Deborah Jebakumar, M.D. Titles and Appointments 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 Download Curriculum Vitae Deborah Jebakumar, M.D., joined The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as Assisistant Professor in August 2025. She has completed her medical school training and internship at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India (2000 to 2006). The subsequent two years were spent serving in a Christian Mission Hospital providing low cost-effective care in a resource limited remote town in India. She then returned to her alma mater to possibly pursue a career in anesthesiology/interventional radiology when an unexpected meeting with a mentor reeled her in a totally unexpected direction by creating a spot as a non-postgraduate registrar in the department of transfusion medicine and immunohematology. Working in the blood bank and on peripheral smears/bone marrow biopsies opened her eyes to the captivating world of pathology. The next three (2009-2012) were spent completing her rigorous training in Anatomic/Clinical pathology at Christian Medical College, India including research and writing a dissertation on Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma immunophenotypic subtypes. She then immigrated to The United States of America and completed her pathology residency (2016-2020) at Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), Temple, Texas followed by her cytopathology fellowship (2020-2021). She continued on at BSWH to serve as faculty for the next three wonderful years with a deep focus on medical school, resident and nephrology fellow teaching. Her research during the years at BSWH was focused mostly on triple negative breast cancer and tumor microenvironments in different ethnic groups. Renal pathology was her “missed beat” due in part to immigration struggles. Having completed her long-awaited renal pathology fellowship at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in mid 2025, she has now joined UTSW to serve as part of the renal pathology and cytopathology teams. Education Medical School Christian Medical College and Hospital (2006) Residency Baylor Scott & White(Texas A&M School of Medicine) (2020), Anatomic & Clinical Pathology Fellowship Baylor Scott & White(Texas A&M School of Medicine) (2021), Cytopathology Fellowship UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (2025), Renal Pathology Research Interest Cytopathology Renal Pathology, Acute Glomerulonephritis Triple Negative Breast Cancer, tumor microenvironments Publications Featured Publications Integrative spatial omics reveals distinct tumor-promoting multicellular niches and immunosuppressive mechanisms in Black American and White American patients with TNBC. Zhu Q, Balasubramanian A, Asirvatham JR, Chatterjee M, Piyarathna B, Kaur J, Mohamed N, Wu L, Wang S, Pourfarrokh N, Binsol PD, Bhargava M, Rasaily U, Xu Y, Zheng J, Jebakumar D, Rao A, Gutierrez C, Omilian AR, Morrison C, Das GM, Ambrosone C, Seeley EH, Chen SH, Li Y, Chang E, Li X, Baker E, Aneja R, Zhang XH, Sreekumar A, Nat Commun 2025 Jul 16 1 6584 Integrative spatial omics reveals distinct tumor-promoting multicellular niches and immunosuppressive mechanisms in Black American and White American patients with TNBC. Zhu Q, Balasubramanian A, Asirvatham JR, Chatterjee M, Piyarathna B, Kaur J, Mohamed N, Wu L, Wang S, Pourfarrokh N, Binsol PD, Bhargava M, Rasaily U, Xu Y, Zheng J, Jebakumar D, Rao A, Gutierrez C, Omilian A, Morrison C, Das GM, Ambrosone C, Seeley EH, Chen SH, Li Y, Chang E, Li X, Baker E, Aneja R, Zhang XH, Sreekumar A, bioRxiv 2025 Mar Waldenström Macroglobulinemia-Induced Cardiac Amyloid Light Chain Amyloidosis. Fan J, Chukwu M, Sanford CB, Jebakumar D, Quitoriano N, Nguyen V, Ochsner J 2024 24 4 284-287 Spatial mapping of the DNA adducts in cancer. Krieger KL, Mann EK, Lee KJ, Bolterstein E, Jebakumar D, Ittmann MM, Dal Zotto VL, Shaban M, Sreekumar A, Gassman NR, DNA Repair (Amst) 2023 Aug 128 103529 Endocervicosis in an Intramammary Lymph Node. Jebakumar D, Asirvatham JR, Int J Surg Pathol 2022 Oct 30 7 784-788 Thrombotic microangiopathy with multiorgan involvement following COVID-19. Gandhi B, Jebakumar D, Nickell M, Narayanan M, Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2022 35 2 204-206 Mercury in natural health products as a cause of membranous nephropathy. Tanner S, Sharma V, Jebakumar D, Narayanan M, Rao A, Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2020 Apr 33 2 243-245 Educational Case: Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Disease as an Example of Antibody-Mediated Glomerulonephritis. Jebakumar D, Jones KA, Acad Pathol 2020 7 2374289520911185 Educational Case: Lupus Nephritis as an Example of Immune Complex-Mediated Glomerulonephritis. Jebakumar D, Jones KA, Acad Pathol 2020 7 2374289520909496 Immuno-subtyping of breast cancer reveals distinct myeloid cell profiles and immunotherapy resistance mechanisms. Kim IS, Gao Y, Welte T, Wang H, Liu J, Janghorban M, Sheng K, Niu Y, Goldstein A, Zhao N, Bado I, Lo HC, Toneff MJ, Nguyen T, Bu W, Jiang W, Arnold J, Gu F, He J, Jebakumar D, Walker K, Li Y, Mo Q, Westbrook TF, Zong C, Rao A, Sreekumar A, Rosen JM, Zhang XH, Nat Cell Biol 2019 Sep 21 9 1113-1126 Results 1-10 of 15 1 2 Next Last Honors & Awards The Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS)Baylor Scott and White Health and Texas A & M - hereby elected in recognition of exemplary service, integrity, clinical excellence and compassion (2021) Excellence Award PresentationCentral Texas Division of Baylor Scott & White Health, Scholars Day presentation - Gene Expression Analysis of Modified Tumor Inflammation Signature (TIS) in Triple Negative Breast Cancer among Different Ethnic Groups, May 8th, 2020. (2020) Second Place - Podium PresentationAberrant PI3K/Akt/mTOR expression in invasive breast cancer. The 97th Annual Texas Society of Pathologists Meeting. January 2018, Houston, TX (2018) ISBPInternational Society of Breast Pathology (ISBP) Award for Best Trainee Abstract in the Research Category - "Gene expression analysis of immune response in triple negative breast carcinomas among different ethnic groups". 2017 USCAP, San Antonio (2017) Second Place - Podium PresentationGene Expression Analysis of Immune Response in Triple Negative Breast Carcinomas among Different Ethnic Groups. The 96th Annual Texas Society of Pathologists Meeting. January 2017, Bastrop, TX (2017) Medical School - First certificates of HonorPharmacology Community Medicine (2000-2006) Medical School - Second certificates of HonorPhysiology Biochemistry Pathology Forensic Medicine Ophthalmology Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (ENT) (2000-2006) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) (2016) College of American Pathologists (CAP) (2016) Renal Pathology Society (2025) The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) (2017)
