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Jenny Weon, M.D.,  Ph.D.

Jenny Weon, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Instructor

School
Medical School
Department
Pathology
  • Biography

    Dr. Jenny Weon joined the Department of Pathology at UT Southwestern as an Assistant Instructor in 2024 and currently serves as the Medical Director of Pathology Informatics and Associate Medical Informatics Officer for Parkland Health. She is concurrently completing her second year of Neuropathology fellowship.

    Dr. Weon received her MD and PhD through the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern in 2019 and completed pathology residency at UT Southwestern (co-chief resident, 2021-2022). She recently completed the Clinical Informatics portion of her integrated Clinical Informatics and Neuropathology fellowships at UT Southwestern.

    She is passionate about utilizing data and incorporating new technology to improve the quality of patient care and advance the practice of pathology. Her current operational priority is the implementation of digital pathology and her current research priority is to develop a predictive model for Alzheimer's Disease using multimodal data that can be implemented in the electronic health record at the point-of-care.

  • Research Interest
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Brain tumors
    • Iron metabolism
    • Neurodegeneration
  • Publications

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    Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa with clinical features of pyoderma gangrenosum
    J Pineider, J Weon, L West, B Nanes, T Vandergriff, MM Mauskar JAAD Case Reports 2020 6 12 1291-1293
    Novel therapeutic approaches to xeroderma pigmentosum.
    Weon JL, Glass DA, Br J Dermatol 2019 Aug 181 2 249-255
  • Honors & Awards
    • Bruce D. Fallis, M.D. Resident Teaching Award, UT Southwestern
      (2024)
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, 100th Annual American Association of Neuropathologists
      (2024)
    • Educational Grant, Mass Spectrometry & Advances in the Clinical Lab 2024
      (2024)
    • Bruce D. Fallis, M.D. Resident Teaching Award, UT Southwestern
      (2022)
    • Department of Pathology Service Award, UT Southwestern
      (2022)
    • Texas Society of Pathologists Educational Foundation Scholarship
      (2020)
    • Society of 67 of the Association of Pathology Chairs Trainee Project Grants in Health Services Research and Education
      (2019)
    • Vernie A. Stembridge Award for Excellence in Pathology, UT Southwestern
      (2019)
    • Cecile M. Pickart Student Travel Award, Cold Spring Harbor: The Ubiquitin Family Conference
      (2017)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Association of Neuropathologists
    • American Medical Informatics Association
    • Association of Pathology Informatics