The UAB Department of Pathology is thrilled to announce a new faculty member joining our team, effective June 1.
Emily Reisenbichler, M.D., is joining the Division of Anatomic Pathology as a professor. She joins us from St. Louis University where she served as a professor in the Department of Pathology since 2025. Prior to this, she held the role of associate professor from 2021 to 2025.
Reisenbichler earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 2007. She completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at UAB in 2011. Following residency, Reisenbichler completed a fellowship in breast pathology in 2012 and a fellowship in general surgical pathology in 2013 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She was later appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Since 2021, Reisenbichler has served as an editorial board member for Human Pathology Reports. She is currently an ad hoc reviewer for Modern Pathology, Journal of Clinical Pathology, Human Pathology, Breast Cancer Research, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Histopathology, Lab Medicine, Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology, Clinical Breast Cancer, and npj Breast Cancer.
Acting as director of the anatomic and clinical pathology residency program at St. Louis University from 2022 to 2024, Reisenbichler has taught surgical, breast, and introductory pathology to residents, fellows, and medical students since 2016. She is a member of several professional societies, such as the American Society for Clinical Pathology, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, and the College of American Pathologists. From 2023 to 2025, she was named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor, a peer-nominated recognition awarded to the top 7% of practicing physicians across the United States.
Reisenbichler has 35 peer reviewed articles, 6 invited review articles, and 13 book chapters, monographs, case reports, and electronic media. She has given 36 presentations and delivered 20 international and national talks.