Carolyn Glass
Associate Professor of PathologyOverview
Cardiothoracic Pathologist and Physician-Scientist
Division Chief, Cardiovascular Pathology
Co-Director, Division of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Pathology
Associate Director, Residency Program
Director, Duke University Hospital Autopsy Service
Dr. Glass completed medical residency in Anatomic Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School followed by fellowships in Cardiothoracic Pathology also at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Pulmonary/Cardiac Transplant Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Glass initially trained as a vascular surgeon with a focus on endovascular/interventional procedures through the 0+5 Integrated Vascular Surgery Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center from 2007-2011. As a recipient of the NIH National Lung Blood Institute T32 Ruth Kirschstein National Service Research Award, she completed a Ph.D with a concentration in Genomics and Epigenetics in 2014.
Dr. Glass serves as P.I. of multiple NIH grants, including U54 and SBIR. As a thoracic pathologist, Dr. Glass also has a special interest in identifying new epigenetic biomarkers that may predict response or resistance to conventional, targeted and immune therapy using computational techniques. She works closely with the Duke Thoracic Oncology Group, DCI Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Duke Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgery and Pratt School of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Glass is the recipient of the Society of Cardiovascular Pathology (SCVP) Young Investigator’s Award, the William von Liebig Vascular Biology Research Fellowship at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine, the Duke Pathology Salvatore V. Pizzo Faculty Research Mentor Award, the Duke Department of Pathology Early Career Research Achievement Award and is author of over 90 publications (including book chapters in the recent W.H.O. Classification Tumours of the Lung, Pleura, Thymus and Heart) and 50 national presentations in cardiovascular disease, thoracic malignancies, surgery and machine learning.
In addition to her clinical and research activities, Dr. Glass serves on the Executive/National Committees for the Society of Cardiovascular Pathology, College of American Pathology Artificial Intelligence Committee and the Duke School of Medicine Executive Admissions Committee.
Positions
Associate Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine
2022 School of Medicine
Assistant Professor in Surgery in the School of Medicine
2023 School of Medicine
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute in the School of Medicine
2022 School of Medicine
Education
M.D. 2007
2007 University of Texas Medical Branch, School of Medicine
Resident Physician, Vascular Surgery, DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY
2011 University of Rochester
Resident Physician, Anatomic Pathology, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
2016 Brigham and Women's Hospital
Cardiothoracic Pathology Fellow, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
2017 Brigham and Women's Hospital
Thoracic Pathology Fellow
2018 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Medical School
Publications, Grants & Awards
Offices & Contact
Durham, NC
27710