Mayra Wells, MD
Professional Experience
2021–2025 Staff Pathologist/Dermatopathologist, Department of Pathology, Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center
Postdoctoral Training
2020–2021 Fellow, Dermatopathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
2016–2020 Resident, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
Education
2016 MD, Howard University College of Medicine
Certifications
2021 Dermatopathology
2020 Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Professional Societies
American Society of Dermatopathology
Select Publications
Quintana L, Wells M, VanderLaan P, Torous V. A frameshift error affecting multiple cytology cell blocks: Lessons from a near miss event. Cancer Cytopathol. 2022 Mar;130(3):170-173.
De Margerie-Mellon C, Gill R, Salazar P, Oikonomou A, Nguyen E, Heidinger B, Medina M, VanderLaan, P, Bankier A. Assessing Invasiveness of subsolid lung adenocarcinomas with combined attenuation and geometric feature models. Sci Rep. 2020 Sept 3;10(1):14585.
De Margerie-Mellon C, Ngo L, Gill R, Monteiro Filho A, Heidinger B, Onken A, Medina M, VanderLaan P, Bankier A. The growth rate of subsolid lung adenocarcinoma nodules at chest CT. Radiology. 2020 Oct;297(1):189-198.
Medina M, Onken, A, de Margerie-Mellon C, Heidinger B, Chen Y, Bankier A, VanderLaan P. Preoperative bronchial cytology for the assessment of tumor spread through air spaces in lung adenocarcinoma resection specimens. Cancer Cytopathol. 2020 Apr;128(4):278-286.
Maiga S, Medina M, Oluwaseyitan D, Gatica S. Simulations of adsorption of Co2 and CH4 in MOFs: effect of the size and charge distribution on the selectivity. J. Low Temp. Phys. 2013;172(3-4):274-288.
Abstracts and Poster Presentations
Prurigo Pigmentosa: as a histopathologic mimicker of dermatitis herpetitformis. Poster presented at: American Society of Dermatopathology Annual Meeting; October 2020.
Interstitial granulomatous variant of a rare diagnosis. Poster presented at: American Society of Dermatopathology Annual Meeting; October 2020.
Eruptive xanthoma: a histopathologic mimicker of granuloma annulare. Poster presented at: American Society of Dermatopathology Annual Meeting; October 2020.
Reticular variant of mid-dermal elastolysis: A rare variant of uncommon elastolytic disorder. Poster presented at: American Society of Dermatopathology Annual Meeting; October 2019.
Follicular psoriasis: a rare variant of a common diagnosis. Poster presented at: American Society of Dermatopathology Annual Meeting; November 2018.
Absorption of CO2 carbon nanotubes: two dimensional systems. Oral presentation at: Howard University Research Symposium; March 2012.
Absorption of CO2 carbon nanotubes. Poster presented at: Johns Hopkins Summer Research Symposium for Undergraduates; July 2011.
