Erin Butler, M.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Erin Butler, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatric, Division of Hematology and Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2012. Dr. Butler completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She then completed a research fellowship, supervised by principal investigator Stephen X. Skapek, M.D., and clinical fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Butler is board-certified in pediatric hematology and oncology. She is a UT Southwestern pediatric hematologist-oncologist practicing at Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Butler is currently the Director of Histiocytic Disorders at UT Southwestern Medical Center and serves as a consultant physician in pediatric hematology and oncology at Our Children’s House (Children’s Health, Dallas), the Parkland Health and Hospital System, and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Education Medical School UT Southwestern Medical School (2012) Residency UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2015), Pediatrics Fellowship UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2018), Pediatric Hematology/oncology Research Interest Ewing Sarcoma Histiocytic Disorders Rhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcoma Publications Genomic profiling of subcutaneous patient-derived xenografts reveals immune constraints on tumor evolution in childhood solid cancer He F, Bandyopadhyay AM, Klesse LJ, Rogojina A, Chun SH, Butler E, Hartshorne T, Holland T, Garcia D, Weldon K, Prado LN, Langevin AM, Grimes AC, Sugalski A, Shah S, Assanasen C, Lai Z, Zou Y, Kurmashev D, Xu L, Xie Y, Chen Y, Wang X, Tomlinson GE, Skapek SX, Houghton PJ, Kurmasheva RT, Zheng S Nature communications 2023 Dec 14 Comprehensive characterization of patient-derived xenograft models of pediatric leukemia Rogojina A, Klesse LJ, Butler E, Kim J, Zhang H, Xiao X, Guo L, Zhou Q, Hartshorne T, Garcia D, Weldon K, Holland T, Bandyopadhyay A, Prado LP, Wang S, Yang DM, Langevan AM, Zou Y, Grimes AC, Assanasen C, Gidvani-Diaz V, Zheng S, Lai Z, Chen Y, Xie Y, Tomlinson GE, Skapek SX, Kurmasheva RT, Houghton PJ, Xu L iScience 2023 Nov 26 Exon skipping in genes encoding lineage-defining myogenic transcription factors in rhabdomyosarcoma Butler E, Xu L, Rakheja D, Schwettmann B, Toubbeh S, Guo L, Kim J, Skapek SX, Zheng Y Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies 2022 Aug 8 Extrarenal Anaplastic Wilms Tumor: A Case Report with Genomic Analysis and Tumor Models Willis KR, Sathe AA, Xing C, Koduru P, Artunduaga M, Butler EB, Park JY, Kurmasheva RT, Houghton PJ, Chen KS, Rakheja D Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2022 May 44 147-154 Histiocytic neoplasms, version 2.2021 Go RS, Jacobsen E, Baiocchi R, Buhtoiarov I, Butler EB, Campbell PK, Coulter DW, Diamond E, Flagg A, Goodman AM, Goyal G, Gratzinger D, Hendrie PC, Higman M, Hogarty MD, Janku F, Karmali R, Morgan D, Raldow AC, Stefanovic A, Tantravahi SK, Walkovich K, Zhang L, Bergman MA, Darlow SD JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 2021 Nov 19 1277-1303 Recent progress in the treatment of cancer in children Butler E, Ludwig K, Pacenta HL, Klesse LJ, Watt TC, Laetsch TW CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians 2021 Jul 71 315-332 Functional imaging of RAS pathway targeting in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor cells and xenografts Butler E, Schwettmann B, Geboers S, Hao G, Kim J, Nham K, Sun X, Laetsch TW, Xu L, Williams NS, Skapek SX Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2020 Dec 67 Rhabdomyosarcoma Skapek SX, Ferrari A, Gupta AA, Lupo PJ, Butler E, Shipley J, Barr FG, Hawkins DS Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2019 Dec 5 Novel PDGFRB rearrangement in multifocal infantile myofibromatosis is tumorigenic and sensitive to imatinib Hassan M, Butler E, Wilson R, Roy A, Zheng Y, Liem P, Rakheja D, Pavlick D, Young LL, Rosenzweig M, Erlich R, Ali SM, Leavey PJ, Williams Parsons D, Skapek SX, Laetsch TW Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies 2019 5 Results 1-9 of 9 1 Honors & Awards Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer (2021-2022) Call for CureChildren's Cancer Fund (2020-2021) TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Fund Award (2020-2021) Hyundai Hope on Wheels Young Investigator AwardUT Southwestern (2019-2021) K12 Clinical Scientist Institutional Career Development Program AwardUT Southwestern Medical Center (2019-2020) T32 Physician Scientist Oncology Training Program (2017-2019) Fellow Research AwardChildren's Cancer Fund (2016-2017) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Board of Pediatrics (2015) American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (2016) Children's Oncology Group (2016) Histiocyte Society (2019) North American Consortium for Histiocytosis (2019)