Quinghong Yang, MD, PhD

2021-2022 Associate Clinical Professor, University of Arizona College of Medicine

2017-2019 Associate Clinical Professor, Section Head for Dermatopathology, Residency Program Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego

2013-2015 Resident, CP-only Program, with an emphasis on Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego Health

2010-2011 Fellow, Dermatopathology, Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic

2008-2009 Fellow, Hematopathology, Department of Pathology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

2006- 2010 Resident, AP-only Program, including a 3-month soft tissue pathology fellowship with Dr. Christopher Fletcher, Department of Pathology, Bringham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

2006 MD, Duke Medical School

1997 PhD, Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and SUNY at Stony Brook

2015 Clinical Pathology

2011 Dermatopathology

2010 Hematopathology

2010 Anatomic Pathology

 American Society of Dermatopathology

Jones JC, Sabatini K, Liao XY, Tran TT, Lynch CL, Morey RE, Glenn-Pratola V, Boscolo FS, Yang QY, Parast MM, Liu Y, Peterson SE, Laurent LC, Loring JF, Wang YC. Melanocytes derived from transgene-free human induced pluripotent stem cells. J. Invest. Dermatol. 2013;Aug;133(8): 2014-2108.

Laga AC, Zhan Q, Huang SJ, Velazquez E, Yang Q, Hsu MY, Murphy GF. Expression of the embryonic stem cell transcription factor SOX2 in human skin: relevance to melanocyte and merkel cell biology. Am. J. Pathol. 2010 Feb;176(2):903-13.

Souza FF, Fennessy F, Yang Q, Van den Abbeele AD; PET/CT appearance of desmoid tumor of the chest wall. Br J Radiol. 2010 Feb;83(986):e39-42.

Yang Q, Hornick J, Granter S, Wang L. Mercel cellcarcinoma: lack of KIT positivity and implications for the use of imatinib mesylate. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2009 Jul;17(4):276-81.

Yang W, Yaoi T, Huang S, Yang Q, Hatcher S, Seet H, Gregg JP. Detecting the C282Y and H63D mutuations of the HFE gene by Holliday Junction-based allele-specific genotyping methods. Clin Chem. 2005 Jan;51(1):210-3.

Yang Q, Methods for detecting polymorphisms in nucleic acids. U.S. Patent 6878530/United States Patent and Trademark Office; Publication date: 4/2005.

Yang Q, Methods and compositions for detecting differences between nucleic acids. U.S. Patent 6821733/United States Patent and Trademark Office; Publication date: 11/2004.

Yang Q, Yang W, Lshanski A. Methods for detection of differences in nucleic acids. U.S. Patent 6653079/UnitedStates Patent and Trademark Office; Publication date: 11/2003.

Yang Q, Lishanski A, Yang W, Hatcher S, Seet H, Gregg JP. Allele-specific Holliday junction formation: A new mechanism of allelic discrimination for SNP scoring. Genome Res. 2003 Jul;13(7):1754-64.

Schneider B, Yang Q, (joint 1st author), Futcher AB. Linkage of replication to start by the Cdk Inhibitor Sic1. Science. 1996 Apr 26;272(5261):560-2.

Schneider B, Seufert W, Steiner B, Yang Q, Futcher AB. Use of Polymerase chain reaction epitope tagging for protein tagging in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast. 1995Oct;11(13):1265-74.

Yang C, Yang Q. Benchmarking of a novel approach of  hypervoxelation plus deep neural network for automated flow cytometry analysis. Presented at: European Society for Clinical Cell Analysis Annual Conference; April 2021.

Yang Q, Mycosis fungoides, lymphomatoid papulosis, or both? Presented at San Diego Society of Hematopathology Symposium; November 2017.

Yang Q. A case of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma dermatopathology workshop. Presented at: 31st Biennial Dermatology Symposium: The O’Leary Meeting; September 2017.

Yang Q. ALHE-like cutaneous angiosarcoma of the breast developed in association with TRAM flap in a breast cancer patient with no history of XRT or lymph node dissection. Presented at: ASDP 51st Annual Meeting; November 2014.

Yang Q, Wang HY. A case of fatal cutaneous gamma-delta T-cell lymphoma: delayed diagnosis and the misleading effect of negative ancillary tests. Presented at: ASCP Annual Meeting; October 2014. Abstract accepted.

Nguyen J, Yang Q (joint 1st author), Broome He, Wang HY. Metastatic carcinoma and sarcoma in bone marrow: 12-year experience from a single institution. Presented at:103rd USCAP Annual Meeting; March 2014.