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

Name and Present Position:

UMBERTO DE GIROLAMI, Director, Neuropathology Division

Address:

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

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

1968 MD, University of Miami, Miami, FL
2000 AM (honoris causa), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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

1968-70 Intern, Resident in Pathology, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA
1970-72 NIH Special Fellow in Neuropathology, Mass General Hospital
1972-74 Neuropathology Branch, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC
1978-79 Resident in Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA

Certification:

1973 American Board of Pathology (Neuropathology and Anatomic Pathology); 1998-2008 recertification

Current Academic Appointment:

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Professeur Associé, Faculté de Medecine, University of Paris VI, Paris, France.

Current Medical Staff Appointments:

Senior Staff, Neuropathologist: Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Program Director of Combined CH/BWH Neuropathology Training Program
Neurologist to the Active Full-Time Staff, Department of Neurology, BWH

Selected Bibliography:

  • De Girolami U, Frosch MP, Tator CH. Regional neuropathology. Diseases of the spinal cord and vertebral column. In: Graham DI, Lantos PL, eds. Greenfield’s neuropathology, 7th ed. London: Arnold, 2002.
  • Anthony DC, De Girolami U, Shapiro F. Muscle Biopsy. In: Jones HR, De Vivo DC Darras BT, eds. Neuromuscular diseases of infancy, childhood and adolescence. A clinician’s approach. New York: Butterworth Heinemann, 2003.
  • De Girolami U. Neuropathologic aspects of disorders of CNS myelin in patients with HIV-1 infection. In: Dangond F, ed. Disorders of myelin in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann. 2003.
  • Ryan M, Ilkovsky B, Strickland CD, Schnell C, Sanoudou D, Midgett C, Houston R, Muirhead D, Dennett X, Shield LK, De Girolami U, Iannaccone ST, Laing NG, North KN, Beggs AH. Clinical course correlates poorly with muscle pathology in nemaline myopathy. Neurology 2003.
  • De Girolami U, Sharer L, Gabuzda D, Sotrel A. Neuropathology of AIDS. In: Worsmer GP, ed. AIDS and other manifestations of HIV infection. San Diego: Academic Press. 2003.
  • Gray F, De Girolami U, Poirier J (eds.) Escourolle and Poirier Manual of Basic Neuropathology. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.
  • Anthony DC, Frosch MP, De Girolami U. Peripheral nerve and skeletal muscle; and Frosch MP, Anthony DC, De Girolami U. The Central Nervous System. In: Kumar V, Abbas A, Fausto N, eds. Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease, 7th ed. Philadelphia:WB Saunders, 2004.
  • De Girolami U, Kim RC. Spinal cord vascular disorders. In: Cerebrovascular diseases. The International Society of Neuropathology (ISN) series Pathology & Genetics. 2005.
  • De Girolami U, Smith TW. Neuropathology of brain tumors. In: Black PM, Loeffler JS, eds. Cancer of the nervous system, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005.
  • Mamata H, De Girolami U, Hoge Ws, Jolesz FA, Maier SE. Collateral nerve fibers in human spinal cord; visualization with diffusion imaging. NeuroImage 2006.
  • Wüthrich C, Kesari S, Kim W-K, Williams K, Gelman R, Elmeric D, De Girolami U, Joseph K. Heldey-Whyte T, Koralnik IJ Characterization of lymphocytic infiltrates in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: Co-localization of CD8 (+) T cells with JCV-infected glial cells. Journal of Neurovirology, 2006.
  • Yan CT, Kaushal D, Murphy M, Datta A, Zhang Y, Datta A, Chen C, Monroe B, Mostoslavsky G, Coakley K, Gao Y, Mills KD, Fazeli AP, Tepsuporn S, Hall G, Mulligan R, Fox E, Bronson R, De Girolami U, Lee C, Alt FW. XRCC4 suppresses medulloblastomas with recurrent translocations in p53-deficient mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006.
  • Kissin I, Freitas CF, Mulhern HL , De Girolami U. Sciatic nerve block with resiniferatoxin : electron microscopic study of unmyelinated fibers in the rat. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2007.
  • Hauw J-J, De Girolami U, Zekry D. Neuropathology of vascular and mixed dementia and vascular cognitive impairment. Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 2007.
  • De Girolami U, Jouvet A, Fevre-Montange M, Seilhean D, Hauw J-J. Pathology of tumors of the pineal gland. (Invited Review) Revue Neurologique 2007.