The Texas Society of Cytology

2009 Officers

Dr. M. H. Saboorian
President

Dr. Joseph Sailors
Secretary

Steffanie Holman, CT
Treasurer
Dr. M. H. Saboorian is a
graduate of University of
Hamburg, West Germany. He
completed his residency at the
University of Cincinnati followed
by a fellowship at the MD
Anderson Center were he
subsequently practiced within
the Cytopathology Division.  He
is board certified in  anatomic
and clinical pathology, as well as
cytopathology. He was a
professor of pathology  at the
UT Southwestern Medical
Center.  He was named  “Best
Doctors in America’ for the year
2007-2008. He is currently  
employed at Caris Pathology in
Irving, Texas.
Dr. Joseph Sailors received his M.D.
from Wayne State University in
Detroit, Michigan and served one year
as an Internal Medicine resident at
Case Western Reserve.  Subsequently
he completed an Anatomic and Clinical
Pathology residency at another Case
Western Reserve facility, MetroHealth
Medical Center.  He then had an
interlude of basic science research
followed by a fellowship in Surgical
Pathology at Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center.  Next was a fellowship in
Cytopathology at UT Southwestern.  
He remains in his first position at UT
Southwestern as an Assistant
Professor in Pathology.  He currently
focuses exclusively in Cytopathology.  
His undergraduate degree from The
University of Michigan was a B.S. in
Chemistry with a second major and
honors in Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Steffanie Holman is a
registered cytotechnologist
who graduated from the
University of North Texas with
a Bachelor’s degree in
Cytotechnology in 1993.  She
was instructed in the science
of cytotechnology at DPA
Laboratories in Dallas, Texas.  
Steffanie is a native Dallasite
and has been employed at
several labs and hospitals in
the metroplex over the past
15 years.  She has had the
good fortune to have been
exposed to FNA procedures,
ThinPrep with Imaging, Image
Analysis of IHC biomarkers and
FISH probes, and quality
management.  Steffanie is a
certified green belt in Lean/Six
Sigma, is strong proponent of
a streamlined, efficient, work
environment , and thoroughly
enjoys facilitating improvement
projects in the laboratory
and.  Steffanie is currently
employed at Presbyterian
Hospital of Dallas.