Dr. Ravindra Kolhe

Ravindra Kolhe is a Professor and Leon Henri Charbonnier Endowed Chair of Pathology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. He is also the inaugural Associate Dean for Translation Research at the Medical College of Georgia. He serves as the Associate Cancer Center Director for Genomics at the Georgia Cancer Center. Currently, he leads an NCI-designated translational pathology laboratory for MATCH testing, which is focused on comprehensive genomic testing in oncology. He co-founded a consortium (SEQUOIA) of over 40+ clinical laboratories across the globe for the democratization of NGS testing in oncology and successfully helped multiple labs bring NGS testing in-house. He has led several studies focused on adapting and validating newer technologies (NGS, RNA-seq, OGM, etc.) in CLIA laboratories by establishing PLA, Z-codes, GAP filing, and reimbursement. He has an h-Index of 28, and his papers have been cited more than 2400 times (Scopus, 1 November 2023).