Dr. Robert F. Padera

	Department of Pathology
	Brigham and Women's Hospital
	A teaching Affliate of Harvard Medical School
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Name and Present Position:

ROBERT F. PADERA, Associate Pathologist

Address:

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

Medical School:

2000 M.D. Harvard Medical School

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

1998 Ph.D. Medical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2000-2002 Resident in Anatomic Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
2002-2003 Chief Resident in Anatomic Pathology; Fellow in Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
2003-2004 Fellow in Medical Device Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital (with Dr. Frederick Schoen)

Certification:

2004 American Board of Pathology (Anatomic Pathology)

Current Academic Appointment:

Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Affiliate Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA

Current Medical Staff Appointments:

Associate Pathologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Consultant in Autopsy/Cardiac Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Honors and Awards:

2004 Felix M. Brown, M.D., Pathologist-in-training Award, Brigham and Women's Hospital
2005 Irving M. London Teaching Award, HST/Harvard Medical School

Selected Bibliography:

Padera RF, Colton CK. Time course of membrane microarchitecture-driven neovascularization. Biomaterials 1996; 17:277-84.
Patel N, Padera RF, Sanders GHW, Cannizzaro SM, Davies MC, Langer R, Roberts CJ, Tendler SJB, Williams PM, Shakesheff KM. Spatially controlled cell engineering on biodegradable polymer surfaces. FASEB Journal 1998; 12:1447-54.
Padera RF, Venkataraman G, Berry D, Godavarti R, Sasisekharan R. Fibroblast growth factor-2: fibroblast growth factor receptor: heparin-like glycosaminoglycan interactions: a compensation model for FGF-2 signaling. FASEB Journal 1999;13:1677-87.
Ung, JO, Padera RF, O’Leary MP. Angiosarcoma of the penis masquerading as a Peyronie’s plaque. Journal of Urology 2002; 167:1785-6.
Schoen FJ, Padera RF. Cardiac surgical pathology. In: Cohn LH, Edmunds LH, editors. Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 2nd edition. McGraw Hill; 2003, p.119-186.
Hodi FS, Mihm MC, Soiffer RJ, Haluska FG, Butler M, Seiden MV, Davis T, Henry-Spires R, MacRae S, Willman A, Padera RF, Jaklitsch MT, Shankar S, Chen TC, Korman A, Allison JP, Dranoff G. Biologic activity of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 antibody blockade in previously vaccinated metastatic melanoma and ovarian carcinoma patients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 2003; 100:4712-7.
Padera RF, Schoen FJ. Cardiovascular applications of biomaterials. In: Ratner B, Hoffman A, Schoen FJ, Lemons J, editors. Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine, 2nd edition. Elsevier Science; 2004, p.470-94.
Jia X, Colombo G, Padera RF, Langer R, Kohane DS. Prolongation of sciatic nerve blockade by in situ cross-linked hyaluronic acid. Biomaterials 2004; 25:4797-804.
Anderson DG, Peng W, Akinc A, Hossain N, Kohn A, Padera RF, Langer R, Sawicki JA. A polymer library approach to suicide gene therapy for cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 2004; 101:16028-33.
LaVan DA, Padera RF, Friedmann TA, Sullivan JP, Langer R, Kohane DS. In vivo evaluation of tetrahedral amorphous carbon. Biomaterials 2005; 26:465-73.
Tognana E, Chen F, Padera RF, Leddy HA, Christensen SE, Guilak F, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Freed LE. Adjacent tissues (bone, cartilage) affect the functional integration of engineered calf cartilage in vitro. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2005; 13:129-38.
Travis WD, Garg K, Franklin WA, Wistuba I, Sabloff B, Noguchi M, Kakinuma R, Zakowski M, Ginsberg M, Padera RF, Jacobson F, Johnson BE, Hirsch F, Brambilla E, Flieder DB, Geisinger KR, Thunnisen F, Kerr K, Yankelevitz D, Franks T, Galvin JR, Henderson DW, Nicholson AG, Hasleton PS, Roggli V, Tsao MS, Cappuzzo F, Vasquez M. Evolving concepts in the pathology and CT imaging of lung adenocarcinoma and bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2005; 23:3279-87.