Dr. Zhou received his MD/PhD degree from the Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, and he completed his anatomic and clinical pathology residency at Houston Methodist Hospital (HMH) in 2015. Dr. Zhou then joined Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Pathology after completing a cytopathology fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2016. He joined HMH as a staff pathologist in 2018. Dr. Zhou is a cytopathologist and a general surgical pathologist with subspecialty interests in pulmonary pathology and genitourinary pathology. He is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and cytopathology by the American Board of Pathology.

Dr. Zhou is a member of the College of American Pathologists, the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the American Society of Cytopathology, the Texas Society of Pathologists and the Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists. Dr. Zhou is a section editor of pulmonary pathology for the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Dr. Zhou’s research focuses on the evaluation of biomarkers of fluid malignancies, fine needle aspiration, pulmonary and genitourinary pathology. His research is funded by grants from HMH and the HMH Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine.