PoZhaoMD

Pathology • Silver Spring, MD

Cytopathology, Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology

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Office
7600 Carroll Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20912
Phone+1 301-891-5165

Fax+1 301-891-5141
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Education & Training

Cleveland Clinic FoundationFellowship, Cytopathology, 2012 - 2013
MedStar Health/Georgetown University HospitalResidency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 2009 - 2012
Washington Hospital CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 2008 - 2009
China Medical University ShenyangClass of 1998

Certifications & Licensure

OH State Medical License 2011 - 2025
GA State Medical License 2020 - 2025
MD State Medical License 2013 - 2025
VA State Medical License 2019 - 2024
DC State Medical License 2008 - 2024
American Board of Pathology Pathology - Anatomic/Pathology - Clinical
American Board of Pathology Cytopathology

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

2 citations
A Rare Case of Persistent Multifocal Cribriform-Morular Thyroid Carcinoma.
Wen Lee, Carlos Garcia, William Kuenstner, Po Zhao, Kenneth D Burman, Leila Shobab> ;AACE Clinical Case Reports. 2024 Jan 16
A case of malignant mesothelioma pleural effusion with MOC-31, BerEP4, and calretinin expression.
Po Zhao> ;Diagnostic Cytopathology. 2019 Oct 14
3 citations
Urine cytology of metastatic breast lobular carcinoma.
Po Zhao> ;Diagnostic Cytopathology. 2019 Mar 19
204 citations
Whole Slide Imaging Versus Microscopy for Primary Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology: A Multicenter Blinded Randomized Noninferiority Study of 1992 Cases (Pivotal Study).
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, Michael Feldman, Esther Abels, Raheela Ashfaq, Senda Beltaifa, Nicolas G. Cacciabeve, Helen P. Cathro, Liang Cheng, Kumarasen Cooper, Glenn E. Dic...> ;The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 2017 Sep 1
15 citations
Solid-pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas: awareness of unusual clinical presentations and morphology of the clear cell variant can prevent diagnostic errors.
Po Zhao, Pedro DeBrito, Metin Ozdemirli, Mary K. Sidawy> ;Diagnostic Cytopathology. 2013 Oct 1
2 citations
Strongyloides stercoralis in bronchoalveolar lavage specimen processed as Prussian Blue Stain
Po Zhao, Zahra Maleki> ;Diagnostic Cytopathology. 2013 Feb 1
13 citations
Donor transmission of pineoblastoma in a two-yr-old male recipient of a multivisceral transplant: a case report.
Po Zhao, Alexis Strohl, Corina E. Gonzalez, Thomas M. Fishbein, Sandra Rosen-Bronson, Bhaskar Kallakury, Metin Ozdemirli> ;Pediatric Transplantation. 2012 Jun 1
1 citations
Secondary mutation (c.94_95delAG) in a -α3.7 allele associated with Hb H disease in two unrelated African American individuals homozygous for the -α(3.7) deletion (-α3...
Po Zhao, Arlene Buller-Burckle, Mei Peng, Alison Anderson, Z Jenny Han, Monica V.E. Gallivan> ;Hemoglobin. 2012 Jan 10
111 citations
"Primary peritoneal" high-grade serous carcinoma is very likely metastatic from serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma: Assessing the new paradigm of ovarian and pelvi...
Jeffrey D. Seidman, Po Zhao, Anna Yemelyanova> ;Gynecologic Oncology. 2011 Mar 1
11 citations
Functional characterization of a haplotype in the AKT1 gene associated with glucose homeostasis and metabolic syndrome
Brennan Harmon, Stephanie A. Devaney, Heather Gordish-Dressman, Erica K.M. Reeves, Po Zhao, Joseph M. Devaney, Eric P. Hoffman> ;Human Genetics. 2010 Sep 26
610 citations
Glucose Restriction Inhibits Skeletal Myoblast Differentiation by Activating SIRT1 through AMPK-Mediated Regulation of Nampt
Marcella Fulco, Yana Cen, Po Zhao, Eric P. Hoffman, Michael W. McBurney, Anthony A. Sauve, Vittorio Sartorelli> ;Developmental Cell. 2008 May 13
