Richard Levenson

About Richard Levenson

“There seems to be a crisis of confidence in pathology. Fewer and fewer medical students are choosing it for their residency training, and medical school curricula have relegated pathology to a sort of adjunctive contributor to the education process,” says Richard Levenson, Professor and Vice Chair for Strategic Technologies in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UC Davis Health. “We need to change pathology’s role in both education and the entire clinical domain to resurrect it.” Richard has been instrumental in the development of Microscopic Ultraviolet Sectioning Excitation (MUSE), which eliminates the need for conventional tissue processing.