NathanSamuelCukaMD

Hematopathology, Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Clinical Informatics

Associate Pathologist Pathologists Diagnostic Services, PLLC

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Office
3333 Silas Creek Pkwy FL 1
Winston Salem, NC 27103
Phone+1 336-718-5856

Fax+1 336-999-8889

Dr. Nathan Cuka is a pathologist in Winston Salem, NC. He received his medical degree from University of Kansas School of Medicine with residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has been in practice 6 years. He specializes in hematopathology, anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, and clinical informatics and is experienced in flow cytometry, hematopathology, clinical pathology, surgical pathology, and health technology/informatics.

Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Hematopathology, 2015 - 2016
Johns Hopkins UniversityChief Residency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 2014 - 2015
Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 2011 - 2015
University of Kansas School of MedicineClass of 2011
University of Notre DameB.S., Physics, Magna Cum Laude, 1992 - 1996

Pardoll Tumor Microenvironment Pathology Resident Research Award 2014
Merck Manual Award 2011
Russel Jay Eilers Award 2011
Alpha Omega Alpha 2010
David Robinson International Studies Scholarship 2010
Mabel L & Marshall B Flowers Scholarship 2010
Benjamin Trump MD Scholarship 2009-2010
Scholarship USA Access to Funds, 2009-2010
Dr. Theodore Coffin Scholarship 2007
William Cooper & Kate Avis McPike Scholarship 2006
Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award University of Notre Dame Physics Department, 1996
Honors Program Outstanding Research Project University of Notre Dame College of Science, 1996
Phi Beta Kappa 1996
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PubMed

909 citations
PD-1 Blockade in Tumors with Mismatch-Repair Deficiency.
Dung T Le, Jennifer N Uram, Hao Wang, Bjarne R Bartlett, Holly Kemberling
The New England Journal of Medicine. 2015-06-25
339 citations
Patterns of PD-L1 expression and CD8 T cell infiltration in gastric adenocarcinomas and associated immune stroma
Elizabeth D. Thompson, Marianna Zahurak, Adrian Murphy, Toby C. Cornish, Nathan Cuka
Gut. 2017-05-01
25 citations
Expanding the Spectrum of EBV-positive Marginal Zone Lymphomas: A Lesion Associated With Diverse Immunodeficiency Settings.
Shunyou Gong, Genevieve M. Crane, Chad M. McCall, Wenbin Xiao, Karthik A. Ganapathi
The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 2018-10-01

Journal Articles

Pancreatic cystic lesions without overt cytologic atypia: proposed diagnostic categories for endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology with utilizat...
Madan R, Khan E, Cuka N, Olyaee M, Tawfik O, Fan F, Acta cytologica, 1/1/2012
From Exploding Stars to the Laboratory: Nucleosynthesis in the rp-Process
Aprahamian A, Terymurazyan A, Susalla A, Cuka N, Hyperfine Interactions, 1/1/2001
Getting All Your Beans in One Bag
Cuka N, Java Developers Journal, 1/1/2000
Exotic Beams and Nuclear Structure in the A=80 Region
Aprahamian A, Gadala-Maria A, Cuka N, Revista Mexicana de Fisica, 1/1/1992
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Abstracts/Posters

Pseudoaneurysm of the inferior vena cava after filter removal.
Lessne, ML, Lesnne, M, Cuka, N, Mitchell, SE, Yarmohammadi, H, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology: JVIR, 1/1/2013
Pancreatic cystic lesions without overt cytologic atypia: proposed diagnostic categories for endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology with utilizat...
Madan, R, Khan, E, Cuka, N, Olyaee, M, Tawfik, O, & Fan, F, Acta Cytologica, 1/1/2012
Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration of Pancreatic Cystic Lesions without Overt Cytologic Atypia: Proposed Diagnostic Categories with Utilization of Flu...
Khan EA, Cuka N, Madan R, Olyaee M, Thomas PA, Fan F, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1/1/2010
Are There Any Predictors to Differentiate Mucinous from Non-mucinous Pancreatic Cysts? A Single Center Experience.
Wani S, Reddymasu S, Cuka N, Gupta N, Stanley S, Oropeza-Vail M, Fan F, Olyaee M, American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2009
Nuclear Masses in the A=80 Region of Nuclei.
Cuka N, Nuclear Astrophysics Section of the American Physical Society National Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 1/1/1992
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Lectures

PIP: An Open Source Framework for Multithreaded Image Analysis of Whole Slide Images.
San Diego CA - 1/1/2014

Other

Book Review: "Rubin, Emanuel, and Howard M. Reisner. Essentials of Rubin's Pathology. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, 2009"
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Book Review: "Taxy, Jerome B., Aliya N. Husain, and Anthony G. Montag. Biopsy Interpretation: the Frozen Section. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wi...
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