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

Name and Present Position:

DAVID M. DORFMAN, Staff Pathologist

Address:

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

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

1986 MD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

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

1986 PhD, University of Iowa
1986-88 Resident in Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital
1988-91 Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
1991-92 Hematopathology Fellow, Brigham & Women's Hospital
1992-93 Resident in Pathology, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Certification:

1992 American Board of Pathology (Anatomic and Clinical Pathology)
1996 American Board of Pathology (Hematology)

Current Academic Appointment:

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Current Medical Staff Appointment(s):

Associate Director, Clinical Laboratories Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Medical Director, Hematology Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Selected Bibliography:

  • Weng AP, Shahsafaei A, Dorfman DM. CXCR4/CD184 immunoreactivity in T cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas with an overall Th1(-) Th2(+) immunophenotype. Am J Clin Pathol 2003; 119:424-430.
  • Dorfman DM, Greisman HA, Shahsafaei A. Loss of expression of the WNT/beta-catenin signaling pathway transcription factors LEF-1 and TCF-1 in a subset of peripheral T cell lymphomas. Am J Pathol 2003; 1539-1544.
  • Dorfman D.M., van den Elzen P., Weng A.P., Shahsafaei A., Glimcher L.H. Differential expression of T-bet, a T box transcription factor required for Th1 T cell development, in peripheral T cell lymphomas. Am J Clin Pathol 2003; 120:866-873.
  • Dorfman DM, Hwang ES, Shahsafaei A, Glimcher LH. T cell-associated transcription factor T-bet is expressed in Hodgkin lymphoma. Human Pathology 2005; 36:10-15.
  • Rodig SR, Shahsafaei A, Li B, Dorfman DM. The CD45 isoform B220 serves to identify a select subset of human B cells and B cell lymphoproliferative disorders. Human Pathology 2005; 36:51-57.