• Department of Pathology
  • Pathology Staff
• Department of Laboratory Medicine
  • Laboratory Medicine Staff
• Affiliated Hospitals
  • Moffitt-Long
  • Mount Zion Medical Center
  • San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • San Francisco General
• Faculty
  • Pathology
  • Laboratory Medicine

Research and Clinical Interests

My major interests include diagnostic hematopathology (including ancillary testing, such as flow cytometry and molecular diagnostics), laboratory hematology, and medical education in hematology. My primary research focus is translational research in diagnostic hematopathology, including contributions of flow cytometry and molecular diagnostics/cytogenetics, to diagnosis and prognosis.

Selected Publications

• Fiebig EW, Etzell JE, and Ng VL. Clinically relevant differences in prothrombin time and INR values related to blood sample collection in plastic versus siliconized glass tubes. Amer J Clin Pathol, 124(6): 902-9, 2005.
• Etzell JE and Wang E. Acquired Pelger-Huët Anomaly in Association with Concomitant Tacrolimus and Mycophenolate Mofetil in a Liver Transplant Patient: Case Report and Review of the Literature. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,130(1): 93-96, 2006.
• Vidulich K, Hanks D, and Etzell JE. Iron in Neoplastic Cells of Plasma Cell Myeloma. Amer J Hematol, 81(3): 216-217, 2006.
• Etzell JE, Keet C, McDonald W, and Banerjee A. Medulloblastoma Simulating Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Case Report with a Review of “Myeloid Antigen” Expression in Non-Hematopoietic Tissues and Tumors. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol, in press.
• Yang T and Etzell JE. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis and the Hemophagocytic Syndrome: Clinical, Pathologic, and Molecular Genetic Features. ASCP Check Sample, in press (2007).

Selected Awards

• 2000-2001 Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2005 Lifetime Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2006-2007 Teaching Scholars Program, UCSF

• Associate Professor of Clinical Laboratory Medicine; Director, Clinical Hematology Laboratory, UCSF Medical Center; Director, Hematopathology Fellowship; Associate Director, Laboratory Medicine Residency Training Program
• Laboratory Medicine
• Hematology/Hematopathology

Specialty Area

• Hematology
• Hematopathology

Contact Information

• joan.etzell@ucsf.edu
• Phone: 415-353-1750
• Pager: 415-443-4360
• Fax: 415-353-1106

• Clinical Hematology Laboratory UCSF
• M524, Box 0100
• 505 Parnassus Avenue
• San Francisco, CA 94143-0100

Hospital Affiliation(s)

• UCSF Medical Center
• Moffitt-Long