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

Name and Present Position:

CHRISTOPHER D.M. FLETCHER, Director, Surgical 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):

1981 MBBS, St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, London, United Kingdom
1991 MD, University of London, United Kingdom

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

1982-1985 Resident in Pathology, St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School
1985-1989 Fellow in Anatomic Pathology, St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School

Certification:

1988 Membership, Royal College of Pathologists

Current Academic Appointment:

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Current Medical Staff Appointments:

Director, Surgical Pathology Division and Staff Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Chief of Onco-Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Selected Bibliography:

  • Guillou L, Wadden C, Coindre JM, Krausz T, Fletcher CDM. Proximal-type epithelioid sarcoma: a distinctive aggressive neoplasm showing rhabdoid features. Clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study of a series. Am J Surg Pathol 1997; 21:130-146.
  • Granter SR, Badizadegan K, Fletcher CDM. Myofibromatosis in adults, glomangiopericytoma and myopericytoma: A spectrum of tumors showing perivascular myoid differentiation. Am J Surg Pathol 1998; 22:513-525.
  • Fletcher CDM, Gustafson P, Rydholm A, Willen H, Akerman M. Clinicopathologic re-evaluation of 100 malignant fibrous histiocytomas: The prognostic relevance of subclassification. J Clin Oncol 2001; 19:3045-3050.
  • McMenamin M, Fletcher CDM. Expanding the spectrum of malignant change in schwannomas: Epithelioid malignant change, epithelioid malignant nerve sheath tumor and epithelioid angiosarcoma: A study of 17 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 2001; 25:13-25.
  • Kaddu S, McMenamin ME, Fletcher CDM. Atypical ('pseudosarcomatous') fibrous histiocytoma of the skin: clinicopathologic analysis of 59 cases with evidence of infrequent metastasis. Am J Surg Pathol 2002; 26:35-46.
  • Fletcher CDM, Berman JJ, Corless C, Gorstein F, Lasota J, Longley BJ, Miettinen M, O'Leary TJ, Remotti H, Rubin BP, Shmookler B, Sobin LH, Weiss SW. Diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a concensus approach. Hum Pathol 2002; 33:459-465
  • Hornick JL, Fletcher CDM. Myoepithelial tumours of soft tissue: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 101 cases with evaluation of prognostic parameters. Am J Surg Pathol 2003; 27:1183-1196.
  • Medeiros F, Corless CL, Duensing A, Hornick JL, Oliveira AM, Heinrich MC, Fletcher JA, Fletcher CDM. KIT-negative gastrointestinal stromal tumors: proof of concept and therapeutic implications. Am J Surg Pathol 2004; 28:889-894.
  • Hornick JL, Fletcher CDM. Soft tissue perineurioma: analysis of 81 cases including those with atypical histologic features. Am J Surg Pathol 2005; 29:845-858.
  • Hornick JL, Fletcher CDM. Cellular neurothekeoma: detailed characterization in a series of 133 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 2007; 31:329-340.