Background
Dr. Michael Kashgarian earned his medical degree from Yale University. He also completed his pathology residency and laboratory medicine fellowship at Yale, where he currently serves as a professor and senior research scientist.
Dr. Kashgarian remains board certified in medicolegal pathology and anatomic and clinical pathology. He is an authority on the diagnosis of asbestos-related disease. This diagnosis determines the legal standing of individuals who fight to receive financial compensation for the disease they developed from working for a shipyard, factory, or other industry.
Dr. Michael Kashgarian has studied thoracic cancer pathology and has helped find new surgical techniques and drugs that can be used with radiation therapy to treat asbestos-related cancers.
Research on Asbestos-Related Disease
For a long time, Dr. Kashgarian has studied and researched mesothelioma. He has actively contributed articles to peer-reviewed medical journals and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Yale Medicine.
In his research, Dr. Michael Kashgarian has studied thoracic cancer pathology and has helped find new surgical techniques and drugs that can be used with radiation therapy to treat asbestos-related cancers.