Penn Medicine Provider
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emma Elizabeth Furth, MD
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP

About me

  • Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Received the Penn Medicine Award of Excellence, 2006

Recognized by Best Doctors in America 2011, 2012, 2015 - 2018

My areas of clinical expertise include pathology, gastrointestinal and pancreas and liver diseases, and immunohistochemistry.

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Chicago
  • Residency: Rush University Medical Center
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Furth is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Krasinskas AM, Abraham SC, Metz DC, Furth EE Oxyntic mucosa pseudopolyps: A presentation of atrophic autoimmune gastritis. , American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 27(2): 2003,236-41


Gibson SL, Dai CY, Lee HW, DePinho RA, Gee MS, Lee WMF, Furth EE, Brensinger C, and Enders GH Inhibition of colon tumor progression and angiongenesis by the Ink4a/Arf Locus. , Cancer Research , 63: 2003,742-746


Raper SE, Yudkoff M, Chirmule N., Gao GP, Nunes F, Haskal ZJ, Furth EE, Propert KJ, Robinson MB, Magosin S, Simoes H, Speicher L, Hughes J, Tazelarr J, Wivel NA, Wilson Jm, Batshaw ML A pilot study of in vivo liver-directed gene transfer with an adenoviral vector impartial ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. , Human Gene Therapy , 13(1): 2002,163-75


Kreisel D, Petrowsky H., Krasinskas AM, Krupnick AS, Szeto WY, McLean AD, Popma SH, Gelman AE, Traum MK, Furth EE, Moore JS, Rosengard BR The role of passenger leukocyte genotype in rejection and acceptance of rat liver allografts. , Transplantation, 73(9): 2002,1501-7


Ahmad NA, Kochman ML, Long WB, Furth EE, Ginsberg GG Efficacy, safety and clinical outcomes of endoscopic mucosal resection: a study of 101 cases. , Gastrointestinal Endoscopy , 55(3): 2002,390-6


Abraham SC, Lee JH, Boitnott JK, Argani P, Furth EE, Wut TT Microsattelite instability in intraductal papillary neoplasms of the biliary tract. , Mod Pathol, 15(12): 2002,1309-17


Furth EE Gastrointestinal system. , Endocrine pathology, W(9): 2002,237-241


Pui JC, Furth EE, Minda J and Montone KT Detection of Varicella-Zoster in the smooth muscle and myenteric plexi of the colon in HIV-positive patient with herpes zoster and small bowel pseudo-obstruction. , American Journal of Gastroenterology , 96(5): 2001,1627-30


Krasinskas AM, Ruchelli ED, Rand EB, Chittams JL and Furth EE Central Venulitis in pediatric liver allografts. , Hepatology, 33(5): 2001,1141-1147


Yu GH, Nayar R, and Furth EE Adenocarcinoma in colonic brushing cytology: High-grade dysplasia as a diagnostic pitfall. , Diagn Cytopathol, 24: 2001,364-368