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

Dr. Timmons 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 completed 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 under Dr. J. Bruce Beckwith.

Dr. Timmons joined the faculty of UT Southwestern Medical Center in 1988 in the Division of Pediatric Pathology, based at Children's Health, Dallas, where he participates in the service activities of the Surgical Pathology, Perinatal Pathology, and Autopsy services. He is active on the Medical Staff of Children's, having served as Secretary of the Medical Staff and chair of the Transfusion, By-Laws, and Medical Records Committees.  He was recognized in 2001 for leading a task force that rewrote the medical staff constitution. He also participates in the Perinatal Autopsy service at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He has been the recipient of three small-group teaching awards for pathology from UT Southwestern medical students.  From 2002 to 2021, he served as Director of Resident Education for the Department of Pathology and since 2021 as Associate Residency Director. 

Dr. Timmons is active on the national scene in both pediatric pathology and graduate medical education. He is a Past Chair of the Program Directors Section of the Association of Pathology Chairs, which is the national organization of pathology residency directors, and he is active on the APC's Working Groups on Autopsy Training, Entrustable Professional Activities, and the Fellowship Application Timeline. He has also served on the Review Committee for Pathology of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which accredits residency and fellowship programs, and as a member of the ACGME's Pathology Milestones Revision Working Group. Dr. Timmons served as President of the Society for Pediatric Pathology in 2019-2020, having previously served as Treasurer, Secretary, Councilor-at-Large, a member of the Education, Abstract, Practice and Long-Term Planning Committees, and Chair of the Slide Survey Subcommittee and of the Fellowship Committee. He has been the recipient of two Presidential Awards for Meritorious Service from the SPP: one in 2018 for his service as Secretary and Treasurer and one in 2012 for his activities as Fellowship Committee Chair, which included the initial implementation of the ASCP Pediatric Pathology In-Service Examination. In that initiative, he also was the SPP's liaison on the Resident In-Service Examination Committee of the American Society for Clinical Pathology.  He served on the American Board of Pathology's Test Development and Assessment Committee for Pediatric Pathology, which prepares questions for certification examinations, from 2015 to 2022.  He was a member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee of the College of American Pathologists from 2016 to 2022 and was the 2017 recipient of the Resident Advocate Award from the College of American Pathologists.  In 2021, Dr. Timmons received the Margaret Grimes Award for Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Medical Education from the Association of Pathology Chairs.

Medical School

University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill (1977)

University

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (1982)

Internship

Northwestern University Medical Center (1983), Pathology

Residency

Northwestern University Medical Center (1985), Pathology

Fellowship

Children's Hospital of Denver (1988), Pediatric Pathology

• Genetic analysis of hemoglobinopathies
• Graduate medical education in Pathology
• Pathology of pediatric tumors

Featured Publications

Hemoglobin β-Globin Variants In Hispanic Patients: An Institutional Experience From Dallas, Texas.

Firan M, Timmons CF, Park JY, Mitui Mha M, Luu HS, Hemoglobin 2023 Oct 1-5

How influential are medical school curriculum and other medical school characteristics in students' selecting pathology as a specialty?

McCloskey CB, Brissette M, Childs JM, Lofgreen A, Johnson K, George MR, Holloman AM, Bryant B, Berg MP, Dixon LR, Karp JK, Knollmann-Ritschel BEC, Prieto VG, Timmons CF, Hoffman RD, Acad Pathol 2023 10 2 100073

Experiential exposure as the key to recruiting medical students into pathology.

Holloman AM, Berg MP, Bryant B, Dixon LR, George MR, Karp JK, Knollmann-Ritschel BE, Prieto VG, Timmons CF, Childs JM, Lofgreen A, Johnson K, McCloskey CB, Acad Pathol 2023 10 2 100074

Factors influencing US osteopathic medical students to choose pathology as a specialty.

George MR, Johnson KA, Berg MP, Bryant BH, Childs JM, Dixon LR, Holloman A, Karp JK, Knollmann-Ritschel B, Lofgreen A, Prieto VG, Timmons CF, McCloskey CB, Acad Pathol 2022 9 1 100034

The pathology fellowship application crisis: The current state and suggestions for remediation.

Herrmann AC, Hanau C, Karcher D, Miller DC, Murtha A, Sanders AE, Timmons C, Kaul KL, Acad Pathol 2022 9 1 100029

Positive Job Search Experience for New Pathologists Seeking First Employment Between 2017-2019.

Shyu I, Johnson KA, Gratzinger D, Brissette MD, Childs JM, Dixon LR, George MR, McCloskey CB, Prieto VG, Rojiani AM, Timmons CF, Hoffman RD, Arch Pathol Lab Med 2021 Jan

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the 2019-2020 Job Search for Newly Trained Pathologists.

George MR, Johnson KA, Childs JM, Dixon LR, Gratzinger DA, Hoffman RD, Holloman A, Karp JK, Knollmann-Ritschel BEC, Lofgreen A, Prieto VG, Timmons CF, McCloskey CB, Arch Pathol Lab Med 2020 Nov

Entry of Graduates of US Pathology Residency Programs Into the Workforce: Cohort Data Between 2008 and 2016 Remain Positive and Stable.

Timmons CF, Black-Schaffer WS, Naritoku WY, Powell SZ, Johnson KA, Brissette MD, Childs JM, Conran RM, Dixon LR, George MR, Gratzinger D, McCloskey CB, Prieto VG, Roberts CA, Rojiani AM, Shyu I, Hoffman RD, Acad Pathol 2020 Jan-Dec 7 2374289520901833

Factors Influencing US Allopathic Medical Students to Choose Pathology as a Specialty.

McCloskey CB, Johnson K, Brissette M, Conran R, Childs J, George M, Gratzinger D, Prieto VG, Rojiani AM, Shyu I, Timmons C, Hoffman R, Acad Pathol 2020 Jan-Dec 7 2374289520951924

Gender Parity in Gainful Employment and Other Gender Trends in the Job Market for Recent Pathology Graduates.

Shyu I, Johnson KA, George MR, Gratzinger D, Brissette MD, Childs JM, Conran RM, Dixon LR, McCloskey CB, Prieto VG, Roberts CA, Rojiani AM, Timmons CF, Hoffman RD, Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 2019 Dec

 Featured Books

Pediatric Hematology and Hemoglobinopathies. In Pediatric Laboratory Medicine

Luu HS, Timmons CF, Zia A. (2017). New York, McGraw Hill

Professionalism and Ethics in Pathology Graduate Medical Education: How We Got Here and How We Can Go Forward. In Professionalism in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Timmons CF, Dixon LR. (2020). Northfield, College of American Pathologists

Recognizing and Remediating Lapses in Ethical and Professional Behavior. In Professionalism in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Dixon LR, Timmons CF, Hart CL (2020). Northfield, College of American Pathologists

• Association of Pathology Chairs
  Margaret Grimes Award for Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Medical Education (2021)
• Society for Pediatric Pathology
  Presidential Award for Meritorious Service and Leadership (2018)
• College of American Pathologists
  Resident Advocate Award (2017)
• Society for Pediatric Pathology
  Presidential Award for Meritorious Service and Leadership (2012)
• 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)

• Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (2013-2019)
• American Board of Pathology (2015-2022)
• American Society for Clinical Pathology (1989)
• American Society for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (2009)
• American Society of Human Genetics (1980)
• Association of Pathology Chairs - Program Directors Section (2002)
• College of American Pathologists (1989)
• Society for Pediatric Pathology (1986)
• U.S. & Canadian Academy of Pathology (1989)