
Megan Nakashima
MD, FCAP
Medicine
Pathology
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Megan O. Nakashima, MD, is a Staff hematopathologist and Hematopathology Fellowship Director at the Cleveland Clinic Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute. Dr. Nakashima received her undergraduate degree in Biology at Harvard University, followed by a medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a fellowship in Selective (Surgical) Pathology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University of Medicine. She first came to Cleveland Clinic in 2012 for a Hematopathology fellowship, then joined the staff in 2013. She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Hematopathology.
Within hematopathology, Dr. Nakashima specializes in diseases of blood and bone marrow. She also performs consultations on the hemostasis service and amyloid typing by mass spectrometry. Her research interests include plasma cell neoplasms and small B-cell lymphomas of the bone marrow, as well as quality and stewardship in laboratory hematology.