Jason Park, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor

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Jason Park, MD, PhD, FCAP, DABCC is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at UT Southwestern Medical School. 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 genomic medicine, gastrointestinal diseases, and clinical informatics. He is the author/co-author of over 150 journal articles, book chapters and published abstracts. He currently serves as Co-Editor of Reviews for Clinical Chemistry, Associate Editor for Laboratory Investigation, and is a member of the Editorial Board of Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. His research has resulted in 13 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 (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

Genomic testing in pediatric epilepsy.

Thodeson DM, Park JY, Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud 2019 Aug 5 4

Trends in the US and Canadian Pathologist Workforces From 2007 to 2017.

Metter DM, Colgan TJ, Leung ST, Timmons CF, Park JY, JAMA Netw Open 2019 May 2 5 e194337

Clinical Utility of Reinterpreting Previously Reported Genomic Epilepsy Test Results for Pediatric Patients.

SoRelle JA, Thodeson DM, Arnold S, Gotway G, Park JY JAMA Pediatr 2018 Nov e182302

Targeted MAPK Pathway Inhibitors in Patients With Disseminated Pilocytic Astrocytomas.

Drobysheva A, Klesse LJ, Bowers DC, Rajaram V, Rakheja D, Timmons CF, Wang J, Koral K, Gargan L, Ramos E, Park JY J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2017 Aug 15 8 978-982

Hb Alcorn County: A ß-Globin Variant [ß40(C6)Arg?Thr; HBB: c.122G>C (p.Arg41Thr)] with Increased Oxygen Affinity.

Luu HS, McCavit TL, Park JY, Mitui M, Lopez DD, Timmons CF, Hemoglobin 2019 Aug 1-3

GEAMP, a novel gastroesophageal junction carcinoma cell line derived from a malignant pleural effusion.

Zhang W, Williams TA, Bhagwath AS, Hiermann JS, Peacock CD, Watkins DN, Ding P, Park JY, Montgomery EA, Forastiere AA, Jie C, Cantarel BL, Pham TH, Wang DH, Lab. Invest. 2019 Jul

Privacy in Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing.

Park JY, Risher MT, Caulfield T, Baudhuin LM, Schwab AP, Clin. Chem. 2019 May 65 5 612-617

Key questions about the future of laboratory medicine in the next decade of the 21st century.

Greaves R, Bernardini S, Ferrari M, Fortina P, Gouget B, Gruson D, Lang T, Loh TP, Morris H, Park JY, Roessler M, Yin P, Kricka LJ, Clin. Chim. Acta 2019 May

Mosaic Tetrasomy 9p Associated With Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Starokadomskyy P, Welch J, Gurram B, Park JY, Koduru P, Burstein E, J Crohns Colitis 2019 Apr

Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevus Treated With Trametinib.

Mir A, Agim NG, Kane AA, Josephs SC, Park JY, Ludwig K Pediatrics 2019 Feb

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