Nancy Yerkes Greenland, MD, PhD

Nancy Yerkes Greenland, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Pathology
Specialty Areas
Cytopathology
Genitourinary Pathology

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Hospital Affiliations
UCSF Mission Bay
Research and Clinical Interests

Cytopathology and genitourinary pathology.

Selected Publications
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Nikka Khorsandi, Yue Peng, Ronald Balassanian, Z. Laura Tabatabai, Tze Wai Tiffany Shing, Poonam Vohra. Utility and Performance of Cell Blocks in Urine Cytology: Experience at Three Teaching Hospitals. Cancer Cytopathology, 2023, In press. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncy.22730. PMID 37291084.
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Yue Peng, Poonam Vohra, Z. Laura Tabatabai. Cytologic Features of Micropapillary Variant Urothelial Carcinoma in Urinary Tract Cytology. Diagnostic Cytopathology, 2022 Oct; 50 (10): E280-E284. PMID 35593193.
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Fred Deiter, Daniel R. Calabrese, Steven R. Hays, Jasleen Kukreja, Lorriana E. Leard, Nicholas A. Kolaitis, Jeffrey A. Golden, Jonathan P. Singer, John R. Greenland. Inflammation on Bronchoalveolar Lavage Cytology is Associated with Decreased Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction-Free Survival. Clinical Transplantation, 2022 Mar 5:e14639. PMID 35246990.
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Matthew R. Cooperberg, Anthony C. Wong, Emily Chan, Peter R. Carroll, Jeffry P. Simko, Bradley A. Stohr. Molecular Risk Classifier Score and Biochemical Recurrence Risk are Associated with Cribriform Pattern Type in Gleason 3+4=7 Prostate Cancer. Investigative and Clinical Urology, 2022 Jan; 63(1):27-33. PMID 34983120.
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Chuanyi Li, Stephen Cook, Yue Peng. Diagnosis of anaplastic lymphoma kinase-negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma on pleural fluid cytology. Diagnostic Cytopathology, 2021 Aug 18. doi: 10.1002/dc.24855. PMID 34406711.
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Rebecca Wolsky, Teresa M. Darragh, Poonam Vohra. Gastric-type endocervical adenocarcinoma and cervical cytology: Experience at a general hospital and review of the literature. Cytopathology 2021 Jan; 32(1): 75-83. PMID: 32851700.
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Janet E. Cowan, Emily Chan, Peter R. Carroll, Bradley A. Stohr, Jeffry P. Simko. Prostate Biopsy Histopathologic Features Correlate with a Commercial Gene Expression Assay's Reclassification of Patient NCCN Risk Category. The Prostate 2020 Dec; 80(16): 1421-1428. PMID 32946625.
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Jessica A. Van Ziffle, Yen-Chun Liu, Zhongxia Qi, Sonam Prakash, Linlin Wang. Genomic Analysis in Myeloid Sarcoma and Comparison with Paired Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Human Pathology, 2020 Nov 21; 108: 76-83. PMID 33232718.
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Janet E. Cowan, Li Zhang, Peter R. Carroll, Emily Chan, Bradley A. Stohr, Jeffry P. Simko. Expansile Cribriform Gleason Pattern 4 has more Histopathologic and Molecular Features of Aggressiveness and Greater Risk of Biochemical Failure compared to Glomerulation Gleason Pattern 4. The Prostate 2020 May; 80(8): 653-659. PMID 32220141.
  • Nancy Y. Greenland, Li Zhang, Janet E. Cowan, Peter R. Carroll, Bradley A. Stohr, Jeffry P. Simko. Correlation of a Commercial Genomic Risk Classifier with Histologic Patterns in Prostate Cancer. The Journal of Urology 2019 Jul; 202(1): 90-95. PMID 30810466. 
Awards
  • Graduated magna cum laude with Departmental Honors in Chemistry, Columbia College, Columbia University, May 2005. 
  • Jean Dreyfuss Boussevain Undergraduate Scholarship for Excellence in Chemistry, Columbia University, May 2005. 
  • Dean’s List, all eight semesters, Columbia College, Columbia University, September 2001 - May 2005. 
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