Name: Jeffry P. Simko, MD, PhD
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Name: Jeffry P. Simko, MD, PhD
University of California San Francisco CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Jeffry P. Simko, MD, PhD Positions: Professor of Clinical Pathology, Step 1 (effective 7/1/13) Department of Anatomic Pathology, School of Medicine Prepared: 1-14 Professor of Clinical Pathology, Department of Urology (secondary) Professor of Clinical Pathology, Dept. of Radiation Oncology (secondary) Associate, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) Director, Genitourinary Program Tissue Core (HDFCCC) Chair, UCSF Genitourinary Tissue Utilization Committee (HDFCCC) Associate Director, RTOG Biospecimen Resource (An NCI Sponsored National Cooperative Group Resource) Address: Room B-620, Box 1785 UCSF Mount Zion Medical Center 1600 Divisadero Street San Francisco, CA 94115-1785 Ph: (415) 353-7581 Pg: (415) 443-0534 FAX: (415) 353-7276 Email: [email protected] http://www.ucsf.edu/pathol/people/simko.htm http://cc.ucsf.edu/people/simko_jeffry.html EDUCATION: 1981-1985 1985-1990 1992-1996 1996-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 University of Delaware, Newark, DE University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC University of California, San Francisco, CA Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA University of California, San Francisco, CA B.S. Ph.D. M.D. Resident Fellow Fellow Chemistry Analytical Chemistry Medicine Pathology Molecular Pathology Surgical Pathology LICENSES, CERTIFICATION: 1998 -now 2000 2003 Medical License (#A064515), Medical Board of California, Sacramento, CA Board Certification, Anatomic & Clinical Pathology (#00-309), Am. Board of Pathology Board Certification, Molecular Genetic Pathology (#1921), American Board of Pathology PRINCIPAL POSITIONS HELD: Jeff Simko 1983-1985 1988-1990 1991-1992 2002-2003 2003-2007 2003-2007 2007 – 2013 2007 – 2013 2011 – 2013 2013 - now 2013 - now 2013 - now Student Employee, Pioneering Research Lab, E.I. du Pont Inc., Wilmington, DE Visiting Engineer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY Research Associate, Frontier Research Program, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wakou-shi, Saitama, Japan Assistant Clinical Professor, Dept. of Anatomic Pathology, UC San Francisco Assistant Professor of Pathology, Dept. of Anatomic Pathology, UC San Francisco Assistant Professor of Pathology, Department of Urology, UC San Francisco Associate Professor of Pathology, Dept. of Anatomic Pathology, UC San Francisco Associate Professor of Pathology, Department of Urology, UC San Francisco Associate Professor of Pathology, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF Professor of Pathology, Deptartment of Anatomic Pathology, UC San Francisco Professor of Pathology, Department of Urology, UC San Francisco Professor of Pathology, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF OTHER POSITIONS HELD CONCURRENTLY (Pathology): 2000-2001 2001-2002 2000 - 2003 2002 - 2003 7/2002 2002 – present 2002 – present 2002 - present 8/2003 2004 2008 – 2010 2008 – now 2010 – now 2010 – 2012 Clinical Fellow, Molecular Pathology, Brigham and Womens’ Hospital, Boston, MA Clinical Fellow, Surgical Pathology, UCSF Hospitals, San Francisco, CA Consultant, Anatomic Pathology, Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA Consultant, Anatomic Pathology, Incyte Genomics Corporation, Palo Alto, CA Mini-Fellowship, Genitourinary Pathology, with Dr. Victor Reuter, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY Director, Genitourinary Tissue Core, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center Chair, Genitourinary Tissue Utilization Committee, UCSF Staff Pathologist, UCSF Department of Anatomic Pathology Mini-Fellowship, Genitourinary Pathology, with Dr. Jonathan Epstein, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD Co-Director, Molecular Pathology Laboratory, UCSF Departments of Anatomic Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Chair, South bay Pathology Society (SBPS) Nominating Committee Associate Director, RTOG Biospecimen Resource (Radiation Therapy Oncology Group), An NCI Sponsored National Cooperative Group Resource ALLIANCE Pathology Group Cadre Member Pathologist (An NCI Sponsored National Cooperative Group). Director, Department of Anatomic Pathology Genitourinary Fellowship Program OTHER EXPERIENCE (Non-pathology) 1986-1990 1993 1993-1994 9/94 - 12/94 Research Assistant, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chemistry Department Medical Student Researcher, Department of Biochemistry, UNC School of Medicine Medical Student Researcher, Dept. of Maternal and Fetal Med, UNC School of Med. Visiting Scientist, Department of Biophysics, Beijing Medical University, P.R. China HONORS AND AWARDS: 1 Jeff Simko 1984 1994 1994 1994 10/97-12/97 4/98-6/98 3/00-6/00 2000 American Chemical Society, U. of Delaware Analytical Chemistry Award Howard Hughes Trust Fund Fellowship, University of North Carolina SOM UNC School of Medicine Foreign Fellowship Award Medical Alumni Association Research Fellowship, UNC School of Medicine Chief Resident, Department of Anatomic Pathology, SF VA Medical Center Chief Resident, Department of Anatomic Pathology, SF General Hospital Chief Resident, Department of Laboratory Medicine, SF General Hospital Travel Award, College of American Pathologists Strategic Science Seminar KEYWORDS/AREAS OF INTEREST: General Surgical Pathology, Genitourinary Pathology. Urologic Oncology. Molecular Pathology, Molecular Diagnostics and Biomarkers of Malignancies, including tumor antigens and antibodies. Radiology-Pathology Correlations in Genitourinary Malignancy. Tissue Banking PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES SUMMARY OF CLINICAL ACTIVITIES 2002 - now Surgical Pathology Clinical Service, UCSF Department of Anatomic Pathology (evaluation and case sign-out of UCSF patient surgical and biopsy specimens, intra-operative consultations and frozen sections, outside consultations sent to me from community pathologists; ~20 weeks per year) 2002 - now 2002 – now meetings/year 2002 – 2007 2004 2006 – 2007 2006 – now 2010 – now Surgical Pathology On-Call Service, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, 7 weeks/year Urologic Oncology Tumor Board, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, 24 Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, ad hoc, ~3 / year Co-Director, Molecular Pathology Laboratory, UCSF Clinical Laboratory. Proctor, Molecular Pathology Laboratory Clinical Faculty. Head & Neck Tumor Board, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, ad hoc, ~ 3 / year Proctor, New Surgical Pathology Clinical Faculty. My clinical service responsibilities are three-fold. First, is participation in the general surgical pathology service for the Medical Center, and involves evaluation of tissue specimens (surgical and biopsy specimens) taken from patients undergoing procedures at UCSF. This evaluation includes general histology, immunohistochemistry and special stains, and intra-operative consultations and frozen section diagnosis, with reports generated and distributed to clinicians for patient care. This also involves on-call service for pathologic diagnosis during off-hours. My general surgical pathology service, and my on-call service involve 14 weeks per year and 9 weeks per year respectively. My second responsibility is as the specialist in genitourinary pathology, and involves participation in urologic oncology tumor board and quality control of urologic oncology surgical and biopsy specimen handling and sign-out. I’m also a consultant on challenging pathology cases related to genitourinary oncology , which takes ~7 weeks/year in aggregate. This involves review of cases from within and outside UCSF, where I’ve been solicited to render an opinion on a case due to my expertise and experience within this area of pathology. I was also the proctor for faculty responsible for the clinical molecular pathology laboratory (the Medical Director of this Lab, as well as others), and I’m currently serving as the proctor for new faculty and clinical instructors (usually from one to four individuals per year) involved in Surgical Pathology case sign-out at Mount Zion. This involves review of all of their genitourinary pathology cases for three months each year. 2 Jeff Simko PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Memberships 1991 – 1992 1992 – 1996 2001 – now 2001 – now 2001 – 2010 2004 – now 2005 – now 2006 - now 2009 – 2010 pending Member, Japan Applied Physics Society (JAPS) Member, American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Member, US and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Fellow, College of American Pathologists (CAP) Fellow, American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) Associate Member, South Bay Pathology Society (SBPS) Regular member, California Society of Pathologists (CSP) Associate Member, American Urologic Association (AUA) Regular Member, American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) International Society of Urologic Pathologists (ISUP) SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS: 1992 – 1996 2002 – now 2004 2005 2005 2006 2007 – 2008 2007 – 2011 2010 – now 2012 – now Associate Editor, FAX: The Medical Student Research Journal (UNC-SOM) Ad hoc referee, Journal of Urology (20 manuscripts in 12 years) Ad hoc referee, J. National Comprehensive Cancer Network (1 manuscript in 1 year) Ad hoc referee, American Journal of Pathology (1 manuscript in 1 year) Ad hoc referee, Human