Jenny Weon, M.D., Ph.D. - Faculty Profile

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.

Education

Graduate School: (2019)

Research Interest

Artificial intelligence
Brain tumors
Iron metabolism
Neurodegeneration

Publications

Featured Publications

Early identification of patients at risk for iron-deficiency anemia using deep learning techniques.: Garduno-Rapp NE, Ng YS, Weon JL, Saleh SN, Lehmann CU, Tian C, Quinn A, Am J Clin Pathol 2024 Apr
Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization.: Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, Aarts J, Ahmad HB, Araj E, Bauml JA, Benham-Hutchins M, Boyd AD, Brecht-Doscher A, Butler-Henderson K, Butte AJ, Cardilo AB, Chilukuri N, Cho MK, Cohen JK, Craven CK, Crusco S, Dadabhoy F, Dash D, DeBolt C, Elkin PL, Fayanju OA, Fochtmann LJ, Graham JV, Hanna JJ, Hersh W, Hofford MR, Hron JD, Huang SS, Jackson BR, Kaplan B, Kelly W, Ko K, Koppel R, Kurapati N, Labbad G, Lee JJ, Lehmann CU, Leitner S, Liao ZC, Medford RJ, Melnick ER, Muniyappa AN, Murray SG, Neinstein AB, Nichols-Johnson V, Novak LL, Ogan WS, Ozeran L, Pageler NM, Pandita D, Perumbeti A, Petersen C, Pierce L, Puttagunta R, Ramaswamy P, Rogers KM, Rosenbloom ST, Ryan A, Saleh S, Sarabu C, Schreiber R, Shaw KA, Sim I, Sirintrapun SJ, Solomonides A, Spector JD, Starren JB, Stoffel M, Subbian V, Swanson K, Tomes A, Trang K, Unertl KM, Weon JL, Whooley MA, Wiley K, Williamson DFK, Winkelstein P, Wong J, Xie J, Yarahuan JKW, Yung N, Zera C, Ratanawongsa N, Sadasivaiah S, Appl Clin Inform 2023 Jan 14 1 164-171
Histologically heterogeneous pediatric glioneuronal tumor with FGFR1::TACC1 fusion.: Canan F, Daoud EV, Weon JL, Raisanen JM, Burns DK, Hatanpaa KJ, Park JY, Kelley S, Rajaram V, Clin Neuropathol 2022 41 4 185-189
Esophagus-Like Bronchus: A Noncommunicating Bronchopulmonary Foregut Malformation.: Weon JL, Megison S, Timmons CF, Rakheja D, Int J Surg Pathol 2021 Dec 29 8 847-849
Recurrent lymphangioleiomyomatosis in a lung allograft with COVID-19: autopsy case report and literature review: Sathirareuangchai S, Weon JL, Tintle S, Batra K, Yan SX, Torrealba JR Surg Exp Pathol 2021 4 1-8
Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Assembly Is Evolutionarily Tuned by a Cancer-Amplified Ubiquitin Ligase.: Weon JL, Yang SW, Potts PR, Mol Cell 2018 Jan 69 1 113-125.e6
The MAGE protein family and cancer.: Weon JL, Potts PR, Curr Opin Cell Biol 2015 Dec 37 1-8
Degradation of AMPK by a cancer-specific ubiquitin ligase.: Pineda CT, Ramanathan S, Fon Tacer K, Weon JL, Potts MB, Ou YH, White MA, Potts PR, Cell 2015 Feb 160 4 715-728
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