Professor, Department of Pathology, UCSF
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Education
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, A.B., 1971-75, History
Albany Medical College, Albany NY, M.D., 1975-79
Univ. of California San Francisco, CA, Resident, 1979-81, Pathology
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, Resident, 1981-82, Pathology
New York University, NY (7-12/82) and Cornell Univ. Medical Center, NY (1-6/83), Fellow, 1982-83, Dermatopathology
Professional Experience
- 1985-86
Clinical Instructor, Depart. of Pathology, UCSF
- 1986-91
Assist. Clin. Professor, Depart. of Pathology, UCSF
- 1991-97
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, Dept. of Pathol-ogy, UCSF
- 1997-present
Professor of Clinical Pathology, Dept. of Pathology, UCSF
- Ancillary Positions Held Concurrently:
- 1987-present
Director, UCSF Dermatopathology Service, UCSF
- 1989-present
Director, Fellowship Training Program in Dermatopathology, Depts. of Pathology and Dermatology
- 1990-present
Director, Dermatopathology Section, Dept. of Pathology
- 1997-present
Professor of Clinical Dermatology, Dept. of Dermatology, UCSF
- 1997-present
Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Dermatopathology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Honors & Awards
- 1988
Certificate of Appreciation, Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Martinez, CA - 1992
Honorable Mention, Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate, UCSF - 1997
Teacher of the Year Award, Department of Dermatology, UCSF - 2002
Ackerman Lecture and Award, International Society of Dermatopathology - 2002
Pinkus Lecture and Award, American Society of Dermatopathology - 2004
Founder's Award, American Society of Dermatopathology
Selected Publications
- Leboit PE. Simulators of cutaneous lymphoma: where should our efforts go? Am J Clin Pathol. 2013 Apr; 139(4):414-7.
View on PubMed - Posch C, Moslehi H, Feeney L, Green GA, Ebaee A, Feichtenschlager V, Chong K, Peng L, Dimon MT, Phillips T, Daud AI, McCalmont TH, Leboit PE, Ortiz-Urda S. Combined targeting of MEK and PI3K/mTOR effector pathways is necessary to effectively inhibit NRAS mutant melanoma in vitro and in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Mar 5; 110(10):4015-20.
View on PubMed - North JP, Yeh I, McCalmont TH, Leboit PE. Melanoma ex blue nevus: two cases resembling large plaque-type blue nevus with subcutaneous cellular nodules. J Cutan Pathol. 2012 Dec; 39(12):1094-9.
View on PubMed - Sun BK, Saggini A, Sarin KY, Kim J, Benjamin L, Leboit PE, Khavari PA. Mosaic Activating RAS Mutations in Nevus Sebaceus and Nevus Sebaceus Syndrome. J Invest Dermatol. 2013 Mar; 133(3):824-7.
View on PubMed - Yeh I, McCalmont TH, Leboit PE. Differential expression of PHLDA1 (TDAG51) in basal cell carcinoma and trichoepithelioma. Br J Dermatol. 2012 Nov; 167(5):1106-10.
View on PubMed - Hope TA, Leboit PE, High WA, Fu Y, Brasch RC. Evaluation of imatinib mesylate as a possible treatment for nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in a rat model. Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Jan; 31(1):139-44.
View on PubMed - Dalton SR, Chandler WM, Abuzeid M, Hossler EW, Ferringer T, Elston DM, LeBoit PE. Eosinophils in mycosis fungoides: an uncommon finding in the patch and plaque stages. Am J Dermatopathol. 2012 Aug; 34(6):586-91.
View on PubMed - North JP, McCalmont TH, LeBoit P. Palmar pits associated with the nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome. J Cutan Pathol. 2012 Aug; 39(8):735-8.
View on PubMed - Leboit PE. What genomics has taught me about melanocytic neoplasms. G Ital Dermatol Venereol. 2012 Jun; 147(3):239-49.