Pathology (1 manuscript in 1 year) Ad hoc Referee, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (1 script in 1 year) Ad hoc Referee, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (3 manuscripts in 2 years). Ad hoc Referee, European Journal of Urologic Pathology. Ad hoc Referee, Urology Journal (6 manuscripts in 3 years). Ad hoc Referee, British Journal of Urology International (1 manuscript in 1 year). INVITED PRESENTATIONS International 2005 3rd Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology (IDDST), Shanghai, PR China 2006 4th Annual Congress of IDDST, Dalian, PR China National 2008 2009 2009 2010 2012 2012 2013 2013 Pathobiology of Cancer: The Ed Smuckler Memorial Course AACR, Snowmass, CO Pathobiology of Cancer: The Ed Smuckler Memorial Course AACR, Snowmass, CO RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (RTOG Tissue Banking Efforts) American College of Osteopathic Pathology, National Meeting, San Francisco, CA RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Atlanta GA (Tissue Banks in the Cooperative Groups) RTOG Semiannual Symposium Organizer, Philadelphia (Next Gen Sequencing in Cooperative Group Settings) RTOG Semiannual Meeting, San Diego, CA RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA Regional and other Invited Presentations 2004 Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA 2004 UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology Grand Rounds, San Francisco, CA 3 Jeff Simko 2005 2005 2006 2006 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2013 Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA Beijing Medical University, Beijing, PR China Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA Guest Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Hawaii Medical School Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA Visiting Professor, Grand Rounds, Department of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Med Ctr. Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA CME COURSES ATTENDED 2002 2003 2003 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 Diagnostic Pathology of Soft Tissue Tumors, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Weekends of Pathology, American Society of Clinical Pathology, San Francisco, CA American Urological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, UCSF-Stanford, San Francisco, CA California Society of Pathologist’s Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, UCSF-Stanford, San Francisco, CA US and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC Advances in Urology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA South Bay Pathology Society Annual Spring Meeting, Monterey, CA California Society of Pathologist’s Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA South Bay Pathology Society Annual Spring Meeting, Monterey, CA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, UCSF-Stanford, San Francisco, CA ASCO Prostate Cancer Symposium, San Francisco, CA Controversies in Prostate Cancer Detection, UT MD Anderson, Kohala, HI South Bay Pathology Society Annual Spring Meeting, Monterey, CA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, UCSF-Stanford, San Francisco, CA American Society of Clinical Pathology Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV California Society of Pathology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA Current Controversies in Urologic Oncology, UCSF Dept of Urology, SF, CA Weekends of Pathology, American Society of Clinical Pathology, Las Vegas, NV Early Stage Prostate Cancer Management, UCSF Dept of Urology, San Francisco, CA US and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA South Bay Pathology Society Annual Spring Meeting, Monterey, CA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, UCSF-Stanford, San Francisco, CA Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA ASCO Genitourinary Cancer Symposium, San Francisco, CA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, UCSF-Stanford, San Francisco, CA South Bay Pathology Society Annual Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA RTOG Semiannual meeting, San Diego, CA RTOG Semiannual meeting, Philadelphia, PA California Society of Pathology Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA RTOG Semiannual Meeting, New Orleans, LA UCSF Department of Urology Annual CME Course, San Francisco, CA US and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA 4 Jeff Simko 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2014 2014 2014 South Bay Pathology Society Annual Spring Meeting, Monterey, CA RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Chicago, IL RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Tampa, FL ASCO GU Oncology Symposium, San Francisco, CA USCAP Annual Meeting, Washington DC RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA California Society of Pathology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA CTTR Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA RTOG Semiannual Meeting, San Diego, CA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA California Society of Pathology Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA) RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Atlanta, GA ASCO Genitourinary Symposium (San Francisco, CA) USCAP Annual Meeting (Vancouver, BC, CN) Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA California Society of Pathology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA RTOG Semiannual Meeting, San Diego, CA AUA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA Southbay Pathology Society Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA RTOG Semiannual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA California Society of Pathology Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA) California Tumor Tissue Registry Semi-Annual Seminar (San Francisco, CA) NRG (RTOG) SemiAnnual Meeting, San Diego, CA ASCO Genitourinary Symposium (San Francisco, CA) USCAP Annual Meeting (SanDiego, CA) UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE UNIVERSITY SERVICE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE HOSPITAL / MEDICAL CENTER SERVICE 2002 - now Surgical Pathology Clinical Service, UCSF Department of Pathology, 20 weeks/year 2002 - now Surgical Pathology On-Call Service, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, 7 weeks/year 2002 – now Urologic Oncology Tumor Board, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, 25 meetings/year 2002 – 2006 Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, ad hoc, ~2 / year 2004 Co-Director, Molecular Pathology Laboratory, UCSF Clinical Laboratory. 2006 – 2008 Gynecologic Tumor Board, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, ad hoc, ~ 2 / year. 2006 – 2007 Proctor, Molecular Pathology Clinical Faculty. 2007 – now Gastrointestinal Tract Tumor Board, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, ~ 3 / year. 2010 – now Proctor, New Surgical Pathology Clinical Faculty. 5 Jeff Simko UCSF COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER SERVICE 2002 – now 2002 – now 2002 – now 2002 – 2008 2002 – now 2007 Member, Genitourinary Oncology Program Chair, UCSF Genitourinary Tissue Utilization Committee Director, Genitourinary Oncology Program Tissue Core Member, UCSF Prostate SPORE Project and Core Leaders Group Member, Tissue Shared Resources Oversight Committee Member, Academic Recruitment Search Committee DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY SERVICE: 2002 – 2004 Consultant, Molecular Pathology Laboratory Development 2004 Member, Department of Anatomic Pathology Faculty Search Committee 2006 – 2007 Proctor, Molecular Pathology Clinical Faculty 2010 - 2012 Director, Urologic Pathology Fellowship 2010 – now Proctor, New Surgical Pathology Clinical Faculty. 2013 Member, Department of Anatomic Pathology Faculty Search Committee DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY SERVICE: 2008 - now 2010 2013 Director, Bimonthly Urology-Pathology Case Correlation Conference Member, Faculty Search Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee GOVERNMENT and OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: 2003-2008 2004-2005 2005-now 2007-2008 2008 – now 2008 – 2010 2009-2010 2010 – 2011 2010 – now 2010 – now 2010 – now 2013 – now Representative, Prostate SPORE, InterSPORE Biomarkers Working Group (IPBS) Invited Pathologist, Prostate Atrophy Consensus Working Group Laboratory Inspector, College of American Pathologists (CAP) (~5-7 per year). Ad Hoc Reviewer, NIH Grants Review Panel “Cooperative Human Tissue Network” RTOG representative, National Group Banking Committee Marketing Subcommittee Chair, South bay Pathology Society (SBPS) Nominating Committee Ad Hoc Reviewer, NIH Contracts Review Panel “CTCs Technology” Grant Reviewer, US Veteran’s Administration Oncology (A) Grant Review Panel Pathology Cadre Member & Case Reviewer, ALLIANCE (NCI Cooperative Group) RTOG representative, National Group Banking Committee Regulatory Subcommittee Grant Reviewer, Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), Grant Review Panel RTOG representative, National Group Banking Committee (GBC) SUMMARY OF University and Public SERVICE ACTIVITIES My service involvement stems from my experience and abilities in genitourinary pathology, Molecular Pathology, and tissue banking. I have become heavily involved in the functioning and support of the tissue resources in the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center and the RTOG (Radiation Therapy Oncology Group) National Clinical Trials specimen management. This involvement includes