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Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
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Faculty

Megan K. Dishop, M.D. Assistant professor

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Education

  • M.D. Wake Forest University (Bowman Gray School of Medicine), 1993-1997

  • B.S. Biology Duke University, Durham, NC, 1989-1993

Residency

  • Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1997-2002

Fellowship

  • Pediatric Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine (Texas Children's Hospital), Houston, TX, 2002-2003

Specialty

  • Pediatric surgical and autopsy pathology

  • Pediatric lung pathology

Board Certification

  • Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

  • Pediatric Pathology

Area of Interest

  • Pediatric interstitial lung disease

  • Congenital lung malformation

  • Pediatric neoplasia

Current Position

  • Staff Pathologist (anatomic pathology), Texas Children's Hospital

Honors and Awards

  • Resident Teaching Award, University of Kentucky Department of Pathology, 2001, 2002

  • Chief Resident, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Kentucky, 2001-2002

Membership on professional organizations

  • Society for Pediatric Pathology

  • Pulmonary Pathology Society

  • United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology

  • College of American Pathologists

  • American Society of Clinical Pathologists

Representative Publications

  1. MK Dishop, C Langston. Progress in the pathology of diffuse lung disease in infancy. European Respiratory Monograph. (In press).
  2. AH Bartlett, MK Dishop, CJ Baker. An unusual cause of appendicitis in a child. Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Disease 2006 Jul. 17(3): 111-2, 177-9.
  3. C Langston, K Patterson, MK Dishop, chILD Pathology Cooperative Group: F Askin, P Baker, P Chou, C Cool, S Coventry, E Cutz, M Davis, G Deutsch, C Galambos, J Pugh, S Wert, F White. A protocol for the handling of tissue obtained by operative lung biopsy: Recommendations of the chILD pathology co-operative group. Pediatric and Developmental Pathology. 2006 May-Jun. 9(3): 173-80.
  4. KJ Smith, O Elidemir, MK Dishop, KW Eldin, N Tatevian, RH Moore. Intravenous injection of pharmaceutical tablets presenting as multiple pulmonary nodules and declining pulmonary function in an adolescent with cystic fibrosis. Pediatrics. 2006 Sep; 118(3):e924-8. Epub 2006 Aug 21.
  5. L Granville, J Hicks, E Popek, MK Dishop, N Tatevian, D Lopez-Terrada. Visceral clear cell sarcoma of soft tissue with confirmation by EWS-ATF1 fusion detection. Ultrastructural Pathology. 2006. 30: 1-8.
  6. LA Granville, AC Laga, TC Allen, MK Dishop, VL Roggli, A Churg, DS Zander, PT Cagle. Review and update of uncommon primary pleural tumors: a practical approach to diagnosis. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. 2005 Nov; 129(11): 1428-43.
  7. DN Miniati, M Chintagumpala, C Langston, MK Dishop, OO Olutoye, JG Nuchtern, DL Cass. Prenatal presentation and outcome of children with pleuropulmonary blastoma. J Pediatr Surg 2006 Jan; 41(1): 66-71.
  8. J Fullmer, MK Dishop, LL Fan. Successful therapy of bronchiolitis obliterans in a bone marrow transplant patient with tumor necrosis factor-alpha blockade. Pediatrics 2005 Sep; 116(3): 767-70.
  9. SE Pacheco, SM Gottschalk, MV Gresik, MK Dishop, T Okamaura, TG McCormick. Chronic active Epstein Barr virus (CAEBV) infection of natural killer cells presenting as severe skin reaction to mosquito bites. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2005 Aug; 116(2): 470-2.
  10. BE Gonzalez, KG Hulten, MK Dishop, L Lambreth, W Hammerman, EO Mason, SL Kaplan. Pulmonary manifestations in children with invasive community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus infections. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2005 Sep 1; 41(5): 583-90.
  11. Reddy, L Noroski, B Boyanton, MK Dishop, J Hicks, J Versalovic, E Moylett. Burkholderia gladioli osteomyelitis in association with chronic granulomatous disease: Report and review. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2005 Sep; 24(9): 837-9.
  12. J Fullmer, MK Dishop, C Langston, LL Fan. Pulmonary capillaritis in children: a review of eight cases with comparison to other alveolar hemorrhage syndromes. Journal of Pediatrics 2005. 146(3): 376-81.