Jeffrey P. North, MD

Jeffrey P. North, MD

Professor
Pathology
Division
Dermatopathology
Specialty Areas
Dermatopathology

UCSF
Pathology, Box 1790
1701 Divisadero Street, Room 280
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States

Hospital Affiliations
UCSF Parnassus Heights
UCSF Mount Zion
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco VA Health Care System
Other UCSF Organizational Association(s)
  • UCSF Department of Dermatology
Research and Clinical Interests

Melanocytic tumors; cutaneous adnexal tumors; inflammatory skin disease; molecular dermatopathology

Selected Publications

Liu Y, Wang H, Taylor M, Cook C, Martínez-Berdeja A, North JP, Harirchian P, Hailer AA, Zhao Z, Ghadially R, Ricardo-Gonzalez RR, Grekin RC, Mauro TM, Kim E, Choi J, Purdom E, Cho RJ, Cheng JB. Classification of human chronic inflammatory skin disease based on single-cell immune profiling. Sci Immunol. 2022 Apr 15;7(70):eabl9165. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abl9165. Epub 2022 Apr 15. PMID: 35427179; PMCID: PMC9301819.

Shain AH, Yeh I, Kovalyshyn I, Sriharan A, Talevich E, Gagnon A, Dummer R, North J, Pincus L, Ruben B, Rickaby W, D'Arrigo C, Robson A, Bastian BC. The Genetic Evolution of Melanoma from Precursor Lesions. N Engl J Med. 2015 Nov 12;373(20):1926-36. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1502583. PMID: 26559571.

North JP, Golovato J, Vaske CJ, Sanborn JZ, Nguyen A, Wu W, Goode B, Stevers M, McMullen K, Perez White BE, Collisson EA, Bloomer M, Solomon DA, Benz SC, Cho RJ. Cell of origin and mutation pattern define three clinically distinct classes of sebaceous carcinoma. Nat Commun. 2018 May 14;9(1):1894. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04008-y. PMID: 29760388; PMCID: PMC5951856.

North JP, Vemula SS, Bastian BC. Chromosomal copy number analysis in melanoma diagnostics. Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1102:199-226. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-727-3_12. PMID: 24258981.

North JP. Molecular Genetics of Sebaceous Neoplasia. Surg Pathol Clin. 2021 Jun;14(2):273-284. doi: 10.1016/j.path.2021.03.005. PMID: 34023105.