OUR DOCTORS

Ricardo Alessio, M.D.
Ricardo Alessio, MD, graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and cared for patients as a primary care internist for six years before shifting to Laboratory Medicine. His Pathology training took place at Henry Ford Hospital. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and both Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. Outside of the world of medicine, he enjoys reading, music and playing with his grandson.

Craig Cousineau, D.O.
Dr. Craig Cousineau, D.O. Craig Cousineau, DO, MPH, graduated from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2015. He then completed residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Beaumont Health in Royal Oak Michigan, followed by a cytopathology fellowship at the University of Michigan. He is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Cytopathology. He also serves as the Blood Bank section chief in the Department of Pathology at Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield campus. His special interests include breast, CNS, and gynecologic pathology as well as clinical chemistry. Outside of work Craig enjoys spending time with his wife and son, cooking, golfing, and occasionally lacing up the skates for rec hockey. 

Juanita Evans MD, FCAP
Dr. Juanita Evans MD, FCAP, graduated from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Afterwards, she completed residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center followed by a hematopathology fellowship at the same institution. She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Hematology. She serves as the section chief of Hematopathology and Coagulation in the Department of Pathology at Ascension Providence Southfield and Novi campuses as well as laboratory medical director for Ascension Providence Novi. Her special interests include hematopathology, coagulation, molecular diagnostic integration and teaching. She also serves within the College of American Pathology including roles with the New in Practice and Practice Management Committees.

Hema Govil, M.D.
Dr. Hema Govil, M.D. received her medical degree, and then a pathology degree, from Bombay University in India. After relocating to the United Staes, Dr. Govil completed her pathology residency in 2003 at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, followed by a one year fellowship in Cytopathology at Loyola University Medical Center. She has been practicing pathology in Michigan since 2004. Dr. Govil is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Cytopathology. Dr. Govil leads the immunohistochemistry section in the Department of Pathology at Ascension Providence-Providence Park Hospital, Southfield Campus.

Dr. Esperanza B. Kintanar, M.D.
Dr. Esperanza B. Kintanar, MD, graduated from the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center in the Philippines in 1979. After relocating to the United States, she started as a Research Assistant in Cardiac Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She then pursued Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency which she completed in 1988 at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her family moved to Michigan, where she completed consecutive one-year fellowships in Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology at Henry Ford Hospital. She is American Board certified in Anatomic Pathology and Cytopathology. She was a Cytopathologist, Lecturer in Pathology at University of Michigan, University Hospital. She subsequently focused her practice of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology in Saginaw and Grand Rapids, Michigan before moving back to Metro Detroit. She has been with Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital since 2011 and currently oversees the Divisions of Surgical Pathology and Cytology. Her interests are gynecologic, gastrointestinal and genitourinary pathology.

Tripti Kumar, D.O.
Dr. Tripti Kumar, D.O., graduated from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She then completed an anatomic and clinical pathology residency at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI where she also stayed on for a hematopathology fellowship. She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology as well as Hematopathology. Additionally, she has interests in medical kidney pathology and further pursued a one year renal pathology fellowship at the University of Chicago Medicine. She enjoys traveling, trying new cuisines, spending time with family, and playing tennis. 

Timothy Mervak, M.D.
Dr. Timothy Mervak M.D., is Chairman of Department of Pathology, Ascension Providence-Providence Park hospitals, Southfield and Novi Campuses, and laboratory Medical Director of the Southfield campus. He is a native of Detroit, graduated from Hope College in Holland, MI, in 1978. He then attended Wayne State University School of Medicine, graduating in 1982. His internship and residency were at the University Of Michigan School Of Medicine in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, completed in 1986. He then completed a one year fellowship in Surgical Pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He is board certified in both Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (1986), and Transfusion Medicine (1999). He has been a practicing Pathologist at Providence Hospital since 1987, and Providence Park Hospital since inception, and serves as Medical Director of the Blood Banks at both hospitals, and Assistant Chairman of the Providence Department of Pathology. He has an interest in gastro-intestinal and pulmonary pathology, and has participated in the Providence Lung Cancer Working Group since 1990. He is a Past President of the Michigan Association of Blood Banks, and is currently a Board member of the Southeastern Michigan American Red Cross, where he serves as Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee.

Farooq Minhas, M.D.
Dr. Farooq Minhas, M.D. graduated from the King Edward Medical College in 1982 in Pakistan. After relocating to the United States, Dr. Minhas completed his residency at Wayne State University - Detroit Medical Center and continued onto his fellowship at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Minhas primarily specializes in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology with a secondary specialty in Cytopathology. Dr. Minhas is certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology as well as Cytopathology. He is the Chairman and Medical Director of Pathology at Ascension Providence, Rochester campus, and also serves as Section Chief of Cytology in the Department of Pathology at Ascension Providence-Providence Park Hospitals, Southfield and Novi campuses. Dr. Minhas is the President of Michigan Diagnostic Pathologists.

Jonathan Mowers, M.D.
Dr. Jonathan Mowers, M.D. Dr. Jonathan Mowers, MD, graduated from the University of Michigan with an MD and Ph.D in physiology.  He continued his training at the University of Michigan completing his pathology residency as well as fellowship training in gastrointestinal pathology and molecular genetic pathology (especially fluorescence in situ hybridization, single gene assays, and next generation sequencing). His additional professional interests also include teaching and resident/fellow professional development. Outside of work, Jon spends time with his wife and children at parks in the Ann Arbor area, enjoys sporting events and strategic board games with friends, and working out (although he has mostly hung up his skates and cleats).

Artur Zembowicz, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Artur Zembowicz, M.D., Ph.D. is the Principal Consultant and Founder of DermatopathologyConsultations.com and Dermpedia.org. He is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Tufts Medical School and a Senior Dermatopathology Consultant at Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA. He received his M.D. and Ph.D (Pharmacology) degrees from Copernicus Academy of Medicine In Cracow, Poland. His basic research involved inflammation and vascular biology and included training in the laboratory of Sir John R. Vane, FRS, a Nobel Prize Laureate, in London, UK. He trained in Anatomic Pathology at the Brigham Women's Hospital in Boston. At the Brigham, he studied dermatopathology with Dr. Raymond Barnhill and Dr. Phillip McKee and, after completing the Harvard Dermatopathology Fellowship in 1999, joined Dr. Martin C. Mihm's consultation practice. Between 2000 and 2007 he served as an Attending Physician on the Dermatopathology, Head and Neck Pathology (with Dr. Ben Z. Pilch, M.D.) and Ophthalmic Pathology (with Dr. Thaddeus Dryja, M.D. and Frederic Jacobiec, M.D.) Services at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston. He was also a Director of Harvard Dermatopathology Update CME Course.

Dr. Zembowicz's research contributions include papers on melanocytic tumors, adnexal tumors and inflammation. Dr. Zembowicz has recently joined Michigan Diagnostic Pathologists as a speciality consultant.