Mohammed Lilo, MD a Pathologist with South Texas Dermatopathology

Get to know Pathologist Dr. Mohammed Lilo, who serves patients in San Antonio, Texas.

A consummate professional with extensive training in the field of pathology, Dr. Lilo works at South Texas Dermatopathology. 

Since its beginning in 1983, South Texas Dermatopathology has been dedicated to maintaining the utmost care in the diagnosis of skin disease. It adheres to the highest standards, while providing unsurpassed services to physicians and their patients. Its fully certified laboratory staff, using carefully prescribed procedures, the most modern equipment and a meticulous attention to detail, have always produced unparalleled quality slides, enabling their dermatopathologists to render a superior diagnosis, in addition to dermatopathology training to pathology and dermatology residents from UT Health San Antonio and Brooke Army Medical Center as part of their residency training. 

Prior to joining South Texas Dermatopathology, Dr. Lilo operated in a number of laboratory and teaching positions. He was an Assistant Professor of General Pathology at the University of Baghdad, where he was responsible for teaching third and fourth year medical students. He was also the Director of the Iraqi Red-Crescent Laboratories in Baghdad, and led laboratory workshops. Dr. Lilo also worked as a pathologist in a teaching hospital in Amman Jordan and held many conferences for interns and residents at Johns Hopkins Hospital, teaching alongside attending physicians.

Academically, Dr. Lilo received his medical degree from the University of Baghdad College of Medicine in Iraq, where he also served a two-year medical internship followed by a residency and  fellowship in surgical pathology. During this time, he was awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Academic Accomplishment. He then relocated to the United States for his postgraduate training, starting with a four-year anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore, Maryland. Here, he subsequently completed a fellowship in cytopathology and was awarded the Eggleston Pathology Award and the American Society of Cytopathology travel scholarship. He then went on to complete a fellowship in dermatopathology at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Subsequent to his education, the doctor attained board certification in dermatopathology, cytopathology & anatomic and clinical pathology through the American Board of Pathology (ABPath). The mission of the ABPath is to promote the health of the public and advance the practice and science of pathology by establishing voluntary certification standards and assessing the qualifications of those seeking to practice the specialty of pathology.

A Fellow of the American Society for Clinical Pathology and a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists, Dr. Lilo is a member of five other professional medical organizations.

Pathology is a branch of medical science that involves the study and diagnosis of disease through the examination of surgically removed organs, tissues, bodily fluids, and in some cases, the whole body. Pathologists are physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and management of diseases by laboratory methods.

On a more personal note, Dr. Lilo speaks English and Arabic.

Learn More about Dr. Mohammed Lilo:
Through his findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/82739413-Mohammed-Lilo-Pathologist or through South Texas Dermatopathology, https://www.auroradx.com/south-texas-dermatopathology/

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