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Billie S. Fyfe-Kirschner, MD

Position:  Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Administrative:  

Chief, Division of Nephropathology - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH)

Director of Autopsy Service, Director of Transplant Pathology
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ,

Pathology Residency Program Director, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
 

Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Phone Number: (732) 235-8114

Email Address:  fyfekibs@umdnj.edu

 
Clinical Programs
 
bullet Pathology Consultation Service

Training
bulletUniversity of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Doctor of Medicine, (Combined B.S./M.D. Program), 1983-1987
 
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Residency in Anatomic Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Miami Beach, Florida, 1987-1989
 

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Residency, Anatomic Pathology, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, New York, 1989-1990
 

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Fellowship, Anatomic Pathology, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, New York 1990-1991
 

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Visiting Fellowship, Cardiac Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA, 1991
 

Honors and Awards
 
bulletMember, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Student Honor Society, 1987
 
bullet Sidney Israel Resident in Pathology (Best Resident Award)
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida, 1988
 
bulletBest Resident Presentation in Pathology: Gastric Syphilis: An entity forgotten too soon?
Southern Medical Association Meeting, 1989
 
bulletYoung Investigator Award from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology for: Early Ischemic Injury in
Post-transplant Endomyocardial Biopsies: Morphology and Clinical Significance, 1993

 
Certifications Licensure

Anatomic Pathology - American Board of Pathology, 1991

   1990 New York State License
1995 Pennsylvania State License
2004 New Jersey State License
 
Office Address   Mailing Address
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
One Robert Wood Johnson Place
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA		 same
Selected Publications

 

  1. Fyfe B, Popitti RJ, Jr, Amazon K, Razzetti A.. Intraosseous Echinoccosis: A rare manifestation of echinococcal disease. Southern Medical Journal 83:211-215, 1990.

  2. Fyfe B, Dominquez F, Popitti RJ, Jr.. Thymic Hyperplasia: A clue to the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 11: 257-261, 1990.

  3. Fyfe B, Mittleman R. Hypopharyngeal lipoma as a cause of sudden death. American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 12:82-84, 1991.

  4. Rafanti SP, Fyfe B, Carreiro S, Sharp S, Hyma B, Ratzan K. Native valve endocarditis due to Pseudallescheria Boydii in a patient with Acquired Immune Deficiency (AIDS): A case report and literature review. Reviews of Infectious Diseases 12:993-996, 1990.

  5. 5. Marmur J, Rossikhina M, Arabinda G, Fyfe B, Friedrich V, Mendlowitz M, Nemerson Y, and Taubman M. Tissue Factor is rapidly induced in arterial smooth muscle after balloon injury. Journal of Clinical Investigation 91:2253-2259, 1993.

  6. Fyfe B, Popitti RJ, Jr, Lubin J, Robinson MJ. Gastric Syphilis: Primary diagnosis by gastric biopsy: Report of four cases. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 117:820-823, 1993.

  7. Fyfe B, Schoen FJ. Pathologic analysis of 34 explanted Symbion ventricular assist devices and 10 explanted Jarvik-7 Total artificial hearts. Cardiovascular Pathology 2:187-198, 1993.

  8. Groisman G, Ben-Izhak O, Schwerenz A, Berant N, Fyfe B. The value of polyclonal carcinoembryonic antigen immunostaining in the diagnosis of microvillous inclusion disease. Human Pathology 24: 1232-1237, 1993.

  9. Hytiroglou P, Dolgin S, Fyfe B, Thiese N, Thung S, Toor A. Focal nodular hyperplasia in a 10 month old infant. Letter to the editor, Pediatric Pathology 13:537-539, 1993.

  10. Pastores G, Santorelli F, Shanske S, Gelb B, Fyfe B, Wolfe D, Willner J. Leigh syndrome and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in an infant with a mitochondrial point mutation (T8993G). American Journal of Medical Genetics 50:265-271, 1994.

  11. Fyfe B, Quintana C, Kaneko M, Griepp R. Aortic sarcoma four years after Dacron graft insertion. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 58: 1752-1754, 1994.

  12. Fyfe B S, Israel DH, Quish A, Squire A, Burrows L, Sharma S, Murthy S, Machac J. Reversal of primary hyperoxaluria cardiomyopathy after combined liver and renal transplantation. American Journal of Cardiology 75:210-212, 1995.

  13.  Go L, Moschella M, Watras J, Handa K, Fyfe BS, Marks AR. Differential regulation of two types of intracellular calcium release channels during end stage heart failure. Journal of Clinical Investigation 95: 888-894, 1995.

  14. Kirschner RE, Chiao JC, Fyfe BS, Hoffman LA, Davis JM, Fantini GA. Neutrophil lipoxygenase activation and leukosequestration in post-ischemic myocutaneous flaps: Role of LTB4. American Journal of Physiology 268 (Heart Circ Physiol 37): 2167-2171, 1995.

  15. Fyfe B, Loh E, Winters G L, Kartashov A, Couper G S, Kartashov A I, Schoen F J. Heart transplantation-associated perioperative ischemic myocardial injury: Morphological features and clinical significance. Circulation: 1996; 93:1133-1140.

  16. Schecter SO, Fyfe B, Pou R, Goldman ME. Intramural left atrial hematoma complicating mitral annular calcification. American Heart Journal 1996; 132: 455-457.

  17. Berkowitz J, Unger P, Fyfe B. Sarcoidosis involving a paratesticular adenomatoid tumor. Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases 1996; 13:183-185.