View on PubMed - Feito-Rodríguez M, de Lucas-Laguna R, Bastian BC, Leboit P, González-Beato MJ, López-Gutiérrez JC, Requena L, Pizarro A. Nodular lesions arising in a large congenital melanocytic naevus in a newborn with eruptive disseminated Spitz naevi. Br J Dermatol. 2011 Nov; 165(5):1138-42.
View on PubMed - Wang NJ, Sanborn Z, Arnett KL, Bayston LJ, Liao W, Proby CM, Leigh IM, Collisson EA, Gordon PB, Jakkula L, Pennypacker S, Zou Y, Sharma M, North JP, Vemula SS, Mauro TM, Neuhaus IM, Leboit PE, Hur JS, Park K, Huh N, Kwok PY, Arron ST, Massion PP, Bale AE, Haussler D, Cleaver JE, Gray JW, Spellman PT, South AP, Aster JC, Blacklow SC, Cho RJ. Loss-of-function mutations in Notch receptors in cutaneous and lung squamous cell carcinoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 25; 108(43):17761-6.
View on PubMed - Jalas JR, Vemula S, Bezrookove V, Leboit PE, Simko JP, Bastian BC. Metastatic melanoma with striking adenocarcinomatous differentiation illustrating phenotypic plasticity in melanoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 2011 Sep; 35(9):1413-8.
View on PubMed - Girardi M, Kay J, Elston DM, Leboit PE, Abu-Alfa A, Cowper SE. Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: clinicopathological definition and workup recommendations. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2011 Dec; 65(6):1095-1106.e7.
View on PubMed - Durinck S, Ho C, Wang NJ, Liao W, Jakkula LR, Collisson EA, Pons J, Chan SW, Lam ET, Chu C, Park K, Hong SW, Hur JS, Huh N, Neuhaus IM, Yu SS, Grekin RC, Mauro TM, Cleaver JE, Kwok PY, LeBoit PE, Getz G, Cibulskis K, Aster JC, Huang H, Purdom E, Li J, Bolund L, Arron ST, Gray JW, Spellman PT, Cho RJ. Temporal dissection of tumorigenesis in primary cancers. Cancer Discov. 2011 Jul; 1(2):137-43.
View on PubMed - McCalmont TH, LeBoit PE. Polygonal CD34 positivity portends trichilemmal differentiation. J Cutan Pathol. 2010 Sep; 37(9):923, 924-5.
View on PubMed - Vermi W, Fisogni S, Salogni L, Schärer L, Kutzner H, Sozzani S, Lonardi S, Rossini C, Calzavara-Pinton P, LeBoit PE, Facchetti F. Spontaneous regression of highly immunogenic Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV)-induced skin lesions is associated with plasmacytoid dendritic cells and IFN-DC infiltration. J Invest Dermatol. 2011 Feb; 131(2):426-34.
View on PubMed - Boonyaratanakornkit JB, Yue L, Strachan LR, Scalapino KJ, LeBoit PE, Lu Y, Leong SP, Smith JE, Ghadially R. Selection of tumorigenic melanoma cells using ALDH. J Invest Dermatol. 2010 Dec; 130(12):2799-808.
View on PubMed - Gerami P, Barnhill RL, Beilfuss BA, LeBoit P, Schneider P, Guitart J. Superficial melanocytic neoplasms with pagetoid melanocytosis: a study of interobserver concordance and correlation with FISH. Am J Surg Pathol. 2010 Jun; 34(6):816-21.
View on PubMed - Pincus LB, LeBoit PE, Goddard DS, Cho RJ, McCalmont TH. Marked papillary dermal edema--an unreliable discriminator between polymorphous light eruption and lupus erythematosus or dermatomyositis. J Cutan Pathol. 2010 Apr; 37(4):416-25.
View on PubMed - Barnhill RL, Cerroni L, Cook M, Elder DE, Kerl H, LeBoit PE, McCarthy SW, Mihm MC, Mooi WJ, Piepkorn MW, Prieto VG, Scolyer RA. State of the art, nomenclature, and points of consensus and controversy concerning benign melanocytic lesions: outcome of an international workshop. Adv Anat Pathol. 2010 Mar; 17(2):73-90.
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