oversight of tissue collection, storage and processing, and quality control measures in order to ensure that the resource is of highest quality without any compromise to the diagnostic utility of 6 Jeff Simko these specimens for clinical decision-making. This also involves acting as advisor to, and collaborator with researchers wanting to use tissue resources in their projects. These interactions help optimize effective use of the resource by investigators, and also involve aid in study design and grant proposal preparation. Besides the obvious offshoot into research collaborations and projects, this experience has also led to my involvement in a number of committees that directly oversee the management and utilization activities for research tissues, in order to ensure effective collection and use of these limited resources, which in turn has led to recognition beyond UCSF and involved in working groups that are trying to standardize diagnostic criteria and tissue collection and storage protocols across a number of institutions in order to minimize pre-analytical variables that could lead to confounding results in cross-institutional studies. The ultimate goal of all of this work is to develop new national standards for tissue collection and processing that will optimize clinical utility of new biomarkers currently under development. This most recently has lead to, as a member of a group of pathologists here at UCSF, being awarded the contract to run the RTOG Biospecimen Resource, one of only eleven NCI funded national cooperative group biospecimen banks. I also volunteer as a Certified Laboratory Inspector for the College of American Pathology (CAP) Laboratory Accreditation program, which involves travel to other pathology laboratories in the USA and around the world (e.g. Japan, Singapore, China, Ireland, United Kingdom) to evaluate their quality control, assurance and safety procedures. CAP is now planning to expand into certification processes for Tissue Banks, which will involve similar standards and oversight. I am also helping UCSF involvement with a delegation from China to develop collaborations in Oncology that will need pathology support. Additional service relates to my experience in molecular pathology, where I was involved in development and planning of a clinical molecular pathology laboratory, and I also served as the Clinical Proctor for a new Director of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory, as well as now proctoring new faculty and clinical instructors in Surgical Pathology Case Sign-out. TEACHING and MENTORING FORMAL SCHEDULED CLASSES FOR UCSF STUDENTS: Qtr Academic Yr Course No. & Title F 2002 - 2003 IDS 102: Organs F 2002 - 2003 IDS 106: Nutrition and metabolism F 2003 - 2004 IDS 102: Organs F 2003 - 2004 IDS 106: Nutrition and metabolism F-S 2002 - 2003 F-S 2003 – 2004 F 2004 - 2005 Course # 150.03: Surgical pathology and autopsy pathology Course # 150.03: Surgical pathology and autopsy pathology IDS 106: Nutrition and metabolism S 2004 - 2005 IDS 102: Organs S 2004 - 2005 IDS 103: Cancer Teaching Contribution Units Class Size Student assistance with Lab teaching goals Student assistance with Lab teaching goals Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader Two hour informal lecture to medical students interested in pathology Two hour informal lecture to medical students interested in pathology Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader 4 hrs. ~20 5 hrs. ~20 6 hrs. ~30 5 hrs. ~20 8 hrs. 2-3 8 hrs. 2-3 6 hrs. ~30 4 hrs. ~30 4 hrs. ~20 7 Jeff Simko F-S 2004 - 2005 Course # 150.03: Surgical & Autopsy Pathology IDS 106: Nutrition & Metabolism F-S 2005-2006 F-S 2005-2006 F 2006 Course # 150.03: Surgical & Autopsy Pathology IDS 106: Cancer, bench to bedside S 2007 IDS 103: Metabolism & Nutrition F 2007 IDS 106: Cancer, bench to bedside S 2008 IDS 103: Metabolism & Nutrition F-S 2007-2008 Course # 150.03: Surgical & Autopsy Pathology S 2009 IDS 103: Metabolism & Nutrition F 2009 IDS 105: Hypersensitivity &Reject S 2010 IDS 103: Metabolism & Nutrition F 2010 I3: Hypersensitivity &Rejection F 2010 M3: Prostate Cancer S 2011 102B: Organs (renal & urinalysis) Two hour informal lecture to medical students interested in pathology Lab section leader and discussion leader Two hour informal lecture to medical students interested in pathology Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader Two hour informal lecture to medical students interested in pathology Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader Lab section leader and discussion leader 8 hrs. 1–3 8 hrs. ~20 8 hrs. 1–3 4 hrs. ~20 4 hrs. ~20 4 hrs. ~20 6 hrs. ~20 6 hrs. 4 hrs. 1-3 / sessio n ~20 2 hrs. ~20 8 hrs. ~20 2 hrs. ~ 20 2 hrs. ~ 20 2 hrs. ~ 20 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS AND RESIDENTS DIRECTLY SUPERVISED OR MENTORED: Dates 2003 2006 2004 2005-2006 2007 2007 2010 2008 2010 2010 2011 2010 2012 Name Status Faculty Role Current Position Jeff Hom, MD Med Student Research Supervision Instructor, Stanford Hospitals Dean Joelson, MD Antonio Westphalen, MD Javier Rangel, MD Resident Clinical Fellow Clinical Res Supervis Research Supervision Research Supervision John Jalas, M.D. Medical Student Resident Staff Pathologist, Atlanta, GA Assoc. Prof in Residence, UCSF Dept. of Radiology Staff MD, Redwood Dermatology Research Supervision Staff Pathologist, Sant Monica CA Anobel Odisho Medical student Research Supervision Mike Bonham, MDPhD Fellow Samuel Washington Medical Student Clinical and Research Supervision Research Supervision Resident, UCSF Surgery and Urol. Director, OUR Labs, Burlingame, CA Resident, UCSF Surgery and Urol. INFORMAL TEACHING: RESIDENT TEACHING 2002 – now Surgical Pathology Case sign-out (the daily review of histology from patient’s surgical specimens and biopsies with a pathology resident; the core of resident education, 500 hours this year, 600 hours last year) 8 Jeff Simko 2010 – 2012 Director, Urologic Pathology Fellowship Program: Direct, and Mentor a Pathology Fellow in developing skills specific to the diagnosis of urologic malignancies and other pathologic processes (240 hours a year). TEACHING AIDS: Kidney Tumor Slide Study Set Bladder Tumor Slide Study Set Prostate Tumor Slide Study Set Irradiated Prostate Tumor Slide Study Set OTHER: TEACHING PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES 2000 – 2001 Oncology Fellows’ Core Pathology Education Lecture Series, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston: Three lectures on molecular diagnostics for leukemias and lymphomas 2002 – 2003 Basic Pathology Lecture Series, UCSF Department of Urology (Three lectures on basic pathology of the genitourinary system to Urology Residents: 4 hours per year) 2002 – 2004 Molecular Diagnostic Pathology and Cytogenetics, UCSF Department of Lab Medicine (Lecture in the core lecture series to residents, 2 hours per year) 2002 – 2005 UCSF Prostate SPORE Working Scientists Meeting (Lecture to Graduate Students, Postdoc’s and junior faculty working on Prostate Cancer Research, 2 hours per year) 2002 – now Genitourinary Clinical Conference Lectures (Lectures to members of the Genitourinary Oncology Service on Pathology Issues, 2 hours/per year) 2002 – now Urologic Oncology Tumor Board, UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center, 36 meetings/year 2004 – now Genitourinary Surgical Pathology, Grossing Techniques and Molecular Pathology, UCSF Department of Anatomic Pathology (9 Lectures in core lecture series to residents, 9 hours per year) 2004 – now Resident Unknown Slide Conference, UCSF Department of Pathology, 2 hrs./yr. 2004 Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology (UCSF CME Course), San Francisco, CA 2004 UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology Grand Rounds, San Francisco, CA 2005 Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology (UCSF CME Course), San Francisco, CA 2006 Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology (UCSF CME Course), San Francisco, CA 2008 Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology (UCSF CME Course), San Francisco, CA 2008 Pathobiology of Cancer: The Ed Smuckler Memorial Course AACR, Snowmass CO 2009 Pathobiology of Cancer: The Ed Smuckler Memorial Course AACR, Snowmass CO 2010 Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA 2010 American College of Osteopathic Pathology, National Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2011 Guest Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Hawaii Medical School 2012 Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA 2012 RTOG Semiannual Symposium Organizer, Philadelphia (Next Gen Sequencing in Cooperative group settings) 2013 Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA 2013 Guest Professor, Grand Rounds, Department of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Ctr. 2013 UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology Grand Rounds, San Francisco, CA SUMMARY OF TEACHING HOURS: 2003 - 2004: 664 total hours of teaching (not including preparation). 9 Jeff Simko Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 52 hours Informal teaching hours: 528 hours Mentoring hours: 84 hours 2004 -2005: 598 total hours of teaching (not including preparation). Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 40 hours Informal teaching hours: 548 hours Mentoring hours: 10 hours 2005 – 2006 594 total hours of teaching (not including preparation). Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 30 hours Informal teaching hours: 544 hours. Mentoring hours: 20 hours. 2006-2007 604 hours (not including preparation). Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 30 hours Informal teaching hours: 564 hours Mentoring hours: 10 hours 2007 - 2008 649 hours (not including preparation). Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 29 hours Informal teaching hours: 618 hours Mentoring hours: 2 hours 2008 - 2009 660 hours (not including preparation). Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 29 hours Informal teaching hours: 629 hours Mentoring hours: 2 hours 2009 - 2010 620 hours (not including preparation). Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 21 hours Informal teaching hours: 597 hours Mentoring hours: 2 hours 2010 - 2011 792 hours (not including preparation). Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 16 hours Informal teaching hours: 770 hours Mentoring hours: 6 hours 2011-2012 608 hours (not including preparation). Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 14 hours Informal teaching hours: 594 hours Mentoring hours: 2 hours 2012-2013 Total anticipated hours of teaching: 620 hours. Formal class, course and lecture teaching hours: 20 hours Informal teaching hours: 600 hours Mentoring hours: 2 hours 10 Jeff Simko TEACHING NARRATIVE My teaching responsibilities at UCSF predominantly involve the one-on-one teaching of the practice of surgical pathology to residents, fellows and medical students in the Department of Anatomic Pathology through daily sign out of patients’ surgical specimens (currently 559 hours per year). This is the backbone of pathology resident education, and involves teaching gross diagnosis, dissection and tissue handling and preparation, histology and special stain evaluation and interpretation, writing of microscopic descriptions and pathology reports, communication of findings to clinicians for optimizing patient care, and frozen section preparation, interpretation and reporting. This effort was extended to the Urologic Pathology Fellowship that I was in charge of in 2010-2011. This involved one-on-one instruction of a pathology fellow in the field of urologic pathology and such patient management (~240 hours), with the graduate (Dr. Mike Bonham) going on to become the Director of a large regional pathology reference lab. I also give lectures to residents and fellows (Department of Anatomic Pathology (12 hours per year)) and medical students during their clerkships in the Department of Anatomic Pathology (~4 hours per year, but none this year), on topics in genitourinary surgical pathology (prostate pathology, bladder pathology, kidney pathology) and molecular diagnostic pathology (cytogenetics and related technologies (FISH), and PCR-based testing). I present pathology to faculty, residents and fellows at the twice-monthly Urologic Oncology Tumor Board, which involves describing pertinent findings and pathology issues for the cases being presented, and also discuss developments in surgical pathology practice that may have an impact on the clinicians’ practices (25 hours per year), as well as directing the bimonthly Urology-Pathology Case Correlation conference where I present interesting findings and pathology issues to the Urology fellows and residents that is also useful in their Urology Board Exam preparations (10 hours per year). I also participate in the pathology sections of the medical student core curriculum and electives, which involves helping the students to understand and carry out their laboratory assignments, and giving a small lecture to them at the end of each session in order to summarize the important points (2 hours per year). I’ve also been an invited speaker every other year for the annual UCSF Department of Pathology Annual CME course, “Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology,” where I’ve given lectures to community pathologists on issues regarding genitourinary tumors. Lastly, I’ve been given responsibility of proctoring new faculty and clinical instructors in the appropriate handling and reporting of genitourinary Pathology cases at UCSF. This involves review of all of their cases over the first three months of their service time (~ 30 hours per year). Future teaching activities will continue along these lines, with plans to expand the number of lectures given in the core lecture series’ for Anatomic Pathology Residents and Urology Residents, as well as increased proctoring responsibilities for new faculty and clinical instructors involved in direct patient care. RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES RESEARCH AWARDS AND GRANTS (last 5 years) ACTIVE 07/01/10 – 03/01/13 25% U24 CA114734 (Jordan) NIH/NCI: Radiation Therapy Oncology Group RTOG Tissue Bank/Biospecimen Repository: Manage this national cooperative group tissue bank and interact with the RTOG investigators on collaborative translational research projects. Role: Co-Investigator (Associate Director) R01 CA1039434-01A2 (Vigneron) NIH/NCI Molecular Imaging of Prostate Cancer 09/01/06 - 02/28/12 $177,500 11 3% Jeff Simko The goal of this project is to evaluate the use of new single-shot fast-spin echo diffusion sequence for improved assessment of prostate cancer extent in patient studies at 1.5T . Role: Pathology review and direct optimized specimen collection. R01 CA089715-06A2 (Albertson) 06/01/08-07/31/13 1% NIH/NCI $330,371 Bladder Cancer Risk and Genomic Alterations The goal of this project is to define genomic alterations that are associated with increasing stage of bladder cancers. Tissue collections with known treatment and follow-up will be used to define prognostic and predictive utility. Role: Co-Investigator R01 (Noworolski) 04/01/10 – 03/31/15 5% NIH/NCI $254,940 DCE MRI to Improve Prostate Cancer Identification and Characterization The goals of this grant are to improve the identification and characterization of aggressiveness of prostate cancer by utilizing novel pharmacokinetic and statistical models. Role: Co-investigator R01 CA137207 (Kurhanewicz) 01/01/11 – 06/30/15 5% NIH Translation and Evaluation of a Multi-parametric Prostate Cancer 3T MRI Exam The overall goal of this academic-industrial partnership is to improve the clinical imaging assessment of prostate cancer patients by creating a clinically optimized and validated commercial 3T multi-parametric (T2 MRI, 1H and hyperpolarized 13C MRSI, DTI and DCE) imaging exam for widespread distribution. Role: Co-Investigator U01 (Febbo) 5% NIH Validation of Prognostic and Predictive Signatures in Lethal Prostate Cancer The goal is to validate (or not) some of the recently recognized possible biomarkers that help to identify those tumors that have the highest likelihood of escaping current therapeutic strategies. Role: Central Pathology review and histologic correlation with molecular findings. (DOD) Transformative Impact Award (Carroll) 7/1/2013 – 6/30//2016 25% “Development, Validation, and Dissemination of an Integrated Risk Prediction Model and Decision Aid to Discern Aggressive Versus Indolent Prostate Cancer” ROLE: Co-Investigator PENDING R01 (Liu) 5% NIH Mapping a Clinically Significant Internalizing Tumor Epitope Space The goal is to develop antibody library-based methods which promote efficient identification of clinically relevant tumor specific cell surface antigens, methods which are applicable to the identification of cell typespecific lineage markers in general. Role: Evaluate new antibodies for tissue applications. DOD (Chan) 5% 12 Jeff Simko Prostate Microenvironment & Prostate Cancer Progression The goal is to conduct a novel epidemiologic study of the prostate nutritional microenvironment and its associations with prostate cancer aggressiveness, gene expression, and genomic copy number in 375 prostate cancer patients. Role: Central Pathology review R01 (Kurhanewicz) 10% NIH Hyperpolarized 13C MR - Improved Prostate Cancer Risk Stratification Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation study to determine if new imaging approach can recognize prostate cancer. Role: Pathology review and direct optimized specimen collection R21 (Westphalen) 3% NIH Pre-biopsy MR imaging of the prostate in men with elevated PSA Conventional radiologic pathologic correlation studies of the multiparametric MRI examination. Role: Central Pathology review P01 (Lin, Carroll, & Nelson: Simko Tissue Core Co-PI) 10% NIH Enhancing Cancer Outcomes in Men: the Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance Study Evaluate Biomarkers indicative of more indolent forms of prostate cancer with the clinical goal of saving men from having to undergo unnecessary therapeutic interventions. Role: Co-PI (Tissue Core Director) P01 (Knudsen: Simko Tissue Core PI) 5% Identifying therapeutic targets indicative of enhanced radiation responsiveness in prostate cancer Evaluate Biomarkers indicative of prostate cancer’s enhanced response to radiation as a primary therapy. Role: Co-PI (Tissue Core Director) PAST RTOG Tissue Bank/Biospecimen Repository (Waldman) 01/01/08 – 06/30/10 30% Radiation Therapy Oncology Group RTOG Tissue Bank/Biospecimen Repository: Manage this national cooperative group tissue bank and interact with the RTOG investigators on collaborative translational research projects. Role: Co-Investigator (Associate Director) R01 CA1039434-01A2 (Vigneron) 09/01/06 - 02/28/11 5% NIH/NCI $177,500 Based Molecular Imaging of Prostate Cancer The goal of this project is to evaluate the use of new single-shot fast-spin echo diffusion sequence for improved assessment of prostate cancer extent in patient studies at 1.5T. Role: Pathology review and direct optimized specimen collection. R01 CA118919 (Liu) 03/01/06-02/28/11 NIH $250,000 Mapping a Clinically