Dr. French

	Department of Pathology
	Brigham and Women's Hospital
	A teaching Affliate of Harvard Medical School
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Name and Present Position:

CHRISTOPHER A. FRENCH, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pathology

Address:

Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115

Medical School (including school name, date and degree awarded):

1995 M.D. Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY, NY

Graduate Medical Education (including dates and institution of internship, residencies, fellowships, etc.):

1995-1998 Resident in Anatomic Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
1998-1999 Fellow in Cytopathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
1999-2001 Post-doctoral research fellow in Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Certification (list all):

1999 Full Medical License, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2000 American Board of Anatomic Pathology and Cytopathology

Current Academic Appointment:

Assistant Professor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Current Medical Staff Appointment(s):

Associate Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Children's Oncology Group (COG), Associate Member

Selected Bibliography:

French CA, Bieber FR, Bing DH, Genest DR. Twins, placentas and genetics: acardiac twinning in a dichorionic, diamniotic, monozygotic twin gestation. Human Pathol 1998;29:1028-31.
French CA, Dorfman DM, Shaheem G, and Cibas ES. Diagnosing lymphoproliferative disorders involving the cerebrospinal fluid: increased sensitivity using flow cytometric analysis. Diag Cytopathol 2000;23:369-74.
French CA , Mentzel T, Kulzner H, and Fletcher CDM. Intradermal spindle cell/pleomorphic lipoma: a distinct subset. Am J Dermatopathol 2000;22:496-502.
Vargas SO, French CA, Faul PN, Fletcher JA, Davis IJ, Dal Cin P, Perez-Atayde AR. Upper respiratory tract carcinoma with chromosomal translocation 15;19. Evidence for a distinct disease entity of young patients with a rapidly fatal course. Cancer 2001;92:1195-203.
French CA, Miyoshi I, Aster JC, Kubonishi I, Kroll TG, Dal Cin P, Vargas SO, Perez-Atayde AR, Fletcher JA. BRD4 Bromodomain Gene Rearrangement in Aggressive Carcinoma with Translocation t(15;19). Am J Pathol 2001;159:1987-1992.
French CA, Alexander EK, Cibas ES, Nose V, Laguette J, Faquin W, Garber J, Moore F Jr, Fletcher JA, Larsen PR, Kroll TG. Genetic and biological subgroups of low-stage follicular thyroid cancer. Am J Pathol. 2003;162:1053-60.
French CA, Miyoshi I, Kubonishi I, Grier HE, Perez-Atayde AR, Fletcher JA. BRD4-NUT Fusion Oncogene: A Novel Mechanism in Aggressive Carcinoma. Cancer Res. 2003;63:304-7.
Rahbar R, Vargas SO, Miyamoto CR, Perez-Atayde AR, French CA, Robson CD, Licameli GR, Fletcher JA, Marcus KC, Grier HE, McGill TJ, Healy GB. The role of chromosomal translocation (15;19) in the carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract in children. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2003; 129:698-704.
French CA, Kutok JL, Faquin WC, Toretsky JA, Antonescu C, Griffin CA, Nose V, Vargas SO, Moschovi M, Tzortzatou-Stathopoulou F, Miyoshi I, Perez-Atayde AR, Aster JC, Fletcher JA. Midline carcinoma of children and young adults with NUT rearragement. Journal of Clinical Oncology. J Clin Oncol. 2004;22: 4135-4139.