Dr. Rand is originally from Lake Placid, N.Y. After obtaining her B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Vermont, she received her M.D. from SUNY-Upstate in Syracuse and went on to do residency training at Albany Medical Center.

Dr. Rand is fellowship trained and subspecialty board certified in hematopathology, but also has experience in signing out a broad variety of different specialties and her interests include breast, dermatopathology, gynecologic, thyroid, prostate, gastrointestinal pathology, cytology, and hematopathology.

She also enjoys teaching and sharing her enthusiasm for pathology with residents and medical students at Albany Medical College.

Selected publications:

Yevgeniy Linnik, Janne Rand, Prabhjot Kaur, Xiaoying Liu. Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma diagnosed in random duodenal biopsies. A case report and a literature review. Virchows Archiv. September 2017, Volume 471, Issue 3, pp 429-431.

Janne V. Rand, Prabhjot Kaur. Forgotten value of the rapid, inexpensive and lineage specific Myeloperoxidase cytochemical stain in urgent clinical scenarios. American Journal of Hematology. 2016 Aug;91(8):856-7.

Janne V Rand M.D., Ashley J Tarasen M.D., Suzanne M Homan M.D. PhD, Jessica Kumar M.D., Ellis Tobin M.D. Intracytoplasmic granulocytic morulae counts on confirmed cases of Anaplasmosis in the Northeast. Albany Medical College, Albany, NY. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 141, Issue 5, May 2014, Pages 683-686.

Stavrakis C, Rand J, Fabian T, Fantauzzi J. Thymic carcinoma. Appl Radiol. 2016;45(2):38-40.
Pooja Kadam, Janne Rand, Peter Rady, Stephen Tyring, Jan Stehlik, Monica Sedivcova, Dmitry V. Kazakov, Kathy Ray, Jerome Hill, Richard Agag, J. Andrew Carlson. Adolescent Onset of Localized Papillomatosis, Lymphedema, and Multiple Beta-Papillomavirus Infection: Epidermal Nevus, Segmental Lymphedema Praecox, or Verrucosis? A Case Report and Case Series of Epidermal Nevi. Departments of Pathology and Plastic surgery, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY. Departments of Dermatology, Microbiology/Medical Genetics, and Internal Medicine University of Texas Health Science Center. Capital District Dermatology, Glenmont, NY. Department of Pathology, Medical Faculty in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
(Published in the American Journal of Dermatopathology).

JS Ross, K Wang, JV Rand, CE Sheehan, TA Jennings, RN Al-Rohil, GA Otto, J Curran, G Palmer, SR Downing, R Yelensky, D Lipson, S Balasubramanian, L Garcia, K Mahoney, SM Ali, VA Miller, PJ Stephens. Comprehensive genomic profiling of relapsed and metastatic adenoid cystic carcinomas by next generation sequencing reveals potential new routes to targeted therapies. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA. (Published in the American Journal of Surgical Pathology).