Andras Schaffer, MD, PhD
Professional Experience
2022–2025 Associate Program Director, Dermatology Residency Training Program, UCF/HCA Healthcare GME Consortium
2018–2025 Dermatopathologist, Dermatology Associates of Tallahassee
2013-2016 Medical Director, Dermatopathology Center, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Academic Appointments
2025–Present Associate Professor and Director of Dermatopathology Fellowship Program, Boston University School of Medicine
2022–2025 Associate Professor and Associate Program Director of Dermatology Residency Training Program, University of Central Floria College of Medicine
2020–2022 Associate Professor of Dermatology, Florida State University College of Medicine
2013-2016 Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology and Director of Dermatopathology Fellowship Training Program, Washington University School of Medicine
2008-2013 Instructor of Dermatology, Director of Cutaneous Lymphoma Diagnostic Service, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral Training
2006–2008 Fellow, Dermatopathology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
2004–2006 Resident, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
2002–2004 Resident, Anatomic Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Education
1993 MD, University of Pécs Medical School
2001 PhD, Immunology, Cornell University
Certifications
2006 Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (recertified 2016)
2008 Dermatopathology
Professional Societies
International Society of Dermatopathology
College of American Pathologists
American Society of Dermatopathology
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Select Publications
Mattia A, Thompson A, Lee SJ, Richardson S, Guimães LM, Gomes CC, Gomez RS, Schaffer A. Plaque-like cutaneous mucinosis in a patient with KRAS-mutated giant cell granuloma of the jaw. Int J Dermatol. 2024 Mar;63(3):348-350.
Miller AC, Ratushny V, Schaffer A, Cognetta AB. Large squamous cell carcinoma of the lip in a Black woman with a history hydrochlorothiazide use treated with Mohs micrographic surgery. JAAD Case Reports 2023; 38:1.
Thompson A, Mattia A, Dolson D, Schaffer A, Green WH. Rapidly Growing Nodule Within a Previously Radiated Area of the Scalp. Cutis. 2023; 111:40.
Task Force/Committee Members, Vidal CI, Sutton A, Armbrect EA, Lee JB, Litzner BR, Hurley MY; Rating Panel, Alam M, Duncan LM, Elston DM, Emanuel PO, Ferringer T, Fung MA, Hosler GA, Lazar AJ, Lowe L, Plaza JA, Robinson JK, Schaffer A. Muir-Torre syndrome appropriate use criteria: Effect of patient age on appropriate use scores. J Cutan Pathol 2019; 46(7):484.
Task Force/Committee Members, Vidal CI, Armbrect EA, Andea AA, Bohlke AK, Comfere NI, Hughes SR, Kim J, Kozel JA, Lee JB, Linos K, Litzner BR, Missall TA, Novoa RA, Sundram U, Swick BL, Hurley MY; Rating Panel, Alam M, Argenyi Z, Duncan LM, Elston DM, Emanuel PO, Ferringer T, Fung MA, Hosler GA, Lazar AJ, Lowe L, Plaza JA, Prieto VG, Robinson JK, Schaffer A, Subtil A, Wang WL. Appropriate use criteria in dermatopathology: Initial recommendations from the American Society of Dermatopathology. J Am Acad Dermatol 2019; 80:189.
Chen L, Carson KR, Staser KW, Mehta-Shah N, Schaffer A, Rosman IS, Musiek A. Mogamulizumab-Associated Cutaneous Granulomatous Drug Eruption Mimicking Mycosis Fungoides but Possibly Indicating Durable Clinical Response. JAMA Dermatol 2019; 155:968.
Romee R, Cooley S, Berrien-Elliott MM, Westervelt P, Verneris MR, Wagner JE, Weisdorf DJ, Blazar BR, Ustun C, DeFor TE, Vivek S, Peck L, DiPersio JF, Cashen AF, Kyllo R, Musiek A, Schaffer A, Anadkat MJ, Rosman I, Miller D, Egan JO, Jeng EK, Rock A, Wong HC, Fehniger TA, Miller JS. First-in-human phase 1 clinical study of the IL-15 superagonist complex ALT-803 to treat relapse after transplantation. Blood 2018; 131(23):2515.
Vidal CI, Armbrect EA, Andea AA, Bohlke AK, Comfere NI, Hughes SR, Kim J, Kozel JA, Lee JB, Linos K, Litzner BR, Missall TA, Novoa RA, Sundram U, Swick BL, Hurley MY, Alam M, Argenyi Z, Duncan LM, Elston DM, Emanuel PO, Ferringer T, Fung MA, Hosler GA, Lazar AJ, Lowe L, Plaza JA, Prieto VG, Robinson JK, Schaffer A, Subtil A, Wang WL. Appropriate use criteria in dermatopathology: Initial recommendations from the American Society of Dermatopathology. J Cutan Pathol 2018; 45:563.
