Resident Publications

The Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology has a strong research faculty that is rapidly growing, with research and clinical faculty who are enthusiastically committed to mentoring interested residents. In addition to developing clinical expertise, residents are strongly encouraged to pursue methods development research projects or clinical, translational or basic science research projects during their residency training. Listed below are resident publications from the last five years.

2025

Fine Needle Aspiration of CD20-Negative Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Presenting as an Anterior Neck Mass

Connor Hartzell,Emily F Mason, Christopher O'Conor

Cytopathology. 2025 Mar;36(2):197-200. doi: 10.1111/cyt.13454. Epub 2024 Oct 22.

Diagnosis of TP53-mutated myeloid disease by the ICC and WHO fifth edition classifications 

Stephanie A Hart,Laura A Lee, Adam C Seegmiller, Emily F Mason

Blood Adv. 2025 Feb 11;9(3):445-454. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2024014140.

Price Variability of Eight Common Laboratory Tests across All Licensed Tennessee Hospitals 

Stephanie A Hart,Ayesha Khan, Garrett S Booth, Joesph R Wiencek J

Appl Lab Med. 2025 Feb 7:jfae167. doi: 10.1093/jalm/jfae167. Online ahead of print.

DEK :: AFF2 Fusion Sinonasal and Skull Base Nonkeratinizing Squamous Cell Carcinoma : A Clinical Outcome Study Compared With Conventional Sinonasal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Stephanie A Hart,Jen-Fan Hang, Rebecca D Chernock, Michael W Mikula, Lisa Rooper, Sara E Amin, Karan Saluja, Justin A Bishop, Yu Hsiu Chen, Nicole A Cipriani, Stephanie N David, William D Dupont, W Dale Plummer, Karen T Ferrer, Ariana Geromes, Min-Shu Hsieh, Juan C Hernandez-Prera, Ying-Ju Kuo, Eiichi Sasaki, Qiuying Shi, Tra Truong, Jaylou M Velez Torres, James S Lewis Jr Am J Surg Pathol.

2025 Feb 1;49(2):130-137. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000002335. Epub 2024 Dec 25.

Complete remission in a case of acute undifferentiated leukemia with novel combination therapy of FLAG-IDA and venetoclax 

Roma A Kankaria,Jeremy B Jones, Michael Zargari, Dylan Wrinn Alexander, Hannah Angle, Chelsie K Sievers, Sarah Profitt, Kateryna Fedorov, Claudio A Mosse, Somedeb Ball

Leuk Lymphoma. 2025 Feb;66(2):337-340. doi: 10.1080/10428194.2024.2416573. Epub 2024 Oct 16.

Coagulation abnormalities following brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa) envenomation: A description of 2 cases and review of the literature

Stephanie A Hart,David Gailani, Lorin A Bibb, Jeffrey P Zwerner, Garrett S Booth, Jeremy W Jacobs Am J Clin Pathol.

2025 Jan 30:aqaf001. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqaf001. Online ahead of print.

"Are my blood products coming?": Implementation of a novel blood product tracker in the electronic health record system 

Tina Chai,Connor Hartzell, Randy Winstead, Kirk Krokosky, Kaycie Atchison, Angela Mueller, Erika Hall, Jonathan P Wanderer, Jennifer Andrews

Transfusion. 2025 Jan;65(1):17-21. doi: 10.1111/trf.18089. Epub 2024 Dec 8.

