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Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
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Faculty

M.B. Bhattacharjee, MBBS, MD, FRCPath, FCAPAssociate Professor of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Texas Children's Hospital

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Internship

  1. 1979 - Christian Medical College and Brown Memorial Hospital, Affiliated with Panjab Univeristy, Ludhiana, India

Residency

  1. 1980-1984 - Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, India, Residency in Pathology

Fellowship

  1. 1991-1994 - Resident/Fellow in Anatomic and Neuropathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas-Houston, Health Science Center, Houston, TX

  2. 1994-1996 - Fellow in Neuropathology, Dept. of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Specialty

  1. Anatomic Pathology

  2. Neuropathology

Board Certification

  1. MBBS - January 1980

  2. MD Pathology - July 1984

  3. MRCPath - Histopathology (England) - May 1990

  4. FRCPath - Histopathology (England) - January 1998

  5. Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology, Anatomic and Neuropathology - May 1995

Area of Interest

  1. Clinical Neuropathology

Current Position

  1. 2002-Present - Associate Professor of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030

Professional Positions Held

  1. 1997-2002 - Assistant, and Associate Professor of Pathology and Neuropathologist, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, SL 79, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699

  2. 1997-2002 - Director of Immunohistochemistry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University Health Science Center, HC 49,New Orleans, LA 70112-2699

  3. 1997-2002 - Director of Neuropathology Fellowship, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, SL 79, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699

  4. 1996-1997 - Consultant Pathologist, Northeast Medical Center Hospital, Humble, TX

  5. 1994-1996 - Fellow in Neuropathology, Dept. of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

  6. 1991-1994 - Resident/Fellow in Anatomic and Neuropathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas-Houston, Health Science Center, Houston, TX

Other Positions

  1. 1989-1991 - Senior Registrar in Neuropathology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurology (Univ. of London) Queen Square, London, England

  2. 1988-1989 - Senior Registrar in Neuropathology, Bethlehem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, Institute of Psychiatry (Univ. of London) London, England

  3. 1987-1988 - Registrar in Anatomic Pathology, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth, Middlesex, England

  4. 1986-1987 - Senior House Officer in Pathology, Leicester Royal Infirmary, (Univ. of Leicester) Leicester, England

  5. 1985-1986 - Honorary Senior Registrar, MRC Leukaemia Unit in Hematology, Hammersmith Hospital (Royal Postgraduate Medical School) London, England

  6. 1980 -1984 - Resident and Senior Resident in Pathology, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

  7. 1980 - Assistant Research Officer in Rheumatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Honors and Awards

  1. Panjab University Merit Scholarship from January 1976, to December, 1978, for academic achievement

  2. medal for first position in MD Pathology examinations, July 1984

  3. Resident's Teaching Award, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, June 1998 and June 2000

Membership on professional organizations

  1. The Royal College of Pathologists of England

  2. British Neuropathological Society (BNS)

  3. American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP)

  4. Society for Pediatric Pathology

  5. Fellow College of American Pathologists

Representative Publications

  1. Shome DK, Ghosh K, Srinivas M, Bidwai-Bhattacharjee M , Verma S, Marwaha RK, Garewal G, Mohanty D, Das KC. The leukaemias at presentation: clinical, demographic and cytologic variables. Indian Journal of Cancer . 22: 194-210, 1985

  2. Bidwai-Bhattacharjee M, Shome DK, Srinivas M, Ghosh K, Verma S, Mohanty D, Bhagwat AG, Das KC. Acute megakaryoblastic leukaemia - an underdiagnosed entity. Indian Journal of Cancer . 23: 75-84, 1986

  3. Bhattacharjee MB , Wroe SJ, Harding BN, Powell M. Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy - isolated suprasellar involvement. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry . 55: 156-158, 1992

  4. Geddes JF, Bhattacharjee MB , Savage K, Scaravilli F, McLaughlin JE. Primary cerebral lymphoma - a study of 47 cases probed for Epstein-Barr virus genome. Journal of Clinical Pathology . 45: 587-590, 1992

  5. Mancias P, Bohan TP, Butler IJ, Bhattacharjee MB. Treatment resistant eosinophilic polymyositis in a child. Journal of Child Neurology . 9: 446-447, 1994

