Darren Wheeler, M.D.

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Dr. Darren Wheeler is a pathologist serving Las Vegas and the surrounding communities at Quest Diagnostics. 

Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes.  Derived from the world’s largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management.  Quest annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States. 

Dr. Wheeler received his medical degree and completed his residency in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle and completed a fellowship in Gynecologic Pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.  Before joining Quest Diagnostics in Las Vegas, he served two years as a consultant for the Gynecologic and Breast Pathology Department at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Wheeler received the Joint Service Commendation Medal for his work at the AFIP in 2004 and was the recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists in 2006.  He served on the editorial board of the Advances in Anatomic Pathology Journal and currently serves on multiple speaker bureaus for women’s health pathology related topics including cervical cancer screening, cancer genomics in solid tumors, and genetic testing of breast cancer.  He continues to perform subspecialty consultation for Quest Diagnostics in Gynecologic and Breast Pathology in Las Vegas Nevada and serves as the West and Southeast South Regional Medical Director of Anatomic Pathology for Quest Diagnostics and AmeriPath.

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