2024

Complement C3d enables cell-mediated immunity capable of distinguishing spontaneously transformed from nontransformed cells

Jeffrey L Platt,Chong Zhao, Jeffrey Chicca, Matthew J Pianko, Joshua Han, Stephanie The, Arvind Rao, Evan T Keller, Mayara Garcia de Mattos Barbosa, Lwar Naing, Tracy Pasieka-Axenov, Lev Axenov, Simon Schaefer, Evan Farkash, Marilia Cascalho

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Dec 24;121(52):e2405824121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2405824121. Epub 2024 Dec 18

Low-Intensity Blast Exposure Induces Multifaceted Long-Lasting Anxiety-Related Behaviors in Mice

Heather R Siedhoff,Shanyan Chen, Ashley Balderrama, Dejun Jackson, Runting Li, Grace Y Sun, Ralph G DePalma, Jiankun Cui, Zezong Gu

Neurotrauma Rep. 2024 Dec 12;5(1):1195-1204. doi: 10.1089/neur.2024.0134. eCollection 2024.

Androgen signaling restricts glutaminolysis to drive sex-specific Th17 metabolism in allergic airway inflammation

Nowrin U Chowdhury,Jacqueline-Yvonne Cephus, Emely Henriquez Pilier, Melissa M Wolf, Matthew Z Madden, Shelby N Kuehnle, Kaitlin E McKernan, Erin Q Jennings, Emily N Arner, Darren R Heintzman, Channing Chi, Ayaka Sugiura, Matthew T Stier, Kelsey Voss, Xiang Ye, Kennedi Scales, Evan S Krystofiak, Vivek D Gandhi, Robert D Guzy, Katherine N Cahill, Anne I Sperling, R Stokes Peebles Jr, Jeffrey C Rathmell, Dawn C Newcomb

J Clin Invest. 2024 Oct 15;134(23):e177242. doi: 10.1172/JCI177242.

Subset-specific mitochondrial stress and DNA damage shape T cell responses to fever and inflammation

Darren R Heintzman,Rachael C Sinard, Emilie L Fisher, Xiang Ye, Andrew R Patterson, Joel H Elasy, Kelsey Voss, Channing Chi, Ayaka Sugiura, Gabriel J Rodriguez-Garcia, Nowrin U Chowdhury, Emily N Arner, Evan S Krystoviak, Frank M Mason, Yasmine T Toudji, KayLee K Steiner, Wasay Khan, Lana M Olson, Angela L Jones, Hanna S Hong, Lindsay Bass, Katherine L Beier, Wentao Deng, Costas A Lyssiotis, Dawn C Newcomb, Alexander G Bick, W Kimryn Rathmell, John T Wilson, Jeffrey C Rathmell

Sci Immunol. 2024 Sep 20;9(99):eadp3475. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adp3475. Epub 2024 Sep 20.

A Pregnant Patient with a Positive Hepatitis C Antibody

Jonathan J Tucci, Raeshun T Glover, Joesph R Wiencek

J Appl Lab Med. 2024 Sep 3;9(5):1084-1088. doi: 10.1093/jalm/jfae015.

Functional overlap of inborn errors of immunity and metabolism genes defines T cell metabolic vulnerabilities

Andrew R Patterson, Gabriel A Needle, Ayaka Sugiura, Erin Q Jennings, Channing Chi, KayLee K Steiner, Emilie L Fisher, Gabriella L Robertson, Caroline Bodnya, Janet G Markle, Ryan D Sheldon, Russell G Jones, Vivian Gama, Jeffrey C Rathmell

Sci Immunol. 2024 Aug 16;9(98):eadh0368. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adh0368. Epub 2024 Aug 16.

Common outpatient diagnoses and associated treatments logged by osteopathic medical students within a geriatric population

Hannah C Coulson, Miriam Brown, Kyle Burke, Emma Griffith, Victoria Shadiack, Harold R Garner, Jaime A Foushee

J Osteopath Med. 2024 Apr 22;124(8):337-344. doi: 10.1515/jom-2022-0251. eCollection 2024 Aug 1.

Industry payments to American Society of Hematology Clinical Practice Guideline

Jeremy W Jacobs, Garrett S Booth, Laura D Stephens, Brian D Adkins, Amarilis A Martin, George D Lundberg, Raeshun T Glover, Shazia S Khan, Julie K Silver, Jennifer S Woo

Blood Adv. 2024 Jul 9;8(13):3549-3552. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2023012527.

