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Theodore J. Pysher, M.D.
Division Chief, Pediatric Pathology
Professor (Clinical) of Pathology
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
Theodore J. Pysher, M.D.
Titles:
- Head of Pathology and Medical Director of Laboratories at Primary Children's Medical Center
About Theodore J. Pysher, M.D.
Responsible for diagnostic and administrative service, medical school and hospital teaching, and collaborative research in perinatal and pediatric autopsy and surgical pathology, and pediatric nephropathology and electron microscopy. Head of Pathology and Medical Director of Clinical Laboratories. Medical Director of Perioperative Autologous Blood Collection and Administration Program, Associate Medical Director of Transfusion Service, chairperson of Blood Utilization Review Committee , and member of Clinical Operations Committee and Trauma Program Quality Improvement Team at Primary Children's Medical Center. Member of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Pediatric Specialty Clinical Program, Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Information System Development Teams, and Transfusion Medicine and Phlebotomy Practice Councils at Intermountain Healthcare.
Selected Publications
- Siegler RL, Pysher TJ, Tesh VL, Noris M, Cassis P, Taylor FB Jr. (2005). Reduced nitric oxide bioavailability in a baboon model of Shiga toxin mediated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Ren Fail, 27(5), 635-41.
- Comstock JM, Putnam AR, Opitz JM, Pysher TJ, Szakacs J. (2005). Prenatal death in Fraser syndrome. Fetal Pediat Pathol, 24(4-5), 223-38.
- Park AH, Muntz HR, Smith ME, Afify Z, Pysher T, Pavia A. (2005). Pediatric invasive fungal rhinosinusitis in immunocompromised children with cancer. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 133(3), 411-6.
- Clayton F, Pysher TJ, Lou R, Kohan DE, Denkers ND, Tesh VL, Taylor FB Jr, Siegler RL. (2005). Lipopolysaccharide upregulates renal shiga toxin receptors in a primate model of hemolytic uremic syndrome. Am J Nephrol, 25(6), 536-40.
- Coffin CM, Spilker K, Zhou H, Lowichik A, Pysher TJ. (2005). Frozen section diagnosis in pediatric surgical pathology: a decade's experience in a children's hospital. Arch Pathol Lab Med, 129(12), 1619-25.
- Stevenson DA, Pysher TJ, Ward RM, Carey JC. (2006). Familial congenital non-immune hydrops, chylothorax, and pulmonary lymphangiectasia. Am J Med Genet A, 140(4), 368-72.
- Oakes RS, Siegler RL, McReynolds MA, Pysher T, Pavia AT. (2006). Predictors of fatality in postdiarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome. Pediatrics, 117(5), 1656-62.
- Pysher TJ, Bach PR, Geaghan SM, Hamilton MS, Laposata M, Lockitch G, Brugnara C, Coffin CM, Pasquali M, Rinaldo P, Roberts WL, Rutledge JC, Ashwood ER, Blaylock RC, Campos JM, Goldsmith B, Jones PM, Lim M, Meikle AW, Perkins SL, Perry DA, Petti CA, Rogers BB, Steele PE, Weiss RL, Woods G. (2006). Teaching pediatric laboratory medicine to pathology residents. Arch Pathol Lab Med, 130(7), 1031-8.
- Fenton SJ, Kastenmeier A, Pysher TJ, Nichol PF. (2007). Acute appendicitis in a patient with hemolytic uremic syndrome: an unusual clinical scenario. Pediatr Surg Int.
- Christensen RD, Pysher TJ, Christensen SS. (2007). Case report: perianal necrotizing fasciitis in a near-term neonate. J Perinatol, 27(6), 390-1.
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Professional Education
- 1969-1973, MD, University of Chicago (Medicine)Chicago, IL
- 1973-1974, INTERN, Cleveland Metropolitan General (Pediatrics)Cleveland, OH
- 1974-1976, RESIDENT, Cleveland Metropolitan General (Pathology)Cleveland, OH
- 1976-1977, RESIDENT, Rainbow Babies Children's Hospital (Pediatrics)Cleveland, OH
- 1977-1979, FELLOW, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (Pediatric Pathology)Los Angeles, CA