Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology

Cheryl M. Coffin, M.D.

Ernest W. Goodpasture Professor of Investigative Pathology;

Vice Chair of Pathology;

Executive Medical Director of Anatomic Pathology;

Director of Translational Research

Dept of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Contact Information

Office Location:

MCN C-3324

Phone: 615-322-2302

Fax: 615-322-0511

E-mail: cheryl.coffin@vanderbilt.edu

Campus Mail address:

Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology-3rd Fl

MCN C-3321 (2561)

US Mailing address:
   Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
   Dept. of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology-3rd Fl
   MCN C-3321A

Nashville, TN 37232-2561

Education

MD, University of Vermont College of Medicine
BA, Bowdoin College

Research Keywords

Research Description

Clinical Research Description

Clinicopathologic and translational studies of soft tissue tumors, immunohistochemistry, molecular diagnostics

Publications

Kallen, ME, Sanders, ME, Gonzalez, AL, Black, JO, Keedy, VL, Hande, KR, Homlar, KC, Halpern, JL, Holt, GE, Schwartz, HS, Coffin, CM, Cates, JM. Nuclear p63 expression in osteoblastic tumors. Tumour Biol, 2012
Coffin, CM, Alaggio, R. Fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors in children and adolescents. Pediatr Dev Pathol, 15(1 Suppl), 127-80, 2012
Alaggio, R, Coffin, CM, Vargas, SO. Soft tissue tumors of uncertain origin. Pediatr Dev Pathol, 15(1 Suppl), 267-305, 2012
Cates, JM, Coffin, CM. Extraskeletal cartilaginous, osseous, and chordoid tumors in children and adolescents. Pediatr Dev Pathol, 15(1 Suppl), 255-66, 2012
Black, J, Coffin, CM, Dehner, LP. Fibrohistiocytic tumors and related neoplasms in children and adolescents. Pediatr Dev Pathol, 15(1 Suppl), 181-210, 2012
Rosado, FG, Itani, DM, Coffin, CM, Cates, JM. Utility of immunohistochemical staining with FLI1, D2-40, CD31, and CD34 in the diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related and non-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related Kaposi sarcoma. Arch Pathol Lab Med, 136(3), 301-4, 2012
Coffin, CM, Alaggio, R. Adipose and myxoid tumors of childhood and adolescence. Pediatr Dev Pathol, 15(1 Suppl), 239-54, 2012
Cates, JM, Coffin, CM. Neurogenic tumors of soft tissue. Pediatr Dev Pathol, 15(1 Suppl), 62-107, 2012
Cates, JM, Black, JO, Itani, DM, Fasig, JH, Keedy, VL, Hande, KR, Whited, BW, Homlar, KC, Halpern, JL, Holt, GE, Schwartz, HS, Coffin, CM. Signal transduction pathway analysis in fibromatosis: receptor and nonreceptor tyrosine kinases. Hum Pathol, 2012
Cates, JM, Black, J, Wolfe, CC, Shinohara, ET, Holt, GE, Keedy, VL, Hande, KR, Homlar, KC, Halpern, JL, Schwartz, HS, Troutman, A, Coffin, CM. Morphologic and immunophenotypic analysis of desmoid-type fibromatosis after radiation therapy. Hum Pathol, 2012
Coffin, CM, Alaggio, R, Dehner, LP. Some general considerations about the clinicopathologic aspects of soft tissue tumors in children and adolescents. Pediatr Dev Pathol, 15(1 Suppl), 11-25, 2012
Saab, ST, Hornick, JL, Fletcher, CD, Olson, SJ, Coffin, CM. IgG4 plasma cells in inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: inflammatory marker or pathogenic link. Mod Pathol, 24(4), 606-12, 2011
Nickols, HH, Chambless, LB, Carson, RP, Coffin, CM, Pearson, MM, Abel, TW. Intramedullary spinal immature teratoma: resolution of quadriplegia following resection in a 4-week-old infant. J Neurosurg Pediatr, 6(6), 586-91, 2010
Tatsas, AD, Keedy, VL, Florell, SR, Simpson, JF, Coffin, CM, Kelley, MC, Cates, JM. Foamy cell angiosarcoma: a rare and deceptively bland variant of cutaneous angiosarcoma. J Cutan Pathol, 37(8), 901-6, 2010
Coffin, CM, Lowichik, A, Putnam, A. Lipoblastoma (LPB): a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis of 59 cases. Am J Surg Pathol, 33(11), 1705-12, 2009