AL amyloidosis manifesting as a vertebral amyloidoma secondary to an unrecognized plasmacytoma expressing cyclin D1 case report

Jeremy B Jones, Nicolas Lopez-Hisijos, Richard A Berkman, Justin T Kelley

Int J Surg Case Rep. 2024 Aug:121:110000. doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2024.110000. Epub 2024 Jul 4.

Flow Cytometric Assessment of Malignant Hematologic Disorders

Connor M Hartzell, Aaron C Shaver, Emily F Mason

Clin Lab Med. 2024 Sep;44(3):465-477. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2024.04.008. Epub 2024 May 30.

Tennessee hospital noncompliance with price transparency legislation for 8 common laboratory tests

Stephanie A Hart, Ayesha Khan, Garrett S Booth, Joesph R Wiencek

Am J Clin Pathol. 2024 May 11:aqae057. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqae057. Online ahead of print.

Distinct bone marrow findings associated with a noncanonical UBA1 variant in VEXAS syndrome

Devin R Allison, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, Ashwin Kishtagari, Sanjay Mohan, Eli Steigelfest, Aaron C Shaver, Emily F Mason

Am J Hematol. 2024 Jul;99(7):1400-1402. doi: 10.1002/ajh.27320. Epub 2024 Apr 6.

Semiautomated approach focused on new genomic information results in time and effort-efficient reannotation of negative exome data

Alejandro Ferrer, Patrick Duffy, Rory J Olson, Michael A Meiners, Laura Schultz-Rogers, Erica L Macke, Stephanie Safgren, Joel A Morales-Rosado, Margot A Cousin, Gavin R Oliver, David Rider, Megan Williams, Pavel N Pichurin, David R Deyle, Eva Morava, Ralitza H Gavrilova, Radhika Dhamija, Klass J Wierenga, Brendan C Lanpher, Dusica Babovic-Vuksanovic, Charu Kaiwar, Carolyn R Vitek, Tammy M McAllister, Myra J Wick, Lisa A Schimmenti, Konstantinos N Lazaridis, Filippo Pinto E Vairo, Eric W Klee

Hum Genet. 2024 May;143(5):649-666. doi: 10.1007/s00439-024-02664-3. Epub 2024 Mar 27.

Association between hemoglobin values and VWF assays: a multicenter investigation

Jillian Simoneau, Cindy Tay, Allison Wheeler, Lauren Amos, Meghan McCormick, Yonairy Collado, Megan Brown, Angela C Weyand

Blood Adv. 2024 Mar 12;8(5):1152-1154. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2023011910.

Characterization of pediatric non-hematopoietic tumor metastases to the central nervous system: A single institution review

John Newman, Nalin Leelatian , Jiancong Liang 

J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2024 Mar 20;83(4):268-275. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlae012.

Gender composition and geographical representation of American Society of Hematology clinical practice guideline authors

Jeremy W Jacobs, Amarilis A Martin, Laura D Stephens, Brian D Adkins, Jennifer S Woo, Deva Sharma, Allison P Wheeler, Raeshun T Glover, Jennifer C Yui, Shannon C Walker, Shazia S Khan, Garrett S Booth, Julie K Silver

Lancet Haematol. 2024 Mar;11(3):e182-e183. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(24)00042-5.

Women physicians in academic pathology leadership

Miriam R Brown, Cindy Tay, Jeremy W Jacobs, Garrett S Booth

Am J Clin Pathol. 2024 Mar 1;161(3):305-310. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqad151.

Government Mandates Immediate Access to Cancer Test Results: Patient Empowerment or Secondary Harm?

Stephanie A Hart , Joe R Wiencek 

Clin Chem. 2024 Jan 4;70(1):353-354. doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvad153.

