Department of Pathology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
A teaching Affliate of Harvard Medical School
 

Name and Present Position:

CHRISTOPHER P. CRUM, Director, Women's and Perinatal Pathology Division

Address:

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA

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

1974 MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA

  Graduate Medical Education (including dates and institution of internships, residencies,
fellow-ships, etc.):

1974-75 Intern, Internal Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
1975-78 Resident, Anatomic Pathology, University of Virginia Medical Center
1978-79 Fellow, Pathology, University of Virginia Medical Center
1979-81 Fellow, Obstetrical and Gynecologic Pathology, Columbia Univ. Coll. of Phys. and Surg., New York, NY

Certification:

1975 FLEX
1980 American Board of Pathology (Anatomic Pathology)

Current Academic Appointment:

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Current Medical Staff Appointments:

Director, Women's and Perinatal Pathology Division
Director, Women's and Perinatal Pathology Fellowship Training Program.
Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Consultant Pathologist, Children's Hospital, Boston

Selected Recent Bibliography:

  • Sheets EE, Urban RG, Crum CP, Hedley ML, Politch JA, Gold MA, Muderspach LI, Cole GA, Crowley-Nowick PA. Immunotherapy of human cervical high- grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia with microparticle-delivered human papillomavirus 16 E7 plasmid DNA.Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2003 Apr;188(4):916-26.
  • Ince TA, Cviko AP, Quade BJ, Yang A, McKeon FD, Mutter GL, Crum CP. p63 coordinates anogenital modeling and epithelial cell differentiation in the developing female urogenital tract.Am J Pathol. 2002 Oct; 161(4):1111-7.
  • Senoo M, Pinto F, Crum CP, McKeon F. p63 Is essential for the proliferative potential of stem cells in stratified epithelia. Cell. 2007 May 4;129(3):523-36.
  • Kindelberger DW, Lee Y, Miron A, Hirsch MS, Feltmate C, Medeiros F, Callahan MJ, Garner EO, Gordon RW, Birch C, Berkowitz RS, Muto MG, Crum CP. Intraepithelial carcinoma of the fimbria and pelvic serous carcinoma: Evidence for a causal relationship.Am J Surg Pathol. 2007 Feb;31(2):161-9.
  • Crum CP, Drapkin R, Miron A, Ince TA, Muto M, Kindelberger DW, Lee Y. The distal fallopian tube: a new model for pelvic serous carcinogenesis. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Feb;19(1):3-9
  • Suh EK, Yang A, Kettenbach A, Bamberger C, Michaelis AH, Zhu Z, Elvin JA, Bronson RT, Crum CP, McKeon F. p63 protects the female germ line during meiotic arrest.Nature. 2006 Nov 30;444(7119):624-8.
  • Lee Y, Miron A, Drapkin R, Nucci MR, Medeiros F, Saleemuddin A, Garber J, Birch C, Mou H, Gordon RW, Cramer DW, McKeon FD, Crum CP. A candidate precursor to serous carcinoma that originates in the distal fallopian tube. J Pathol. 2007 Jan;211(1):26-35.
  • Medeiros F, Muto MG, Lee Y, Elvin JA, Callahan MJ, Feltmate C, Garber JE, Cramer DW, Crum CP. The tubal fimbria is a preferred site for early adenocarcinoma in women with familial ovarian cancer syndrome. Am J Surg Pathol. 2006 Feb;30(2):230-6.