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

Name and Present Position:

JOSEPH M. CORSON, Senior Pathologist

Address:

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

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

1947 MD, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA

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

1947-1948 Rotating Intern, Jefferson Medical College Hospital
1955-1956 Resident in Pathology, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (nee Brigham and Women's Hospital)
1956-1957 Chief Resident in Pathology, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital

Certification:

1959 American Board of Pathology

Current Academic Appointment:

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Current Medical Staff Appointment(s):

Senior Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Selected Bibliography:

  • Renshaw AA, Pinkus GS, Corson JM. CD34 and AE1/AE3. Diagnostic discriminants in the distinction of solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura from sarcomatoid mesothelioma. Appl Immunohistochem 1994; 2:94-102.
  • Corson JM. Pathology of mesothelioma. IN: Aisner J, Arriagada R, Green MR, Martini N, Perry MC, eds. Com-prehensive Textbook of Thoracic Oncology. Baltimore:Williams & Wilkins, 1996; pp. 257.
  • Weissman LB, Corson JM, Neugat AI, Antman KH. Malignant mesothelioma following treatment for Hodgkin's Dis-ease. J Clin Oncol 1996; 14:2098-2100.
  • Corson JM. Pathology of pleural malignant mesothelioma. Sem Thoracic and Cardiovasc Surg 1997; 9:347-355.
  • Sugarbaker DJ, Flores RM, Jaklitsch MT, Richards WG, Strauss GM, Corson JM, DeCamp MM, Swanson SJ, Bueno R, Lukanich JM, Baldini EH, Mentzer SJ. Resection margins, extrapleural nodal status, and cell type deter-mine postoperative long-term survival in trimodality therapy of malignant pleural mesothelioma: results in 183 pa-tients. J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg 1999;117:54-65.
  • US-Canadian Mesothelioma Reference Panel: Churg A, Roggli V, Colby TV (principal authors) and Cagle P, Corson J, Gibbs AR, Gilks B, Grimes M, Hammar S, Travis WD. The Separation of Benign and Malignant Mesothelial Proliferations. Am J Surg Pathol 2000; 24:1183-1200.
  • Corson, JM. Pathology of Mesothelioma. Thorac Surg Clin. 14:447-460, 2004.
  • Allen TC, Cagle PT, Churg AM, Colby TV, Gibbs AR, Hammar SP, Corson JM, Grimes MM, Ordonez NG, Roggli V,
    Travis WD, Wick MR. Localized malignant mesothelioma. Am J Surg Pathol 29:866-873, 2005.