Placental Histopathologic Findings in Fetal Hereditary Pyropoikilocytosis after Undergoing Successful Intrauterine Transfusion

Anna Dar, Rachel Brancamp, Garrett S Booth, Caitlin E Hughes

Fetal Pediatr Pathol. 2024 May-Jun;43(3):273-275. doi: 10.1080/15513815.2023.2293739. Epub 2023 Dec 18.

Homozygous SPTA1-associated hereditary pyropoikilocytosis presenting as hydrops fetalis

Rachel Brancamp, Caitlin E Hughes, Anna Dar, Aleksandra Polic, Lisa C Zuckerwise, Garrett S Booth

Transfusion. 2024 Jan;64(1):189-193. doi: 10.1111/trf.17617. Epub 2023 Nov 29.

Sustainability in Laboratory Medicine

Raeshun T Glover, James Connelly, Alistair Gammie, Jane Kilcoyne, Tomris Ozben, Alicja Santos, Joesph R Wiencek

Clin Chem. 2023 Nov 2;69(11):1212-1219. doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvad156.

The healthcare price transparency illusion: does anyone know what laboratory tests cost?

Stephanie A Hart, Joesph R Wiencek, Garrett S Booth

J Pediatr. 2024 Jan:264:113755. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113755. Epub 2023 Sep 20.

Pigmented intraepithelial Merkel cell carcinoma mimicking melanoma in situ
Dean Holliday Jr, Dean Holliday Jr, Charity F McConnell, Carlos N Prieto-Granada
J Cutan Pathol. 2023 Aug;50(8):717-722. doi: 10.1111/cup.14428. Epub 2023 Apr 19.

Opportunities for recycling in an automated clinical chemistry laboratory produced by the comprehensive metabolic panel[KS6] 
Raeshun T Glover, Garrett S Booth, Joesph R Wiencek
Am J Clin Pathol. 2023 Aug 1;160(2):119-123. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqad031.

The Ethical Dilemma of a Patient's Immediate Access to Test Results

Stephanie A Hart, Joesph R Wiencek

Clin Chem. 2023 Jul 5;69(7):773-774. doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvad057.

Single Institution Experience With Sinonasal Glomangiopericytoma: A Case Series

Natalie Schauwecker, Seth Davis, Alexander Perez, Alex Labby, Kyle Mannion, Robert Sinard, James S Lewis Jr, Rick Chandra

Ear Nose Throat J. 2023 Jun 17:1455613231179688. doi: 10.1177/01455613231179688. Online ahead of print.

A qualitative assessment of the perceived acceptability and feasibility of eHARTS, a mobile application for transition readiness assessment for adolescents living with HIV in South Africa
Messaline F Fomo, John Newman, Thobekile Sibaya, Nompumelelo Ndlela, Sophia Hussen, Moherndran Archary, Brian C Zanoni
PLOS Digit Health. 2023 Jun 16;2(6):e0000272. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000272. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Global Heatwaves Threaten Integrity of Patient Test Results: A Dire Warning for the Lab Medicine Community.
Stephanie Hart, Joseph R Wiencek
J Appl Lab Med. 2023 Jun 13;jfad040. doi: 10.1093/jalm/jfad040. Online ahead of print.

Bi-allelic variants in HMGCR cause an autosomal-recessive progressive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

Joel A Morales-Rosado, Tanya L Schwab, Sarah K Macklin-Mantia, A Reghan Foley, Filippo Pinto E Vairo, Davut Pehlivan, Sandra Donkervoort, Jill A Rosenfeld, Grace E Boyum, Ying Hu, Anh T Q Cong, Timothy E Lotze, Carrie A Mohila, Dimah Saade, Diana Bharucha-Goebel, Katherine R Chao, Christopher Grunseich, Christine C Bruels, Hannah R Littel, Elicia A Estrella, Lynn Pais, Peter B Kang, Michael T Zimmermann, James R Lupski, Brendan Lee, Matthew J Schellenberg, Karl J Clark, Klaas J Wierenga, Carsten G Bönnemann, Eric W Klee

Am J Hum Genet. 2023 Jun 1;110(6):989-997. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.04.006. Epub 2023 May 10.