Significant Internalizing Tumor Epitope Space 13 4% Jeff Simko The goal is to develop antibody library-based methods which promote efficient identification of clinically relevant tumor specific cell surface antigens, methods which are applicable to the identification of cell typespecific lineage markers in general. Role: Evaluate new antibodies for tissue applications. RO1 CA106947-01A2 (Chan) 05/01/07 – 08/31/10 5% NIH $279.000 Prostate Microenvironment & Prostate Cancer Progression The goal is to conduct a novel epidemiologic study of the prostate nutritional microenvironment and its associations with prostate cancer aggressiveness, gene expression, and genomic copy number in 375 prostate cancer patients. Role: Central Pathology review NIH (Waldman) 04/01/08-03/31/10 5% NIH $1,932,304 Predictive Markers in Metastatic Renal Cancer The goals of this project are understand the biological mechanisms underlying the risk factors for kidney and bladder cancer phenotypes and identify global genetic, epigenetic, RNA expression, and proteomic alterations in tumors and place them in specific biological pathways that are essential to development, progression, response to therapy, and maintenance of subtypes of bladder and kidney cancers. Role: Co-investigator (Central Pathology review and histologic correlation with molecular findings). R01 CA102751 (Kurhanewicz) 03/01/05 – 08/31/06 5% NIH/NCI $294,530 MR Based Molecular Imaging of Prostate Cancer The goal of this project is to correlate pathologic findings, expression profiles and genetic changes to spectroscopic (chemical) findings determined by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI). Role: Pathology review and direct optimized specimen collection R01 CA101042 (Haqq) 06/10/03-05/31/08 5% NIH/NCI $225,500 Molecular Effects of Nutrition Supplements in Prostate Trials Clinical trial of using microarrays to discover the transcriptome response to diet for prostate cancer. Role: Pathology review and direct optimized specimen collection R01 CA102600 (Waldman) 08/01/03-05/31/08 10% NIH/NCI $15,977 Renal Cancer Genomic Alterations and Environmental Risk The overall design of this study is to characterize over 700 renal tumors by array CGH to define genomic alterations and their associations with clinical variables, and with exposure, and genetic risk factors Role: Co-investigator (Central Pathology review and histologic correlation with molecular findings). Mount Zion Health Fund (Simko) UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center Magnetic Resonance Profiles (NMR) of Renal Tumors Role: PI 01/01/07 – 02/28/09 $15,000 NIH (Coakley) 04/01/04-03/31/09 1% NIH/NCI $91,000 ACRIN 6659: MR Imaging and MR Spectroscopic Imaging of Prostate Cancer Prior to Radical Prostatectomy: A Prospective Multi-Institutional Clinicopathological Study. The goal of this project is to compare the diagnostic accuracy of MRI alone compared to MRI combined with MRSI for the localization of prostate cancer in patients who are scheduled to have radical prostatectomy surgery. 14 Jeff Simko Role: Pathology review and direct optimized specimen collection ACS (Noworolski) 01/01/05 - 12/31/09 5% American Cancer Society $117,099 “Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI of Prostate Cancer.” Acquisition and post-processing of dynamic contrastenhanced MRI (DCE MRI) of prostate will be developed and compared to MRI, MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) and histopathological analysis of prostate tissue to determine possible value for clinical applications. Role: Pathology review and direct optimized specimen collection RSG-05-241-01-CCE (Swanson) 07/01/05-06/30/09 5% American Cancer Society $149,491 Metabolic Profiles of Residual/Recurrent Prostate Cancer After Therapy The goal of this project is to determine whether the levels of specific choline and ethanolamine containing compounds correlate with the presence of residual or recurrent prostate cancer following hormone deprivation and radiation therapies. Role: Pathology review and direct optimized specimen collection P50 CA89520 (Shuman) 07/01/08-06/30/09 10% NIH/NCI – Bridge Funding $21,537 Prostate SPORE-Core B: Tissue Core (PI: Simko, Jeffry) Project 4: Antibody Gene Diversity Libraries and Phage Display to Generate Recombinant Human Antibodies for Prostate Cancer Therapy The major goals are to 1) generate new phage antibody libraries; 2) select antibodies which bind specifically to prostate cancer cells; and 3) use the antibodies to isolate novel prostate cancer surface antigens. Role: Co-PI (Tissue Core Director) P50 CA89520 (Shuman) 10/01/00-06/30/06 55% NIH/NCI Prostate SPORE-Core B: Tissue Core (PI: Simko, Jeffry) Project 4: Antibody Gene Diversity Libraries and Phage Display to Generate Recombinant Human Antibodies for Prostate Cancer Therapy The major goals are to 1) generate new phage antibody libraries; 2) select antibodies which bind specifically to prostate cancer cells; and 3) use the antibodies to isolate novel prostate cancer surface antigengs. Role: Co-PI (Tissue Core Director) 15 Jeff Simko PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: 1. J.P. Simko and G Oehrlein, "Reactive Ion Etching of Silicon and Silicon Dioxide in CF4 Plasmas containing Hydrogen or C2F4 additives", J. of the Electrochemical Society 138, 2748 (1991). 2. J.P. Simko, G.S. Oehrlein and T.M. Mayer, "Removal of Fluorocarbon Residues on CF4/H2 Reactive Ion Etched Silicon Surfaces using a Hydrogen Plasma", J. of the Electrochemical Society 138, 277 (1991). 3. Y.Z. Hu, K.A. Conrad, M. Li, J.W. Andrews, J.P. Simko and E.A. Irene, "Studies of Hydrogen Ion Beam Cleaning of Silicon Dioxide from Silicon using in-situ Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and X-ray Photo-electron Spectroscopy", Applied Physics Letters 58, 589 (1991). 4. J.P. Simko, T. Meguro, S. Iwai, K. Ozasa, A. Hirata, Y. Aoyagi and T. Sugano, "Direct Observation of Self-limiting Gallium Deposition on Gallium Arsenide during Laser-atomic Layer Epitaxial Processing", Japan Journal of Applied Physics Letters 39, L1518 (1992). 5. J.P. Simko, T. Meguro, S. Iwai, K. Ozasa, Y. Aoyagi and T. Sugano, "Surface Photo-absorption Study of the Laser-assisted Atomic Layer Epitaxial Growth Process of Gallium Arsenide", Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Atomic Layer Epitaxy, June 3-6, 1992, Raleigh, North Carolina, Thin Solid Films 225, 40 (1993). 6. J.P. Simko, A. Caliendo, K. Hogle, J. Versalovic, “Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus DNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid specimens by PCR: Correlation with Clinical Presentation and Patient History,” Clin. Infect. Dis. 35(4): 414-9 (2002). 7. Paris PL, Andaya A, Fridlyand J, Jain AN, Weinberg V, Kowbel D, Brebner JH, Simko J, Watson JE, Volik S, Albertson DG, Pinkel D, Alers JC, van der Kwast TH, Vissers KJ, Schroder FH, Wildhagen MF, Febbo PG, Chinnaiyan AM, Pienta KJ, Carroll PR, Rubin MA, Collins C, van Dekken H., "Whole genome scanning identifies genotypes associated with recurrence and metastasis in prostate tumors," Hum Mol Genet. 13(13): 1303-13 (2004). 8. Watson JE, Doggett NA, Albertson DG, Andaya A, Chinnaiyan A, Van Dekken H, Ginzinger D, Haqq C, James K, Kamkar S, Kowbel D, Pinkel D, Schmitt L, Simko JP, Volik S, Weinberg VK, Paris PL, Collins C., “Integration of high-resolution array comparative genomic hybridization analysis of chromosome 16q with expression array data refines common regions of loss at 16q23qter and identifies underlying candidate tumor suppressor genes in prostate cancer. Oncogene 23(19):3487-94 (2004). 9. Watson JE, Kamkar S, James K, Kowbel D, Andaya A, Paris PL, Simko J, Carroll P, McAlhany S, Rowley D, Collins C, "Molecular analysis of WFDC1/ps20 gene in prostate cancer," Prostate 61(2): 192-9 (2004). 10. Retz MM, Sidhu SS, Blaveri E, Kerr SC, Dolganov GM, Lehmann J, Carroll P, Simko J, Waldman FM, Basbaum C, "CXCR4 expression reflects tumor progression and regulates motility of bladder cancer cells," Int J Cancer 114(2): 182-9 (2005). 16 Jeff Simko 11. E Blaveri, JP Simko, JE Korkola, JL Brewer, F Baehner, K Mehta, S DeVries, T Koppie, S Pejavar, P Carroll and F Waldman, "GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS IDENTIFY BLADDER CANCER SUBTYPES AND PREDICT OUTCOME," Clin Cancer Res 11(11): 4044-55 (2005). 12. Master VA, Chi T, Simko JP, Weinberg V, Carroll PR, "The independent impact of extended pattern biopsy on prostate cancer stage migration," J Urol 174(5): 1789-93 (2005). 13. Blaveri E, Brewer JL, Roydasgupta R, Fridlyand J, DeVries S, Koppie T, Pejavar S, Mehta K, Carroll P, Simko JP, Waldman FM, "Bladder cancer stage and outcome by array-based comparative genomic hybridization," Clin Cancer Res 11(19 Pt 1): 7012-22 (2005). 14. WA Ricke, K Ishii, EA Ricke, JP Simko, YZ Wang, SW Hayward, and FR Cunha, "Steroid Hormones Stimulate Human Prostate Cancer Progression and Metastasis,” Int J Cancer 118(9): 2123-31 (2006). 15. Paris P, Weinberg V, Simko J, Andaya A, Albo G, Rubin M, Carroll P, Collins C, "Preliminary Validation of Prostate Cancer Metastatic Risk Biomarkers," Int. J. Biomarkers 20(3): 141-45 (2005). 16. Hom JJ, Coakley FV, Simko JP, Qayyum A, Lu Y, Schmitt L, Carroll PR, Kurhanewicz J, "Prostate Cancer: Endorectal MR Imaging and MR Spectroscopic Imaging--Distinction of TruePositive Results from Chance-detected Lesions," Radiology 238(1): 192-9 (2006). 17. Rini BI, Weinberg V, Dunlap S, Elchinoff A, Yu N, Bok R, Simko J, Small EJ, "Maximal COX-2 immunostaining and clinical response to celecoxib and interferon alpha therapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma," Cancer 106(3): 566-75 (2006). 