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Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
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Faculty

Jun Teruya, M.D., D.Sc. Associate Professor of Pathology
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
Director of Blood Bank and Coagulation at Texas Children's Hospital

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Education

  • M.D. from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  • D.Sc. (doctor of science) from Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan

Residency

  • Clinical pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Fellowship

  • Blood Banking/transfusion medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Specialty

  • Blood banking and coagulation

Board Certification

  • Clinical pathology

  • Blood banking/transfusion medicine

Area of Interest

  • thrombosis

  • hemorrhage

Current Position

  • Associate Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Thrombosis Research Section, Baylor College of Medicine

  • Director of Coagulation and Blood Bank, Texas Children's Hospital

Honors and Awards

  • The Best Clinical Teacher, voted by residents in Clinical Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1994-1995

  • Faculty Award for Outstanding Resident Teaching in Clinical Pathology 2003-2004 at Baylor College of Medicine, 2003-2004

  • Listed as America's Top Physician, 2005

  • Listed as America's Top Physician, 2006

  • Best teacher with most humor, voted by 170 second year medical students at Baylor College of Medicine, 2006

Membership on professional organizations

  • International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, since 1998

  • American Association of Blood Banks, since 1989

  • Assessor, since 1998, Member of International Advisory Committee, 2001-2005

  • The Massachusetts Medical Society, since 1992

  • Member of Blood Bank Committee, 1993

  • Fellow of College of American Pathologists, since 1992

  • Resident Member of Coagulation Resource Committee, 1994-1995

  • Member of Coagulation Resource Committee, 6 years from 2006

  • American Society of Hematology, since 1999

  • Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI, former NCCLS) Subcommittee on Platelet Function Testing, 2005-present

Representative Publications

  1. Gonzalez, BE, Teruya, J, Mahoney, D, Hulten, KG, Edwards, R, Lamberth, LB, Hammerman, WA, Mason Jr., EO, and Kaplan SL. Venous thrombosis associated with staphylococcal osteomyelitis in children. Pediatrics. 2006;117:1673-1679
  2. Quiros-Tejeira, RE, Chang, I, Scott, JD, Goss, JA and Teruya, J. Mycophenolate mofetil in the management of alloimmune hemolytic anemia in ABO-compatible but non-identical pediatric liver transplantation. Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 2005;41:125-128
  3. Yee, Y, Edwards, R, Mueller, B and Teruya, J. Thromboelastographic and hemostatic characteristics in patients with sickle cell disease Arch Pathol Lab Med, 2005;129:760-765
  4. Acosta, M, Edwards, R, Jaffe, EI, Yee, DL, Mahoney, DH, and Teruya, J. Practical approach to pediatric patients referred with an abnormal coagulation profile.Arch Pathol Lab Med, 2005;129:1011-1016
  5. Kurbegov, D, Teruya, J, and Rice, L. Pathologic Quiz Case: A 64-year-old man with hematuria, intracranial hemorrhage and severe coagulation abnormalities. Arch Pathol Lab Med, 2004;128:e181-e182. (USA)
  6. Alberts, MJ, Bergman, DL, Molner, E, Jovanovic B, Ishiwata I, and Teruya, J. Antiplatelet effect of aspirin in patients with cerebrovascular disease. Stroke. 2004;35:175-8. (USA)