Jason Park, M.D., Ph.D.

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Jason Park, MD, PhD, FCAP, DABCC (@JasonPathology) is a Professor in the Department of Pathology and the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is also the Clinical Director of the Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory at Children’s Health, Children's Medical Center Dallas, Texas. Dr. Park's clinical and research interests are in laboratory medicine and pediatric gastrointestinal pathology. He is the author/co-author of over 250 journal articles, book chapters and published abstracts. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Clinical Chemistry (9.3 impact factor; 2022 Clarivate). His research has resulted in 14 issued U.S. patents on cancer diagnostics, cancer therapeutics and nanotechnology. Dr. Park has been cited in the national media including the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, and Reuters.

Dr. Park’s medical training began in the accelerated BS/MD program at the Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College. During medical school he was a Gibbon Scholar in Thomas Jefferson University's combined MD/PhD program. After medical school he was a pathology resident and chief resident in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His pathology residency was followed by a fellowship in gastrointestinal and liver pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (molecular diagnostics) as well as the American Board of Pathology (clinical informatics, clinical pathology and anatomic pathology).

Medical School

Jefferson Medical College of Thomas (2003)

Residency

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (2008), Pathology/lab Medicine

Fellowship

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2009), Gastrointestinal & Liver Pathology

• Clinical Informatics
• Genomic medicine
• Helicobacter pylori antibiotic resistance
• Pediatric gastrointestinal pathology

Featured Publications

Pediatric autoimmune gastritis: Clinical correlates and histologic features.

Kulak O, Gurram B, Montgomery EA, Park JY, Hum Pathol 2021 Jul

Medicare Trends in Pathologist Participation, Service Utilization, and Payments.

Arvisais-Anhalt S, Araj E, Park JY, Am J Clin Pathol 2020 Nov

Reinterpretation of Chromosomal Microarrays with Detailed Medical History.

Farooqi MS, Figueroa S, Gotway G, Wang J, Luu HS, Park JY, J. Pediatr. 2020 May

Assessment of Interlaboratory Variation in the Interpretation of Genomic Test Results in Patients With Epilepsy.

SoRelle JA, Pascual JM, Gotway G, Park JY, JAMA Netw Open 2020 Apr 3 4 e203812

Clinical Exome Studies Have Inconsistent Coverage.

Gotway G, Crossley E, Kozlitina J, Xing C, Fan J, Hornbuckle C, Thies J, Michel D, Quinn C, Scheuerle AE, Umana LA, Uhles CL, Park JY, Clin. Chem. 2020 01 66 1 199-206

EGFR Exon 20 Insertion/Duplication Mutations Characterize Fibrous Hamartoma of Infancy.

Park JY, Cohen C, Lopez D, Ramos E, Wagenfuehr J, Rakheja D Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 2016 Sep

Helicobacter pylori Clarithromycin Resistance and Treatment Failure Are Common in the USA.

Park JY, Dunbar KB, Mitui M, Arnold CA, Lam-Himlin DM, Valasek MA, Thung I, Okwara C, Coss E, Cryer B, Doern CD Dig. Dis. Sci. 2016 Feb

T-cell tolerant fraction as a predictor of immune-related adverse events.

Ostmeyer J, Park JY, von Itzstein MS, Hsiehchen D, Fattah F, Gwin M, Catalan R, Khan S, Raj P, Wakeland EK, Xie Y, Gerber DE, J Immunother Cancer 2023 Aug 11 8

A concise study of acetazolamide in glucose transporter type 1 deficiency (G1D) epilepsy.

Málaga I, Avila A, Primeaux S, Park JY, Pascual JM, Epilepsia 2023 Jun

Combination of triheptanoin with the ketogenic diet in Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency (G1D).

Avila A, Málaga I, Sirsi D, Kayani S, Primeaux S, Kathote GA, Jakkamsetti V, Kallem RR, Putnam WC, Park JY, Shinnar S, Pascual JM, Sci Rep 2023 Jun 13 1 8951

 Featured Books

Epithelial neoplasms of the stomach. In Foundations in diagnostic pathology: Gastrointestinal and liver pathology, 2nd edition

Park JY, Fenton HH, Lewin MR, Dilworth HP (2011). Philadelphia, Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier

Optical Techniques. In Tietz textbook of clinical chemistry and molecular diagnostics, 6th edition

Kricka LJ, Park JY (2018). St Louis, Saunders/Elsevier

Molecular diagnostics. In Pediatric laboratory medicine

Park JY, Wang J (2017). New York, McGraw Hill Medical

Immunochemical techniques. In Tietz textbook of clinical chemistry and molecular diagnostics, 6th edition

Kricka LJ, Park JY (2018). St Louis, Saunders/Elsevier

Genomes and variants. In Tietz textbook of clinical chemistry and molecular diagnostics, 6th edition

Wittwer CT, Park JY (2018). St Louis, Saunders/Elsevier

Role of nano- and microtechnologies in clinical point-of-care testing. In Handbook of digital homecare

Park JY, Kricka LJ (2009). Berlin and Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag

Optical Techniques. In Tietz fundamentals of clinical chemistry, 6th edition

Kricka LJ, Park JY (2007). St. Louis, Saunders/Elsevier

Beyond microtechnology: Nanotechnology in molecular diagnostics. In Integrated biochips for DNA analysis

Fortina P, Wang J, Surrey S, Park JY, Kricka LJ (2007). Austin, TX, Landes Bioscience

Miniaturized analytical devices based on chemiluminescence, bioluminescence and electrochemiluminescence. In Analytical chemiluminescence and bioluminescence: Past, present and future

Kricka LJ, Park JY (2011). Cambridge, United Kingdom, Royal Society of Chemistry

Optical techniques. In Tietz textbook of clinical chemistry and molecular diagnostics, 5th edition

Kricka LJ, Park JY (2012). St. Louis, Saunders/Elsevier

Immunochemical techniques. In Tietz textbook of clinical chemistry and molecular diagnostics, 5th edition

Kricka LJ, Park JY (2012). St Louis, Saunders/Elsevier

Interferences in immunoassay. In The immunoassay handbook, 4th edition

Park JY, Kricka LJ (2013). Waltham, Elsevier

Assay principles in clinical pathology. In Pathobiology of human disease: A dynamic encyclopedia of disease mechanisms, 1st edition

Kricka LJ, Park JY (2014). St Louis, Elsevier

Optical techniques. In Tietz fundamentals of clinical chemistry and molecular diagnostics, 7th edition

Kricka LJ, Park JY (2015). St Louis, Saunders/Elsevier

Immunochemical techniques. In Tietz fundamentals of clinical chemistry and molecular diagnostics, 7th edition

Kricka LJ, Park JY (2015). St Louis, Saunders/Elsevier

• John H. Yardley Fellowship
  Johns Hopkins Hospital (2008)
• Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award
  Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists (2005)
• William Pepper Fellowship
  Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2005)

• American Association for Clinical Chemistry (2005)
• American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (2011)
• College of American Pathologists (2004)