18. Sanchez-Mejia RO, Ojemann SG, Simko J, Chaudhary UB, Levy J, Lawton MT, "Sacral epithelioid angiosarcoma associated with a bleeding diathesis and spinal epidural hematoma: case report," J Neurosurg Spine 4(3): 246-50 (2006). 19. A M De Marzo , E A Platz , J I Epstein , T Ali , A Billis, T Y Chan , L Cheng, M Datta, L Egevad, D Ertoy-Baydar , X Farre , S W Fine , K A Iczkowski, M Ittmann, B S Knudsen, M Loda, A Lopez-Beltran, C Magi-Galluzzi, G Mikuz , R Montironi, E Pikarsky, G Pizov, M A Rubin, H Samaratunga, T Sebo, I A Sesterhenn, RB Shah, S Signoretti, J Simko ,G Thomas, P Troncoso, T Tsuzuki, G JLH van Leenders, XJ Yang, M Zhou, W D Figg, A Hoque and M S Lucia, "A Working Group Classification of Focal Prostate Atrophy Lesions," Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 30(10): 1281-91 (2006). 20. M Swanson, A Zektzer, ZL Tabatabai, J Simko, S Jarso, K Keshari, L Schmitt, P Carroll, K Shinohara, D Vigneron, and J Kurhanewicz, "Quantitative Analysis of Prostate Metabolites using 1H HR-MAS Spectroscopy," Mag Res Med 55(6): 1257-64 (2006). 21. B. Rini, E. Jaeger, N. Sein, K. Fong, K. Chew, J. Simko and F. Waldman, “Clinical Response to VEGF-Targeted Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Impact of Patient Characteristics and VHL Gene Status,” Br. J. Urol. Int. 98(4): 756-62 (2006). 17 Jeff Simko 22. Ruan W, Sassoon A, An F, Simko JP, Liu B, "Identification of clinically significant tumor antigens by selecting phage antibody library on tumor cells in situ using laser capture microdissection," Mol Cell Proteomics 5(12) 2364-73 (2006). 23. PL Paris, MD Hofer, G Albo, R Kuefer, JE Gschwend, RE Hautmann, J Fridyland, JP Simko, PR Carroll, MA Rubin, and C Collins,”Genomic profiling of hormone naïve lymph node metastases in patients with prostate cancer," Neoplasia 8(12): 1083-9 (2006). 24. Ryan C, Haqq C, Simko J, Chan J, Weinberg V, Goldfine I, “Expression of insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor in local and metastatic prostate cancer,” Uro. Oncol 25(2): 134-40 (2007). 25. Hom JJ, Coakley FV, Simko JP, Lu Y, Qayyum A, Westphalen A, Schmitt L, Carroll PR, Kurhanewicz J. “High-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia in patients with prostate cancer: MR and MR spectroscopic imaging features,” Radiology 242(2): 483-9 (2007). 26. W. Nau, E. Bass, C. Diederich, W. Ferrier, J. Simko, R. Pelligrino, J. Sutton and R. Shu, “Intradiscal thermal Therapy Using Interstitial Unltrasound: An In Vivo Feasibility Study in Ovine Cervical Spine,” Spine 32(5): 503-11 (2007). 27. Mosquera JM, Perner S, Demichelis F, Kim R, Hofer MD, Mertz KD, Paris PL, Simko J, Collins C, Bismar TA, Chinnaiyan AM, Rubin MA, "Morphological features of TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion prostate cancer," J Pathol 212(1): 91-101 (2007). 28. Perner S, Mosquera JM, Demichelis F, Hofer MD, Paris PL, Simko J, Collins C, Bismar TA, Chinnaiyan AM, De Marzo AM, Rubin MA, "TMPRSS2-ERG Fusion Prostate Cancer: An Early Molecular Event Associated With Invasion," Am J Surg Pathol 31(6): 882-888 (2007). 29. Jancelewicz T, Simko J, Lee H, "Obstructing ileal duplication cyst infected with Salmonella in a 2-year-old boy: a case report and review of the literature," J Pediatr Surg 42(5): E19-21 (2007). 30. Liu B, Conrad F, Roth A, Drummond DC, Simko JP, Marks JD, "Recombinant full-length human IgG1s targeting hormone-refractory prostate cancer," J Mol Med 85(10): 1113-23 (2007). 31. Westphalen AC, Coakley FV, Qayyum A, Swanson M, Simko JP, Lu Y, Zhao S, Carroll PR, Yeh BM, Kurhanewicz J, "Peripheral zone prostate cancer: accuracy of different interpretative approaches with MR and MR spectroscopic imaging," Radiology 246(1): 177-84 (2008). 32. D. Ornish, M Magbanua, G Weidner, V Weinberg, C Kemp, C Green, M Mattie, R Marlin, J Simko, K Shinohara, C Haqq and P Carroll, "Changes in prostate Gene expresssion in men undergoing an intensive nutrition and lifestyle intervention," PNAS 105(24): 8369-74 (2008). 33. Swanson MG, Keshari KR, Tabatabai ZL, Simko JP, Shinohara K, Carroll PR, Zektzer AS, Kurhanewicz J, "Quantification of choline- and ethanolamine-containing metabolites in human prostate tissues using 1H HR-MAS total correlation spectroscopy," Magn Reson Med 60(1): 33-40 (2008). 34. Mosquera JM, Perner S, Genega EM, Sanda M, Hofer MD, Mertz KD, Paris PL, Simko J, Bismar TA, Ayala G, Shah RB, Loda M, Rubin MA, "Characterization of TMPRSS2-ERG fusion high18 Jeff Simko grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and potential clinical implications," Clin Cancer Res 14(11): 3380-5 (2008). 35. Choueiri TK, Vaziri SA, Jaeger E, Elson P, Wood L, Bhalla IP, Small EJ, Weinberg V, Sein N, Simko J, Golshayan AR, Sercia L, Zhou M, Waldman FM, Rini BI, Bukowski RM, Ganapathi R, "von Hippel-Lindau gene status and response to vascular endothelial growth factor targeted therapy for metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma," J Urol 180(3): 860-5 (2008). 36. Tessem MB, Swanson MG, Keshari KR, Albers MJ, Joun D, Tabatabai ZL, Simko JP, Shinohara K, Nelson SJ, Vigneron DB, Gribbestad IS, Kurhanewicz J, "Evaluation of lactate and alanine as metabolic biomarkers of prostate cancer using 1H HR-MAS spectroscopy of biopsy tissues," Magn Reson Med 60(3): 510-6 (2008). 37. Paris PL, Sridharan S, Hittelman AB, Kobayashi Y, Perner S, Huang G, Simko J, Carroll P, Rubin MA, Collins C, "An oncogenic role for the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 gene in prostate cancer," Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 12(2): 184-91 (2009). 38. C Crane, A Panner, JC Murray, SP Wilson, H Xu, L Chen, JP Simko, FM Waldman, RO Pieper and AT Parsa, "P(i)3 kinase is associated wit a mechanism of immunoresistance in breast and prostate cancer," Oncogene 28(2): 306-12 (2009). 39. Paris PL, Kobayashi Y, Zhao Q, Zeng W, Sridharan S, Fan T, Adler HL, Yera ER, Zarrabi MH, Zucker S, Simko J, Chen WT, Rosenberg J, "Functional phenotyping and genotyping of circulating tumor cells from patients with castration resistant prostate cancer," Cancer Lett 277(2): 164-73 (2009). 40. Torabian SZ, de Semir D, Nosrati M, Bagheri S, Dar AA, Fong S, Liu Y, Federman S, Simko J, Haqq C, Debs RJ, Kashani-Sabet M, "Ribozyme-mediated targeting of IkappaBgamma inhibits melanoma invasion and metastasis," Am J Pathol 174(3): 1009-16 (2009). 41. Conti SL, Dall'era M, Fradet V, Cowan JE, Simko J, Carroll PR, "Pathological outcomes of candidates for active surveillance of prostate cancer," J Urol 181(4): 1628-33 (2009). 42. Kashani-Sabet M, Rangel J, Torabian S, Nosrati M, Simko J, Jablons DM, Moore DH, Haqq C, Miller JR 3rd, Sagebiel RW, "A multi-marker assay to distinguish malignant melanomas from benign nevi," Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106(15): 6268-72 (2009). 43. Hou Y, DeVoss J, Dao V, Kwek S, Simko JP, McNeel DG, Anderson MS, Fong L, "An aberrant prostate antigen-specific immune response causes prostatitis in mice and is associated with chronic prostatitis in humans," J Clin Invest 119(7): 2031-41 (2009). 44. Westphalen AC, Coakley FV, Kurhanewicz J, Reed G, Wang ZJ, Simko JP, "Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the prostate: MRI and MR spectroscopy features," Am J Roentgenol 193(3): W238-43 (2009). 45. Kashani-Sabet M, Venna S, Nosrati M, Rangel J, Sucker A, Egberts F, Baehner FL, Simko J, Leong SP, Haqq C, Hauschild A, Schadendorf D, Miller JR 3rd, Sagebiel RW, "A multimarker prognostic assay for primary cutaneous melanoma," Clin Cancer Res 15(22): 6987-92 (2009). 19 Jeff Simko 46. Paris PL, Weinberg V, Albo G, Roy R, Burke C, Simko J, Carroll P, Collins C, "A group of genome-based biomarkers that add to a Kattan nomogram for predicting progression in men with high-risk prostate cancer," Clin Cancer Res 16(1): 195-202 (2010). 47. Santos CF, Kurhanewicz J, Tabatabai ZL, Simko JP, Keshari KR, Gbegnon A, Santos RD, Federman S, Shinohara K, Carroll PR, Haqq CM, Swanson MG, "Metabolic, pathologic, and genetic analysis of prostate tissues: quantitative evaluation of histopathologic and mRNA integrity after HR-MAS spectroscopy," NMR Biomed 23(4): 391-8 (2010). 48. Vagefi PA, Klein I, Gelb B, Hameed B, Moff SL, Simko JP, Fix OK, Eilers H, Feiner JR, Ascher NL, Freise CE, Bass NM, "Emergent Orthotopic Liver Transplantation for Hemorrhage from a Giant Cavernous Hepatic Hemangioma: Case Report and Review," J Gastrointest Surg 15(1): 209-14 (2011). 49. Dall'era MA, Cowan JE, Simko J, Shinohara K, Davies B, Konety BR, Meng MV, Perez N, Greene K, Carroll PR, "Surgical management after active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer: pathological outcomes compared with men undergoing immediate treatment," BJU Int 107(8): 12327 (2011). 50. Moltzahn F, Olshen AB, Baehner L, Peek A, Fong L, Stöppler H, Simko J, Hilton JF, Carroll P, Blelloch R, "Microfluidic-based multiplex qRT-PCR identifies diagnostic and prognostic microRNA signatures in the sera of prostate cancer patients," Cancer Res 71(2): 550-60 (2011). 51. Chan JM, Weinberg V, Magbanua MJ, Sosa E, Simko J, Shinohara K, Federman S, Mattie M, Hughes-Fulford M, Haqq C, Carroll PR, "Nutritional supplements, COX-2 and IGF-1 expression in men on active surveillance for prostate cancer," Cancer Causes Control 22(1): 141-50 (2011). 52. Whitson JM, Porten SP, Hilton JF, Cowan JE, Perez N, Cooperberg MR, Greene KL, Meng MV, Simko JP, Shinohara K, Carroll PR, "The relationship between prostate specific antigen change and biopsy progression in patients on active surveillance for prostate cancer," J Urol 185(5): 165660 (2011). 