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Rachel Stewart, DO, PhD
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rachel.stewart@uky.edu
Combs Building 100D
Position(s): 
Assistant Professor
Affiliation(s): 
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Bio / Education: 

B.A. in Philosophy - University of California, Berkeley (2004)
DO - Touro University (2013)
Ph.D. in Clinical and Translational Science - University of Kentucky (2015)
AP/CP Residency - University of Kentucky (2016)
Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship - University of Utah (2018)

Selected Publications: 

Representative Publications & Other Scholarly Work:

Stewart RL, Caron JE, Gulbahce EH, Factor RE, Geiersbach K, Downs-Kelly E. HER2 Immunohistochemical and Fluorescence in situ Hybridization Discordances in Invasive Breast Carcinoma with Micropapillary Features. Modern Pathology. 2017 Nov;30(11):1561-1566. PMID: 28752841

Xiong G, Stewart RL, Chen J, Gao T, Scott TL, Samayoa LM, O’Connor K, Lane AN, Xu R. Collagen prolyl 4-hydroxylase 1 is essential for HIF-1α stabilization and TNBC chemoresistance. Nature Communications. 2018 Oct 26;9(1):4456. PMCID: PMC6203834.

Liu J, Duan Z, Guo W, Zeng L, Wu Y, Chen Y, Tai F, Wang Y, Lin Y, Zhang Q, He Y, Deng J, Stewart RL, Wang C, Lin PG, Ghaffari S, Evers BM, Liu S, Zhou MM, Zhou BP, Shi J. Targeting the BRD4/FOXO3a/CDK6 axis sensitizes AKT inhibition in luminal breast cancer. Nature Communications. 2018 Dec 05; 9:5200. PMCID: PMC6281582.

He C, Plattner R, Rangnekar V, Zhou B, Liu C, Stewart RL, Huang B, Wang C, Tucker TC. Potential protein markers for breast cancer recurrence: a retrospective cohort study. Cancer Causes & Control. 2019 Jan 1;30(1):41-51.

Stewart RL, Updike KL, Factor RE, Henry NL, Boucher KM, Bernard PS, Varley KE. A multigene assay determines risk of recurrence in patients with triple-negative breast cancer. Cancer Research. 2019 Jan 1: canres-3014.

Bui M, Allison KH, Chlipala E, Colasacco C, Hammond ME, Kahn AG, Lacchetti C, Madabhushi A, Pantanowitz L, Salama ME, Stewart RL, Thomas NE, Tomaszewski JE, Riben MW. Quantitative image analysis of HER2 immunohistochemistry for breast cancer: guideline from the College of American Pathologists. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. 2019 Jan 15. PMID: 30645156.

Chapel DB, Stewart RL, Furtado LV, Husain AN, Krausz T, Deftereos G. Tumor PD-L1 expression in malignant pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma by Dako PD-L1 22C3 pharmDx and Dako PD-L1 28-8 pharmDx assays. Human Pathology. 2019 May 1;87:11-7.

Harper NW, Hodges KB, Stewart RL, Wu J, Huang B, O'Connor KL, Romond EH. Adjuvant Treatment of Triple-Negative Metaplastic Breast Cancer With Weekly Paclitaxel and Platinum Chemotherapy: Retrospective Case Review From a Single Institution. Clin Breast Cancer. 2019 May 24;. doi: 10.1016/j.clbc.2019.05.009. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31208874; NIHMSID:NIHMS1530972.

Bachert SE, Gibbs R, Ginter PS, Stewart RL. Metachronous cellular angiolipomas of the breast. Breast J. 2019 Jul 12;. doi: 10.1111/tbj.13462. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31297919; NIHMSID:NIHMS1038113.

Book & Book Chapters:

Stewart RL, Koo SC, Furtado LV. Principles of Molecular Biology and Oncogenesis. In: Precision Molecular Pathology of Neoplastic Pediatric Diseases. 1st Edition. Springer, August 2018.

Crockett DK, Brown AF, Stewart RL, Voelkerding KV. Bioinformatics Tools in Clinical Genomics. In: Genomic Applications in Pathology. 2nd Edition. Springer, January 2019.

Sponsored Research Projects, Grants, & Contract Activities:

Co-Investigator for funded research project entitled: Cancer Center Support Grant. (B.M. Evers, PI)

Primary Scholarly Project Investigator for funded research project entitled: MHC II Antigen.

Primary Investigator for funded research project entitled:  Characterizing Metastatic Breast Cancer Heterogeneity through Post-Mortem Tissue Collection.

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