• 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 clinical specialty is diagnostic surgical pathology consultation in gynecologic pathology (diseases of the ovary, uterus, peritoneum, vagina, vulva) and in breast pathology. As a member of the UCSF Multidisciplinary Gynecologic Tumor Board and the Multidisciplinary Breast Tumor Board, I work closely with surgeons and oncologists, providing pathologic consultation in both areas of women’s cancer.

My clinical research focuses on differential diagnostic criteria and tumor classification of women’s cancer (GYN and breast).

I lecture in continuing medical education courses nationally (USCAP Annual Meeting Short Courses) and regionally (California Society of Pathologist’s annual meetings, UCSF/Stanford Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology annual meetings, Kaiser Hospital annual seminars)

Selected Publications

• Rabban J, Koerner F, Lerwill M. Solid Papillary Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ Versus Usual Ductal Hyperplasia in the Breast: A Potentially Difficult Distinction Resolved by Cytokeratin 5/6. Human Pathology 2006; 37: 787-793
• Rabban JT, Swain RS, Zaloudek CJ, Chase DR, Chen YY. Immunophenotypic overlap between adenoid cystic carcinoma and collagenous spherulosis of the breast: potential diagnostic pitfalls using myoepithelial markers. Modern Pathology. 2006; 19: 1351-1357
• Rabban J, Dal Cin P, Oliva E. HMGA2 rearrangement in a case of vulvar aggressive angiomyxoma. International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology. 2006; 25: 403-407
• Rabban JT, Gupta D, Zaloudek CJ, Chen LM. Synchronous ovarian granulosa cell tumor and uterine serous carcinoma: A rare association of a high-risk endometrial cancer with an estrogenic ovarian tumor. Gynecologic Oncology. 2006 Oct 9; [Epub ahead of print]
• Rabban J, Zaloudek C, Shekitka K, Tavassoli, F. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the uterus: a clinicopathologic study of 6 cases emphasizing distinction from aggressive mesenchymal tumors. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 2005; 29: 1348-1355

Additional Information

• Detailed CV

• Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, Associate Director, Surgical Pathology Fellowship Deputy Director, and Medical Student Elective in Anatomic Pathology (course 150.03)
• Anatomic Pathology
• Surgical Pathology

Specialty Area

Gynecologic Pathology and Breast Pathology

Contact Information

• joseph.rabban@ucsf.edu
• Phone: 415-353-2292
• Pager: 415-443-3805
• Fax: 415-353-1200

• UCSF Department of Anatomic Pathology
• 505 Parnassus Avenue, M-551
• San Francisco, CA 94143

Other UCSF Organizational Association(s)

Member

• UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center

Hospital Affiliation(s)

• Moffitt-Long
• Mt. Zion