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Professor, Pathology and Immunology
3rd Floor, Peters Building
Office: (314) 747-0276
E-mail: pfeifer@path.wustl.edu
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Editorial Responsibilities

PresentEditorial BoardAmerican Journal of Clinical Pathology

Service to the Department

2004 - PresentDirector, Pathology Residency Program
PresentDirector, Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Division of Anatomic Pathology
PresentAssociate Director for Educational Programs, Division of Anatomic Pathology

Service to the University

PresentMember, Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee, Siteman Cancer Center

Diagnostic Expertise

Molecular Genetic Testing in Surgical Pathology
Gynecologic Pathology

Clinical Interest

Anatomic and Molecular Pathology - General Surgical Pathology
Anatomic and Molecular Pathology - Gynecological Pathology
Anatomic and Molecular Pathology - Molecular Pathology

Selected Publications

Akintola-Ogunremi O, Pfeifer JD, Tan BR, Yan Y, Zhu X, Hart J, Goldblum JR, Burgart L, Lauwers GY, M. Analysis of protein expression and gene mutation of c-kit in colonic neuroendocrine carcinomas. Am J Surg Pathol 27:1551-1558, 2003 Abstract

Gokden N, Dehner LP, Zhu X, Pfeifer JD. Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans of the vulva and groin:detection of COL1A1-PDGFB fusion transcripts by RT-PCR. J Cutan Pathol 30:190-195, 2003 Abstract

O'Sullivan MJ, Humphrey PA, Dehner LP, Pfeifer JD. t(X;18) reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction demonstrating a variant transcript. J Mol Diagn 4:178-180, 2002 Abstract

Hill DA, O'Sullivan MJ, Zhu X, Vollmer RT, Humphrey PA, Dehner LP, Pfeifer JD. Practical application of molecular genetic testing as an aid to the surgical pathologic diagnosis of soft tissue neoplasms: a prospective study. Am J Surg Pathol 26:965-977, 2002 Abstract

Pfeifer JD, Wick MR. The pathologic evaluation of neoplasic diseases. In: Textbook of Clinical Oncology, Third Edition,, 2001

Cook JR, Humphrey PA, Pfeifer JD, El-Mofty SK. Squamous cell carcinoma arising in recurrent respiratory papillomatosis with pulmonary involvement: emerging common pattern of clinical features and human papillomavirus serotype association. Mod Pathol 13:914-918, 2000 Abstract

Hill DA, Pfeifer JD, Marley EF, Dehner LP, Humphrey PA, Zhu X, Swanson PE. WT-1 staining reliability differentiates desmoplastic small round cell tumor from Ewing sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor. An immunohistochemical and molecular diagnostic study. Am J Clin Pathol 114:345-353, 2000 Abstract

Pfeifer JD, Hill DA, O’Sullivan MJ, Dehner LP. Diagnostic gold standard for soft tissue tumors: morphology or molecular genetics. Histopathology 37:485-500, 2000 Abstract

O’Sullivan MJ, Kyriakos M, Zhu X, Wick MR, Swanson PE, Dehner LP, Humphrey PA, Pfeifer JD. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors with t(X;18). A pathologic and molecular genetic study. Mod Pathol 13:1336-1346, 2000 Abstract