19 citations
Motif-directed network component analysis for regulatory network inference
Chen Wang, Jianhua Xuan, Li Chen, Po Zhao, Yue Joseph Wang, Robert Clarke, Eric P. Hoffman> ;BMC Bioinformatics. 2008 Feb 13
40 citations
MyoD Acetylation Influences Temporal Patterns of Skeletal Muscle Gene Expression
Monica Di Padova, Giuseppina Caretti, Po Zhao, Eric P. Hoffman, Vittorio Sartorelli> ;The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2007 Dec 28
231 citations
The RNA Helicases p68/p72 and the Noncoding RNA SRA Are Coregulators of MyoD and Skeletal Muscle Differentiation
Giuseppina Caretti, R. Louis Schiltz, F. Jeffrey Dilworth, Monica Di Padova, Po Zhao, Vasily Ogryzko, Frances V. Fuller-Pace, Eric P. Hoffman, Stephen J. Tapscott, Vit...> ;Developmental Cell. 2006 Oct 1
15 citations
Musculin isoforms and repression of MyoD in muscle regeneration.
Po Zhao, Eric P. Hoffman> ;Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2006 Apr 14
237 citations
Nuclear envelope dystrophies show a transcriptional fingerprint suggesting disruption of Rb–MyoD pathways in muscle regeneration
Marina Bakay, Zuyi Wang, Gisela Melcon, Louis Schiltz, Jianhua Xuan, Po Zhao, Vittorio Sartorelli, Jinwook Seo, Elena Pegoraro, Corrado Angelini, Ben Shneiderman, Dian...> ;Brain. 2006 Apr 1
87 citations
Sexual dimorphism in immune response genes as a function of puberty
Rebecca L. Lamason, Po Zhao, Rashmi Rawat, Adrian Davis, John C. Hall, Jae Jin Chae, Rajeev K. Agarwal, Phillip Cohen, Antony Rosen, Eric P. Hoffman, Kanneboyina Nagaraju> ;BMC Immunology. 2006 Feb 22
173 citations
Loss of emerin at the nuclear envelope disrupts the Rb1/E2F and MyoD pathways during muscle regeneration.
Gisela Melcon, Serguei Kozlov, Dedra A. Cutler, Terry Sullivan, Lidia Hernandez, Po Zhao, Stephanie J. Mitchell, Gustavo A. Nader, Marina Bakay, Jeffrey N. Rottman, Er...> ;Human Molecular Genetics. 2006 Feb 15
77 citations
Fgfr4 is required for effective muscle regeneration in vivo. Delineation of a MyoD-Tead2-Fgfr4 transcriptional pathway.
Po Zhao, Giuseppina Caretti, Stephanie J. Mitchell, Wallace L. McKeehan, Adele L. Boskey, Lauren M. Pachman, Vittorio Sartorelli, Eric P. Hoffman> ;The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2006 Jan 6
185 citations
Deacetylase inhibitors increase muscle cell size by promoting myoblast recruitment and fusion through induction of follistatin.
Simona Iezzi, Monica Di Padova, Carlo Serra, Giuseppina Caretti, Cristiano Simone, Eric Maklan, Giulia Minetti, Po Zhao, Eric P. Hoffman, Pier Lorenzo Puri, Vittorio S...> ;Developmental Cell. 2004 May 1
146 citations
Embryonic myogenesis pathways in muscle regeneration.
Po Zhao, Eric P. Hoffman> ;Developmental Dynamics. 2004 Feb 1
38 citations
The PEPR GeneChip data warehouse, and implementation of a dynamic time series query tool (SGQT) with graphical interface
Josephine Chen, Po Zhao, Donald Massaro, Linda Biadasz Clerch, Richard R. Almon, Debra C. DuBois, William J. Jusko, Eric P. Hoffman> ;Nucleic Acids Research. 2004 Jan 1
28 citations
In vivo filtering of in vitro expression data reveals MyoD targets.
Po Zhao, Jinwook Seo, Zuyi Wang, Yue Wang, Ben Shneiderman, Eric P. Hoffman> ;Comptes Rendus Biologies. 2003 Oct 1
482 citations
Sir2 Regulates Skeletal Muscle Differentiation as a Potential Sensor of the Redox State
Marcella Fulco, R. Louis Schiltz, Simona Iezzi, M. Todd King, Po Zhao, Yoshihiro Kashiwaya, Eric P. Hoffman, Richard L. Veech, Vittorio Sartorelli> ;Molecular Cell. 2003 Jul 1
73 citations
Patterns of global gene expression in rat skeletal muscle during unloading and low-intensity ambulatory activity
Lionel Bey, Nagabhavani Akunuri, Po Zhao, Eric P. Hoffman, Deborah G. Hamilton, Marc T. Hamilton> ;Physiological Genomics. 2003 Apr 16
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Hospital Affiliations

MedStar Georgetown University HospitalWashington, District of Columbia