Kristen A. Atkins, M.D.

Associate Professor of Pathology

Director, Residency Training

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Telephone: (434) 924-9498

Email: kaa2p@Virginia.EDU

EDUCATION:

Medical School: University of Vermont Burlington, VT, MD
Residency: Stanford University
Surgical Pathology Fellowship: Stanford University
Cytopathology Fellowship: Virginia Commonwealth University

CLINICAL:

Surgical and cytopathology with a special interest in gynecologic and breast pathology.

RESEARCH:

Prognostic features in smooth muscle tumors of the uterus, improving staging analysis in ovarian carcinoma.

REFERENCES:

Atkins KA, Jeronimo J, Stoler M. Description of cases of squamous cell carcinoma in the ASCUS-LSIL Triage Study Cancer Cytopath 2006 (in press).

Pitman M, Atkins KA, Cibas E, Logrono R, Tambouret R. Challenging Cases in Cytopathology: Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) of the Liver  Harvard CME on line course http://cmeonline.med.harvard.edu/index.asp%202005.

Atkins KA. The Diagnosis of Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma by Cytologic Means (Editorial)  AJCP 2004; 122.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Hendrickson M, Atkins KA, Kempson R. Histology for Pathologists 3rd Ed Editor S. Mills Chapter Uterus and Fallopian Tubes 2006

Brenin D and Atkins KA. Breast Cancer Atlas of Clinical Oncology Ed Winchester D. Chapter Unusual Breast Pathology 2006.

A current list of Dr. Atkins's journal publications can be obtained from PubMed.