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Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
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Faculty

Jon A. Reed, M.D., F.C.A.P. Professor of Pathology and Dermatology

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Education

  • M.D., Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA

  • M.S., Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

  • B.S., Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Residency

  • Anatomic Pathology: Yale-New haven Hospital, New Haven, CT

Fellowship

  • Molecular Pathology: University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK

  • Dermatopathology: New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, New York, NY

Specialty

  • Dermatopathology

Board Certification

  • Anatomic Pathology, 11/1992

  • Dermatopathology, 11/1993

Area of Interest

  • Dermatopathology

  • Melanomag

  • melanocytic (pigmented) lesions

  • Signal transduction pathways involved in melanocyte differentiation and in melanoma tumor progression

Current Position

  • Director, Section of Dermatopathology

  • Medical Director, histology Services Laboratory

  • Director, Dermatopathology Fellowship Program

Professional Positions Held

  • Professor of Pathology and Dermatology; Director Section of Dermatopathology, Baylor College of Medicine; Director, Histology services Laboratory, 2005-Present

  • Associate Professor of Pathology and Dermatology; Director Section of Dermatopathology, Baylor College of Medicine, 1999-2005

  • Assistant Professor of Pathology, Cornell University Medical College (The Joan and Sanford Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University), 1994-1998

Other Positions

  • Editorial Board, American Journal of surgical Pathology

  • Editorial Board, Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

  • Section Editor Archives of pathology and Laboratory medicine

  • Ad hoc reviewer for 10 additional peer reviewed scientific and medical journals

  • Consultant Medical Staff: Harris County Hospital District / Ben Taub General Hospital

Honors and Awards

  • Named one of America's Best Doctors: 2001-2002; 2003-2004, 2005-2006

Membership on professional organizations

  • Fellow, College of American Pathologists

  • Fellow, American Society of Dermatopathology

  • Founding Member, Society for Melanoma Research

  • United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology

  • Harris County Medical Society

  • Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists

  • Association of Dermatopathology Fellowship Training Directors

  • Society for Applied Immunohistochemistry: Board of Directors, 1995-2000

  • Pan-American Society for Pigment Cell Research, Program Committee, 2000

  • Invited participant 1st Workshop, Melanoma Research Foundation, 2001

  • Program Director, 45th Annual Symposium Houston Society of Clinical Pathology, 2005

Representative Publications

  1. Reed JA, Medrano EE. Recent advances in melanoma. Frontiers in Bioscience 11: 3003 – 3013, 2006
  2. Reed JA, Lin Q, Chen D, Mian IS, Medrano EE. SKI pathways inducing progression of human melanoma. Cancer Metastasis Rev 24: 265 – 272, 2005
  3. Bales E, Mills L, McGahren M, Bandyopadhyay D, Chen D, Reed JA, Timchenko N, van den Oord JJ, Bar-Eli M, Keyomarsi J, Medrano EE. The low molecular weight cyclin E isoforms augment angiogenesis and metastasis of human melanoma cells in vivo. Cancer Res 65: 692 – 697, 2005
  4. Huttenbach Y, Prieto VG, Reed JA. Desmoplastic and spindle cell melanomas express markers of the early neural crest but not of later committed stages of Schwann cell differentiation. J Cutan Pathol 29: 562 – 568, 2002
  5. Trejo O, Reed JA, Prieto VG. Atypical cells in human cutaneous re-excision scars for melanoma express p75NGFR, C56/N-CAM, AND GAP-43: Evidence of early Schwann Cell Differentiation. J Cutan Pathol 29: 397 – 406, 2002
  6. Reed JA, Xu W, Bales E, Bandyopadhyay D, Okan N, Colmenares C, Medrano EE. Overexpression and localization of the oncogenic protein Ski in cutaneous human melanomas: consequences for TGF-ß signaling. Cancer Res 61: 8074 – 8078, 2001
  7. Gilhooly EM, Morse-Gaudio M, Bianchi L, Reinhart L, Rose DP, Connolly JM, Reed JA, Albino AP. Loss of expression of protein kinase C ß is a common phenomenon in human malignant melanoma. Melanoma Res 11: 355 – 369, 2001
  8. Fullen D, Reed JA, Finnerty B, McNutt NS. S100A6 expression in melanocytic neoplasms. J Cutan Pathol 28: 393 - 399, 2001
  9. Reed JA, Albino AP. Update of prognostic and diagnostic markers in Cutaneous Malignant melanoma. Clinics Lab Med 20: 817 – 838, 2000
  10. Reed JA, Finnerty, B, Albino AP. Divergent cellular differentiation pathways during the invasive stage of cutaneous malignant melanoma progression. Am J Pathol 155: 549 – 555, 1999