  6. Falconer JC, Narayana PA, Bhattacharjee MB, Liu SJ. Quantitative MRI of spinal cord injury in a rat model. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine . 33: 396-400, 1995

  7. Dixon CE, Liu S, Jenkins LW, Bhattacharjee MB , Whitson J, Yang K, Hayes RL. Time course of increased vulnerability of cholinergic neurotransmission following traumatic brain injury in the rat. Behavioral Brain Research. 70: 125-131, 1995

  8. Falconer JC, Narayana PA, Bhattacharjee MB . Characterization of an electromagnetic spinal cord injury device using quantitative MRI and waveform analysis. Spine . 21(1): 104-112, 1996

  9. Taft WC, Postmantur RM, Bhattacharjee MB, Dixon CE, Varahami P, Bao J, Hayes RL. Diminished microtubule associated protein 2 (MAP2) immunoreactivity following cortical impact brain injury. Journal of Neurotrauma 13(3):125-137, 1996

  10. Bhattacharjee MB , Bruner JM. p53 protein in pediatric malignant astrocytomas: a study of 21 patients. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 32:225-233, 1997

  11. Bhattacharjee MB , Armstrong DD, Vogel H, Cooley LD. Cytogenic analysis of 120 primary pediatric brain tumors and literature review. Cancer Genet Cytogenet . 97:39-53, 1997

  12. Bhattacharjee MB , Hicks J, Langford LL, Dauser R, Strother D, Chintagumpala M. et al. Primary malignant rhabdoid tumor of the central nervous system. . Ultrastructural Pathology . 21:361-368, 1997

  13. Bhattacharjee MB , Hicks J, Langford LL, Dauser R, Strother D, Chintagumpala M. et al. Central nervous system atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors of infancy and childhood. Ultrastructural Pathology . 21:369-387, 1997

  14. Oleszak EL, Zaczynska E, Bhattacharjee M , Butanoi C, Legido A and Katsetos CD. Inducible nitric oxide synthase and nitrotyrosine are found in monocytes/macrophages and/or astrocytes in acute, but not in chronic, multiple sclerosis. Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 5(4):438-445, 1998

  15. Wakabayashi M, Reid JD, Bhattacharjee M . Foreign body granuloma caused by prior gunshot wound, mimicking malignant breast mass. American Journal of Roentgenology 173:321-322, August 1999

  16. Lipani J, Lee DA, Bhattacharjee MB , et al . Reduced nerve growth factor (NGF) in Rett syndrome (RS) postmortem brain tissue. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology , 59:10, 889-895, 2000

  17. Dinh, DH, Clark SB, Whitehead M, Amedee R, Bhattacharjee MB . Intracanalicular Meningioma. Southern Medical Journal 93:6, 618-21, 2000

  18. Co-Author for “Neuropathology and Neurology” CD ROM, Tulane University Medical School , April 2000 . McLay R, Klingsberg R, Florez L, Bhattacharjee MB , Garcia C, Sutton C, Crawford BE. A web page to teach neurology and neuropathology to medical students. Neuropath Appl Neurobiol 27:142-144, 2001

  19. Lee DA, Lopez-Alberola R, Bhattacharjee MB . Childhood Autism: A Circuit Syndrome. The Neurologist , 9:99-109, 2003

  20. Lee DA, Lopez-Alberola R, Bhattacharjee MB. Atypical features of medulloblastoma. Journal Child Neurology . 18(1):64-67, 2003

  21. David O, Bhattacharjee MB . Diffuse neuroendocrine differentiation in a morphologically composite mammary infiltrating ductal carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature. Arch Pathol Lab Med . 127(3):e131-4, 2003

  22. Kwong-Kwok Wong 3 , Yi-Mieng Chang, Yvonne T.M. Tsang, Laszlo Perlaky, Jack Su, Adekunle Adesina, Dawna L Armstrong, Meenakshi Bhattacharjee , Robert Dauser, Susan Blaney, Murali Chintagumpala, Ching C. Lau. Expression analysis of juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas by oligonucleotide microarray reveals two potential subgroups. Cancer Res . 65(1):76-84, 2005

  23. Takei H, Tanaka S, Bhattacharjee MB , Goodman JC , Powell SZ. Pituicytoma incidentally found at autopsy. Pathology International 2005; 55: 745-749

