Melissa Blessing
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Melissa Blessing
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Pathology & Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
Education
- Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
- 06/2020 - Boston, Massachusetts United States
- Pediatric Pathology
- Fellowship at Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences
- 06/2019 - Houston, Texas United States
- Forensic Pathology
- Fellowship at Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education / Mayo Clinic
- 06/2018 - Rochester, Minnesota United States
- Neuropathology
- Residency at Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education / Mayo Clinic
- 06/2016 - Rochester, Minnesota United States
- Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
- DO from A.T. Still University - School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona
- 06/2012 - Mesa, Arizona United States
- BS from Northern Arizona University
- 05/2008 - Flagstaff, Arizona United States
- Bachelor of Science - Biology, Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology
Certifications
- Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
- American Board of Pathology
- Neuropathology
- American Board of Pathology
- Forensic Pathology
- American Board of Pathology
- Pediatric Pathology
- American Board of Pathology
Selected Publications
- Bieniek KF, Blessing MM,* Heckman MG, Diehl NN, Serie AM, Paolini MA 2nd, Boeve BF, Savica R, Reichard RR, Dickson DW "Association between contact sports participation and chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a retrospective cohort study." Brain Pathol.. 2020 Jan;30(1):63-74. Pubmed PMID: 31199537
- Zalewski NL, Rabinstein AA, Krecke KN, Brown RD Jr, Wijdicks EFM, Weinshenker BG, Kaufmann TJ, Morris JM, Aksamit AJ, Bartleson JD, Lanzino G, Blessing MM, Flanagan EP "Characteristics of Spontaneous Spinal Cord Infarction and Proposed Diagnostic Criteria." JAMA Neurol.. 2019 Jan;76(1):56-63. Pubmed PMID: 30264146
- Jones AL, Britton JW, Blessing MM, Parisi JE, Cascino GD "Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in an epilepsy surgery cohort: Clinical and pathologic findings." Neurology. 2018 Feb;90(6):474-478. Pubmed PMID: 29321231
- Blessing MM, Reichard RR "Critical diagnoses in forensic pathology: ethics of disclosure." Acad Forensic Pathol.. 2013 Sep;3(3):289-293.
- Blessing MM, Blackburn PR*, Krishnan C, Harrod VL, Barr Fritcher EG, Zysk CD, Jackson RA, Milosevic D, Nair AA, Davila JI, Balcom JR, Jenkins RB, Halling KC, Kipp BR, Nageswara Rao AA, Laack NN, Daniels DJ, Macon WR, Ida CM "Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: A MAPK pathway-driven and microglia/macrophage-rich neuroepithelial tumor." J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2019 Nov;78(11):1011-1021. Pubmed PMID: 31562743
- Blessing MM, Alexandrescu "Embryonal tumors of the Central Nervous System: An Update." Surg Pathol Clin.. 2020 Jun;12(2):235-247. Pubmed PMID: 32389264
- Guerin JB, Takahashi EA, Lane JI, Hoxworth JM, Weindling SM, Blessing MM, Jentoft ME, Carlson ML, Neff BA, Wood CP "Facial nerve venous malformation: a radiologic and histopathologic review of 11 cases." Laryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol. 2019 May;4(3):347-352. Pubmed PMID: 31236470
- Blessing MM, Blackburn PR, Balcom JR, Krishnan C, Harrod VL, Zimmermann MT, Barr Fritcher EG, Zysk CD, Jackson RA, Nair AA, Jenkins RB, Halling KC, Kipp BR, Ida CM "Novel BRAF alteration in desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma with response to targeted therapy." Acta Neuropathol Commun.. 2018 Nov;6(1):118. Pubmed PMID: 30396366
- Blessing MM, Jentoft ME, Pritt BS "Pathology of vaccine-preventable infectious disease and the central nervous system." Diagn Histopathol (Oxf). 2016 Nov;22(11):413-423.
- Blessing MM, Raghunathan A, Erickson LA "Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy." Mayo Clin Proc.. 2018 Jan;93(1):123-125. Pubmed PMID: 29304918
- Carter JM, Wu Y, Blessing MM, Folpe AL, Thorland EC, Spinner RJ, Jentoft ME, Wang C, Baheti S, Niu Z, Mauermann ML, Klein CJ "Recurrent Genomic Alterations in Soft Tissue Perineuriomas." Am J Surg Pathol.. 2018 Dec;42(12):1708-1714. Pubmed PMID: 30303818
- Smith KM, Blessing MM, Parisi, JE, Britton JW, Mandrekar J, Cascino GD "Tau deposition in young adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy." Epilepsia. 2019 Dec;60(12):2398-2403. Pubmed PMID: 31663115
- Lin PT, Blessing MM "The characteristics of all-terrain vehicle (ATV)-related deaths: A forensic autopsy data-based study." Forensic Sci Med Pathol.. 2018 Dec;14(4):509-514. Pubmed PMID: 30311068
- Romano RC, Allen TC, Blessing MM "The essential role of pathologists in health care and health policy." Arch Pathol Lab Med.. 2015 Apr;139(4):441-444. Pubmed PMID: 25822761
Memberships
- International Society for the Study and Prevention of Perinatal and Infant Death
- (05/2020)
- Society for Cardiovascular Pathology
- (11/2011)
- Society for Pediatric Pathology
- (02/2020)
- American Association of Neuropathologists
- (03/2018)
- American Academy of Forensic Sciences
- (12/2015)
- United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
- (01/2015)
- National Association of Medical Examiners
- (06/2013)
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