Presentations and Publications
Select Presentations and Publications Written by Faculty and Fellows
- Hui P, Fei F, Gaal K, Afkhami, M “Genomic Landscape of Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia: A single Institution
Experience” USCAP 2025 - Jasim, A “Expression of CD9 by Flow Cytometry is a Useful Marker in Distinguishing Normal from Leukemic
Myeloid Blasts” USCAP 2024 - Jasim A, Lee W, Ma H, Quirk E, Song J, Hwee S, Hughes J, Tizro P, Soma L. CD9: Differential expression of
normal bone marrow cellular components and leukemic myeloid blasts. Am J Clin Pathol. PMID: 40972677. - Reid J, Lee W, Soma L, Perry A, Bedell V, Hsueh J, Wu X, Wang J, Weisenburger D, Song J “Prognostic
Differences Based on Ethnicity in Patients with DLBCL Treated with R-CHOP Therapy” USCAP 2024 - Cao Q, Munteanu A, Ding D, Tizro P, Kim Y, Song J “Combining Flow Cytometry with Cytology Improves
Diagnostic Sensitivity and accuracy of Lymphoid and Myeloid Neoplasms Involving Cerebrospinal Fluid: A Large
Cancer Center Experience” USCAP 2023 - Ding D, Perry A, Bedell V, Li V, Pillai R, Weisenburger D, Herrera A, Song J “Low TIM3 and PD1 expression in
diffuse large B-cell lymphoma identifies patients with a poor prognosis treated with R-CHOP” USCAP 2023 - Munteanu A, Salhotra A, Al Malki M, Telatar M, Yew H, Gust M, Chang L, Ambrose C, Dryer T, Aoun P, Arias
Stella J, Danilova O, Pillai R, Tizro P, Jackson R, Kim Y, Gaal K, Song J, Stein A, Nakamura R, Marcucci G,
Afkhami M “Measurable Residual Disease Detection by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Versus Flow
Cytometry (FC) of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML): A Cancer Center Experience” USCAP 2023 - Sethapati R, Tizro P, Nwangwu M, Cozen W, Aparicio J, Siddiqi I, Weisenburger D, Chan W, Herrera A, Song J
“HIV- Associated Hodgkin lymphoma has increased CD8+ T-cells and NK cells in the tumor microenvironment”
USCAP 2022 - Tizro P, Aldoss I, Li A, Pillai R, Chan W, Quirk E, Chan W, Song J “BAFF- R can be expressed in cases of B
Lymphoblastic leukemia” USCAP 2022 - Meawad H, Tizro P, Arvanitis L, Afkhami M, Arias-Stella J “Genomic Landscape of Tumors with SMARCA4
Alterations in Lung and Other Solid Tumor Types” USCAP 2022 - Belousova T, Popplewell L, Herrera A, Aldoss I, Cozen W, Siddiqi I, Weisenburger D, Song J “Bone Marrow,
Flow Cytometry and Peripheral Blood Findings in SARS-CoV-2 Infection” USCAP 2021 - Jackson R, Perry A, Herrera A, Bedell V, Murata-Collins J, Rahimi N, Pillai R, Chan C W, Weisenburger DD,
Song JY, “Use of the Lymphgen Tool in a Cohort of Patients with Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Treated with RCHOP”
USCAP 2021 - Meawad H, Herrera A, Nwangwu M, He T, Bedell V, Murata-Collins J, Pillai R, Perry A, Weisenburger DD, Song
JY, “Medical Low Total T-cell Content and Low PD1-Positive T-cells Identified by Multiplex Immunofluorescence
is Associated with Poor Survival in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma” USCAP 2021 - Nguyen H, Perry A, Skrabek P, Nasr M, Herrera AF, Bedell V, Murata-Collins J, Pillai R, Xu M, Chen L, Chan
WC, Weisenburger DD, Scott DW, Song JY. Validation of the Double-Hit Gene Expression Signature (DLBCL90)
in an Independent Cohort of Patients with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma of Germinal Center Origin. J Mol
Diagn. 2021 May;23(5):658-664. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2021.02.005. Epub 2021 Feb 23. PMID: 33636392;
PMCID: PMC8185969. - Nguyen, H., Mallick J., Aoun P., Pillai R., Telatar M., Yew H., Louie C., Wei H., Gu D., Jariwala A., Aldoss I.,
Salhotra A., Ali H., Snyder D., Marcucci G., Stein A., Nakamura R., Afkhami M. “Mutational Profiles of Persistent
versus Relapsed/Recurrent Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Two and half year Experience of a Cancer Center.”
