Kymberly A. Gyure

Education:

Undergraduate

• B.A., Northwestern University

Medical School

• M.D., Medical College of Ohio

Training:

Residency

• Anatomic & Clinical Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Fellowship

• Neuropathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Certification

• Anatomic & Clinical Pathology
• Neuropathology

Focus

• Neuropathology
• Neuromuscular Pathology
• Ophthalmic Pathology

Research Interests:

• Neuro-Oncology
• Infections of the central nervous system

Selected Publications:

1. Bafakih, F.F., Daous, Y.M., Gyure, K.A.:  Pathologic diagnosis of Alzheimer disease.  West Virginia Medical Journal 107:30-33, 2011
2. Gyure, K.A.:  West Nile virus infections.  Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology 68:1053-1060, 2009
3. Chamberlain, W.A., Cohen, M.L., Gyure, K.A., et al.:  Interobserver and intraobserver reproducibility in focal cortical dysplasia (malformations of cortical development).  Epilepsia 2009 Oct 8 [Epub ahead of print]
4. Ducatman, B.S., Williams, H.J., Hobbs, G. Gyure, K.A.:  Vital signs:  How early can resident evaluation predict acquisition of competency in surgical pathology?  Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 1:37-44, 2009
5. Armah, H.B., Wang, G., Omalu, B.I., Tesh, R.B., Gyure, K.A., Chute, D.J., Smith, R.D., Dulai, P., Vinters, H.V., Kleinschmidt-Demasters, B.K., Wiley, C.A.:  Systemic distribution of West Nile virus infection:  postmortem immunohistochemical study of six cases.  Brain Pathology 17:354-362, 2007
6. Gyure, K.A., Kaya, B., and Hardman, J.M.:  The Central Nervous System.  In:  Silverberg, S.G., DeLellis, R.A., and Frable, W.J.  Principles and Practice of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology.  New York:  Churchill Livingstone, 2006
7. Laing, J.M., Gober, M.D., Golembewski, E.K., Thompson, S.M., Gyure, K.A., Yarowsky, P.J., Aurelian, L.:  Intranasal administration of the growth-compromised HSV-2 vector ΔRR prevents kainate-induced seizures and neuronal loss in rats and mice.  Molecular Therapy 13:870-881, 2006
8. Gyure KA. Newly defined central nervous system neoplasms. Am J Clin Pathol 2005;123(Suppl 1):S3-S12.
9. Gyure KA. Infections. In: Prayson RA (ed.). Neuropathology. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2005.
10. Ahn ES, Chin LS, Gyure KA, et al. Long-term control after resection and gamma knife surgery of an intracranial clear cell meningioma. J Neurosurg 2005;102:303-306.
11. Crowder CD, Gyure KA, Drachenberg CB, et al. Successful outcome of progressive multifocal leukoenceophalopathy in a renal transplant patient. Am J Transplant 2005;5:1151-1158.
12. Kling E, Mistler E, Gyure KA. Neuropathologic findings in West Nile virus encephalomyelitis. Pathology Case Reviews 2004;9:20-24.
13. Perkins D, Gyure KA, Pereira EF, Aurelian L. Herpes simplex virus type 1-encephalitis has an apoptotic component associated with the activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase. J Neurovirol 2003;9:101-111.
14. Gyure KA, Durham R, Stewart WF, Smialek JE, Troncoso JC. Intraneuronal Aß-amyloid precedes development of amyloid plaques in Down’s syndrome. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2001;125:489-492.
15. Mena H, Morrison AL, Jones RV, Koeller K, Gyure KA. Central neurocytomas express photoreceptor differentiation. Cancer 2001;91:136-143.