Gru AA, Kim J, Pulitzer M, Guitart J, Battistella M, Wood GS, Cerroni L, Kempf W, Willemze R, Pawade J, Querfeld C, Schaffer A, Pincus L, Tetzlaff M, Duvic M, Scarisbrick J, Porcu P, Mangold AR, DiCaudo DJ, Shinohara M, Hong EK, Horton B, Kim YH. The Use of Central Pathology Review with Digital Slide Scanning in Advanced-state Mycosis Fungoides and Sézary Syndrome: A Multi-institutional and International Pathology Study. Am J Surg Pathol 2018; 42:726.
Tser Jy, Chan MP, Ferry JA, Despande V, Sohani AR, Nardi V, Schaffer A, Nazarian RM, Zuckerberg LR. Syphilis of the Aerodigestive tract. Am J Surg Pathol 2018: 42:472.
Cunningham TJ, Tabacchi M, Eliane JP, Tuchayi SM, Manivasagam S, Mirzaalian H, Turkoz A, Kopan R, Schaffer A, Saavedra AP, Wallendorf M, Cornelius LA, Demehri S. Randomized trial of calcipotriol combined with 5-fluorouracil for skin cancer precursor immunotherapy. J Clin Invest 2017 127:106.
Korenfeld D, Gorvel L, Munk A, Man J, Schaffer A, Tung T, Mann C, Klechevsky EA. Type of human skin dendritic cell marked by CD5 is associated with the development of inflammatory skin disease. JCI Insight 2017 2:(18):e96101.
Staser, K, Abner S, Anadkat M, Musiek A, Schaffer A. Injection site pesudolymphoma induced by a granulocyte monocyte-colony stimulating factor secreting tumor cell vaccine. JAMA Dermatol 2017: 153:332.
Oetjen LK, Mack MR, Feng J, Whelan TM, Niu H, Guo CJ, Chen S, Trier AM, Xu AZ, Tripathi SV, Luo J, Gao X, Yang L, Hamilton SL, Want PL, Brestoff JR, Council ML, Brasington R, Schaffer A, Brombacher F, Hsieh CS, Gereau RW 4th, Miller MJ, Chen ZF, Hu H, Davison S, Liu Q, Kim BS. Sensory Neurons Co-opt Classical Immune Signaling Pathways to Mediate Chronic Itch. Cell 2017: 171:217-228.
Staser K, Chen D, Solus J, Rosman IS, Schaffer A, Cornelius L, Linette GP, Fields RC. Extensive Tumoral melanosis associated with ipilimumab-treated melanoma. Br J Dermatol 2016: 175-391.
Ruhland MK, Loza AJ, Capietto AH, Luo X, Knolhoff BL, Flanagan KC, Belt BA, Alspach E, Leahy K, Luo J, Schaffer A, Edwards JR, Longmore G, Faccio R, DeNardo DG, Stewart SA. Stromal senescence establishes an immunosuppressive microenvironment that drives tumorigenesis. Nat Commun 2016: 7:11762.
Xu AZ, Tripathi S, Kau AL, Schaffer A, Kim BS. Immune dysregulation underlies a subset of patients with chronic idiopathic pruritus. J Am Acad Dermatol 2016: 74:1017.
Hsi AC, Hurley MY, Lee SJ, Rosman IS, Pang X, Gru A, Schaffer A. Diagnostic utility of SOX11 immunohistochemistry in differentiating cutaneous spread of mantle cell lymphoma from primary cutaneous B-cell lymphomas. J Cutan Pathol 2016: 43:354.
Solus JF, Hassan K, Lee SJ, Hsi AC Rosman IS, Dehmeri S, Schaffer A. Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma progression is associated with decreased GATA-3 immunohistochemical staining. J Cutan Pathol 2016: 43:347.
Goyal, Solus JF, Chan MP, Doyle LA, Schaffer A, Thakuria M, Horn TD, Duncan LM, Nazarian RM. Cytokeratin 17 is highly sensitive in discriminating cutaneous lymphadenoma (a distinct trichoblastoma variant) from basal cell carcinoma. J Cutan Patho 2016: 43:422-9.
Yuan K, Musiek A, Schaffer A, Bucelli RC. Neuro-Sweet Disease. A case of recurrent encephalitis and febrile neutrophilic dermatosis. Neurol Clin Pract 2016 6:e20.
Books
Editor and Contributor. Hematopathology of the Skin: Clinical & Pathological Approach, 1st and 2nd Editions, Wolter Kluwers Health, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023.
Cerutti A, Schaffer A, Casali P. A monoclonal model of terminal B cell differentiation. Human IgM+IgD+ CL-01 cells secrete endogenous IL-6 and undergo IL-6 dependent plasmocytoid differentiation upon stimulation with CD40L and IL-10. In: Molecular and Genetic Approaches to Diseases. – Immunology, Hematology, and Oncology -. Yoshiyki Niho Ed. Kyushu University Press, pp171-195, 1998.