  24. Takei H, Bhattacharjee MB , Adesina AM. Chordoid glioma of the third ventricle: cytological diagnosis by intraoperative smear preparation. Acta Cytologica , 2006 May-Jun;25(3):115-22

  25. Takei H, Adesina AM, Bhattacharjee MB . Fatal Epstein-Barr virus meningitis: An autopsy report. Clin Neuropathol , 2006 May-Jun; 25(3)115-22

  26. Janson K, David O, Schorin M, Nedzi L, Pridjian G, Walsh JP, Bhattacharjee MB , Judkins A, Biegel. Predisposition to atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor due to an inherited INI1 mutation. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2006 ;47:279-284

  27. Chelu M, Goonasekera SA, Durham WJ, Tang W, Lueck JD, Riehl J, Pessah IN, Zhang P, Bhattacharjee MB , Dirksen RT, Hamilton SL. Heat- and anesthesia-induced malignant hyperthermia in an RyR1 knock-in mouse. FASEB J . 2006; 20: 329-330

  28. Bhattacharjee M, Venugopal B, Wong KT, Goto Y-I, Bhattacharjee , MB . Mitochondrial disorder, diabetes mellitus, and findings in three muscles including the heart. Ultrastruct Pathol . 2006 May-Jun; 30(3):135-41

  29. Lori E. Summers, Luisa Florez, John M. Berberian, Meena Bhattacharjee , John W. Walsh. Post-operative cranial fasciitis: Report of 2 cases and review of the literature. J Neurosurgery , June 2007 106 (6)

  30. H Takei , MB Bhattacharjee , A Rivera, MD, Y Dancer, S Z Powell. New Immunohistochemical Markers in the evaluation of Central Nervous System Tumors: A Review of Seven Selected Adult and Pediatric Brain Tumors. Arch Pathol Lab Med . 2007; 131:234-241

  31. MC Ljungberg, MB Bhattacharjee , Y Lu, DL Armstrong, DY Yoshor, JW Swann, M Sheldon, and G D'Arcangelo. Activation of mTOR in Cytomegalic Neurons of Human Cortical Dysplasia. Annals of Neurology , Vol 60, issue 4, pages 420-429, August 15, 2006

  32. H Takei, L Florez, K Moroz , MB Bhattacharjee . Medulloepithelioma: two unusual locations. Pathology International 2007; 57:91-95

  33. H Takei, A Wilfong, D Yoshor , AL Armstrong , MB Bhattacharjee . Evidence of increased cell proliferation in the hippocampus of children with Ammon's horn sclerosis. Pathology International 2007; 57: 76-81

  34. H. Takei, A Adesina, MB Bhattacharjee . The Azzopardi phenomenon. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2007; 131(4): 518

  35. S Albrecht, M Bourdeau, D Bennett, EJ Mufson , MB Bhattacharjee , AC LeBlanc. Activation of caspase-6 in aging and mild cognitive impairment. Am J Pathol 2007;170:1200-1209

  36. R Hirano, H Interthal, C Huang, T Nakamura, K Deguchi, K Choi, MB Bhattacharjee , K Arimura, F Umehara, S Izumo, JL Northrop, MAM Salih, K Inoue, DL Armstrong, JJ Champoux, H Takashima, CF Boerkoel. Spinocerebellar ataxia with axonal neuropathy: consequence of a Tdp1 recessive neomorphic mutation? The EMBO Journal , 2007; 26:4732-4743

  37. BL Boyanton, JK Jones, SM Shenaq, MJ Hicks, MB Bhattacharjee . Intraneural perineurioma. A systematic review with illustrative cases. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2007; 131:1382-1392

  38. N Brunetti-Pieri , MB Bhattacharjee , ZJ Wang, DA Wenger, L Potocki. Brain proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and neuromuscular gangliosidosis. J Child Neurol . 2008; 23(1):73-78

  39. H Takei, L Florez , MB Bhattacharjee . Cytologic features of subependymal giant cell astrocytoma. A review of 7 cases. Acta Cytologica 2008; 52(4):445-450

  40. Takei H, Dauser R, Su J, Chintagumpala M, Bhattacharjee MB , Adesina AM. Anaplastic ganglioglioma arising from a Lhermitte-Duclos-like lesion: a case report with 8-year follow-up. J Neurosurg 2007; 107: 137-142