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Jonathan Said, MD

a Curriculum Vitae

Jonathan Said, MD
Professor of Urology and Pathology

Location: 13-226 CHS
 
Phone: 310-825-6877
Educational Background
Medical School: M.D. University of Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, 1965-1971
South Africa
Residency: Intern in Medicine and Surgery at Johannesburg General Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa 1972
Junior Assistant Resident in Pathology at the Mallory Institute of Pathology, Boston, MA 1973
Senior Assistant Resident in Pathology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA 1974
Board
Certifications
& Fellowships:
Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School 1974, 1975
Fellow in Hematopathology, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital 1976
Research Fellow in Pathology, Harvard Medical School 1976

Specialties
Pathology

Professional Memberships
International Academy of Pathology, United States-Canadian Division 1977-
American Association of Pathologists 1982-
American Society of Hematology 1982-
Society for Hematopathology 1982-
Los Angeles County Pathology Society 1982-
Histochemical Society 1985-
Society for Ultrastructural Pathology 1990-
College of American Pathologists 1992-
Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology1996-
Clinical Immunology Society 1999-

Academic & Medical Staff Appointments
Professor of Pathology and Urology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Chief Division of Anatomic Pathology UCLA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Chief Division of Surgical Pathology UCLA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Co-Director Tissue Procurement Core Laboratory (TPCL) UCLA Pathology Department and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Specialist Consultant Olive View Medical Center
Associate director Hematopathology Fellowship Training Program
Associate Pathologist, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Pathologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles,
Director Immunopathology Electron Microscopy Cedar-Sinai Medical Center

Awards & Honors
Listed in "Best Doctors in America", Woodward and White 2004-2006
Journal front cover Journal of Pathology Vol. 182 No. 3, July 1997.
Journal front cover Applied Immunohistochemistry Vol. 11 No 3, September 2003.
Elected Fellow of the International Society of Urologic Pathology for ‘significant contribution to the advancement of urologic pathology’


  Additional Information


Bibliography (since 2003)

 

1. Nador, R.G., Chadburn, A., Sulur, G., Cesarman, E., Said, J.W.,Knowles,D.M.:

AIDS-related Polymorphic lymphoproliferative disorders.   Am J Surg Pathol 27:293-

302, 2003.

 

2. De Vos,  S., Krug,  U., Hofmann, W-K, Pinkus, G.S.,  Swerdlow, S.H., 

Wachsman, W., Grogan, T., Yue, C.,  Koeffler, H.P., Said J.:  Gene expression

profiling in laser microdissected normal follicular mantles, mantle cell lymphoma, and

blastoid variant of mantle cell lymphoma.   Diagnostic Molec. Pathol. 12: 35-43,

2003.

 

3. DeVos S, Hofmann W, Grogan T, Miller T, Koeffler HP, Said J.   Genes

differentially expressed in serial samples of transformed follicular lymphomas Lab

Invest 83:271-285, 2003. 

 

4. Zisman, A., Wieder, J., Pantuck, A., Chao, D., Dorey, F., Said, J., Gitlitz, B.,

Figlin, R., Belldegrun, A.:  Renal cell carcinoma with tumor thrombus extension:

Biology, role of nephrectomy and response to immunotherapy.   J Urol 169:906-919,

2003.

 

5. Vegesna V, O’Kelly J, Said J, Uskovic M, Binderup L, Koeffler HP: Ability of potent

vitamin D3 analogs to inhibit growth of prostate cancer cells in vivo.   Anticancer Res

23: 283-289, 2003

 

6. Roberts AA, Amano M, Felten C, Galvan M, Sulur G, Pinter-Brown L, Dobbeling U,

Burg G, Said J, Baum LG: Galectin-1 mediated apoptosis in mycosis fungoides: The

role of CD7 and cell surface glycosylation.   Modern Pathol 16:543-551, 2003.

 

7. Allan J. Pantuck, Amnon Zisman, Fredrick Dorey, Debby H. Chao, Ken-ryu Han,

Jonathan Said, Barbara J. Gitlitz, Robert A. Figlin and Arie S. Belldegrun: Renal Cell

Carcinoma with Retroperitoneal Lymph Nodes: Role of Lymph Node Dissection.  

Journal of Urology (169: 2076-2083, 2003).

 

8.  Pantuck A, Zisman A, Dorey F, Chao D, Han K, Said J, Gitlitz B, Belldegrun A,

Figlin R: Renal Cell Carcinoma with Retroperitoneal Lymph Nodes: Impact on Survival

and Benefits of Immunotherapy. Cancer 97:2995-3002, 2003.

