Lyska Emerson, MD

Associate Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties

• Pulmonary pathology
• Head and neck pathology
• Autopsy pathology

Education

• Medical Degree—University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• Residency—Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• Fellowship—Surgical Pathology , University of Utah

Certification/Affiliations

• American Board of Pathology, Anatomic Pathology

Research Interests

• Lung cancer genomics

Awards

• Paul E. Strandijord Young Investigator Award from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists

Recent Publications

• Cook GW, et al. Structural variation and its potential impact on genome instability: novel discoveries in the EGFR landscape by long-read sequencing. PLoS One. 2020;15(1):e0226340.
• Cowman S, et al. Macrophage HIF-1-alpha is an independent prognostic indicator in kidney cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2020;26(18):4970–82.
• Corean J, et al. Cribriform-morular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma with poorly differentiated features: a case report with immunohistochemical and molecular genetic analysis. Int J Surg Pathol. 2019;27(3):294–304.
• Boylan KE, et al. Pulmonary mycobacterial spindle cell pseudotumor: a report of 3 cases including a practical approach to histopathologic recognition of this unusual entity. Int J Surg Pathol. 2018 Oct;26(7):629–34.
• Abou-Al-Shaar H, et al. Multifocal cavernous hemangioma of the jugular foramen: a rare skull base vascular malformation. J Neurosurg. 2018;131(1):109–13.
• Keefe AC, et al. An atypical presentation of cardiac tamponade and periorbital swelling in a patient with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis: a case report. J Med Case Rep. 2017;11(1):271.
• Zhang X, et al. Targeted intraceptor nanoparticle for neovascular macular degeneration: preclinical dose optimization and toxicology assessment. Mol Ther. 2017;25(7):1606–15.
• Cirulis MM, et al. Pulmonary arterial hypertension in primary amyloidosis. Pulm Circ. 2016;6(2):244–8.