Sinonasal Adenosquamous Carcinoma - Morphology and Genetic Drivers Including Low- and High-Risk Human Papillomavirus mRNA, DEK::AFF2 Fusion, and MAML2 Rearrangement.
Dean Holliday Jr, Mitra Mehrad, Kim A El, Fangjia Tong, Xiaowei Wang, Jen-Fan Hang, Ying-Ju Kuo, Jaylou M Velez-Torres, Abberly Lott-Limbach, James S Lewis Jr
Head Neck Pathol. 2023 Jun;17(2):487-497. doi: 10.1007/s12105-023-01538-w. Epub 2023 Feb 28.

A Rare Collison of Vulvar Melanoma and Extramammary Paget Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature. 
Connor Hartzell, Enrique Hernandez, Aileen Grace P Arriola
Am J Dermatopathol. 2023 Feb 1;45(2):133-136. doi: 10.1097/DAD.0000000000002371

Ex vivo 3D scanning and specimen mapping in anatomic pathology.
Perez AN, Sharif KF, Guelfi E, Li S, Miller A, Prasad K, Sinard RJ, Lewis JS Jr, Topf MC.
J Pathol Inform. 2023 Jan 2;14:100186. doi: 10.1016/j.jpi.2022.100186.

Successful Orthotopic Heart Transplantation in Patient With Anti-U Antibody.
Caitlin Hughes, Brent Sterling, Jennifer Andrews.
Lab Med. 2021 Nov 2;lmab100. doi: 10.1093/labmed/lmab100. Online ahead of print.

Probable cefepime-induced immune mediated hemolytic anaemia.
Jeremy W Jacobs, Jeffrey A Stump, Alexander N Perez, Deva Sharma, Garrett S Booth.
Transfus Med. 2021 Dec;31(6):503-504. doi: 10.1111/tme.12826. Epub 2021 Oct 17. PMID: 34658061.

Adipocytes Provide Fatty Acids to Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Cells.
Jonathan Tucci, Ting Chen, Katherine Margulis, Etan Orgel, Rebecca L Paszkiewicz, Michael D Cohen, Matthew J Oberley, Rachel Wahhab, Anthony E Jones, Ajit S Divakaruni, Cheng-Chih Hsu, Sarah E Noll, Xia Sheng, Richard N Zare, Steven D Mittelman.
Front Oncol. 2021 Apr 22;11:665763. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.665763. eCollection 2021.

Passenger lymphocyte syndrome with severe haemolysis misdiagnosed/treated as cold agglutinin syndrome: Analysis of case and diagnostic error.
Jeremy Jacobs, Elizabeth Pogue, Mary Johnson, Quentin Eichbaum.
Transfus Med . 2021 Apr 5. doi: 10.1111/tme.12773. Online ahead of print. DOI: 10.1111/tme.12773

A fatal case of metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma mimicking cirrhosis.
Janet Marie Basinger, Jonathan Tucci, Meghan Elizabeth Kapp.
Autops Case Rep. 2021 Sep 3;11:e2021325. doi: 10.4322/acr.2021.325. eCollection 2021.

Use of an Ultrasonic Aspirator in Removal of an Orbital Rim Hemangioma.
Patrick Donegan, James Law, Suzanne M Schauwecker, Louise A Mawn.
Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2021 Jan 19. doi: 10.1097/IOP.0000000000001886. Online ahead of print.

2020

COVID-19 associated with severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
Jeremy Jacobs, Quentin Eichbaum.
Transfusion . 2020 Dec 3;10.1111/trf.16226. doi: 10.1111/trf.16226. Online ahead of print.

