• 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 interest is the advancement of diagnostic dermatopathology. Our unit is particularly active as a bridge between conventional microscopy and molecular methods. In the realm of cutaneous lymphoma, we provide comprehensive consultation and classification, using both immunophenotyping and genotypic analysis (via both PCR and traditional Southern blot methods) as diagnostic supplements. We also provide consultative diagnoses for a large volume of melanocytic neoplasms, and a recent advance has been the clinical application of comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to the evaluation of a broad spectrum of melanocytic neoplasms, including melanoma, Spitz’s nevi, and cellular blue nevi, in collaboration with Dr. Boris Bastian.

Selected Publications

• Denianke KS, Frieden IJ, Cowan MJ, Williams ML, McCalmont TH. Cutaneous manifestations of maternal engraftment in patients with severe combined immunodeficiency: A clinicopathologic study. Bone Marrow Transplantation, 2001, 28:227-33
• El-Shabrawi-Caelen L, Cerroni L, Medeiros LJ, McCalmont TH. Hypopigmented mycosis fungoides: frequent expression of a CD8+ T-cell phenotype. Am J Surg Pathol. 2002, Apr;26(4):450-7
• Zackheim HS, Jones C, Leboit PE, Kashani-Sabet M, McCalmont TH, Zehnder J. Lymphomatoid papulosis associated with mycosis fungoides: a study of 21 patients including analyses for clonality. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2003 Oct;49(4):620-3
• Jeng BH, Margolis TP, Chandra NS, McCalmont TH. Ocular findings as a presenting sign of hydroa vacciniforme. Br J Ophthalmol. 2004 Nov;88(11):1478-9. No abstract available
• Mirmirani P, Willey A, Headington JT, Stenn K, McCalmont TH, Price VH. Primary cicatricial alopecia: histopathologic findings do not distinguish clinical variants. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005 Apr;52(4):637-43

Selected Awards

• 1990 Century Club, Department of Pathology , Wake Forest University Medical Center
• 1994 Teacher of the Year, Department of Dermatology, UCSF
• 2002 Teacher of the Year, Department of Dermatology, UCSF
• 2005 Teacher of the Year, Department of Dermatology, UCSF

• Professor of Clinical Pathology and Dermatology; Co-Director, UCSF Dermatopathology Service
• Pathology
• Dermatopathology

Specialty Area

Dermatopathologist

Contact Information

• tim.mccalmont@ucsf.edu
• Phone: (415) 353-7537

• 1701 Divisadero Street, Room 350
• San Francisco, CA 94115

Web Site

• http://mountzion.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/...

Hospital Affiliation(s)

• Mt. Zion