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Jose A. Plaza, MD

Professor-Clinical

Jose A. Plaza, MD

Phone:

614-293-5292

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Mailing Address:

2030 Blankenship Hall
901 Woody Hayes Dr
Columbus, OH 43210

Biosketch

Dr. Jose A. Plaza is a Professor of Pathology and Dermatology and the Director of Dermatopathology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He also serves as the Medical Director of the dermatopathology laboratory. Dr. Plaza completed his Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency at The Ohio State University Medical Center and served as a chief resident in 2004-2006. He subsequently completed fellowships training in surgical pathology and dermatopathology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN and the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, respectively. He is board certified by the American Board of Pathology and Dermatology in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Dermatopathology. Dr. Plaza served as a Director of Dermatopathology at the Medical College of Wisconsin from 2008 to 2015. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, has served as a peer reviewer on many journals of the field and is on one editorial board, has written several chapters in pathology, dermatopathology and dermatology books and has authored four textbooks in dermatopathology. His area of expertise includes pigmented skin lesions, adnexal skin neoplasms and immunohistochemistry in cutaneous tumors.

Board Certifications

2008 Dermatopathology, American Board of Pathology and Dermatology

2007 Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology

Academic and Medical Appointments

2020-Present Professor, Department of Pathology and Dermatology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

2013-2015 Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

2008-2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Education and Training

2007-2008 Fellow, Dermatopathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

2006-2007 Fellow, Surgical Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

2002-2006 Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH

Selected Publications

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Publications:

  • Plaza JA, Brenn T, Gru AA, Matoso A, Sheldon J, Sangueza M. Poorly differentiated cutaneous apocrine carcinomas: histopathological clues and immunohistochemical analysis for the diagnosis of this unusual neoplasm. Histopathology. 2023 Jan;82(2):276-284.
  • Roman J, Chung CG, Sangueza M, Plaza JA. Low-Grade Hidradenocarcinoma of the Foot with Metastasis to a Lymph Node. Am J Dermatopathol. 2023 Apr 1;45(4):269-272.
  • Okonkwo PC, Henning A, Plaza J, Agrawal A, Contreras CM. A rare tonsillar metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma: A case report. Clin Case Rep. 2023 Mar 19;11(3):e7063.
  • Plaza JA, Gru AA, Sangueza OP, Lourenco SV, Puccio FB, Sanches JA, Miyashiro D, Toussaint S, Sangueza JMJ. An Update on Viral Induced Cutaneous Lymphoproliferative Disorders. A Review from the Ibero-American Society of Dermatopathology (SILADEPA). CME Part I. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2022 Aug 27:S0190-9622(22)02610.
  • Gru AA, Plaza JA, Sanches JA, Miyashiro D, Sangueza OP, Puccio FB, Toussaint S, Sangueza JM. An Update on EBV and HTLV-1 Induced Cutaneous Manifestations. A Review of the Ibero-American Society of Dermatopathology (SILADEPA). CME Part II. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2022 Aug 29:S0190-9622(22)02609-3.
  • Steinman B, Plaza JA, Kittai AS. Glabellar and auricular leukemia cutis in CLL EJHaem. 2022 Aug 28;3(4):1398-1399.
  • Sosh DL, Hyde J, Plaza JA, Trinidad J. Violaceous-Purpuric Targetoid Macules and Patches with Bullae and Ulceration. Cutis. 2022 Dec;110(6):E19-E21.
  • Gallardo M, Yan A, Plaza JA, Shipp D. Lobulated red nodule on right lower back. Int J Dermatol. Int J Dermatol. 2022 Oct 25. doi: 10.1111/ijd.16463.
  • Plaza JA, Sangueza OP, Giubellino A, Gru AA, Kaffenberger B, Wakely PE Jr, Sangueza MJ. Angiosarcoma-like Kaposi Sarcoma: A Distinctive Histomorphologic Variant Representing an Important Diagnostic Pitfall. Am J Surg Pathol. 2022 Dec 1;46(12):1732-1738.
  • Gru AA, Bhagat G, Subtil A, Raghavan SS, Pulitzer M, Chung C, Sangueza M, Plaza JA. Spindle-cell (Sarcomatoid) Variant of Cutaneous Anaplastic Large-cell Lymphoma (C-ALCL): An Unusual Mimicker of Cutaneous Malignant Mesenchymal Tumors-A Series of 11 Cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2021 Jun 1;45(6):796-802.
  • Plaza JA, Pootrakul L, Raghavan SS, Sangueza M, Gru AA. Reproducible Histopathologic Features in Cases of Basal Cell Carcinoma with Neuroendocrine Expression: A Clinicopathologic Study of 24 Cases with a Potential Diagnostic Pitfall. Am J Dermatopathol. 2021 Dec 1;43(12):903-907.
  • Mehta A, Davey J, Gharpuray-Pandit D, Plaza JA, Billings SD, Balogh P, Tchrakian N, Selvan S, Wiedemeyer K, Hornick JL, Brenn T. Cutaneous Myoepithelial Neoplasms on Acral Sites Show Distinctive and Reproducible Histopathologic and Immunohistochemical Features. Am J Surg Pathol. 2022 Sep 1;46(9):1241-1249.
  • Wargo JJ, Carr DR, Plaza JA, Verschraegen CF. Metastatic Spiradenocarcinoma Managed With PD-1 Inhibition. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2022 Feb 23:1-3.
  • Duran J, Plaza JA. Update on immunohistochemical techniques in dermatopathology. A focus on adnexal neoplasms. Semin Diagn Pathol. 2022 Jul;39(4):265-287.
  • Plaza JA, Brenn T, Chung C, Salim S, Linos KD, Jour G, Duran Rincon J, Wick M, Sangueza M, Gru AA. Histomorphological and immunophenotypical spectrum of cutaneous myoepitheliomas: A series of 35 cases. J Cutan Pathol. 2021 Jul;48(7):847-855.
  • Gru AA, Sangueza M, Pullitzer M, Subtil A, Plaza JA. Spindle cell (Sarcomatoid) Variant of Cutaneous Anaplastic Large-cell Lymphoma (C-ALCL): An Unusual Mimicker of Cutaneous Malignant Mesenchymal Tumors – A Series of 11 Cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2021 Jul 1;45(6):796-802.