Low rates of anti-recipient isohemagglutinins in ABO incompatible hematopoietic stem cell transplants.
Brian D Adkins, Jennifer Andrews, Deva Sharma, Caitlin Hughes, Adetola A Kassim, Quentin Eichbaum.
Transfus Apher Sci . 2021 Feb;60(1):102965. doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2020.102965. Epub 2020 Oct 19. PMID: 33127310

Nuclear Beta-Catenin Expression in Endometrioid Intraepithelial Neoplasia (Atypical Hyperplasia) Does Not Predict Carcinoma on Subsequent Hysterectomy.
Martha F Wright, Sarah Fitzlaff, Autumn Wyeth, Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins, Mirna B Podoll, Charles M Quick, Jaclyn C Watkins.
Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2020 Sep 4. doi: 10.1097/PGP.0000000000000695. Online ahead of print.

Pyoderma Gangrenosum in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Vanessa States, Stephen O'Brien, Jayesh P Rai, Henry L Roberts, Mason Paas, Kayla Feagins, Evangeline J Pierce, Richard N Baumgartner, Susan Galandiuk.
Dig Dis Sci. 2020 Sep;65(9):2675-2685. doi: 10.1007/s10620-019-05999-4. Epub 2020 Jan 10.

A Proposed Staging System for Improved Prognostication of MDM2-amplified Liposarcoma.
Jonathan J Tucci, Nooshin K Dashti, Justin M M Cates.
Am J Surg Pathol. 2020 Aug 12. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000001554. Online ahead of print.

Determination of high-risk HPV status of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma using the Roche cobas HPV test on cytologic specimens and acellular supernatant fluid.
Martha Frances Wright, Vivian L Weiss, James S Lewis Jr, Jonathan E Schmitz , Kim Adams Ely.
Cancer Cytopathol. 2020 Jul;128(7):482-490. doi: 10.1002/cncy.22258. Epub 2020 Mar 4.

Dural Marginal Zone Lymphoma in a Patient With a Hepatitis C Virus Infection.
Villaume MT, Patel D, Lopez C, Patel V, Diggs P, Harmsen H, Thompson MA, Morgan D.
World J Oncol. 2020 Jun;11(3):122-125. doi: 10.14740/wjon1285. Epub 2020 May 14.

Rapidly fatal pneumonitis from immunotherapy and concurrent SARS-CoV-2 infection in a patient with newly diagnosed lung cancer.
Christine M Lovly, Kelli L Boyd, Paula I Gonzalez-Ericsson, Cindy L Lowe, Hunter M Brown, Robert D Hoffman, Brent C Sterling, Meghan E Kapp, Douglas B Johnson, Prasad R Kopparapu, Wade T Iams, Melissa A Warren, Michael J Noto, Brian I Rini, Madan Jagasia, Suman R Das, Justin M Balko
medRxiv . 2020 May 1;2020.04.29.20085738. doi: 10.1101/2020.04.29.20085738. Preprint

Non-necrotizing granulomatous pneumonitis and chronic pleuritis in soldiers deployed to Southwest Asia.
Gordetsky J, Kim C, Miller RF, Mehrad M.
Histopathology. 2020 May 7. doi: 10.1111/his.14135. Online ahead of print.

Intravenous Immunoglobulin-Associated Hemolytic Anemia.
Jeremy Jacobs, Jessica Kneib, Amy Gabbard.
Lab Med. 2020 Apr 27;lmaa019. doi: 10.1093/labmed/lmaa019. Online ahead of print.

Intraductal carcinoma of the prostate.
Szentirmai E, Giannico GA.
Pathologica. 2020 Mar;112(1):17-24. doi: 10.32074/1591-951X-5-20.

Chronic femoral diaphyseal osteomyelitis with radiographs initially concerning for Paget disease of the bone.
Seth A Reasoner, Juan M Colazo, Jonathan Tucci, Justin Cates, Kathryn M Dahir.
Radiol Case Rep. 2020 Jan 27;15(4):344-348. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2019.12.026. eCollection 2020 Apr.