Kristan Mertz Lay, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Education
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, M.D., 1994
Residency, Department of Surgery, The University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee
Residency, Department of Pathology, The University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee
Certification
American Board of Pathology, AP & CP
Special Interests
Surgical Pathology
Publications
- Morrison AS, Olson E, Mertz KR, Meier DE. The inaccessibility of advance directives on transfer from ambulatory to acute care settings. JAMA 1995;274:478-82.
- Meier DE, Gold G; Mertz K, Taylor B, Cammer-Paris BE, Seckler A, Mulvihill M. Enhancement of proxy appointment for older persons: physician counseling in the ambulatory setting. JAGS 1996;44:37-43.
- Mertz KR, Baddour LM, Bell JL, Gwin JL. Breast cellulitis following breast conservation therapy: a novel complication of medical progress. Clin Inf Diseases 1998;26:481-86.
- Lay KM, Akin H, Velasco CR, Mancini ML. Axillary hibernoma: an unusual soft tissue tumor. Am Surg 2000;56:747-48.
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