53. Whitson JM, Porten SP, Cowan JE, Simko JP, Cooperberg MR, Carroll PR, "Factors associated with downgrading in patients with high grade prostate cancer," Urol Oncol. 2011 Apr 7. [Epub ahead of print] 54. McKenney JK, Simko J, Bonham M, True LD, Troyer D, Hawley S, Newcomb LF, Fazli L, Kunju LP, Nicolas MM, Vakar-Lopez F, Zhang X, Carroll PR, Brooks JD; Canary/Early Detection Research Network Prostate Active Surveillance Study Investigators, "The potential impact of reproducibility of Gleason grading in men with early stage prostate cancer managed by active surveillance: a multi-institutional study," J Urol 186(2): 465-9 (2011). 55. 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 35(9): 1413-8 (2011). 56. Magbanua MJ, Roy R, Sosa EV, Weinberg V, Federman S, Mattie MD, Hughes-Fulford M, Simko J, Shinohara K, Haqq CM, Carroll PR, Chan JM, "Gene expression and biological pathways in tissue 20 Jeff Simko of men with prostate cancer in a randomized clinical trial of lycopene and fish oil supplementation," PLoS One. 2011;6(9):e24004. Epub 2011 Sep 1. 57. Ray M, Hostetter DR, Loeb CR, Simko J, Craik CS, "Inhibition of Granzyme B by PI-9 protects prostate cancer cells from apoptosis," Prostate. 2012 Jun 1;72(8):846-55. doi: 10.1002/pros.21486. Epub 2011 Sep 14. 58. Chen L, Hong C, Chen EC, Yee SW, Xu L, Almof EU, Wen C, Fujii K, Johns SJ, Stryke D, Ferrin TE, Simko J, Chen X, Costello JF, Giacomini KM, "Genetic and epigenetic regulation of the organic cation transporter 3, SLC22A3," Pharmacogenomics J. 2012 Jan 10. doi: 10.1038/tpj.2011.60. [Epub ahead of print] 59. Magbanua MJ, Sosa EV, Scott JH, Simko J, Collins C, Pinkel D, Ryan CJ, Park JW, "Isolation and genomic analysis of circulating tumor cells from castration resistant metastatic prostate cancer," BMC Cancer. 2012 Feb 28;12(1):78. [Epub ahead of print] 60. Busch S, Hatridge M, Mößle M, Myers W, Wong T, Mück M, Chew K, Kuchinsky K, Simko J, Clarke J, "Measurements of T(1) -relaxation in ex vivo prostate tissue at 132 μT," Magn Reson Med. 2012 Apr;67(4):1138-45. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24177. Epub 2012 Jan 31. 61. Ausborn NL, Le QT, Bradley JD, Choy H, Dicker AP, Saha D, Simko J, Story MD, Torossian A, Lu B, "Molecular Profiling to Optimize Treatment in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Review of Potential Molecular Targets for Radiation Therapy by the Translational Research Program of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group," Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Apr 18. [Epub ahead of print] 62. Ross HM, Kryvenko ON, Cowan JE, Simko JP, Wheeler TM, Epstein JI, "Do Adenocarcinomas of the Prostate With Gleason Score (GS)≤6 Have the Potential to Metastasize to Lymph Nodes?," Am J Surg Pathol. 2012 Apr 22. [Epub ahead of print] 63. Hayes GM, Simko J, Holochwost D, Kuchinsky K, Busch R, Misell L, Murphy EJ, Carroll PR, Chan JM, Shinohara K, Hellerstein MK, "Regional Cell Proliferation in Microdissected Human Prostate Specimens After Heavy Water-Labeling in vivo: Correlation With Prostate Epithelial Cells Isolated From Seminal Fluid," Clin Cancer Res. 2012 May 2. [Epub ahead of print] 64. Kwek SS, Dao V, Roy R, Hou Y, Alajajian D, Simko JP, Small EJ, Fong L, "Diversity of antigenspecific responses induced in vivo with ctla-4 blockade in prostate cancer patients, J Immunol 189(7): 3759-66 (2012). 65. Cooperberg MR, Simko JP, Cowan JE, Reid JE, Djalilvand A, Bhatnagar S, Gutin A, Lanchbury JS, Swanson GP, Stone S, Carroll PR, "Validation of a cell-cycle progression gene panel to improve risk stratification in a contemporary prostatectomy cohort," J Clin Oncol 31(11): 1428-34 (2013). 66. Hawley S, Fazli L, McKenney JK, Simko J, Troyer D, Nicolas M, Newcomb LF, Cowan JE, Crouch L, Ferrari M, Hernandez J, Hurtado-Coll A, Kuchinsky K, Liew J, Mendez-Meza R, Smith E, Tenggara I, Zhang X, Carroll PR, Chan JM, Gleave M, Lance R, Lin DW, Nelson PS, Thompson IM, Feng Z, True LD, Brooks JD, "A model for the design and construction of a resource for the 21 Jeff Simko validation of prognostic prostate cancer biomarkers: the Canary Prostate Cancer Tissue Microarray," Adv Anat Pathol 20(1): 39-44 (2013). 67. Ducker GS, Atreya CE, Simko JP, Hom YK, Matli MR, Benes CH, Hann B, Nakakura EK, Bergsland EK, Donner DB, Settleman J, Shokat KM, Warren RS, "Incomplete inhibition of phosphorylation of 4E-BP1 as a mechanism of primary resistance to ATP-competitive mTOR inhibitors," Oncogene. 2013 Apr 1. doi: 10.1038/onc.2013.92. [Epub ahead of print] 68. Odisho AY, Washington SL 3rd, Meng MV, Cowan JE, Simko JP, Carroll PR, "Benign Prostate Glandular Tissue at Radical Prostatectomy Surgical Margins," Urology 82(1) 154-9 (2013). 69. Stieglitz E, Hsiang MS, Simko JP, Hirose S, Goldsby RE, "Pulmonary Coccidiomycosis Masquerading as Refractory Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma," J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 36(1): E57-60 (2014). 70. O Starobinets, R Guo, JP Simko, MD, PhD, K Kuchinsky, J Kurhanewicz, PR Carroll, KL Greene, SM Noworolski, "Semi-automatic registration of digital histopathology images to in-vivo MR images in molded and unmolded prostates," Accepted, JMRI 2013 71. Van Allen EM, Foye A, Wagle N, Kim W, Carter SL, McKenna A, Simko JP, Garraway LA, Febbo PG, "Successful whole-exome sequencing from a prostate cancer bone metastasis biopsy," Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2013 Dec 24. doi: 10.1038/pcan.2013.37. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24366412 72. Anwar M, Coakley F, Roach M, Westphalen AC, Jung A, Noworolski S, Simko J, Kurhanewicz J, Carroll P, "Role of endorectal MR imaging and MR spectroscopic imaging in defining treatable intraprostatic tumor foci in prostate cancer: Quantitative analysis of imaging contour compared to whole-mount histopathology," Submitted, Int J Rad Oncol 73. H. Dean Hosgood, William Pao, Nathaniel Rothman, Hu Wei, Yumei Helen Pan, Kyle Kuchinsky, Kirk Jones, Jun Xu, Roel Vermeulen, Jeffry Simko, Qing Lan, "Driver mutations among never smoking female lung cancer tissues in China identify unique EGFR and KRAS mutation pattern associated with household coal burning," Respir Med 107(11) 1755-62 (2013). 74. MJM Magbanua, EL Richman, EV Sosa, LW Jones, JP Simko, KShinohara, CM Haqq, PR Carroll, JM Chan,"Physical activity and prostate gene expression in men with low risk prostate cancer," Submitted, PLos One 75. MR Cooperberg, JE Cowan, JP Simko, T Maddala, JM Chan, AC Tsiatis, I Tenggara-Hunter, D Knezevic, FL Baehner, S Shak, M Lee, and PR Carroll, "Validation of a biopsy-based multi-gene predictor of adverse prostate cancer pathology to improve patient selection for active surveillance," Submitted NEJM NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER CREATIVE ACTIVITIES: 1. S.J. DeArmond, J.P. Simko and D.A. Gaskin, “The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurodegenerative Diseases,” in Modern Surgical Pathology, N. Weidner, Ed. (W.B. Saunders, New York, 2003) pp. 2121-2153. 22 Jeff Simko 2. JP Simko and FM Waldman, “Molecular and Special Techniques,” in Immunomicroscopy: A Diagnostic Tool for the Surgical Pathologist, 3rd Edition, C. Taylor, R. Cote Eds. (Elsevier, St. Louis, 2006). 3. JP Simko, Editorial for H. Eyas, et al., “Tertiary Gleason Pattern 5 is a Powerful Predictor of Biochemical Relapse in Patients with Gleason Score 7 Prostatic Adenocarcinoma,” J. Urol. (2006). 4. BM Ljung and JP Simko, “Issues and Methodologies for Sampling Breast Cancers for Molecular Studies and Diagnosis: Lessons from a Pathologist’s Bench,” in Seminars in Breast Disease, A. Thor Ed. (Elsevier, St. Louis, 2007). 5. S.J. DeArmond, TA Tousseyn, J.P. Simko and D.A. Gaskin, “The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurodegenerative Diseases” in Modern Surgical Pathology Second Edition, N. Weidner, Ed. (W.B. Saunders, New York, 2009) pp. 2039-2068. 6. Simko JP, "Letter to the editor," J Urol 190(6): 2066-7 (2013). 23 Jeff Simko RESEARCH PROGRAM My major research interests at this time generally involve improving physicians’ diagnostic capabilities for the management of patients with genitourinary malignancies. These activities are focused in two areas of diagnostic medicine; radiologic-pathologic correlation studies, and elucidation of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in GU malignancies. These activities are predominantly undertaken within the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center Genitourinary Oncology Program, the former UCSF Prostate SPORE program, the Canary Foundation Program, the RTOG clinical trials cooperative group, and THE ALLIANCE (former CALGB) clinical trials cooperative group; all of which are multidisciplinary teams of collaborative researchers with the common goal of improving the management of patients with genitourinary malignancies (prostate cancer, bladder cancer and kidney cancer). My primary responsibility in these groups is to provide the pathology support for these efforts, including overseeing collection, processing and distribution of appropriate tissue samples and pathologic specimens to the research projects, consultation and planning of experiments and grant proposals for most effective use and financing of tissue and pathology resources, and ultimately use and interpretation of histologic, immunohistologic and in-situ hybridization tissue sections within the projects themselves. Resident and medical student involvement is encouraged and has occurred. Radiologic-pathologic correlation studies: UCSF is in a very unique and enviable position due to the vast magnetic resonance imaging