skip to content »

Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
not shown on screen

Faculty

Dolores (Lola) Lopez-Terrada, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor

photoAlt

Education

  • M.D., Ph.D. Universidad de Valencia, Spain

Internship

  • Facultad de Medicina de Valencia, Universidad de Valencia, Spain

Residency

  • Baylor College of Medicine

Fellowship

  • Baylor College of Medicine

Post-doctoral Training

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, USC School of Medicine.

Specialty

  • Anatomic Pathology

  • Molecular Genetic Pathology

Board Certification

  • Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology, August 2000.

  • Board Eligible in Molecular Pathology-Genetics since July 2005 (will take exam in September 24 2007)

Area of Interest

  • Biology and molecular genetics of childhood and adult cancer

  • Molecular genetics of Pediatric Small Round Cell Tumors, Leukemias and Lymphomas

  • Molecular Genetics of pediatric liver tumors (hepatoblastoma)

  • Applications of molecular genetics techniques to the diagnosis and prognosis of pediatric neoplasms and sarcomas

  • Gene expression determinations in pediatric undifferentiated tumors and other malignancies.

Current Position

  • Assistant Professor Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, July 1999

  • Attending Pathologist, Texas Children's Hospital, since July 1999

  • Director of the Molecular Oncology Laboratory, at TCH, since July 1999

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Molecular Genetic Technology since September 1st 2006

Professional Positions Held

  • Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Department of Pathology USC School of Medicine

  • Director of the Molecular Cytogenetics and FISH Laboratory, Molecular Pathology Section at the Department of Pathology, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California

Other Positions

  • Appointed Steering Committee member, Molecular Genetic Technology Program, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center School of Health Sciences, since 2005

  • Appointed Children's Oncology Group (COG) pathologist, AAML0532 , Treatment of Transient Myeloproliferative Disorder (TMD) in Children with Down Syndrome (DS), Groupwide Phase III Study

Membership on professional organizations

  • European Society of Pathology since 1989

  • International Academy of Pathology (European and United States/Canadian Divisions) since 1990

  • Association for Molecular Pathology since 1994

  • American Society of Clinical Pathologists since 1996

  • Texas Society of Pathologists since 1996

  • Houston Society of Clinical Pathology since 1996

  • Society for Pediatric Pathology since 1999

  • Fellow of the College of American Pathologists since 2003

  • Children's Oncology Group since 2004

Representative Publications

  1. Sorensen, P. H. B.; Lessnick, S. L.; López Terrada, D; Liu, X. F. Triche, T. J. and Denny, C. T.: A second Ewing's sarcoma translocation t(21;22) fuses EWS gene to another ETS family transcription factor, ERG. Nature Genet , 6; 146 151, 1994
  2. Brown, A. D.; López Terrada, D.; Denny, C. T.; Lee, K. A.: Promoters containing ATF binding sites are de regulated in cells that express the EWS/ATF1 oncogene. Oncogene, 10 (9): 1749 56, 1995
  3. López Terrada, D.: Molecular Genetics of Small Round Cell Tumors. Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology, 13 (3): 242 249, 1996
  4. Sorensen, P. H. B.; Wu, J. K.; Berean, K. W.; Lim, J. F.; Donn, W.; Frierson, H. F.; Reynolds, C. P.; López Terrada, D. and Triche, T. J. Olfactory Neuroblastoma is a Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor related to Ewing's sarcoma. PNAS ; 93: 1038 1043, 1996
  5. López Terrada, D.; Bloom, M. G. K.; Cagle, P. T. and Ostrowski, M. L.: Oncocytic Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma of the trachea. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1998 Aug;122(8):708-14
  6. Monforte-Munoz, H.; López-Terrada, D.; Affendie, H.; Rowland, J. M., Triche, T. J. Documentation of EWS gene rearrangements by Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in frozen sections of Ewing's sarcoma-peripheral neuroectodermal tumors. Am J Surg Pathol, 23(3):309-315, 1999
  7. Vilchez, R. A.; López-Terrada, D.; Middleton, J. R.; Finch, C. J.; Killen. D. E.; Zanwar, P.; Jorgensen J. L. and Butel J. S., Simian virus 40 tumor antigen expression and immunophenotypic profile of AIDS-related non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Virology. 2005 Nov 10;342(1):38-46. Epub 2005 Aug 24
  8. Granville, L.; Hicks, J.; Popek, E.; Dishop, M.; Tatevian, N.; López-Terrada, D: Visceral Clear cell sarcoma of soft tissue with confirmation by EWS-ATF1 fusion gene detection. Ultrastruct Pathol. 2006 Jan-Feb;30(1):111-8
  9. López-Terrada, D.: Integrating the diagnosis of childhood malignancies, Adv Exp Med Biol. 2006; 587:121-37
  10. Adesina, A; Nguyen, Y; Guanaratne, P.; Pulliam, J; López-Terrada, D.; Margolin, J. and Milton Finegold: A Common 14q12 Deletion Revealed by BAC Array CGH Analysis and a Possible Role for FoxG1 in Hepatoblastoma. Hum Pathol. 2007 Mar;38(3):400-9
  11. Finegold, MJ; López-Terrada, D; Bowen, J; Washington, M. K; Qualman, S. J.: Protocol for the Examination of Specimens from Pediatric Patients with Hepatoblastoma, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 131, 520-529, April 2007
  12. Mueller, B. U.; López-Terrada, D. and Finegold, M. J. “Tumors of the liver”, In Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology, 5th edition Eds: Philip A. Pizzo, David G. Poplack, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2006
  13. López-Terrada, D. and Finegold, M. J. “Tumors of the Liver”, In Liver Disease in Children, 3rd edition. Eds: Frederick J Suchy and Ronald J. Sokol and William F. Balisteri. Cambridge University Press, 2006
  14. López-Terrada, D and Hicks, J. M. “Genetics of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors” In: Skeletal Pathology. Eds: Khurana, J. S., Fitzpatrick, L., Alman, B. Kattapuram, S. V., Springer Verlag Pres, New York (in press)
  15. López-Terrada, D. and Finegold, M. J. “Tumors of the Liver”, In Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management, 5fth edition., chapter 40, Eds: Walker, Press, 2007 (in press)