Publications & Scholarly Work

Publications

We recognize our colleagues’ contributions to the scientific literature to further advance the important issues that concern the diverse population that we serve. To add a publication, please contact a DEI committee member or one of the chairs.

Authors affiliated with UCSF Pathology or Laboratory Medicine at the time of publication are listed in bold.

• Drs. Ron Balassanian (editor, author), Poonam Vohra (author), and Nikka Khorsandi (author) contributed to a special issue of Diagnostic Cytopathology dedicated entirely to issues of diversity, a landmark for a cytopathology- or pathology-focused journal. Select articles from this issue are included in these entries.
  
  URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10970339/2024/52/8
   
• Khorsandi N, Balassanian R, Vohra P. Fine needle aspiration biopsy in low- and middle-income countries. Diagn Cytopathol. 2024 Aug;52(8):426-432. doi: 10.1002/dc.25317. Epub 2024 Apr 4. PMID: 38576060.
  
  URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38576060/
   
• Khorsandi, N, Ding, CC, VandenBussche, CJ, Verduzco, CS, Greenland, N, & Vohra, P (2023). Urine cytology in patients with gender confirmation surgery and hormone therapy: evaluation of urine cytology performance in an underserved patient population. Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology, 12(4), 267–274. 
  
  URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasc.2023.04.001
   
• Buckland ME, Sarkar C, Santosh V, Al-Hussaini M, Park SH, Tihan T, Ng HK, Komori T. Announcing the Asian Oceanian Society of Neuropathology guidelines for Adapting Diagnostic Approaches for Practical Taxonomy in Resource-Restrained Regions (AOSNP-ADAPTR). Brain Pathol. 2024 Mar;34(2):e13201. doi: 10.1111/bpa.13201. Epub 2023 Aug 13. PMID: 37574221; PMCID: PMC10901611.
  
  URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37574221/

• Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, et al. Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization. Appl Clin Inform. 2023 Jan;14(1):164-171. doi: 10.1055/a-2000-7590. Epub 2022 Dec 19. PMID: 36535703; PMCID: PMC9977563.
  
  URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977563/

• Khorsandi N, Ding CC, VandenBussche CJ, Verduzco CS, Greenland N, Vohra P. Urine cytology in patients with gender confirmation surgery and hormone therapy: evaluation of urine cytology performance in an underserved patient population. J Am Soc Cytopathol. 2023 Jul-Aug;12(4):267-274. doi: 10.1016/j.jasc.2023.04.001 Epub 2023 Apr 11.
  
  URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37150707/

• Ruiz-Cordero R. You Matched, Now What? A practical guide for IMGs on what I wish I knew before I started. Self-published, July 2021. ASIN:‎ B097CQ96VP.
  
  URL:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097CQ96VP

• Schwab ME, Schmidt CN, Gonzalez-Velez JM, Bakhtary S. Racial/ethnic disparities among women receiving intrauterine transfusions for alloimmunization at a single fetal treatment center. Transfusion. 2021 Mar 21. doi: 10.1111/trf.16379. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33745158.
  
  URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33745158/Ipe

• Sharib J, Horvai A, Gray Hazard FK, Daldrup-Link H, Goldsby R, Marina N, DuBois SG. Comparison of Latino and non-Latino patients with Ewing sarcoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2014 Feb 1. doi: 10.1002/pbc.24745. PMID: 23970433 PMCID: PMC4206264.
  
  URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4206264/

• Swanson K, Ravi A, Saleh S, Weia B, Pleasants E, Arvisais-Anhalt S. Effect of Recent Abortion Legislation on Twitter User Engagement, Sentiment, and Expressions of Trust in Clinicians and Privacy of Health Information: Content Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2023 May 12;25:e46655. doi: 10.2196/46655. PMID: 37171873; PMCID: PMC10221497.
  
  URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10221497/

• Ipe TS, Goel R, Howes L, Bakhtary S. The impact of COVID-19 on academic productivity by female physicians and researchers in transfusion medicine. Transfusion. 2021 Feb 1 doi: 10.1111/trf.16306. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33527397; PMCID: PMC8013272.
  
  URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33527397/

• Williams E, Newberg J, Williams KJ, Montesion M, Alexander BM, Lin DI, Elvin J. Prevalence of High-Risk Nonvaccine Human Papillomavirus Types in Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma Among Individuals of African vs Non-African Ancestry. JAMA Network Open. 2021 May 10. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.6481. PMID: 33970261 PMCID: PMC8111484.
  
  URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8111484/

Scholarly Work

• USCAP 2024 Annual Meeting platform presentation: Rabban J, Wadee R, Plotkin A, Usubutun A, Midha D, Stolnicu S, Focchi G, Nucci M.  Feasibility of Applying WHO Essential Criteria for Diagnosis of Female Genital Tumors: Results of an International Practice Survey on Access to WHO-Required Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Tests.
  
  More Info: Feasibility of Applying WHO Essential Criteria for Diagnosis of Female Genital Tumors
  
  In 2024, Dr. Joseph Rabban was appointed to the World Health Organization Tumor Classification’s subcommittee on Low/Middle Income Countries based on the work above and on his role as education co-chair of the International Society of Gynecological Pathology. This committee is developing recommendations to guide the development of the 6th edition series of WHO Tumor Classification “Blue Books” on providing criteria that can applied in resource-constrained Low/Middle Income Countries, with an aim on mitigating a health disparity gap as IHC and molecular diagnostic testing becomes more and more integrated as essential criteria for tumor diagnosis.
   
• USCAP 2023 Annual Meeting platform presentation: Neslihan Kayraklioglu, Kristie White, Ursula Else Lang. An Institutional Diversity Equity and Inclusion Survey and Identification of Action Items to Improve the Climate in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
  
  Dr. Nesli Kayraklioglu designed and implemented a DEI assessment of the Departments of Anatomic Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She developed the survey through an iterative process with faculty and disseminated the survey to collect data from December 2020 to January 2021. The survey collected 164 responses across faculty, trainees and staff, and the results were used to develop a road map of actionable items to improve the DEI climate in the respective departments. The DEI survey data and action items were presented at the Departmental Grand Rounds in August 2022. Following Grand Rounds, the data was further analyzed and submitted and accepted for a platform presentation at the 2023 USCAP Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
   
• Invited presentation, National Medical Association Annual Convention, August 2024: Dr. Beth Ruben has been invited to present. The title of Dr. Ruben's talk is "Melanonychia: Focusing on Patients of Color."
   
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI): Dr. Rosalyn Sayaman is the recipient of the 5-year K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01CA279498) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI).