Robert P Seifert, MD

Board-certified in anatomic/clinical pathology and hematopathology, Bob Seifert, M.D., graduated from the University of Florida College of Medicine and later completed an anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He then returned to the University of Florida for his hematopathology fellowship.

After completion of his graduate medical education, Bob joined as faculty at the University of Florida. Bob directs the Hematopathology Fellowship Program at UF and is unit director for Hematopathology. He has previously served as section medical director of the Shands Histology lab.

Bob was a 2021 American Society for Clinical Pathology 40 Under Forty honoree – a recognition given to the top forty pathologists and laboratory professionals under the age of forty.

I am a board-certified Anatomic and Clinical Pathologist with subspecialty fellowship training and board certification in Hematopathology. As a hematopathologist my primary clinical role is to render diagnoses on tissue samples from patients with known or suspected lymphoma or leukemia. I evaluate specimens by examining slides under the microscope in addition to flow cytometric analysis of cell characteristics, immunohistochemical studies and special stains. I also correlate these findings with cytogenetic, FISH and molecular testing data performed in our other clinical labs. Specimens on which I render a diagnosis include blood, bone marrow aspirate/biopsy, mass biopsy/FNA, CSF, and fluid/effusions. Our patients are typically medically complex, undergoing multi-agent chemotherapy with multiple co-morbidities including bone marrow transplant. My diagnoses support the work of our pediatric and adult bone marrow transplant services, the latter being one of sixteen centers in the NHLBI/NCI Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network.