Charles Timmons, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Timmons is was born in South Carolina and raised primarily in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended Davidson College in Davidson, NC, as an undergraduate, followed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the M.D.-Ph.D. program, where he completed his doctoral dissertation under Dr. Neil Kirkman in the Division of Human Genetics and Metabolism. He did a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and served as Chief Resident during his senior year. He then did a two year fellowship in Anatomic and Clinical Pediatric Pathology at The Children's Hospital in Denver, where he studied with Dr. J. Bruce Beckwith. Dr. Timmons joined the faculty of the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in 1988 in the Division of Pediatric Pathology, based at Children's Medical Center of Dallas. He participates in the service activities of the Surgical Pathology, Hematopathology, and Autopsy services. He is active on the Medical Staff of Children's, having chaired the Transfusion, By-Laws, and Medical Records Committees of the hospital, and was recognized in 2001 for leading a task force that completely revised the hospital constitution. He also participates in the Perinatal Autopsy service at Parkland Memorial Hospital. In 2002, he was named Director of Resident Training for the Department of Pathology at UT-Southwestern. He is currently a representative-at-large to the leadership council of the Program Directors Section of the Association of Pathology Chairs. He is also active in the Society for Pediatric Pathology, having served on the Education, Abstract, Practice and Long-Term Planning Committees and Sub-Committees of that Society and as Chair of the Slide Survey program of the Society. He is currently Chair of the Fellowship Committee and a member of the Council of the Society.

Medical School	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (1977)
University	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (1982)
Internship	Northwestern U. Medical Ctr.-Chicago (1983)
Residency	Northwestern U. Medical Ctr.-Chicago (1985)
Fellowship	Children's Hospital of Denver (1988)

• Pathology of pediatric tumors

Featured Publications

Update on Non-Neoplastic Disorders of the Blood and Bone Marrow in Pediatric Pathology

Timmons CF Perspectives Pediatr Pathol 2011 28 41-59

PRCC-TFE3 renal carcinomas: morphologic, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and molecular analysis of an entity associated with the t(X;1)(p11.2;q21).

Argani P, Antonescu CR, Couturier J, Fournet JC, Sciot R, Debiec-Rychter M, Hutchinson B, Reuter VE, Boccon-Gibod L, Timmons C, Hafez N, Ladanyi M Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 2002 Dec 26 12 1553-66

Primary renal neoplasms with the ASPL-TFE3 gene fusion of alveolar soft part sarcoma: a distinctive tumor entity previously included among renal cell carcinomas of children and adolescents.

Argani P, Antonescu CR, Illei PB, Lui MY, Timmons CF, Newbury R, Reuter VE, Garvin AJ, Perez-Atayde AR, Fletcher JA, Beckwith JB, Bridge JA, Ladanyi M Am. J. Pathol. 2001 Jul 159 1 179-92

Low-grade Bone Lesions in Survivors of Childhood Medulloblastoma/Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor.

Koral K, Roy D, Timmons CF, Gargan L, Bowers DC Acad Radiol 2012 Jan 19 1 35-9

Melanotic Neuroectodermal Tumor of Infancy: Report of One Calvarial Lesion with T1 Shortening and One Maxillary Lesion.

Koral K, Derinkuyu B, Timmons C, Schwartz-Dabney CL, Swift D Clin Imaging 2010 34 5 382-384

Unusual case of Epstein-Barr virus DNA tissue positive: blood negative in a patient with post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder.

Levenson BM, Ali SA, Timmons CF, Mittal N, Muthukumar A, Payne DA Pediatr Transplant 2009 Feb 13 1 134-8

Imaging characteristics of atypical teratoid-rhabdoid tumor in children compared with medulloblastoma.

Koral K, Gargan L, Bowers DC, Gimi B, Timmons CF, Weprin B, Rollins NK AJR Am J Roentgenol 2008 Mar 190 3 809-14

A severely affected female infant with x-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata: a case report and a brief review of the literature.

Rakheja D, Read CP, Hull D, Boriack RL, Timmons CF Pediatr. Dev. Pathol. 2007 Mar-Apr 10 2 142-8

KAI-1 expression in pediatric high-grade osteosarcoma.

Leavey PJ, Timmons C, Frawley W, Lombardi D, Ashfaq R Pediatr. Dev. Pathol. 2006 May-Jun 9 3 219-24

Absence of expression of SMARCB1/INI1 in malignant rhabdoid tumors of the central nervous system, kidneys and soft tissue: an immunohistochemical study with implications for diagnosis.

Sigauke E, Rakheja D, Maddox DL, Hladik CL, White CL, Timmons CF, Raisanen J Mod. Pathol. 2006 May 19 5 717-25

• Medical Student Teaching Award
  MSII Pathology Course - Small group teaching (2006)
• Medical Student Teaching Award
  MSII Pathology Course - Small group teaching (2004)
• Medical Student Teaching Award
  MSII Pathology Course - Small group teaching (2002)

• American Society for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (2009)
• Association of Pathology Chairs - Program Directors Section (2002)
• American Society for Clinical Pathology
• College of American Pathologists
• Society for Pediatric Pathology
• U.S. & Canadian Academy of Pathology