James Coad

Education:

Undergraduate

• B.S. University of Minnesota

Medical School

• M.D. University of Minnesota - Minneapolis

Training:

Residency

• AP/CP University of Minnesota

Fellowship

• Hematopathology Fellowship - University of Minnesota
• Surgical Pathology Fellowship - University of Minnesota

Certification

• Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology
• Hematopathology

Focus

• Director, Pathology Laboratory for Translational Medicine
• Director, Post-sophomore Fellowship Program
• Director, Hematopathology Fellowship Program

Research Interests:

• Hematopathology
• Medical Device Associated Pathology
• Tissue Thermal Ablation Pathology
• Biomatrix Tissue Ingrowth and Reactions

Selected Publications:

1. Coad JE, Matutes E, Catovsky D. Splenectomy in chronic lymphoproliferative disorders:  A report on 70 cases with review of the literature. Leukemia and Lymphoma 1993; 10:245-264.
2. Coad JE, Olson DJ, Lander TA, McGlennen, RC. The molecular assessment of clonality in lymphoproliferative disorders: I. Immunoglobulin gene rearrangements. Molecular Diagnosis 1996; 1:335-355.
3. Coad JE, Olson DJ, Lander TA, McGlennen, RC. The molecular assessment of clonality in lymphoproliferative disorders: II. T-cell antigen receptor rearrangements. Molecular Diagnosis 1997; 2:69-81.
4. Coad JE, Angel C, Pierpont MEM, Gorlin RJ, Anderson ML. Microcephaly with
   agenesis of corticospinal tracts and arthrogryposis, hypospadias, single umbilical artery,
   hypertelorism, and renal and adrenal hypoplasia - previously undescribed syndrome.
   American Journal of Medical Genetics 1997; 71:458-462.
5. Coad JE, Olson DJ, Christensen DR, Lander, TA, Chibbar R, McGlennen RC, Brunning RD. Correlation of PCR detected clonal gene rearrangements with bone marrow morphology in patients with B-lineage lymphomas. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 1997; 21:1047-1056.
6. Tolar J, Coad JE, Dolan M, Neglia JP. Transplacental transfer of maternal small cell
   carcinoma of the lung. New England Journal of Medicine 2002; 346:1501-1502.
7. Rupp CC, Schmidlin FR, Hoffmann NE, Swanlund DJ, Bischof JC, Coad JE.
   Cryosurgical changes in the porcine kidney: Histologic analysis with thermal history
   correlation. Cryobiology 2002; 45: 167-82.
8. Rupp CC, Nagel TC, Swanlund DJ, Bischof JC, Coad JE. Cryothermic and
   hyperthermic treatment of human leiomyomata and adjacent myometrium: Implications
   for laparoscopic surgery. Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic
   Laparoscopists 2003; 10:90-8.
9. Coad JE, Bischof JC. Histologic differences between cryothermic and hyperthermic
   therapies. SPIE Proceedings 2003; 4954:27-36.
10. Coad JE, Kosari K, Humar A, Sielaff TD. Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) Causes
    Thermal Fixation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Post-Liver Transplant Histopathologic Study. Clinical Transplantation 2003; 17:377-84.
11. Paraskevas S, Coad JE, Gruessner A, Kandaswamy R, Humar A, Sutherland DE,
    Gruessner RW. Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder in pancreas transplantation: a
    single-center experience. Transplantation 2005; 80:613-22.
12. Willis MS, McKenna RW, Peterson LC, Coad JE, Kroft SH. Low blast count myeloid disorders with Auer rods: a clinicopathologic analysis of 9 cases. American Journal of Clinical Pathology 2005; 124:191-8.
13. Wang L, Coad JE, Fortney JM, Gibson LF. VEGF-induced survival of chronic
    lymphocytic leukemia is independent of Bcl-2 phosphorylation. Leukemia 2005;
    19:1486-7.
14. Campbell-Fontaine A, Coad JE, Kovach R, Ericson SG. Adoptive transfer of vitiligo
    after allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant. Adoptive transfer of vitiligo after
    allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant. Bone Marrow Transplant 2005; 36:745-
    746.
15. Coad JE. Thermal Fixation: A central outcome of hyperthermic therapies. SPIE
    Proceedings 2005; 5698:15-22.
16. Wenger SL, Grossfeld PD, Siu BL, Coad JE, Keller FG, Hummel M. Molecular
    characterization of an 11q interstitial deletion in a patient with the clinical features of
    Jacobsen syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2006; 140:704-708.
17. Thomsen SL, Coad JE. Developing clinically successful biomedical devices by
    understanding the pathophysiology of the target tissue: insights from over 25 years at the
    microscope. SPIE Proceedings 2007; 6440:1-15.
18. Person B, Vivas DA, Ruiz D, Talcott M, Coad JE, Wexner SD. Comparison of four
    energy-based vascular sealing and cutting instruments: A porcine model. Surgical
    Endoscopy. 2008; 22:534-8.
19. Malek RS, Kang HW, Coad JE, Koullick E. Greenlight Photoselective 120-Watt 532-nm Lithium Triborate Laser Vaporization Prostatectomy in Living Canines. Journal of Endourology 2009; 5: 837-45.
20. Godwin BL, Coad JE. Healing Responses Following Cryothermic and Hyperthermic
    Tissue Ablation. SPIE Proceedings 2009; 7181:1-9.