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Kimberly Absher, MD
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MS 112
Position(s): 
Assistant Professor
Affiliation(s): 
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Interests / Specialties: 
Cytopathology
Bio / Education: 

B.S. in Biology - East Tennessee State University (1988)
MD - East Tennessee State University (1993)
AP/CP Residency - University of Kentucky (1998)
Cytopathology Fellowship - Baylor University (1999)

Selected Publications: 

Representative Publications & Other Scholarly Work:
Huang, T., Engelmann, B.J., Morgan, R.M., Absher, K.J., Kolesar, J.M., Villano, J.L. (2018). EML4-ALK rearrangement in squamous cell carcinoma show significant response to anti-ALK inhibitor drugs crizotinib and alectinib. (doi.org/10.1007/s00280-018-3571-2).  Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. (May 2018) 81: 965-968.  

Sponsored Research Projects, Grants, & Contract Activities:
Co-Investigator for funded research project entitled: Microenvironment and Arsenic Lung Tumorigenesis (G. Chen, PhD, PI)

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