Swati Bhardwaj, MBBS, MD completed her medical school training from Vardhman Mahavir Medical
College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India. She completed her residency training in Pathology from
the same institute. She was awarded a Gold medal for excellence in her residency training. She is
currently a PGY-3 AP/CP resident at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. She is
interested in surgical pathology with special interest in Gynecologic and Genitourinary Pathology. She
will be pursuing a Genitourinary Pathology fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in the year 2024-25,
with plans to apply for a Gynecologic pathology fellowship for 2025-26. Her research interests include
translational oncologic research in these two specialties, in particular: endometrial cancers, ovarian
cancers, cervical and vulvar cancers in gynecologic pathology and renal and prostate cancers in
genitourinary pathology. She has a keen interest in education and actively volunteers for medical
student labs and teaching sessions at Mount Sinai. She is passionate about pathology and is also a CAP
Pathologists Pipeline Champion to improve medical student recruitment to Pathology. She actively
meets with and has discussions with the student interest group at Mount Sinai to promote interest in
Pathology. She has received multiple awards including First Prize at the CAP Abstract Program 2021,
Honorable mention for her abstract on the role of p16 in head and neck cancers at the USCAP 2022,
Proof of Concept award (2022) for funding her research at Mount Sinai Hospital, among others. She
aspires to be an accomplished academic pathologist with a balanced career involving clinical work,
research and education.
