Kwun Wah Wen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, UCSF
Education
University of Washington, Seattle, BS, 06/2004, (Magna Cum Laude) Biochemistry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MD, 05/2012, Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PhD, 06/2010, Microbiology and Immunology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Resident, 07/2013, Internal Medicine
University of Pennsylvania, Postdoctoral Associate, 05/2014, Hematology
University of California, San Francisco, Resident, 06/2016, Pathology
University of California, San Francisco, Fellow, 06/2017, Hematopathology
University of California, San Francisco, Fellow/Chief Resident, 06/2018, Gastrointestinal/ Liver Pathology
Honors & Awards
- 2001
Mary Gates Scholarship - 2002
Ronald E. McNair Presidential Scholarship - 2003
Herschel and Caryl Roman Undergraduate Science Scholarship - 2004
American Institute of Chemists Foundation Student Award - 2004
Phi Beta Kappa - 2004
Distinction in Biochemistry - 2004
Medical Scientist Training Program - 2006
Harold C. Pillsbury, M.D. Student Research Award - 2009
Lineberger Annual Scientific Competition Winner - 2010
University Cancer Research Fund Scholarship - 2010
Annual G. Philip Manire Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award - 2010
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Graduate Fellow Award in Basic Sciences - 2017
Best Abstract Award, International Association of Chinese Pathologists - 2017
Arthur Purdy Stout Stipend Award - 2018
Best Abstract Award (2nd place in platform), Chinese American Pathologists Association - 2018
Best Abstract Award (runner up), Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society - 2019
F. Stephen Vogel Award, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Selected Publications
- Lauw MIS, Lucas CG, Ohgami RS, Wen KW Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas: A Diagnostic Overview of Key Histomorphologic, Immunophenotypic, and Genetic Features. View on PubMed
- Chang WC, M Yeh B, Chu L, Kim SY, Wen KW, Chiu SH, Ding CC, Wu EH, Roberts JP, Huang GS, Hsu HH Post-operative assessment in patients after liver transplantation: imaging parameters associated with 1-year graft failure. View on PubMed
- Freise J, Mena J, Wen KW, Stoller M, Ho S, Corvera C A rare presentation of hepatolithiasis in an adolescent patient: A case report. View on PubMed
- Wen KW, Fakhri B, Menke J, Ruiz-Cordero R, Gill RM, Ohgami RS Complexities in the diagnosis of large B-cell lymphomas, classic Hodgkin lymphomas and overlapping peripheral T-cell lymphomas simplified: An evidence-based guide. View on PubMed
- Yamamoto K, Venida A, Yano J, Biancur DE, Kakiuchi M, Gupta S, Sohn ASW, Mukhopadhyay S, Lin EY, Parker SJ, Banh RS, Paulo JA, Wen KW, Debnath J, Kim GE, Mancias JD, Fearon DT, Perera RM, Kimmelman AC Autophagy promotes immune evasion of pancreatic cancer by degrading MHC-I. View on PubMed
- Wen KW, Rabinovitch PS, Wang D, Mattis AN, Ferrell LD, Choi WT Utility of DNA flow cytometry in distinguishing between malignant and benign intrahepatic biliary lesions. View on PubMed
- Wen KW, Umetsu SE, Goldblum JR, Gill RM, Kim GE, Joseph NM, Rabinovitch PS, Kakar S, Lauwers GY, Choi WT DNA flow cytometric and interobserver study of crypt cell atypia in inflammatory bowel disease. View on PubMed
- Raghavan K, Wen KW, Small EJ, Ha P, Flavell RR Incidentally Detected Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma on 18F-Fluciclovine PET/CT. View on PubMed
- Wen KW, Kim GE, Rabinovitch PS, Wang D, Mattis AN, Choi WT Diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of ampullary dysplasia by DNA flow cytometric analysis of paraffin-embedded tissue. View on PubMed
- Mukhtar RA, Holland M, Sieber DA, Wen KW, Rugo HS, Kadin ME, Bean GR Synchronous Breast Implant-associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma and Invasive Carcinoma: Genomic Profiling and Management Implications. View on PubMed
- Wen KW, Gill RM Immature Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase Positive B Cells are Detected in a Subset of Adult and Pediatric Liver Biopsies. View on PubMed
- Wen KW, Rabinovitch PS, Wang D, Huang D, Mattis AN, Choi WT Utility of DNA Flow Cytometric Analysis of Paraffin-embedded Tissue in the Risk Stratification and Management of 'Indefinite for dysplasia' in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease. View on PubMed
- Lewin SM, Wen KW, Velayos FS, Mahadevan U, Beck KR How Dye May Prevent Dying from Cancer: Perceiving Imperceptible Dysplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. View on PubMed
- Abrahams CL, Li X, Embry M, Yu A, Krimm S, Krueger S, Greenland NY, Wen KW, Jones C, DeAlmeida V, Solis WA, Matheny S, Kline T, Yam AY, Stafford R, Wiita AP, Hallam T, Lupher M, Molina A Targeting CD74 in multiple myeloma with the novel, site-specific antibody-drug conjugate STRO-001. View on PubMed
- Choi WT, Wen KW, Rabinovitch PS, Huang D, Mattis AN, Gill RM DNA content analysis of colorectal serrated lesions detects an aneuploid subset of inflammatory bowel disease-associated serrated epithelial change and traditional serrated adenomas. View on PubMed
- Wen KW, Rabinovitch PS, Huang D, Mattis AN, Lauwers GY, Choi WT Use of DNA flow cytometry in the diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of gastric epithelial dysplasia. View on PubMed
- Wen KW, Grenert JP, Joseph NM, Shafizadeh N, Huang A, Hosseini M, Kakar S Genomic profile of appendiceal goblet cell carcinoid is distinct compared to appendiceal neuroendocrine tumor and conventional adenocarcinoma. View on PubMed
- Bhavanasi D, Wen KW, Liu X, Vergez F, Danet-Desnoyers G, Carroll M, Huang J, Klein PS Signaling mechanisms that regulate ex vivo survival of human acute myeloid leukemia initiating cells. View on PubMed
- Bean GR, Wen KW, Horvai AE Adipocyte size variability in benign and malignant lipomatous tumors and morphologic mimics: a quantitative definition using digital pathology. View on PubMed
- Wen KW, Hale G, Shafizadeh N, Hosseini M, Huang A, Kakar S Appendiceal goblet cell carcinoid: common errors in staging and clinical interpretation with a proposal for an improved terminology. View on PubMed