 

9. Palapattu GS, Pantuck AJ, Dorey F, Said JW, Figlin RA: Collecting system

invasion in renal cell carcinoma: impact on prognosis and future staging strategies. J

Urol 170:768-772, 2003.

 

10. Tanosaki S, Ikezoe T, Heaney A, Said JW, Dan K, Akashi M, Koeffler HP: Effect

of ligands of nuclear hormone receptors on sodium/iodide symporter expression and

activity in breast cancer cells.   Breast Cancer Res Treat 79:335-345, 2003.

 

11. Kumagai T, O’Kelly J, Said JW, Koeffler H: Non-Calcemic vitamin D2 analog, 19-

nor-1,25(OH)2D2: Antitumor activities against leukemia, Myeloma and Colon

Cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 95:896-905, 2003.

 

12. Said J: Genetic and molecular genetic studies in the diagnosis of immune-related

lymphoproliferative disorders.   Human Pathology 34:341-345, 2003.

 

13. Zisman A, Pantuck AJ, Bui MH, Said JW, Caliliw RR, Rao N, Shintaku P, Berger

F, Gambhir SS, Belldegrun AS: LABAZ1: A metastatic tumor model for renal cell

carcinoma expressing the carbonic anhydrase type 9 tumor antigen. Cancer

Research 63: 4952-4959,2003.

 

14. Said J.: Transformation to aggressive B-cell lymphoma: morphology,

immunophenotype, and molecular characteristics. Appl Immunohistochem Mol

Morphol 11(3):199-205, 2003.

 

15. Schiller G, Said J, Pal S: Hairy cell leukemia and sarcoidosis: a case report and

review of the literature. Leukemia 17:2057-2059, 2003.

 

16. Han K, Bleumer I, Pantuck AJ, Kim F, Dorey J, Janzen N, Zisman A, Dinney CP,

Wood CG, Swanson DA, Said JW, Figlin R, Mulders FA, Belldegrun AS: Validation

of an integrated staging system toward improved prognostication of patients with

localized renal cell carcinoma in an international population. J Urol 170:2221-2224,

2003.

 

17. Takai, N., Desmond, J. C. Kumagai, T. Gui, D. Said, J. W. Whittaker, S.

Miyakawa, Koeffler, H. P. Histone deacetylase inhibitors have a profound antigrowth

activity in endometrial cancer cells.   Clin Cancer Res 10:1141-1149, 2004.

 

18. Han K R, Seligson DN, Liu X, Horvath S, Shintaku IP, Thomas GV, Said JW,

Reiter RE: Prostate stem cell antigen (PSC A) expression is associated with

Gleason score, seminal vesicle invasion, and capsular invasion in prostate cancer. J

Urol 171, 1117-1121, 2004.

 

19. Tsukasaki K, Tanosaki S, DeVos S, Hofmann WK, Gombart AF, Krebs J,

Jauch A, Betram CR, Nagai K, Tomonaga M, Said JW, Koeffler, H. P. Identifying

progression-associated genes in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma by using

oligonucleotide microarrays. Int J Cancer 109:875-881, 2004.

 

20. Xie D, Yin D, Tong X, O-Kelly J, Mori A, Miller C, Black K, Gui D, Said JW,

Koeffler, H. P. Cyr61 is overexpressed in gliomas and involved in integrin-linked

kinase-mediated Akt and beta-catenin-TCF/Lef signaling pathways. Cancer Research

64: 1987-1996, 2004.

 

21. Hoyer KK, Panag M, Gui D, Shintaku IP, Kuwabara I, Lui FT, Said JW, Baum

LG, Teitell, M. A. An anti-apoptotic role for galectin-3 in diffuse large B-cell

lymphomas. Am J Pathol 864: 893-902, 2004

 

22. Kumagai T, Ikezoe T, Gui D, O'Kelly J, Tong XJ, Cohen FJ, Said JW, Koeffler, H.

P. RWJ-241947 (MCC-555), a unique peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-

gamma ligand with antitumor activity against human prostate cancer in vitro and in

beige/nude/ X-linked immunodeficient mice and enhancement of apoptosis in

myeloma cells induced by arsenic trioxide. Clinical Cancer Research 10:1508-1520,

2004.

 

23. Takeuchi S, De Vos S, Fermin AC, Grogan TM, Seo H, Said JW, Koeffler, H. P.  

Allelic loss during progression of follicular lymphoma.  Leuk Res 28:567-569, 2004.

