Jennifer Vazzano, DO
Assistant Professor-Clinical
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James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Room D586460 W. 10th Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Biosketch
I am from Colorado and went to Colorado State University for an undergraduate degree in psychology and a masters degree in biomedical science. I went to medical school at A.T. Still University in Missouri and came to Columbus for clinical rotations and residency. My projects and papers have included writing an IRB for retrospective study in GI and liver malignancies, collaborating in multi-institutional studies on rare GI malignancies, partnering with a development group on an AI program for reading prostate biopsies, ongoing protects with digital pathology, a project involving Lynch Syndrome patients, and updating GI topics for pathologyoutlines.com, for histologic changes of neoadjuvant treated pancreatic cancer, and for the diagnosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma on frozen sections. In my free time I enjoy spending time with friends and family, movies, music and concerts, virtual reality video games, shopping, and comedy shows. I am interested in gastrointestinal, pancreas and liver pathology and digital pathology/artificial intelligence and am excited to be at OSU.
Board Certifications
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology
Academic and Medical Appointments
2023-Present Assistant Professor of Pathology Clinical, Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Education and Training
2022-2023 GI, Pancreas, and Liver Pathology Fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2018-2022 Resident, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2014-2018 Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, A.T. Still University, Kirksville College of Medicine, Kirksville, MO
2013-2014 Master of Science, Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, CO
Selected Publications
- Vazzano, J., Tomlinson, J., Stanich, P.P. et al. Universal tumor screening for lynch syndrome on colorectal cancer biopsies impacts surgical treatment decisions. Familial Cancer (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10689-022-00302-3
- Nermeen Chaudhry, Jennifer Vazzano and Anil Parwani, Case Study: Malakoplakia of the Bladder, Pathology - Research and Practice, (2022) doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prp.2022.153852
- Vazzano J, Chen W. Colloid carcinoma. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/pancreascolloid.html. Accessed February 9th, 2022.
- Vazzano J, Chen W. Ductal adenocarcinoma, NOS. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/pancreasductal.html. Accessed February 9th, 2022
- Vazzano J, Chen W. Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (small and large duct types). PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/livertumorcholangiocarcinoma.html. Accessed February 9th, 2022
- Vazzano J, Frankel WL, Wolfe AR, Williams TM, Chen W. Morphologic changes associated with neoadjuvant-treated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and comparison of two tumor regression grading systems. Hum Pathol. 2020 Nov 24;109:1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2020.11.010. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33245985.
- Vazzano, Jennifer L. DO∗; Swanson, Benjamin J. MD†; Wakely, Paul E. Jr MD† Primary Peritoneal Ependymoma: A Case Report and Literature Review, AJSP: Reviews & Reports: 11/12 2021 - Volume 26 - Issue 6 - p 311-314 doi: 10.1097/PCR.0000000000000462
- Jennifer Vazzano, Jesse Sheldon, Anil Parwani, Shaoli Sun. Villous adenoma with low grade dysplasia arising from intestinal metaplasia and cystitis cystica of the bladder wall, Human Pathology Reports, Volume 26, 2021, 300548, ISSN 2772-736X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpr.2021.300548. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772736X21000062)
- Vazzano JL, Patton A, Tinoco G, Iwenofu OH. Primary Intranodal Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma with Molecular Confirmation. Int J Surg Pathol. 2022 Jan 31:10668969211070174. doi: 10.1177/10668969211070174. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35098778.
- Hu S, Alpert L, Cates JMM, Gonzalez RS; Rare GIST Risk Stratification Group. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) arising in uncommon locations: clinicopathologic features and risk assessment of esophageal, colonic, and appendiceal GISTs. Mod Pathol. 2021 Oct 26. doi: 10.1038/s41379-021-00949-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34702994.
- Rachel K Horton, DO, Teri A. Longacre, MD, Daniela S. Allende, MD, Kelsey E. McHugh, MD, Jinru Shia, MD, Maria Westerhoff, MD, Amitabh Srivastava, MD, Wei Chen, MD, PhD, Jennifer Vazzano, DO, Rossana Kazemimood, MD, Runjan Chetty, MB, BCH, Klaudia M. Nowak, MD, Stefano Serra, MD, Sanjay Kakar, MD, Won-Tak Choi, MD, PhD, Deyali Chatterjee, MD, Hassam Cheema, MBBS, Rifat Mannan, MBBS, Rondell P. Graham, MBBS, Raul S. Gonzalez, MD. Colorectal Adenosquamous Carcinoma: A Clinicopathologic Analysis of 32 Cases of a Rare Carcinoma Subtype. Accepted as a platform presentation to United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Virtual Meeting. March 2021.
- Vazzano J, Sinclair W, Zehr B, Allenby P. Formalin pre-fixation improves autopsy histology. Autops Case Rep [Internet]. 2021;11:e2021291. https://doi.org/10.4322/acr.2021.291
- Qaisar S, Brodsky LD, Barth RF, Leier C, Buja LM, Yildiz V, Mo X, Allenby P, Moore S, Ivanov I, Chen W, Thomas D, Rivera AC, Gamble D, Hartage R, Mao G, Sheldon J, Sinclair D, Vazzano J, Zehr B, Patton A, Brodsky SV. An unexpected paradox: wall shear stress in the aorta is less in patients with severe atherosclerosis regardless of obesity. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2021 Mar-Apr;51:107313. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2020.107313. Epub 2020 Nov 23. PMID: 33242600.