Kajsa Affolter, MD

Assistant Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties

• Gastrointestinal 
• Pancreatic
• Hepatobiliary Pathology

Education

• Medical Degree—Kansas University School of Medicine
• Residency—Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine
• Fellowship—Gastrointestinal Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Certification/Affiliations

• American Board of Pathology

Research Interests

• Pancreatic neoplasia
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Gastrointestinal polyposis syndromes

Recent Publications

• Kinsey CG, et al. Protective autophagy elicited by RAF→MEK→ERK inhibition suggests a treatment strategy for RAS-driven cancers. Nat Med. 2019 Apr;25(4):620–7.
• Kanth P, Affolter K. Worming your way through the gastrointestinal tract: a case of strongyloidiasis. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Jul;16(7):A33.
• Delker DA, et al. Chemoprevention with cyclooxygenase and epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors in familial adenomatous polyposis patients: mRNA signatures of duodenal neoplasia. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2018 Jan;11(1):4–15.
• Johnson J, et al. CMV disease in IBD: comparison of diagnostic tests and correlation with disease outcome. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2018 Jun 8;24(7):1539–46.
• Bice BD, et al. Environmental enrichment induces pericyte and IgA-dependent wound repair and lifespan extension in a colon tumor model. Cell Rep. 2017 Apr 25;19(4):760–73.
• Affolter K, et al. Doxycycline-induced gastrointestinal injury. Hum Pathol. 2017 Aug;66:212–5.
• Affolter K, et al. Feasibility of large-scale identification of sessile serrated polyp patients using electronic records: a Utah study. Dig Dis Sci. 2017 Jun;62(6):1455–63.
• Caliskan A, et al. Intramucosal lipomas of the colon implicate Cowden syndrome. Mod Pathol. 2018 Apr;31(4):643–51.
• El Jabbour T, et al. PD-L1 protein expression in tumour cells and immune cells in mismatch repair protein-deficient and -proficient colorectal cancer: the foundation study using the SP142 antibody and whole section immunohistochemistry. J Clin Pathol. 2018 Jan;71(1):46–51.