Department of Pathology

Pathology Faculty

Mahlon D. Johnson, M.D., Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor of Pathology
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center

Education

M.D., University of Tennessee 1981
Ph.D., University of Tennessee 1984
Research Fellow, Cell Biology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center Dallas 1985
Resident in Anatomic Pathology, Vanderbilt University 1984-87
Fellow in Neuropathology, Vanderbilt University, 1987-89
Research Fellow, Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University 1989-93

Certification

American Board of Pathology (Anatomic Pathology) 1988
American Board of Pathology (Neuropathology) - 1989

Special Interests

Neurosurgical pathology
Neurodegenerative disorders

Recent Publications

1. Johnson MD, Kim P, Tourteloote W, Federspiel CF. Transforming growth factor B and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 are elevated in cerebrospinal fluid of immunocompromised patients with HIV-1 infection. J Neuro-AIDS 2: 33-43, 2004.
2. Johnson MD, Mitchell AR, Troup EC, Bhowmick DA, Wait SD, Aulino J, Zhuang Z, Weil RJ. Congenital cystic hemangioblastomas of the cerebral hemisphere in a neonate without alteration in the VHL gene. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2004.
3. Zhuang Z, Lee YS, Zeng W, Furuta M, Valyi-Nagy T, Johnson MD, Vnencak-Jones CL, Woltjer RL, Weil RJ. Molecular genetic and proteomic analysis of synchronous malignant gliomas. Neurology. 2004 Jun 22;62(12):2316-9.
4. Jennings MT, Cmelak A, Johnson MD, Moots PL, Pais R, Shyr Y. Differential responsiveness among "high risk" pediatric brain tumors in a pilot study of dose-intensive induction chemotherapy. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2004 Jul;43(1):46-54.
5. Schwartz SA, Weil RJ, Thompson RC, Shyr Y, Moore JH, Toms SA, Johnson MD, Caprioli RM. Proteomic-based prognosis of brain tumor patients using direct-tissue matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry. Cancer Res. 2005 Sep 1;65(17):7674-81.
6. Toms SA, Lin WC, Weil RJ, Johnson MD, Jansen ED, Mahadevan-Jansen A. Intraoperative optical spectroscopy identifies infiltrating glioma margins with high sensitivity. Neurosurgery. 2005 Oct;57(4 Suppl):382-91; discussion 382-91.
7. Stevenson CB, Johnson MD, Thompson RC. Cystic cavernous malformation of the cerebellopontine angle. 2005 Nov;103(5):931.
8. Johnson M, Toms S. Mitogenic signal transduction pathways in meningiomas: novel targets for meningioma chemotherapy? J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2005 Dec;64(12):1029-36. Review.
9. Mangels KJ, Johnson MD, Weil RJ. 35-year-old Woman with Progressive Bilateral Leg Weakness. Brain Pathol. 2006 Apr;16(2):183-4.
10. Johnson MD, Stevenson CB, Thompson RC, Atkinson J, Boyer P. Myxoid meningioma. Brain Pathol (in press).

Invited Book Chapters:
  1.       Johnson, M.D.  Pathology of Ganglion cell tumors. In: Michael L.J. Apuzzo L.J. ed. Benign Cerebral Glioma, Park Ridge, Ill. American Assoc. Neurological Surgery, 1995:115-124.
  2.       Johnson, M.D., Kim, P., Montine, T., and Maciunas, R.J.  Stereotactic brain biopsy:  pathologic considerations.  In: Alexander III,E. and R.J. Maciunas eds.Advanced Neuro­surgical Navigation. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, 1999:217-229.
3.    Moots P.L., Johnson M.D., Jennings M.T., Cmelak, A.T. Gliomas and other neuroepithelial neoplasms. In: Raghavan D, Brecher ML, Johnson DH, Meropol NJ, Moots, PL,and Thigpen JT. (eds.). Textbook of Uncommon Cancer New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1999:341-352.
4.   Petty, M.M. Jennings, M.T., Johnson, M.D., Cmelak, A.T., Sinatra, R. Retinoblastoma. In: Raghavan D, Brecher ML, Johnson DH, Meropol NJ, Moots, PL,and Thigpen JT (eds.) Textbook of Uncommon Cancer :New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1999:341-352.
5.      Atkinson, J.A., Johnson, M.D., Montine, T.J., and Whetsell, W. O. Muscle and nerve biopsy (Chapter 54). In Noel Werden, Richard Cote, Saul Suster and Lawerence Weiss (eds.) Modern Surgical Pathology: New York, W.B.Saunders. 2002.
Books:
Working on a Miracle, by Mahlon Johnson, M.D., with (editorial) assistance of Joseph Olshan, 1997 (Hardback), 1998 (Paperback). Bantam, Dell, Doubleday; translated into eleven languages; fourteen foreign publishers.

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