Annie McLean, D.M.D., M.S. Assistant Professor School Medical School Department Pathology You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Dr. Annie McLean is a dual-trained oral and head and neck pathologist. She earned her DMD from Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry in 2011, and practiced public health and pediatric dentistry in New Mexico for several years. Dr. McLean completed Texas A&M University College of Dentistry's oral and maxillofacial pathology residency program in 2019, becoming a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology. The following year, she worked as Dr. Justin Bishop's research assistant at UT Southwestern while completing her MS in oral biology at Texas A&M. Dr. McLean then spent an invaluable year as a Clinical Instructor in head and neck/endocrine pathology at Emory University Hospital, signing out her own cases under the mentorship of Dr. Kelly Magliocca and the Emory HN team. She returned to Dallas in 2021 to work at UT Southwestern with Dr. Bishop, becoming an Asst Professor in the Department of Pathology in 2022. She loves teaching students, residents, and Fellows, employing a supportive Socratic approach with emphasis on learning through vulnerability and open communication. When she's not behind the 'scope, Annie enjoys lifting weights, hot yoga, baking, traveling, and watching Dallas Stars hockey with her fiance Jeff and their three fur babies. Education Dental School Oregon Health & Science University (2011) Medical School Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry (2011) Residency Texas A&M University College of Dentistry (2019) Other Post Graduate Training Texas A&M University College of Dentistry (2019) Graduate School Texas A&M University College of Dentistry (2019), Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology Fellowship Emory University Hospital Midtown (2021) Research Interest Molecular profiling of odontogenic tumors Oral cancer and precancer Publications Featured Publications A Subset of Salivary Intercalated Duct Lesions Harbors Recurrent CTNNB1 and HRAS Mutations: A Molecular Link to Basal Cell Adenoma and Epithelial-Myoepithelial Carcinoma? McLean AC, Rooper LM, Gagan J, Thompson LDR, Bishop JA, Head Neck Pathol 2023 Jun 17 2 393-400 Frankly Invasive Carcinoma Ex-intraductal Carcinoma: Expanding on an Emerging and Perplexing Concept in Salivary Gland Tumor Pathology. McLean-Holden AC, Rooper LM, Lubin DJ, Magliocca KR, Manucha V, Sadow PM, Tobias J, Vargo RJ, Thompson LDR, Heidarian A, Weinreb I, Wenig B, Gagan J, Hernandez-Prera JC, Bishop JA, Head Neck Pathol 2022 Jan Low Molecular Weight Cytokeratin Immunohistochemistry Reveals That Most Salivary Gland Warthin Tumors and Lymphadenomas Arise in Intraparotid Lymph Nodes. McLean-Holden AC, Bishop JA, Head Neck Pathol 2021 Jun 15 2 438-442 The Pathologist as the Patient: Professional Insights Gained from a Personal Health Journey. McLean AC, Head Neck Pathol 2024 Sep 18 1 88 A case report and diagnostic discussion of maxillofacial low-grade myofibroblastic sarcoma. Spresser WJ, Neal TW, McLean AC, Schlieve T, Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol 2024 May Cystic Lesions of the Jaws: The Top 10 Differential Diagnoses to Ponder. McLean AC, Vargas PA, Head Neck Pathol 2023 Mar 17 1 85-98 Sinonasal Amoebiasis: An Unexpected Cause of Sinonasal Necroinflammatory Disease. McLean AC, Bishop JA, Guarner J, Montone KT, Morris CP, Sloan P, Rooper LM, Am J Surg Pathol 2023 Jan 47 1 102-110 Microsecretory Adenocarcinoma of the Skin Harboring Recurrent SS18 Fusions: A Cutaneous Analogue to a Newly Described Salivary Gland Tumor. Bishop JA, Williams EA, McLean-Holden AC, Gagan J, Rooper LM, Jordan RCK, LeBoit PE, J Cutan Pathol 2022 Jun NUT Carcinoma in a Patient with Unusually Long Survival and False Negative FISH Results. McLean-Holden AC, Moore SA, Gagan J, French CA, Sher D, Truelson JM, Bishop JA, Head Neck Pathol 2021 Jun 15 2 698-703 Interphysician weight bias: A cross-sectional observational survey study to guide implicit bias training in the medical workplace. McLean ME, McLean LE, McLean-Holden AC, Campbell LF, Horner AM, Kulkarni ML, Melville LD, Fernandez EA, Acad Emerg Med 2021 Apr Results 1-10 of 12 1 2 Next Last Books Featured Books Survival Guide to Oral Pathology Almazyad A, McLean AC, Wright JM (2024). Innovative Science Press Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology (2010) International Academy of Oral Pathology (2019) North American Society of Head & Neck Pathology (2018)
