Publications

  1. Amin W, Parwani AV, Schmandt L, Mohanty SK, Farhat G, Pople AK, Winters SB, Whelan NB, Schneider AM, Milnes JT, Valdivieso FA, Feldman M, Pass HI, Dhir R, Melamed J, Becich MJ. National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank: a standard based biospecimen and clinical data resource to enhance translational research. BMC Cancer. 2008 Aug 13;8(1):236. [Epub ahead of print] Link to PubMed
  2. Dhir R, Patel AA, Winters S, Bisceglia M, Swanson D, Aamodt R, Becich MJ. A multidisciplinary approach to honest broker services for tissue banks and clinical data: a pragmatic and practical model. Cancer. 2008 Aug 5. Link to PubMed
  3. Mohanty SK, Mistry AT, Amin W, Parwani AV, Pople AK, Schmandt L, Winters SB, Milliken E, Kim P, Whelan NB, Farhat G, Melamed J, Taioli E, Dhir R, Pass HI, and Becich MJ. The development and deployment of Common Data Elements for tissue banks for translational research in cancer - an emerging standard based approach for the Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank. BMC Cancer. 2008 Apr 8;8:91.
    Link to PubMed
  4. Patel AA, Gilbertson GR, Showe LC, London JW, Ross E, Ochs MF, Carver j, Lazarus A, Parwani AV, Dhir R, Beck JR, Liebman M, Garcia FU, Prichard J, Wilkerson M, Herberman RB, Becich MJ and the PCABC. A Novel Cross-Disciplinary Multi-Institute Approach to Translational Cancer Research: Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania Cancer Alliance Bioinformatics Consortium (PCABC). Cancer Informatics 2007:3, 255-274 (2007).
    http://la-press.com/journals.php?pa=abstract&content_id=272
  5. Mohanty SK, Parwani AV, Crowley RS, Winters S, Becich MJ. The importance of pathology informatics in translational research. Adv Anat Pathol. 2007 Sep;14(5):320-2.
    Link to PubMed
  6. Kajdacsy-Balla A, Geynisman JM, Macias V, Setty S, Nanaji NM, Berman JJ, Dobbin K, Melamed J, Kong X, Bosland M, Orenstein J, Bayerl J, Becich MJ, Dhir R, Datta MW; The Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource. Practical aspects of planning, building, and interpreting tissue microarrays: The Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource experience. J Mol Histol. 2007 May;38(2):113-21. Epub 2007 Feb 21.
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/d1511180h1807141/
  7. Patel AA, Gupta D, Seligson D, Hattab EM, Balis UJ, Ulbright TM, Kohane IS, Berman JJ, Gilbertson JR, Dry S, Schirripa O, Yu H, Becich MJ, Parwani AV; Shared Pathology Informatics Network. Availability and quality of paraffin blocks identified in pathology archives: a multi-institutional study by the Shared Pathology Informatics Network (SPIN). BMC Cancer. 2007 Feb 28;7:37.
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17386082
  8. Tobias J, Chilukuri R, Komatsoulis GA, Mohanty S, Sioutos N, Warzel DB, Wright LW, Crowley RS. The CAP cancer protocols--a case study of caCORE based data standards implementation to integrate with the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2006 Jun 20;6:25.
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16787533
  9. Patel AA, Gilbertson JR, Parwani AV, Dhir R, Datta MW, Gupta R, Berman JJ, Melamed J, Kajdacsy-Balla A, Orenstein J and Becich MJ. An informatics model for tissue banks - Lessons learned from the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource. BMC Cancer 2006, 6:120-132.
    http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/6/120
  10. Patel AA, Kajdacsy-Ball A, Berman JJ, Bosland M, Datta MW, Dhir R, Gilbertson J, Melamed J, Orenstein J, Tai KF, Becich MJ. The development of common data elements for a multi-institute prostate cancer tissue bank: The Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource (CPCTR) experience. BMC Cancer 2005, Aug 21;5(1):108.
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16111498
  11. Melamed J, Datta MW, Becich MJ, Orenstein JM, Dhir R, Silver S, Fidelia-Lambert M, Kadjacsy-Balla A, Macias V, Patel A, Walden PD, Bosland MC, Berman JJ. The cooperative prostate cancer tissue resource: a specimen and data resource for cancer researchers. Clin Cancer Res. 2004 Jul 15;10(14):4614-21.
    http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/14/4614
  12. Berman JJ, Datta M, Kajdacsy-Balla A, Melamed J, Orenstein J, Dobbin K, Patel A, Dhir R, Becich MJ. The tissue microarray data exchange specification: implementation by the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource. BMC Bioinformatics. 2004 Feb 27;5(1):19.
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=15040818
  13. Becich, M.J. The role of the Pathologist as tissue refiner and data miner: The impact of functional genomics on the modern pathology laboratory and the critical roles of Pathology Informatics and Bioinformatics. Molec Diag. 5(4):287-299, 2000.
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