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United States

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Expert Neuropathologist for Research or Legal Consultation

Profile Summary

I am a Neuropathologist , a surgical pathologist with expertise in Neuropathology, with a focus on brain tumor diagnosis and research (basic and clinical). I have 15 years of diagnostic experience and enjoy participating in experimental and clinical planning, as well as providing legal assistance in the realm of brain lesion and muscle/nerve biopsy matters. I am currently the Director of Neuropathology for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. My hourly fee varies based on the type of employment.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Neuropathology

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Newswriting

Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Gap Analysis, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Product Development Product Evaluation

Work Experience

Associate Professor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

July 2020 - Present

Assistant Professor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

September 2010 - Present

Instructor in Neuropathology

Stanford University Hospital

July 2009 - July 2010

Fellow in Neuropathology

Stanford University Hospital

July 2007 - June 2009

Education

Medical Degree (MD)

University of Michigan

June 1999 - May 2005

MS

University of Michigan

June 2001 - May 2003

A.B.

Stanford University

August 1994 - June 1998

Certifications

• Anatomic and Neuropathology

  American Board of Pathology

  September 2010 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2021). Histological Studies of the Ventricular-Subventricular Zone as Neural Stem Cell and Glioma Stem Cell Niche . The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society.

(2021). Impact of postoperative dexamethasone on survival, steroid dependency, and infections in newly diagnosed glioblastoma patients . Neuro-oncology practice.

(2020). Prognostic relevance of CSF and peri-tumoral edema volumes in glioblastoma . Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia.

(2020). Sustained response to erlotinib and rapamycin in a patient with pediatric anaplastic oligodendroglioma . Pediatric blood & cancer.

(2020). Unsupervised machine learning reveals risk stratifying glioblastoma tumor cells . eLife.

(2020). Pituitary Apoplexy During Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation . Clinical lymphoma, myeloma & leukemia.

(2020). Targeting MYCN-expressing triple-negative breast cancer with BET and MEK inhibitors . Science translational medicine.

(2020). Mutation Status and Epithelial Differentiation Stratify Recurrence Risk in Chordoid Meningioma-A Multicenter Study with High Prognostic Relevance . Cancers.

(2019). A case report of clonal EBV-like memory CD4⁺ T cell activation in fatal checkpoint inhibitor-induced encephalitis . Nature medicine.

(2019). Magnetic Resonance Imaging characteristics in case of TOR1AIP1 muscular dystrophy . Clinical imaging.

(2019). Magnetic Resonance Imaging characteristics in case of TOR1AIP1 muscular dystrophy . Clinical imaging.

Gabrielle V Rushing, Asa A Brockman, Madelyn K Bollig, Nalin Leelatian, Bret C Mobley, Jonathan M Irish, Kevin C Ess, Cary Fu, Rebecca A Ihrie(2019). Location-dependent maintenance of intrinsic susceptibility to mTORC1-driven tumorigenesis . Life Science Alliance. 2. (2). p. e201800218. Life Science Alliance, {LLC}

(2019). Angiocentric glioma mimicking encephalomalacia . Radiology case reports.

(2019). Ventricular-Subventricular Zone Contact by Glioblastoma is Not Associated with Molecular Signatures in Bulk Tumor Data . Scientific reports.

(2017). Space Invaders: Brain Tumor Exploitation of the Stem Cell Niche . The American journal of pathology.

(2017). Space Invaders: Brain Tumor Exploitation of the Stem Cell Niche . The American journal of pathology.

(2016). Single cell analysis of human tissues and solid tumors with mass cytometry . Cytometry. Part B, Clinical cytometry.

(2016). Morphological and molecular features of astroblastoma, including BRAFV600E mutations, suggest an ontological relationship to other cortical-based gliomas of children and young adults . Neuro-oncology.

(2016). New Brain Tumor Entities Emerge from Molecular Classification of CNS-PNETs . Cell.

(2016). New Brain Tumor Entities Emerge from Molecular Classification of CNS-PNETs . Cell.

(2016). Autopsy-proven demyelination associated with infliximab treatment . Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation.

(2015). Valganciclovir and bevacizumab for recurrent glioblastoma: A single-institution experience . Molecular and clinical oncology.

(2015). A clinicopathologic study of diencephalic pediatric low-grade gliomas with BRAF V600 mutation . Acta neuropathologica.

(2015). Expression of MYCN in Multipotent Sympathoadrenal Progenitors Induces Proliferation and Neural Differentiation, but Is Not Sufficient for Tumorigenesis . PloS one.

(2015). Papillary tumor of the pineal region with synchronous suprasellar focus and novel cytogenetic features . Human pathology.

(2015). Diagnostic utility of PHOX2B in primary and treated neuroblastoma and in neuroblastoma metastatic to the bone marrow . Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine.

(2013). LC3 and p62 as diagnostic markers of drug-induced autophagic vacuolar cardiomyopathy: a study of 3 cases . The American journal of surgical pathology.

(2012). The index case for the fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States . The New England journal of medicine.

(2012). Fatal antimalarial-induced cardiomyopathy: report of 2 cases . Journal of clinical rheumatology : practical reports on rheumatic & musculoskeletal diseases.

(2012). Cell of origin determines tumor phenotype in an oncogenic Ras/p53 knockout transgenic model of high-grade glioma . Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology.

(2011). Pediatric cerebellar pilomyxoid-spectrum astrocytomas . Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics.

(2010). Loss of SMARCB1/INI1 expression in poorly differentiated chordomas . Acta neuropathologica.

(2009). A novel homozygous SCO2 mutation, p.G193S, causing fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy . Clinical neuropathology.

(2006). Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor/Ewing's sarcoma of the craniospinal vault: case reports and review . Human pathology.