. Hou is interested in head and neck pathology and cytopathology, particularly the application of fine needle aspiration in diagnosing thyroid, salivary gland and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. She has written more than 40 peer reviewed publications and has been invited to present at national and international conferences.

Key Publications

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Hou T, Lin X. Cytomorphology and clinicopathologic correlation of TFE3-rearranged renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Cytopathol 2025, 133 (2): e22933.

Bhatt AM, Mesa H, Chen S, Molden B, Hou T. FNA diagnosis of secondary malignancies in the parotid gland: over 20 years of experience from a single institute. J Am Soc Cytopathol 2025. Jan-Feb; 14(1):36-43.

Hou T, Collins K, Liang G, Segura SE, Ulbright TM, Mesa H, Cramer HM. Metastatic germ cell tumors in serous cavities and cerebrospinal fluid: A single-center experience. Cancer Cytopathol 2024 Sep;132(9):549-555.

Hou T, Yang Z, Zhang Q, Zhang X, Liao X, Lin J. Histology shift in esophageal cancer between biopsies and resections after neoadjuvant therapy: a pilot study. Int J Surg Pathol 2024 Aug; 32(5):920-925.

Tang Z, Li Z, Hou T, Zhang T, Yang B, Su J, Song Q. SiGra: single-cell spatial elucidation through an image-augmented graph transformer. Nat Commun 2023 Sep 12;14(1):5618.

Hou T, Levy DR, Ulbright TM. Morphologic changes in the thymus following chemotherapy for anterior mediastinal germ cell tumors. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2023. Jun 1;147(6):676-683.

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