Jie Chen, MD, PhD

Department Affiliations
Assistant Professor

Interests
Surgical neuropathology, central nervous system tumors, muscle and nerve biopsies, neurodegenerative diseases, ophthalmic pathology

Education and Training
MD, Taishan Medical University, Tai’an, China, 2002
PhD, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan, 2008
Residency, Anatomic Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 2017
Fellowship, Neuropathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 2019
Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology, 2020

Teaching Activities
Residents: brain cutting conferences, neuropathology lectures and unknowns
Medical students: small group discussions
Biology of Disease lectures

Notable Publications

Chen J, Dahiya S. “Update on circumscribed gliomas and glioneuronal tumors.” Current Trends in Neuropathology, An Issue of Surgical Pathology Clinics. 2020 June;13(2) 249-266.

Xu L, Khaddour K, Chen J, Rich KM, Perrin RJ, Campian JL. Pituitary carcinoma: Two case reports and review of literature. World J Clin Oncol. 2020 Feb 24;11(2):91-102.  

Ly CV, Koenig L, Christensen J, Gordon B, Beaumont H, Dahiya S, Chen J, Su Y, Nelson B, Jockel-Balsarotti J, Drain C, Jerome G, Morris JC, Fagan AM, Harms MB, Benzinger TLS, Miller TM, Ances BM. Tau positron emission tomography imaging in C9orf72 repeat expansion carriers. Eur J Neurol. 2019 Sep;26(9):1235-1239.
 
Chen J, Schmidt RE, Dahiya S. Pituitary Adenoma in Pediatric and Adolescent Populations. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2019 Jul 1;78(7):626-632. PMID: 3115468.

Chiang JCH, Harreld JH, Tanaka R, Li X, Wen J, Zhang C, Boué DR, Rauch TM, Boyd JT, Chen J, Corbo JC, Bouldin TW, Elton SW, Liu LL, Schofield D, Lee SC, Bouffard JP, Georgescu MM, Dossani RH, Aguiar MA, Sances RA, Saad AG, Boop FA, Qaddoumi I, Ellison DW. Septal dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor: a comprehensive clinical, imaging, histopathologic, and molecular analysis. Neuro Oncol. 2019 Jun 10;21(6):800-808. 

Chen J, Mizushige T, Nishimune H. Active zone density is conserved during synaptic growth but impaired in aged mice. J Comp Neurol. 2012 Feb 1;520(2):434-52.
 
Chen J, Billings SE, Nishimune H. Calcium channels link the muscle-derived synapse organizer laminin beta 2 to Bassoon and CAST/Erc2 to organize presynaptic active zones. J Neurosci. 2011;31(2):512-25. (highlighted as “This Week in The Journal” article)
 
Shigemoto K, Kubo S, Maruyama N, Hato N, Yamada H, Chen J, Kobayashi N, Mominoki K, Abe Y, Ueda N, Matsuda S. Induction of myasthenia by immunization against muscle-specific kinase. J Clin Invest. 2006;116:1016-24. (highlighted as “In this issue” article) (highlighted in “Editors’ choice”. Science. 2006;311:1837)

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