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1 Barnes Jewish Hospital Plz# DivSt. Louis, MO 63110
Phone+1 314-362-5641
Fax+1 314-362-0369
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Summary
- Dr. Richard Cote is the Chair of the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and is the Chief of the Pathology Service at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Previously he was Chair of Pathology at University of Miami, and prior to that was a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California Keck School of medicine. He received his medical degree from University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine and has been in practice 37 years. He specializes in genitourinary pathology, anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, and surgical pathology and is experienced in breast cancer, genitourinary cancer, prostatectomy, biopsies, and adenocarcinoma.
Education & Training
New York University School of MedicinePost-Doctoral Fellowship, 1989 - 1990
Chief Fellow - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterPathology, 1988 - 1990
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterFellowship, Surgical Pathology, 1987 - 1988
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Residency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 1985 - 1987- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterPost-Doctoral Fellowship, 1981 - 1983
Certifications & Licensure
NY State Medical License 1985 - Present
IL State Medical License 2020 - 2029
FL State Medical License 2008 - 2027
MO State Medical License 2019 - 2027
CA State Medical License 1990 - 2022
American Board of Pathology Anatomic Pathology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Saint Louis Magazine Top Doctor Saint Louis Magazine, 2020-2022
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2005-2022
- America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2002-2022
Clinical Trials
- 4B951, Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Bladder Cancer Start of enrollment: 1997 Aug 01
- Trial of Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Active Surveillance With or Without MRI-Guided Management Start of enrollment: 2012 Aug 01
- MRI Based Active Selection for Treatment Trial Start of enrollment: 2014 Nov 12
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- AI and the digital pathology revolution: clinical applications in cancer diagnosis and assessment.Somnath Paul, H Michael Isaacs, Richard J Cote
Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. 2026-04-01 - 7 citationsInONanoribbon-Based Field-Effect Transistor Biosensors for Ultrasensitive Detection of Exosomal Circulating microRNA with Peptide Nucleic Acid Probes.Zhiyuan Zhao, Konstantin Mallon, Mingrui Chen, Dingzhou Cui, Fugu Tian
ACS Nano. 2025-08-19 - 7 citationsImpact of stain variation and color normalization for prognostic predictions in pathology.Siyu Lin, Haowen Zhou, Mark Watson, Ramaswamy Govindan, Richard J Cote
Scientific Reports. 2025-01-18
Other
- Urine biomarkers for the detection of urothelial (transitional cell) carcinoma of the bladderCote RJ, Mitra AP, Penson DF, Birkhahn M
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/urine-biomarkers-for-the-detection-of-urothelial-transitional-cell-
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-08-02
Press Mentions
Huang Named Head of Pathology & ImmunologySeptember 12th, 2024- Medicare Approves Genetic Test for Solid TumorsFebruary 22nd, 2024
- Obituary: Emil Raphael Unanue, Renowned Immunologist, 88December 24th, 2022
Grant Support
- A comprehensive liquid biopsy platform for detection and prognostication in early stage breast cancerNIH/National Cancer Institute2018–2023
- Miami Clinical and Translational Science InstituteNIH2012–2017
- Culturing Viably Captured Circulating Tumor Cells Using Conditional ReprogrammingNIH/National Cancer Institute2013–2015
- Development of Laser Mediated Nanodroplet Real-Time PCR on Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) Captured by Microfilter PlatformDOD2012–2014
- Integrated Biomarker Profiling for Individualized Prostate Cancer TherapyBankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program2010–2013
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