Jennifer L (Miller) Picarsic MD

PubMed

• Diagnostic BRAFV600E blood predicts treatment failure and neurodegeneration and redefines paradigms of pediatric LCH.
  Howard Lin, Akanksha Batajoo, Erin Peckham-Gregory, Daniel Zinn, Olive S Eckstein
  Blood. 2025-04-01
• IDCH: is it now determined?
  Nitya Gulati, Jennifer Picarsic
  Blood Advances. 2025-02-11
• Liver fibrosis classification on trichrome histology slides using weakly supervised learning in children and young adults.
  Mahdieh Shabanian, Zachary Taylor, Christopher Woods, Anas Bernieh, Jonathan Dillman
  Journal of Pathology Informatics. 2025-01-01

Journal Articles

• Langerin Staining Identifies Most Littoral Cell Angiomas but Not Most Other Splenic Angiomatous Lesions  
  Steven H Swerdlow, Jennifer Picarsic, ScienceDirect
• Prognostic significance of transcription factors [FOXA1, GATA-3] in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in terms of recurrence and Estrogen receptor (ER) status  
  Chivukula M, Picarsic J, Ahrendt, Gretchen M, Brufsky A, Carter G, Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment, 1/1/2015
• Post-transplant Pediatric Burkitt lymphoma  
  Picarsic J, and Reyes-Mugica M, Pathology Case Reviews, 1/1/2011

Books/Book Chapters

• Principles of Molecular Diagnostics and Personalized Cancer Medicine 
  Chapter: Molecular Diagnostics of Pediatric Tumors. 
  Picarsic J, Nikiforova M, Reyes-MugicaEditors: Dongfeng Tan, MD and Henry Lynch, MD.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2013

Abstracts/Posters

• Successful Implementation of Whole Slide Imaging for Pediatric Surgical Pathology: A Pilot Study.
  Jennifer Picarsic, Douglas J. Hartman, Miguel Reyes-Mugica, John Ozolek, Amy Davis MD, Ranganathan Sarangarajan, Lori Schmitt, Navid Farahani, Chelsea Watkins, Matthew..., Pathology Informatics Summit meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 1/23/2016
• Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) –Invasive carcinoma risk prediction model DRPS (DCIS Risk Prediction Score): A novel biomarker model to predict local recurrence in la...
  Bulusu,G; Brufsky, A; Picarsic,J; Ahrendt, G, Chivukula, M; Carter,G, 105th United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology’s Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 1/12/2016
• Langerhans cell hyperplasia, Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) and the thymus: A Clinicopathologic study and review of the literature.
  Picarsic J, Egeler RM, Kudakwashe C, Patterson K, Jaffe R, 30th Histiocytosis Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1/28/2014
• Can malignant thyroid nodules be distinguished from benign thyroid nodules in children and adolescents by clinical characteristics?
  Buryk M, Simons J, Joyce J, Gurtunca N, Picarsic J, Monaco S, Witchel S, Platform Session: endocrinology II: Clinical at the Pediatric Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 1/5/2014
• Cytomorphologic and Radiological findings of Ectopic Thymic Tissue in Pediatric Fine Needle Aspirations.
  L Pantanowitz, J Picarsic, S Yilmaz, F Escobar, S Monaco, Journal of the American Society of Cytopatholog; 62nd America Society for Cytopathology Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, 1/1/2014
• Role of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Status and Immunophenotypic Studies in the Evaluation of Exfoliative Cytology Specimens from Patients with Post-Transplant Lymphoproli...
  Gibson S, Picarsic J, Swerdlow S, Pantanowitz L, United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology’s 103rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2014
• Correlation of Clinicopathological Features and Molecular Genetics in Pediatric Thyroid Carcinoma.
  Picarsic J, Buryk M, Ozolek J, Ranganathan S, Monaco S, Gurtunca N, Joyce J, Simons J, Witchel S, Mehta D, and Nikiforov Y, Pediatric and Developmental Pathology; Society for Pediatric Pathology Spring Meeting, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2014
• Meeting the Needs of In-house Thyroid Cancer Patients: Identifying Appropriate Thyroglobulin and Thyroglobulin Antibody Testing Algorithms.
  Wheeler S, Picarsic J, Blair H, Peck Palmer O, Clinical Chemistry; American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) annual scientific meeting, Houston, TX, 1/1/2013
• Too soon! Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) in a 4 year-old child 16 months following treatment for neuroblastoma (NB)
  Buryk M, Simons S, Shaw P, Windreich R, Wine T, Joyce J, Creary S, Picarsic J, Deutsch M, Monaco S, Nikiforov Y, Witchel S, Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2013
• Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings in post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD).
  Gibson S, Monaco SE, Khalbuss WE, Picarsic J, Pantanowitz L, Journal of the Am Soc Cytopathology; American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) 60th annual scientific meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2012
• J Picarsic, CM Salgado, L Schmitt, S Ranganathan, C Lo, M Reyes-Mugica, Modern Pathology; Society of Pediatric Pathology (SPP) Annual spring meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 1/1/2012
• Hirschsprung's disease revisited- experience with Acetylcholinesterase staining in diagnosis.
  J Picarsic, L. Schmitt, R Jaffe, Miguel Reyes-Mugica, S Ranganathan, Modern Pathology; Society of Pediatric Pathology (SPP) spring meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 1/1/2012
• Post-transplant Burkitt lymphoma: a distinct form of PTLD?
  Picarsic J, Jaffe R, Reyes MR, Pediatric Pathology Society (PPS), Padova, Italy, 1/17/2010
• Role of transcription factors [FOXA1, GATA-3] in predicting outcome in (ER+) and (ER-) ductal carcinoma-in-situ (DCIS) patients with and without invasive carcinoma (IC...
  Picarsic J, A Brufsky, G Ahernt, A Onisko, Chivukula M, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology National Conference, 1/1/2010
• Role of transcription factors [FOXA1, GATA-3] in predicting outcomes in recurrent DCIS or invasive carcinoma in DCIS patients on core needle biopsies of breast.
  Picarsic J, A Brufsky, G Ahernt, , A Onisko, G Tseng, Chivukula M, Cancer Research; San Antonio Breast Symposium Conference, San Antonio, TX, 1/1/2009
• Adenovirus-mediated transfer of the interferon-beta gene induces tumor regression in a novel co-culture model of human lung cancer.
  PE Lamberty, JL Miller, JS Siegfried, E Favus, SM Albelda, and JM Pilewski, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 1/1/2002
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Lectures