European AMP 2020 - Mallick, J., Jasmine Zain M.D., Dennis D. Weisenburger “Extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma with
paraneoplastic eosinophilic myositis” Human Pathology: Case Reports; Vol 21, 09/2020 - Ally, F., Jariwala, A., Patricia A Aoun, Milhan Telatar, Raju K Pillai, Haris Ali, David Snyder, Carrie Louie,
Michelle Afkhami “Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia genomic signature correlates with the degree of bone
marrow fibrosis: A single institutional retrospective study.” ASCO 2020 - Rahimi N., Anamarija Perry, Pamela Sktrabed, Michel Nasr, Victoria Bedell, Maria Teresa Valle-Catuna, Joyce L
Murata- Collins, Alex F Herrera, Wing Chung Chang, Joo Y Song, Dennis D Weisenburger. “Copy Number
Differences in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma with Germinal Center B-cell Phenotype versus an Activated B-cell
Phenotype.” USCAP 2020 - Nguyen, H., Xu, M., Anamarija Perry, Pamela Skrabek, Michel Nasr, Victoria Bedell, Joyce Murata-Collins, Alex
F. Herrera, Wing C. Chan, Dennis D. Weisenburger, David W. Scott, Joo Y. Song. “Validation of the Double-Hit
Gene Expression Signature (DLBCL90) in an Independent Cohort Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma of Germinal
Center B-Cell Origin.” USCAP 2020 - Ally, F., Joo Y. Song, Jasmine Zain, Ammar Chaudry “Intra-axial Versus Extra-axial Distribution of CNS
Lymphoma and its correlation with Phenotypic Markers” USCAP 2020 - Cantu D, Pillai R, Homan S, Nathwani B, Weisenburger D. “Blastic transformation of mantle cell lymphoma with
B-lymphoblastic features”. Human Pathology: Case Reports. 2019 - Cloe AL, Padeganeh A, Bedell V, Song J et al. Single Nuclear Polymorphism Study with Oncoscan Demonstrates
Recurrent Abnormalities Involving Chromosomes 9, 13, and 17 in Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm.
USCAP 2019 - Cheng JX, Chen L, Li Y, Cloe AL, et al. RNA Cytosine Methulation and Methyltransferases Mediate Chromatin
Organization and 5-azacytidine Response and Resistance in Leukemia. Nature Communications. 2018; 9. - Song JY, Cloe A, Ali S, Siaghani PJ, Himchak E, Cantu D, Wanda Chan, Quirk E, Weisenburger D, Aoun P.
“Bone marrow adequacy: Comparison of assisted versus unassisted bedside collections by a laboratory
technologist.” USCAP 2019 - Ali S. “The Kids are Marginalized and Still Alright. A case of pediatric marginal zone lymphoma.” Los Angeles
Society of Pathology Case Presentation, April 2019 - Ali S, Song JY, Kim Y, Gaal K, “An acute presentation of systemic mastocytosis with associated hematologic
neoplasm after a long-standing history of transfusion dependent anemia.” Workshop of the Society for
Hematopathology/European Association for Hematopathology, 2019 - Ali S, Aoun P, Telatar M, Weisenburger D, Nakamura R, Stein A, Song JY, Gaal K, Kim Y, Aldoss I, Salhotra A,
Yew H, Pillai R, Afkhami M. “BCOR Mutations in the Myeloid Malignancies: A One-Year Experience at a
Comprehensive Cancer Center”. USCAP, Vancouver, Canada. March 2018. - Cantu D, Cloe A, Song JY, Weisenburger DDW, Chen YY, Williams B, and Kim Y. “Diagnostic Application of
CyTOF in Hodgkin Lymphoma”. USCAP, Vancouver, Canada. March 2018. - Cantu D, Cloe A, Song JY, Weisenburger DDW, Chen YY, Williams B, and Kim Y. “Measuring Tumor
Microenvironment in Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma using CyTOF”. USCAP, Vancouver, Canada. March 2018. - Cloe A. et al. “Novel Fusion of TCF3-MEF2B in BCR-ABL Negative B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia”. USCAP,
Vancouver, Canada. March 2018. - Himchak E, Muirhead D, Lewallen M, Song JY, Kim Y, Nathwani B, Weisenburger D, Herrera A, Pillai R.