  18. Marmur JD, Thiruvikraman SV, Fyfe BS, Guha A, Sharma SK, Ambrose JA, Fallon JT, Nemerson Y, Taubman MB. Identification of Active Tissue Factor in Human Coronary Atheroma. Circulation 1996; 94:1226-1232.

  19. Yokoyama H, Momeni R, Goldstein C, Mohuiddin M, Shen Z, Fyfe BS, Whitman GJ, DiSesa VJ. Effects of Vesnarinone, a Novel Orally Active Inotropic Agent with an Immunosuppressive Action, on Experimental Cardiac Transplantation in Rats. Transplantation 1996; 62:1540-3.

  20. Hague K, Catalano P, Rothschild M, Strauchen J, Fyfe B. Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disease Presenting as Sudden Respiratory Arrest in a Three-Year-Old Child. Ann Otol Rhin and Laryngol 1997; 106: 244-247.

  21. Kirschner RE, Fyfe B, Hoffman LA, Chiao JC, Davis JM and Fantini GA. Ischemia- reperfusion injury of myocutaneous flaps: Role of leukocytes and leukotrienes. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 1997; 6:1485-1493

  22. Taubman MT, Fallon JT, Schecter AD, Giesen P, Mendlowitz M, Fyfe B, Marmur JD and Nemerson Y. Tissue factor in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Thrombosis and Haemostasis 1997; 78:200-204.

  23. Schecter AD, Giesen PL, Taby O, Rosenfield CL, Rossikhina M, Fyfe BS, Kohtz DS, Fallon JT, Nemerson Y, Taubman MB. Tissue Factor Expression in Human Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells. TF is Present in Three Cellular Pools AfterGrowth Factor Stimulation. Journal of Clinical Investigation 1997; 100: 2276-2285.

  24.  Berkowitz J., Lansman S. and Fyfe B. Coronary Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Following Endocarditis of Composite Graft. Angiology 1998; 49: 145-150.

  25. Fyfe B, Garcia FU. Laryngeal glycogenic acanthosis presenting as leukoplakia. Archives of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery 1998; 124: 1029-1030.

  26. Sicari MC, Fyfe B, Parness I,Rossi A, Unger P. Intrapericardial yolk sac tumor associated with acute myocarditis. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 1999; 123: 241-3.

  27. Kirschner RE, Xu J, Fyfe B, Chang B, Bucky LP. Salvage of free flaps after secondary venous ischemia by local delivery of heparin. Annals of Plastic Surgery 1999; 42: 521-527.

  28. Fyfe B, Schoen FJ. Pathologic analysis of non-stented Freestyle aortic root bioprostheses treated with amino oleic acid (AOA). Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1999; Suppl I: 151-156.

  29. Giesen PLA, Fyfe BS, Fallon JT, Roque M, Mendlowitz M, Rossikhina M, Guha A, Badimon JJ, Nemerson Y and Taubman M. Intimal tissue factor activity is released from the arterial wall after injury. Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2000; 83: 622-628.

  30. Samuels LE, Thomas MP, Holmes EC, Narula J, Fitzpatrick J, Wood D, Fyfe B, Wechsler AS. Insufficiency of the native aortic valve and left ventricular assist system inflow after support with an implantable left ventricular assist system: signs, symptoms, and concerns. J Thor Cardiovasc Surg 2001; 122: 380-381.

  31.  Narula J, Acio ER, Narula N, Samuels LE, Fyfe B, Wood D, Fitzpatrick JM, Ragunath PN, Tomaszewski JE, Kelly C, Steinmetz N, Green A, Tait JF, Leppo J, Blankenberg FG, Jain D, Strauss HW. Annexin-V imaging for non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac allograft rejection. Nat Med 2001; 12: 1347-52.

  32. Fasseas P, Galatro KM, Leybishkis B, Fyfe B. Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis. Tex Heart Inst 2001; 28: 154-5.

  33. Leon ME, Chavez C, Fyfe B, Nagorsky MJ, Garcia FU. Cholesterol granuloma of the maxillary sinus. Arch Path Lab Med 2002; 126:217-219.

  34. Nissman SA, Mann BD, Vitvisky EV, Fyfe BS. Spontaneous nontraumatic hemoperitoneum due to a bleeding arteriovenous malformation on the serosal surface of the transverse colon: a case report. American Surgeon 2002; 68:911-912.

  35. Kode R, Fa K, Chowdhury S, Ranganna K, Fyfe B, Stabler S, Damask A, Laftavi M, Kumar AM, Pankewycz O. Basiliximab plus low-dose cyclosporine vs. OKT3 for induction immunosuppression following renal transplantation. Clinical Transplantation 2003; 17: 369-376.

  36. Gabriel S, Gracele E, Fyfe-Kirschner B. Impact of BMI on Clinically Unsuspected Findings at Postmortem Examination. Accepted for Publication American Journal of Clinical Pathology 2005.

    Books and Chapters:
     

  1. Fyfe, B. Cardiovascular Pathology pp 83-104.In: Pathology a Comprehensive Review. Klein MJ and Heller D. Eds. Butterworth-Heinmann Publishers Newton, MA 1999
     

Workshops:

National:

  1. “Diagnostic and Practical Challenges in Modern Autopsy Practice” ASCP Fall Meeting 1999, New Orleans, LA.  Billie Fyfe, MD Course director.

  2. “Diagnostic and Practical Challenges in Modern Autopsy Practice” ASCP Fall Meeting 2000, San Diego, CA. Billie Fyfe, MD Course director.

 
Updated Date
08/11/2008

 

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