Somak Roy

Somak Roy, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). He serves as the Director of Molecular Pathology in the Division of Pathology at CCHMC. Dr. Roy is a board-certified molecular pathology and clinical informatics. In his prior role he served as the Director of Molecular Informatics, Genetics Services, and MGP fellowship program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). His clinical and translational work focuses on the following; 1) Use of modern computational infrastructure and innovative software technology for high-throughput sequence analysis, genomic data visualization, and optimizing molecular laboratory workflow. 2) Development of clinical molecular tests for cancer genomics using high throughput sequencing technologies with emphasis on pediatric and young adult tumors. Since 2014, he has been a member of the Informatics Subdivision in the Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP). He is currently the Chair of the program committee for the 2025 AMP annual meeting. Dr. Roy has been and is currently involved in several national working groups related to molecular diagnostics, informatics, and bioinformatics. He has also served in various committees in AMP. Dr. Roy completed medical school training at Seth G.S Medical College, Mumbai, followed by pathology residency training at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. Upon arrival to the United States, he completed an anatomic pathology residency from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and fellowships in Molecular and Genitourinary Pathology from the same institution.

Somak Roy, M.D.