• Activating Mutations in CSF1R and Additional Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Sporadic and Familial Histiocytic Neoplasms 
  2018 ASH Annual Meeting - San Diego, CA - 12/1/2018
• Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the central nervous system: Challenges in pathologic diagnosis. 
  Athens, Greece - 1/28/2015
• Disorders of Histiocytosis. 
  Boston, MA - 1/22/2015
• When a granuloma is more than just a granuloma: Clues to systemic disease beyond infection. 
  1/20/2015
• Pathology and Histopathologic Pitfalls of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis. 
  Athens, Greece - 1/15/2015
• Virtopsy: An introduction to post-mortem imaging –history, promise, and challenges. 
  Magee Women’s Hospital - 1/26/2014
• Spectrum of Coronary Artery Pathology in Pediatric Hospital Autopsy Practice. 
  Portland, OR - 1/19/2014
• Langerhans cell histiocytosis: What the CNS can tell us about Langerhans cell proliferations and new molecular updates in the field. 
  1/11/2014
• Overview of the Pediatric Autopsy. 
  1/21/2013
• Radiography in Perinatal and Pediatric Autopsies: a focus on skeletal dysplasias. 
  Magee Women’s Hospital - 1/13/2013
• The Evolution of the Pediatric Autopsy Experience: Where we've been, where we’re at, and where we're going … but who’s going to pay for it? 
  1/13/2013
• Learning Cases Pediatric Pathology: Congenital tufting enteropathy 
  Prague, Czech Republic - 1/12/2012
• From forgotten vestigial organelle to the next “hot topic” in congenital renal disease and tumorigenesis: The renaissance of the primary cilium. 
  1/27/2011
• Variability in Epstein-Barr Virus viral load assays 
  1/30/2010
• Array-based karyotyping in hematologic malignancies: Presented at the SNP arrays in CLL 
  1/19/2010
• Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria: Lab testing and updates 
  UPMC - 1/20/2009
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Other

• A six-year old female transplant patient presents with fever and rectal bleeding. 
  Pejchal M and Picarsic J, UPMC Pathology Department Webcase 823
  http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case823.html
  1/1/2014
• A two-year-old male with left undescended testis. 
  Harness J and Picarsic J, UPMC Pathology Department Webcase 782
  http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case782.html
  1/1/2013
• Webcase 645: A young man with influenza. 
  Picarsic J and Contis L, UPMC Pathology Department
  http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case549.html
  1/1/2010
• Webcase 668. A 6 year-old girl with a large left neck mass. 
  Picarsic J and Reyes-Mugica M, UPMC Pathology Department
  http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case668/dx.html
  1/1/2010
• Webcase 549: An atypical myxoid leiomyoma of the vulva. 
  Picarsic J and Chivukula M, UPMC Pathology Department
  http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case549.html
  1/1/2008
• Webcase 569: A 74-year-old man with anemia. 
  Picarsic J and Gutkin D, UPMC Pathology Department
  http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case569.html
  1/1/2008
• SPP 12-11. Slide survey, Sertoli-Leydig cell hamartoma. 
  Picarsic J, Society of Pediatric Pathology Slide Survey Program
• SPP 11-15. Slide survey, hepatic adenoma. 
  Picarsic J and Ranganathan S, Society of Pediatric Pathology Slide Survey Program
• Webcase 16. Concurrent papillary carcinoma of thyroid and breast cancer metastasis to thyroid. 
  Picarsic J and Khalbuss W, UPMC Cytopathology Unknown Case Conference
  https://secure.opi.upmc.edu/cytounknowns/quiz/index.cfm
• Webcase 15. Elastofibroma. 
  Picarsic J and Khalbuss W, UPMC Cytopathology Unknown Case Conference
  https://secure.opi.upmc.edu/cytounknowns/quiz/index.cfm
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