Vandana Nilakhe, MD

Vandana Nilakhe, MD, has been a staff pathologist at Rush University Medical Center since 2010, and at Rush Copley Medical Center since 1999. She completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston and at the University of Illinois Metropolitan Group Hospitals in Chicago. Following residency, Nilakhe taught medical students at Loyola University Medical Center, in Maywood, Ill., and worked as a locum tenens pathologist at various hospitals in Illinois. Her primary interest is in general surgical pathology with special interests in breast, pulmonary, perinatal and gastrointestinal pathology. She is board certified in anatomic pathology and clinical pathology and is a member of College of American Pathology, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, American Society of Clinical Pathology and American Medical Association.