Mireille Bitar, M.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Pathology You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Mireille Bitar, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Director of Pediatric Neuropathology at Children’s Health. She is board certified in anatomic pathology, neuropathology, and pediatric pathology, with subspecialty training in molecular genetic pathology. Dr. Bitar earned her medical degree from Aleppo University School of Medicine. She completed residency training in pathology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, followed by a neuropathology fellowship at NY-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. She later completed fellowships in molecular genetic pathology at UCLA and pediatric pathology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Bitar’s clinical practice includes pediatric pathology, neuropathology, and molecular pathology at the Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory at Children’s Health. Her practice and scholarship are centered on oncologic pathology integrating molecular findings with histomorphologic assessment of tumors to support precise diagnosis and clinically meaningful decisions. She currently leads a collaborative study of fusion-driven adult and pediatric gliomas. Her prior research included work on the molecular diversity of embryonic-type neuroectodermal tumors, and she has contributed to peer-reviewed publications, and clinical trial-related pathology work. Committed to medical education, Dr. Bitar directs the pediatric neuropathology component of the neuropathology fellowship education at UT Southwestern, and leads national educational courses through the USCAP and SPP with focus on the structural malformations of the CNS and the CNS embryonal neoplasms. Education Medical Education Unknown Licensure Board Medical Education Unknown Licensure Board Medical Education Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Education Aleppo University School of Medicine (1998) Residency Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill Hospital Pathology-Anatomic and Clinica (2002), Anatomic Pathology Residency Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2005), Pathology Fellowship New York Presbyterian Columbia University (2011), Neuropathology Residency New York Presbyterian Columbia University (2011), Anatomic & Clinical Pathology Fellowship UCLA (2023), Molecular Genetics Fellowship Children's Hospital Los Angeles (2024), Pediatric Pathology Research Interest The molecular genetics of fusion-driven glial neoplasms Publications Featured Publications A comparative evaluation of canine meningioma supporting the canine patient as a naturally occurring animal model for human meningioma: A report from the NCI Comparative Brain Tumor Consortium (CBTC) Meningioma Pathology Board Church ME, Rissi DR, Koehler JW, Miller AD, Beck JA, Belluco S, Bitar M, Chkheidze R, Corps KN, Matiasek K, Phillips JJ, Rajan S, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Yip S, Shih JH, Mazcko C, LeBlanc A. VET 2026 Comparative pathology boards facilitate the translation of knowledge between canine and human cancer patients. Beck JA, Mazcko C, Belluco S, Bitar M, Brat D, Bush JW, Chkheidze R, Corps KN, Frank C, Giannini C, Horbinski C, Huse JT, Koehler JW, Miller AD, Miller CR, O'Sullivan MG, Phillips JJ, Rissi DR, Schott CR, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Yip S, LeBlanc AK, Brain Pathol 2025 May e70013 Molecular diversity of embryonic-type neuroectodermal tumors arising from testicular germ cell tumors. Zong Y, Huang R, Bitar M, Drakaki A, Zhang L, Lin DI, Ye H, Mod Pathol 2024 Dec 100702 The Frequency of Focal Cortical Dysplasia-Like Histologic Features Near Adult-Type Diffuse Gliomas. Bitar M, Chornenkyy Y, Flanagan ME, Steffens A, McCortney K, Horbinski C, J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2022 Jan 81 1 48-53 Clinical Reasoning: Progressive Proximal Weakness in a 61-Year-Old Man. Yu M, Bitar M, Collins M, Tavee J, Neurology 2022 Jan 98 3 122-127 Delayed-Onset Cyst Formation After Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy: Unreported Long-Term Complication. Carminucci A, Parr M, Bitar M, Danish SF, World Neurosurg 2019 Apr 124 219-223 A Unique Case of Recurrent Intracranial Extravascular Papillary Endothelial Hyperplasia After Gross Total Resection and Brachytherapy. Munier SM, Bitar M, Cohen M, Danish SF, World Neurosurg 2018 Sep 117 20-24 A newly diagnosed case of polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumor of the young. Bitar M, Danish SF, Rosenblum MK, Clin Neuropathol 2018 37 4 178-181 A rare case of bilateral cavitary inferior olive lesions in brain autopsy of an adult patient Bitar M, Zaldana F Human Pathology: Case Reports 2018 12 36-38 Teaching NeuroImages: hemispheric-onset Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with concordant MRI and EEG findings. Yung B, Moeller JJ, Bitar M, Chong D, Neurology 2010 Oct 75 16 e66 Results 1-10 of 30 1 2 3 Next Last Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP) Children's Oncology Group (COG)- Member & Pathology Responsible Investigator at the UT Southwestern/ Simmons Cancer Center College of American Pathologists (CAP) Society for Pediatric Pathology (SPP) United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP)