resources here in the Department of Radiology. A number of studies are underway to evaluate and interpret signals from nuclear magnetic resonance techniques (NMR / MRI), including magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), and the new Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 NMR system that enhances the signal of carbon nuclei 50,000-fold. Use of these techniques for the diagnosis of prostate cancer is currently limited by poor sensitivity and specificity, due to a lack of understanding of the types of signals generated from specific tissue types. In our most recent work, we feel that we’ve identified some tissue types that mimic the MRI signals produced by prostate cancer. Other studies involve correlation of MRSI signals with histologic, immunohistochemical, expression and genomic findings and patient outcome, in order to determine the relationship of tumor chemical composition to virulence and metastatic capability. Moving forward, we hope to extend this understanding to Carbon-13-based imaging, as well as imaging of renal tumors. I’ve also extended collaboration to the UC Berkeley Physics Department to evaluate the potential of alternative magnetic imaging techniques for cancer detection using SQUID magnetometers. Biomarkers: My other focus is within the realm of histologic, genetic and protein expression alterations within various genitourinary malignancies, with the major goal being to better characterize tumors for improved diagnostic and prognostic purposes, and also identifying new avenues for potential therapeutic strategies. Projects underway include histologic evaluation of prostate and renal tumors for national clinical trials (Canary Foundation, RTOG, ALLIANCE and industrial partners) to correlate with response to therapy, outcomes, and putative biomarkers. Related to these efforts are attempts to enhance biospecimen collection and evaluation of biomarker stability and specimen utility for these trials. This extends to efforts to collect circulating tumor cells and matching primary tumor tissue specimens, as well as other important tumor types ( pancreas and lung carcinomas), where I constructed TMAs of tissues collected from RTOG clinical trials and cohort studies through the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. Future plans include participation in the cancer genome atlas (TCGA) project of NCI, and increased efforts within RTOG as it merges with other Clinical trials groups during the NCI-mandated consolidation of these entities (merger with Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP)). 24 Jeff Simko Listing of most significant recent publications in last two years: 1.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 35(9): 1413-8 (2011). In this patient case, I recognized an unusual growth pattern in a metastatic melanoma that turned out to be a carcinoma. I was then able to have my dermatopathology colleagues determine whether this was indeed the same tumor or a different tumor via molecular testing. This turned out to be the first report of carcinomatous differentiation demonstrated by a melanoma, adding further credence to the overarching concept of tumor plasticity and epithelial-mesenchymal transitions. 2. Paris PL, Kobayashi Y, Zhao Q, Zeng W, Sridharan S, Fan T, Adler HL, Yera ER, Zarrabi MH, Zucker S, Simko J, Chen WT, Rosenberg J, "Functional phenotyping and genotyping of circulating tumor cells from patients with castration resistant prostate cancer," Cancer Lett 277(2): 164-73 (2009). This is the first report of a genome-wide evaluation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs); an extremely significant feat, as only a handful of CTCs are ever recoverable from patient blood (< 100 cells). Such analyses will hopefully lead to a clearer understanding of the development of metastatic tumor capability. For this study, I was responsible for developing a collaboration with the inventor of a new CTC isolation technology, Dr. WT Chen of SUNY Stony Brook, and I then helped assemble the appropriate team to perform these unique measurements, as well as help get Dr. Paris and others at UCSF (Dr. M. Magbanua), interested in this new area of research, and more data being generated. 3. Busch S, Hatridge M, Mößle M, Myers W, Wong T, Mück M, Chew K, Kuchinsky K, Simko J, Clarke J, "Measurements of T(1) -relaxation in ex vivo prostate tissue at 132 μT," Magn Reson Med. 2012 Apr;67(4):1138-45. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24177. Epub 2012 Jan 31. Useful imaging for evaluation of the prostate are seriously lacking. This report provides first evidence of a radical departure from the current thinking in MRI science that higher magnetic fields create more resolution (smaller features). While such is true, it does not consider the reduced contrast between tissue types (lack of differentiating signal) at these higher fields. I teamed with the inventor of an ultra-low field detection device (the SQUID magnetometer, for which Dr. Clarke was nominated for a Nobel Prize) that allows for increased contrast and thus the ability to image tissues to discriminate cancer from benign at low field. I helped design the clinical aspects of all experiments, and oversaw tissue selection, characterization and pathology comparison to the MR images generated by this technique. 4. McKenney JK, Simko J, Bonham M, True LD, Troyer D, Hawley S, Newcomb LF, Fazli L, Kunju LP, Nicolas MM, Vakar-Lopez F, Zhang X, Carroll PR, Brooks JD; Canary/Early Detection Research Network Prostate Active Surveillance Study Investigators, "The potential impact of reproducibility of Gleason grading in men with early stage prostate cancer managed by active surveillance: a multiinstitutional study," J Urol 186(2): 465-9 (2011). We are developing and testing new ways of grading prostate tumors to increase reproducibility and clinical utility. This paper was one of the first steps in this process, and was designed to identify tumor patterns that are not diagnosed in a consistent manner under current tumor grading paradigms. 5. Hayes GM, Simko J, Holochwost D, Kuchinsky K, Busch R, Misell L, Murphy EJ, Carroll PR, Chan JM, Shinohara K, Hellerstein MK, "Regional Cell Proliferation in Microdissected Human Prostate Specimens After Heavy Water-Labeling in vivo: Correlation With Prostate Epithelial Cells Isolated From Seminal Fluid," Clin Cancer Res. 2012 May 2. [Epub ahead of print]. I helped design and perform the tissue collection and analyses in this clinical trial that showed the utility of measuring deuterium in patient specimens. The concept takes advantage of increased deuterium incorporation into proliferating tissues (i.e. cancer) that can be used in non-invasive diagnostic tools. 25 Jeff Simko References to teaching ability: DR. Soo-Jin Cho, Clinical Instructor, UCSF Department of Anatomic Pathology DR. Tara Saunders, Clinical Fellow, UCSF Department of Anatomic Pathology Dr. Anobel Odisho, Resident Physician, UCSF Department of Urology DR. Han Lee, Assistant Professor, UCSF Department of Anatomic Pathology DR. Mike Bonham, Medical Director, Oppenheimer Urologic Labs, Burlingame, CA DR Sam Washington, Resident Physician, UCSF Departments of Surgery and Urology 26 Jeff Simko Outside Referees: Walter J. Curran, Jr., M.D. Executive Director, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Associate Vice President, Cancer, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Lawrence W. Davis Chair of Radiation Oncology Professor Department of Radiation Oncology Emory University School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology Emory University School of Medicine 1365 Clifton Road, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30322 Tel: (404)-778-3473 Fax: (404) 778-4139 Email: [email protected] Adam Dicker, MD, PhD, Professor & Chair, Dept of Radiation Oncology Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University & Hospitals Kimmel Cancer Center, an NCI designated Cancer Center 111 South 11th Street Room G-301, Bodine Center Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 955-6700 (215) 503-0013 fax email: [email protected] Lawrence True, MD and Professor Pathology Room BB220 Dept of Pathology, Box 356100 1959 NE Pacific St. University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA, 98195-6100 Office: (206) 598-4027 FAX: (206) 598-3803 Pager (when in town) 206-344-0584 email: [email protected] Richard C. Friedberg, MD, PhD, FCAP Chair, Department of Pathology Medical Director, Baystate Reference Laboratories Professor and Deputy Chairman Department of Pathology 27 Jeff Simko Tufts University School of Medicine 759 Chestnut Street Springfield, MA 01199 413-794-4500 Fax 413-794-5893 email: [email protected] Colin Collins, PhD Professor, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia Vancouver Prostate Centre Jack Bell Research Centre 2660 Oak Street Vancouver, BC V6H 3Z6 Phone: 604-875-4818 Fax: 604-875-5654 email: Colin Collins ([email protected]) Waldman, Frederic, MD, PhD Medical Director, Cancer Diagnostics Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute Hematology/Oncology Department 33608 Ortega Highway San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 949-728-4008 Email: [email protected] Internal Referees: Peter Carroll, MD, MPH: Professor and Chair, UCSF Department of Urology Mack Roach III, MD: Professor and Chair, UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology Linda Ferrell, MD: Professor and Vice Chair, UCSF Department of Anatomic Pathology Richard Jordan, DDS,PhD: Professor and Associate Dean of Research, UCSF Department of Orofacial Sciences 28