StephenDavidHessMD

Dermatology • Philadelphia, PA

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Office
1500 Walnut St
Suite 1240
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone+1 267-687-4437
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Education & Training

University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Dermatology, 2004 - 2008
University at BuffaloInternship, Internal Medicine, 2003 - 2004
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at BuffaloClass of 2003

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 2004 - 2024
DE State Medical License 2013 - 2019
NJ State Medical License 2007 - 2017
American Board of Dermatology Dermatology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellow (FASDS) American Society for Dermatologic Surgery

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

5 citations
Nail Unit Glomus Tumor with Myxoid and Symplastic Change Presenting with Longitudinal Erythronychia.
Diego R. Da Silva, Kevin J. Gaddis, Stephen Hess, Adam I. Rubin> ;Dermatopathology. 2018 Apr 1
17 citations
The importance of being profiled: improving drug candidate safety and efficacy using ion channel profiling.
Gregory J. Kaczorowski, Maria L. Garcia, Jacob Bode, Stephen D. Hess, Umesh A. Patel> ;Frontiers in Pharmacology. 2011 Dec 13
1 citations
Ulceroglandular Tularemia: Ulceroglandular Tularemia
James R. Treat, Stephen D. Hess, Karin L. McGowan, Albert C. Yan, Carrie L. Kovarik> ;Pediatric Dermatology. 2011 May 1
40 citations
Uncertainty in the Perioperative Management of High-Risk Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Among Mohs Surgeons
Anokhi Jambusaria-Pahlajani, Stephen D. Hess, Kenneth A. Katz, Daniel Berg, Chrysalyne D. Schmults> ;Archives of Dermatology. 2010 Nov 15
45 citations
Primary cutaneous aggressive epidermotropic CD8+ T-cell lymphoma
Rachel H. Gormley, Stephen D. Hess, Dipti Anand, Jacqueline M. Junkins-Hopkins, Alain H. Rook, Ellen J. Kim> ;Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2010 Feb 1
4 citations
Subcutaneous Mycobacterium marinum infection in a patient with chronic rheumatoid arthritis receiving immunosuppressive therapy
Stephen D. Hess, Abby S. Van Voorhees, Laura M. Chang, Jacqueline M. Junkins-Hopkins, Carrie L. Kovarik> ;International Journal of Dermatology. 2009 Jul 1
38 citations
Development of the predictor HERG fluorescence polarization assay using a membrane protein enrichment approach.
David R. Piper, Steve Duff, Hildegard C. Eliason, W. Jack Frazee, Elizabeth A. Frey, Maya Fuerstenau-Sharp, C. Jachec, Bryan D. Marks, Brian A. Pollok, Mohammed Saleh ...> ;Assay and Drug Development Technologies. 2008 May 9
14 citations
IL-21 Enhances Antitumor Responses without Stimulating Proliferation of Malignant T Cells of Patients with Sézary Syndrome
Jessica S. Yoon, Sarah M. Newton, Maria Wysocka, Andrea B. Troxel, Stephen D. Hess, Stephen K. Richardson, Julie H. Lin, Bernice M. Benoit, Monika Kasprzycka, Mariusz ...> ;The Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 2008 Feb 1
21 citations
Association of change in clinical status and change in the percentage of the CD4+CD26- lymphocyte population in patients with Sézary syndrome.
Camille E. Introcaso, Stephen D. Hess, Malek Kamoun, Ravi Ubriani, Joel M. Gelfand, Alain H. Rook> ;Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2005 Sep 1
14 citations
CTLA-4 blockade augments human T lymphocyte-mediated suppression of lung tumor xenografts in SCID mice.
Michael S. Sabel, Stephen D. Hess, Nejat K. Egilmez, Thomas F. Conway, Fang-An Chen, Richard B. Bankert> ;Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy. 2005 Apr 22
