UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE



Renee Frank, M.D.

February, 2013

Home Address: 103 Dobson Court

Media, PA 19063

Office Address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

3400 Spruce Street, 6 Founders

Philadelphia, PA 19104

Education: 2002-06 B.S. University of Scranton (Biochemistry Major; Theology, Biology, Psychology Minors), Scranton, PA

2006-10 M.D. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA

Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments:

2010-Current Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Resident, PGY-2, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Awards, Honors and Membership in Honorary Societies:

2012 Poster of Distinction Award at the American Transplant Congress

2012 Young Investigator Award Nominee in Cardiovascular pathology

2010 Volunteer Faculty Association Student Research Award at Jefferson Medical College

2009 Alpha Omega Alpha

2009 Hobart Amory Hare Medical Honor Society

2006 Summa Cum Laude University of Scranton Graduate

2005 Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Honor Society

2004 Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society

2004 Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology

2004 Phi Lambda Upsilon National Chemistry Honor Society

2004 Alpha Epsilon Delta National Pre-Medical Honor Society

2002 Alpha Lambda Delta National Freshman Honor Society

2001 Pennsylvania Governor’s School of Excellence; Science

Memberships in Professional and Scientific Societies:

National Societies:

American Medical Association (2006- present)

College of American Pathologists (2009- present)

American Society for Clinical Pathology (2010-present)

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Junior Member (2011- present)

Local Societies:

Pennsylvania Association of Pathologist, Philadelphia Regional Chapter

Major Teaching and Clinical Responsibilities for the University of Pennsylvania:

1. Chief resident, Anatomic Pathology, September 2012 – February 2013

2. Clinical and anatomic pathology services

3. Teaching medical students as part of the pathology lab curriculum (Pulmonary, General Pathology, and Male Reproductive blocks)

4. Teaching/mentoring of PGY-1 residents, medical students and external rotating residents in surgical pathology, medical pathology/autopsy, hematopathology, flow cytometry, and transfusion medicine/apheresis

Lectures:

Mesothelial Lineage Markers in Pancreaticobiliary Adenocarcinomas. Given at the Pennsylvania Association of Pathologists Annual Meeting, 21 April 2012, Harrisburg, PA.

Cardiac allograft outcomes: A retrospective study correlating DSA, Endomyocardial biopsy and immunofluorescence. Given at the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology Annual Meeting, 17 March 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Bibliography:

Frank R, Molina MR, Wald J, Goldberg LR, Kamoun M, Lal P: Correlation of Circulating Donor Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies and Presence of C4d in Endomyocardial Biopsy with Heart Allograft Outcomes: A Single Center Retrospective Study. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Accepted, pending publication.

Frank R, Sadri N, Bhatti T, Biegel JA, LiVolsi V, Zhang PJ: Proximal-type epithelioid sarcoma of the head and neck: a study with immunohistochemical and molecular tests. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Oncology. Accepted, pending publication.

Ticehurst EH, Molina MR, Frank R, Kearns J, Lal P, Goldberg LR, Tsai D, Wald J, Kamoun M. Chapter 43 Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Heart

Transplant Patients: Long Term Follow Up of Patients with High Levels of Donor-Directed Anti-DQ Antibodies. In: Cecka JM and Terasaki PI, editors. Clinical Transplants, Los Angeles: UCLA Immunogenetics Center; 2011. p.409-414.

Platform Presentations:

Frank R, Wertheim G, Kamoun M, Lal P: Cardiac allograft outcomes: A retrospective study correlating DSA, Endomyocardial biopsy and

immunofluorescence. Modern Pathology. 25:79A. 2012. (Presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology,

Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2012).

Abstracts:

Frank R, Baloch ZW, Gentile C, Watt CD, LiVolsi VA. Multifocal Fibrosing Thyroiditis and Its Association With Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Using BRAF Pyrosequencing (To be Presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Baltimore, MD, 2013).

Frank R, Ahmad NA, Shah P, Sepulveda AR, Jhala NC. Mesothelin Expression in Pancreatic Mucinous Cysts (To be Presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Baltimore, MD, 2013).

Frank R, Kamoun M, Lal P. Correlations of Donor Specific Antibodies and Acute Rejection With T Cell Subtype Infiltrates in Endomyocardial Biopsies (To be Presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Baltimore, MD, 2013).

Surrey LF, Frank R, Zhang PJ, Furth EE. TTF-1 and Napsin-A are expressed in a subset of cholangiocarcniomas arising from the gallbladder and hepatic ducts: continued caveats for utilization of immunohistochemistry panels. (To be Presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Baltimore, MD, 2013).

Frank R, Molina MR, Wald J, Goldberg LR, Kamoun M, Lal P: Immunologic variances are associated with the development of cardiac

allograft vasculopathy. American Journal of Transplantation 12:383. 2012. (Presented at the American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA June 2012).

Frank R, Sadri N, Bhatti T, Biegel JA, LiVolsi V, Zhang PJ: Proximal-type epithelioid sarcoma of the head and neck: a study with immunohistochemical and molecular tests. Modern Pathology. 25:308A. 2012. (Presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2012).

Zhang L, Frank R, Furth EE, Ziober AF, LiVolsi VA, Zhang PJ: Expression of calretinin and CK5/6 in cholangiocarcinoma. Modern Pathology. 25:427A. 2012. (Presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2012).

Szumski R, Martinez-Cantarin MP, Colombe BW, Farber, JL: The fate of Renal allografts in patients with donor specific antibodies. Modern Pathology. 23:346A. 2010. (Presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Washington DC, 2010).

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