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Bio

Rachel Hudacko is an associate professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She completed her undergraduate education at the Stevens Institute of Technology and her medical education at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She then completed a postgraduate residency at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and fellowships at the New York University School of Medicine and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Her areas of interest include gastrointestinal, hepatic, pancreatic pathology, and cytopathology.

Hospital Affiliations

  • Jersey City Medical Center - Jersey City, NJ
  • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - New Brunswick, NJ
  • Newark Beth Israel Medical Center - Newark, NJ

Licensure

  • State of New Jersey

Certification

  • Board certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Cytopathology

Publications

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  • Kamrani K, Cutler J, Austin C, Hudacko R, and Bhattacharyya N. “Adenomyoma causing gastric outlet obstruction”. Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 42 (2019): 51-53.
     
  • Hudacko, R, Siegel L. “Acute gastrointestinal bleeding in olmesartan-associated collagenous gastroduodenitis: a potential endoscopic complication”. Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine; 2018 Mar 14;2018:3295204.
     
  • Hudacko R, Kaye P. “Sevelamer-associated Ischemic Colitis with Perforation”. Gastroenterology Insights 2015;6:6116.
     
  • Castro-Villabon D, Barrera-Herrera LE, Rodriguez-Urrego PA, Hudacko R, Vera, A, Alvarez J, Andrade R, Lopez R. “Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Both Fibrolamellar and Classical Components: An Unusual Morphological Pattern”. Case Reports in Pathology 2015; Article ID 609780:1-5.
     
  • Hudacko R, Zhou XK, Yantiss RK. “Immunohistochemical Stains for CD3 and CD8 Do Not Improve Detection of Gluten-sensitive Enteropathy in Duodenal Biopsies” Modern Pathology 2013;26:1241-1245.
     
  • Hudacko R, Varghese S, Fyfe B. “Pattern and Evolution of C4d Staining of Ischemic Myocardial Injury: Implications for the Interpretation of Post-transplant Endomyocardial Biopsies”. North American Journal of Medicine and Science 2012;5(2):64-70.
     
  • Hudacko R, Theise N. “Liver Biopsies in Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Beyond Grading and Staging”. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2011;135:1320-1328.
     
  • Hudacko R, Rapkiewicz A, Berman RS, Simsir A. “ALK-negative Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma Mimicking a Soft Tissue Sarcoma”. Journal of Cytology, 2011;28(4):230-233.
     
  • Jaworski J, Hudacko R, Fyfe B. “Amiodorone Steatohepatitis”. College of American Pathologists Autopsy Pathology Program, AUCD-B 2011.
     
  • Hudacko R, May M, Aviv H. “A New Translocation Between Chromosomes 6 and 9 Helps to Establish Diagnosis of Renal Oncocytoma” Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, 2011;15(4):278-281.
     
  • Hudacko RM, Alvarez GA, Talal AH, Jacobson I, Wan DW, Zhou XK, Yantiss RK. “Clinical and Biologic Importance of F-Actin Autoantibodies in HCV Mono-Infected and HCV/HIV Co-Infected Patients” American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2010;134:228-234.
     
  • Hudacko R, Fyfe B, Mehra A, Moreyra A. “Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: Pathologic Insights from a Fatal Case” Internet Journal of Cardiology, 2010;8(1).
     
  • Hudacko RM, Sciancalepore JP, Fyfe B. “Diabetic microangiopathy in the liver: An autopsy study of incidence and association with other diabetic complications” American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2009;132:494-9.
     
  • Hudacko R, Aviv H, Langenfeld J, Fyfe B. “Thymolipoma: clues to pathogenesis revealed by cytogenetics” Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, 2009;13(3);185-8.
     
  • Nguyen C, Hudacko R, Theise N, Tabaee A. “Endoscopic management of cholesterol granuloma of the maxillary sinus” Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, 2009; 38(2):E69-72.
     
  • Hudacko RM, Manoukian AV, Schneider SH, Fyfe B. “Clinical resolution of glycogenic hepatopathy following improved glycemic control” Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications 2008;22:329-30.
     
  • Hudacko R, Falzon A. “Identifying injuries associated with air bag deployment” Forensic Pathology ASCP NO. FP 08-10 (FP-341) 2008;50;10:113-25.
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