Sara O. Vargas

Sara O. Vargas is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and a practicing pediatric pathologist at Boston Children's Hospital. She holds an MD from University of Vermont College of Medicine and completed fellowships in Pediatric Pathology and Anatomic/Clinical Pathology.

• Harvard University (Undergraduate)
• University of Vermont College of Medicine (Medical School)
• Boston Children's Hospital (Pediatric Pathology Fellowship)
• Brigham and Women's Hospital (Anatomic/Clinical Pathology Fellowship)

Her research focuses on pediatric pulmonary pathology, interstitial lung disease, and genetic determinants of congenital disorders. She has contributed extensively to understanding pulmonary hypertension mechanisms and imaging protocols for developmental lung conditions.

Her recent publications address topics like genetic variants in interstitial lung disease, vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension, and multiomic analyses of sudden infant death. She serves as Director of Quality and Patient Safety in the Department of Pathology, which processes over 12,000 surgical pathology cases annually.

Dr. Vargas specializes in the intersection of pathology, radiology, and clinical genetics, with particular expertise in:

• Pediatric pulmonary hypertension
• Congenital lung malformations
• Genetic lung disease
• Post-transplant pathology
• Interstitial lung disease
• Pediatric oncologic pathology