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

Name and Present Position:

REBECCA FOLKERTH, Associate Pathologist

Address:

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

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

1985 MD, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY

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

1985-87 Resident in Anatomic Pathology, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
1987-88 Chief Resident in Anatomic Pathology, New England Medical Center
1988-90 Resident in Neuropathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
1988-90 Affiliated Resident in Pathology (Neuropathology), Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Certification:

1990 American Board of Pathology (Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology)
1997 American Board of Pathology (Cytopathology)

Current Academic Appointment:

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

Current Medical Staff Appointment(s):

Associate Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Consultant in Neuropathology, Children's Hospital
Neuropathologist, Brockton and West Roxbury VA Hospitals

Selected Bibliography:

  • Leon S, Folkerth RD, Black PM. Microvessel density is a prognostic indicator for patients with astroglial brain tumors. Cancer 1996; 77:362-372.
  • Zhu J, Leon SP, Folkerth RD, Guo SZ, WU JK, Black PM. Evidence for clonal origin of neoplastic neuronal and glial cells in gangliogliomas. Am J Pathol 1997; 151:565-571.
  • Folkerth RD, Price DL Jr, Schwartz M, Black PM, DeGirolami U. Xanthomatous hypophysitis. Am J Surg Pathol 1998; 22:736-741.
  • Folkerth RD. Abnormalities of developing white matter in lysosomal storage diseases: A review. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1999; 58:887-902.
  • Folkerth RD. Descriptive analysis and quantification of angiogenesis in human brain tumors. J Neuro-Oncol 2000; 50:165-172.
  • Park Cc, Hartmann C, Folkerth R, Loeffler JS, Wen P, Fine H, Black PMcL, Shafman T, Louis DN. Systemic metastasis in glioblastoma may represent the emergence of neoplastic subclones. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2000; 59:1044-1050.