317 citations
Immunopathogenesis and therapy of cutaneous T cell lymphoma
Ellen J. Kim, Stephen D. Hess, Stephen K. Richardson, Sara Newton, Louise C. Showe, Bernice M. Benoit, Ravi Ubriani, Carmela C. Vittorio, Jacqueline M. Junkins-Hopkins...> ;The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2005 Apr 1
6 citations
Comparison of human lung cancer/SCID mouse tumor xenografts and cell culture growth with patient clinical outcomes.
Timothy M. Anderson, Stephen D. Hess, Nejat K. Egilmez, Chukwumere Nwogu, J. M. Lenox, Richard B. Bankert> ;Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 2003 Aug 16
55 citations
Human CD4+ T Cells Present Within the Microenvironment of Human Lung Tumors Are Mobilized by the Local and Sustained Release of IL-12 to Kill Tumors In Situ by Indirec...
Stephen D. Hess, Nejat K. Egilmez, Nicola Bailey, Timothy M. Anderson, Edith Mathiowitz, Steven H. Bernstein, Richard B. Bankert> ;Journal of Immunology. 2003 Jan 1
26 citations
Human CD4+ effector T cells mediate indirect interleukin-12- and interferon-gamma-dependent suppression of autologous HLA-negative lung tumor xenografts in severe comb...
Nejat K. Egilmez, Stephen D. Hess, Fang-An Chen, Thomas F. Conway, Richard B. Bankert, Hiroshi Takita> ;Cancer Research. 2002 May 1
31 citations
SCID mouse models to study human cancer pathogenesis and approaches to therapy: potential, limitations, and future directions.
Richard B. Bankert, Stephen D. Hess, Nejat K. Egilmez> ;Frontiers in Bioscience. 2002 Apr 1
13 citations
Recent advances in the modulation of voltage-gated ion channels for the treatment of epilepsy.
Nicholas D. P. Cosford, Peter T. Meinke, Kenneth A. Stauderman, Stephen D. Hess> ;Current Drug Targets. CNS and Neurological Disorders. 2002 Jan 31
71 citations
Human-SCID mouse chimeric models for the evaluation of anti-cancer therapies.
Richard B. Bankert, Nejat K. Egilmez, Stephen D. Hess> ;Trends in Immunology. 2001 Jul 1
9 citations
Antitumor efficacy of a human interleukin-12 expression plasmid demonstrated in a human peripheral blood leukocyte/human lung tumor xenograft SCID mouse model.
Stephen D. Hess, Nejat K. Egilmez, Junko Shiroko, Richard B. Bankert> ;Cancer Gene Therapy. 2001 May 1
20 citations
Cytokines delivered by biodegradable microspheres promote effective suppression of human tumors by human peripheral blood lymphocytes in the SCID-Winn model.
Nejat K. Egilmez, Yong S. Jong, Stephen D. Hess, Jules S. Jacob, Edith Mathiowitz, Richard B. Bankert> ;Journal of Immunotherapy. 2000 Mar 1
144 citations
SIB-1757 and SIB-1893: selective, noncompetitive antagonists of metabotropic glutamate receptor type 5.
Mark A. Varney, Nicholas D. P. Cosford, C. Jachec, Sara P. Rao, Aida I. Sacaan, Fen-Fen Lin, Leo Bleicher, Emily M. Santori, Peter J. Flor, Hans Allgeier, Fabrizio Gas...> ;The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 1999 Jul 1
4 citations
Stable Expression of Human NMDA Receptors in Cultured Mammalian Cells
Mark A. Varney, Fen-Fen Lin, C. Jachec, Sara P. Rao, Stephen D. Hess, Edwin C. Johnson, Gonul Velicelebi> ;Methods in Molecular Biology. 1999 Jan 1
21 citations
Fluorescence techniques for measuring ion channel activity.
Gonul Velicelebi, Kenneth A. Stauderman, Mark A. Varney, Michael Akong, Stephen D. Hess, Edwin C. Johnson> ;Methods in Enzymology. 1999 Jan 1
Twenty-eight-year-old woman with recent onset of painful oral erosions.
Edwards, P. C., Hess, S., Saini, T., Norton, N.> ;J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2010 Aug
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