“Evaluation of the Tumor Microenvironment Using Multiplex Immunohistochemistry”. USCAP, Vancouver,
Canada. March 2018. - Siaghani P, Yang L, Zhao L, Telatar M, Cuellar M, Himchak E, Yin H, Weisenburger D, Aoun P, Afkhami M,
Pillai M. “High sensitivity detection of IDH1/2 mutations for assessment of minimal residual disease”. USCAP,
Vancouver, Canada. March 2018. - Wong JT, Fidai S, Song JY, et al. Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma. In: Shao H, ed. Cutaneous Tcell
Lymphoma (CTCL): Clinical Features, Diagnosis and Treatment Options. Hauppauge NY: Nova Science
Publishers. 2017. - Wong J, Ameri MD, Siaghani P, Cantu D, Chen Y-Y, Song J, Weisenburger DD, Kim Y. Programmed Cell Death
Ligand 1 (PD-L1) Expression in the Follicular Lymphoma Microenvironment. United States and Canadian
Academy of Pathology 2017. - Song JY, Kim YS, Siaghani P, Cantu D, Chen YY, Pillai R, Chan WC, Weisenburger DD. CTLA-4 expression in
Hodgkin lymphoma confers a worse overall survival in relapsed/refractory patients (Platform presentation at the
USCAP 2017 meeting). - Wong J, Ameri MD, Siaghani P, Cantu D, Chen Y-Y, Song J, Weisenburger DD, Kim Y. Defining True
Cellularity in Age-Matched Marrows. United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology 2017. - Al Malki MM, Song J.Y, Yang D., Cao T., Aldoss I., Mokhtari S., Dadwal S., Gendzekhadze K., Pawlowska A.,
Ameri M., Marcucci G., Karanes C., Parker P., Snyder D., Senitzer D., Nademanee A., Forman S.J, Nakamura R,
Pullarkat V. Transfusion- Related Iron Overload (TRIO) is Associated with Delayed Engraftment and Increased Non
Relapse Mortality (NRM) in Patients Undergoing Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
(HCT). ASH meeting 2017. - Herrera AF, Mei M, Low L, Griffin GK, Song JY, Merryman RW, Bedell V, Pak C, Sun H, Paris T, Stiller T,
Brown JR, Budde E, Chan WC, Chen R, Davids MS, Freedman A, Fisher DC, Jacobsen ED, Jacobson CA, Kim HT,
LaCasce AS, Murata-Collins J, Nademanee AP, Palmer J, Pihan GA, Pillai R, Popplewell L, Siddiqi T, Sohani AR,
Zain J, Kwak LW, Weinstock DM, Forman SJ, Weisenburger DD, Kim Y, Rodig SJ, Krishnan A, Armand P.
Double expressing and double-hit relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma have inferior survival
following autologous stem cell transplantation. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2017;35(1):24-31. PMID: 28034071. - Ameri MD, Wong J, Low L, Chen Y-Y, Weisenburger DD, Pillai R, Kim YS, Song JY, “CXCR4 Expression in
Follicular Lymphoma”. USCAP, Seattle, Washington. March 2016. - Low L, Song JY, Chen YY, Valle M, Weisenburger DD, Kim YS. Coexpression of MYC and BCL2 Proteins
Identifies a Subset of Follicular Lymphoma that Undergoes Transformation to Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma and
Correlates with Poor Overall Survival (USCAP 2016). - Song JY, Song L, Herrera AF, Venkataraman G, Murata-Collins JL, Bedell V, Chen YY, Kim YS, Tadros R,
Nathwani BN, Weisenburger DD, Feldman AL. Cyclin D1 expression in Peripheral T-cell lymphomas. Modern
Pathology. 2016;29(11):1306-1312. PMID: 27469326. - Low LK, Song JY. B-cell Lymphoproliferative Disorders Associated with Primary and Acquired
Immunodeficiency. Surgical Pathology Clinics 2016;9:55-77. PMID: 26940268 - Low L, Song JY, Mei M, Krishnan A, Nademanee A, Popplewell L, Chen R, Spielberger R, Cai J, Chen YY, Zumel
S, Gaal K, Aoun P, Weisenburger DD, Kim YS. Coexpression of MYC and BCL2 protein in diffuse large B cell
lymphoma predicts a poor outcome in patients treated with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
(USCAP 2015). - Batra R, Weisenburger D, Snyder D, Bedell V, Murata-Collins J, Gaal K. Prognostic Significance of Chromosomal
Aberrations in Philadelphia Chromosome Negative Metaphases during Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Therapy in
Patients with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (USCAP 2014). - Zhang N, Reddi DM, Weisenburger DD, Kim Y. Follicular Lymphoma with Marginal Zone Differentiation, an
Institutional Experience (USCAP 2014). - Bautista-Quach MA, Nademanee A, Weisenburger DD, Chen W, Kim YS. Implant-associated primary anaplastic
large-cell lymphoma with simultaneous involvement of bilateral breast capsules. Clin Breast Cancer.
2013;13(6):492-495. PMID 24267734 - Kim YS, Wu H, Pawlowska AB, Bautista-Quach MA, Huang Q, Gaal K, Chang KL. Pediatric mast cell sarcoma of
temporal bone with novel L799F (2395 C>T) KIT mutation, mimicking histiocytic neoplasm. Am J Surg Pathol.
2013;37(3):453-458. PMID 23388130 - Pan ZG, Zhang QY, Lu ZB, Quinto T, Rozenvald IB, Liu LT, Wilson D, Reddy V, Huang Q, Wang HY, Ren YS.
Extracavitary KSHV-associated large B-Cell lymphoma: a distinct entity or a subtype of primary effusion
lymphoma? Study of 9 cases and review of an additional 43 cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2012;36(8):1129-1140. PMID
22790853 - Rausei-Mills V, Chang KL, Gaal KK, Weiss LM, Huang Q. Aberrant expression of CD7 in myeloblasts is highly
associated with de novo acute myeloid leukemias with FLT3/ITD mutation. Am J Clin Pathol 2008; 129(4):624-
9. PMID 18343790