 

24. Jin YP, Fishbein MC, Said JW, Jindra PT, Rajalingham R, Rozengurt E, Reed, E.

F. Anti-HLA class I antibody-mediated activation of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway

and induction of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL expression in endothelial cells.  Hum Immunol

65:291-302, 2004.

 

25. Kumagai T, Ikezoe T, Gui D, O'Kelly J, Tong XJ, Coen FJ, Said JW, Koeffler, H.

P. RWJ-241947 (MCC-555), a unique peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-

gamma ligand with antitumor activity against human prostate cancer in vitro and in

beige/nude/ X-linked immunodeficient mice and enhancement of apoptosis in

myeloma cells induced by arsenic trioxide. Clin Cancer Res 10:1508-1520, 2004.

 

26. Garraway IP, Seligson D, Said J, Horvath S: Trefoil factor 3 is overexpressed in

human prostate cancer.   Prostate 61:209, 2004.

 

27. Kawabata H, Fleming RE, Gui D, Moon SY, Saitoh T, O'Kelley J, Umehara Y,

Wano Y, Said JW, Koeffler HP.   Expression of hepcidin is down-regulated in TfR2

mutant mice manifesting a phenotype of hereditary hemochromatosis. Blood 2004.

 

28. Han K, Janzen NK, McWhorter V, Kim HL, Pantuck AJ, Zisman A, Figlin RA,

Said JW, Belldegrun AS: Cystic renal cell carcinoma: biology and clinical behaviour.

Urologic Oncology 22:410-414, 2004

 

29. Chien W, Kumagai T, Miller CW, Desmond JC, Frank JM, Said JW, Koeffler

HP. Cyr61 suppresses growth of human endometrial cancer cells. J Biol Chem 51:

53087-96, 2004.

 

30.Loya AG, Said JW, Grant, EG. Epidermoid cyst of the testis, radiologic

pathologic correlation. Radiographics 24: 243-246, 2004

 

31. Chadburn A, Hyjek E, Mathew S, Cesarman E, Said J,  Knowles DM.   KSHV-

positive solid lymphomas represent an extra-cavitary variant of primary effusion

lymphoma. Am J. Surg Pathol 28:1401-1416, 2004

 

32.Takai N, Kawamata N, Gui D, Said JW, Miyakawa I, Koeffler, H. P. Human

ovarian carcinoma cells: Histone deacetylase inhibitors exhibit antiproliferative activity

and potently induce apoptosis.   Cancer 101: 2760-2770, 2004

 

33. Ikezoe T, Hisatake Y, Takeuchi T, Ohtsuki Y, Yang Y, Said JW, Taguchi H,

Koeffler, H. P. HIV-1 protease inhibitor, ritonavir: a potent inhibitor of CYP3A4,

enhanced the anticancer effects of docetaxel in androgen-independent prostate

cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. Cancer Research 20:7426-7431, 2004

 

34. Chih DY, Park DJ, Gross M, Idos G, Vuong PT, Hirama T, Chumakov AM, Said

J, Koeffler HP.   Protein partners of EBP/epsilon.  Exp Hematol 32:1173-1181, 2004.

 

35. Thomas GV, Horvath S, Smith BL, Crosby K, Schrage M, Said J, DeKernion J,

Reiter RE, Sawyers CL: Antibody based profiling of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase

pathway in clinical prostate cancer. Clin Cancer Res 10:8351-8356, 2004.

 

36. Sakajiri S, Kumagai T, Kawamata N, Saitoh T, Said JW, Koeffler, HP: Histone

deacetylase inhibitors profoundly decrease proliferation of human lymphoid cancer

cell lines. Exp Hematol 33:53-61, 2005.

 

37. Kim, G, S. Rajasekaran, G. Thomas, E. Rosen, E. Landaw, P. Shintaku, C.

Lassman, J. Said, and A K. Rajasekaran: Renal clear-cell carcinoma: an

ultrastructural study on the junctional complexes. Histology and Histopathology 20,

35-44, 2005.

 

38. Kawabata H, Fleming RE, Gui D, Moon SY, Saitoh T, O'Kelly J, Umehara Y,

Wano Y, Said JW, Koeffler, HP: Expression of hepcidin is down-regulated in TfR2

mutant mice manifesting a phenotype of hereditary hemochromatosis.   Blood 105:

376-381, 2005.

 

39. Wu H, Said JW, Ames ED, Chen C, McWhorter V, Chen P, Ghali V, Pinkus GS:

First reported cases of Intravascular Large Cell Lymphoma of NK cell type.   Am J