Philip E. LeBoit, MD

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, A.B., 1971-75, History
Albany Medical College, Albany NY, M.D., 1975-79
Univ. of California San Francisco, CA, Resident, 1979-81, Pathology
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, Resident, 1981-82, Pathology
New York University, NY (7-12/82) and Cornell Univ. Medical Center, NY (1-6/83), Fellow, 1982-83, Dermatopathology

• 1985-86
  Clinical Instructor, Depart. of Pathology, UCSF
• 1986-91
  Assist. Clin. Professor, Depart. of Pathology, UCSF
• 1991-97
  Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, Dept. of Pathol-ogy, UCSF
• 1997-present
  Professor of Clinical Pathology, Dept. of Pathology, UCSF
• Ancillary Positions Held Concurrently:
• 1987-present
  Director, UCSF Dermatopathology Service, UCSF
• 1989-present
  Director, Fellowship Training Program in Dermatopathology, Depts. of Pathology and Dermatology
• 1990-present
  Director, Dermatopathology Section, Dept. of Pathology
• 1997-present
  Professor of Clinical Dermatology, Dept. of Dermatology, UCSF
• 1997-present
  Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Dermatopathology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• 1988
  Certificate of Appreciation, Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Martinez, CA
• 1992
  Honorable Mention, Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate, UCSF
• 1997
  Teacher of the Year Award, Department of Dermatology, UCSF
• 2002
  Ackerman Lecture and Award, International Society of Dermatopathology
• 2002
  Pinkus Lecture and Award, American Society of Dermatopathology
• 2004
  Founder's Award, American Society of Dermatopathology

• Rieger E, Soyer HP, LeBoit PE, Metze D, Slovak R, Kerl H: Reactive angioendotheliomatosis or i ntravascular histiocytosis? An immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study in two cases of intravascular histiocytic cell proliferation. Br J Dermatol, 140:497-504, 1999.
• LeBoit LE, Ming ME. Litigious melanocytic proliferations and how to avoid them. Path Case Reviews 4(2):77-86, 1999.
• Bastian BC, Kutzner H, Yen TSB, LeBoit PE. Signet-ring cell formation in primary cutaneous neoplasms. JAm Acad Dermatol 41:606-13, 1999.
• Giam Y-C, Williams ML, LeBoit PE, Orlow SJ, Eichenfield LF, Frieden IJ. Neonatal Erosions and Ulcerations in Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi. Pediatr Dermatol 16 (5):354-8, 1999.
• Toro JR, Chu P, Yen TSB, LeBoit PE. Granuloma annulare and human immunodeficiency viral infection. Arch Dermatol 135:1341-6, 1999.
• Spies J, Foucar K, Thompson C, LeBoit PE. The histopathology of cutaneous lesions of Kikuchi's disease (necrotizing lymphadenitis): A report of five cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 23:1040-7, 1999.
• Cerroni L, Fink-Puches R, El-Shabrawi-Caelen L, Soyer HP, LeBoit PE, Kerl H. Solitary skin lesions with histopathologic features of early mycosis fungoides. Am J Dermatopathol. 21:518-24, 1999.
• Bastian BC, Wesselmann U, Pinkel D, LeBoit PE. Molecular cytogenetic analysis of Spitz nevi shows clear differences to melanoma. J Invest Dermatol. 113:1065-9, 1999.
• Requena L, Grosshans E, Kutzner H, Ryckaert C, Cribier B, Resnik KS, LeBoit PE. Epithelial sheath neuroma: A new entity. Am J Surg Pathol. 24:190-6,2000.
• Bastian BC, Kashani-Sabet M, Hamm, H., Godfrey T, Moore DH, Brocker E-B, LeBoit PE, Pinkel D. Gene amplification characterize acral melanoma and permit the detection of occult tumor cells in the surrounding skin. Cancer Research 60:1968-73, 2000.
• Haghighi B, Smoller BR, LeBoit PE, Warnke RA, Sander CA, Kohler S. Pagetoid reticulosis (Workinger- Kolopp disease): An immunophenotypic, molecular and clinicopathologic study with long term follow-up. Modern Pathol: 13(5):502-10, 2000.
• Natkunam Y, Warnke RA, Haghighi B, Kim YH, Su LD, LeBoit PE, Kohler S. Primary cutaneous lymphomas with co-expression of CD56 and CD30: Clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical and molecular analyses of seven cases. J Cutan Pathol, 27: 392-99, 2000.
• Cerroni L, El-Shabrawi-Caelen L, Fink-Puches R, LeBoit PE, Kerl H. Cutaneous spindle cell B-cell lymphoma. A morphologic variant of the cutaneous large B-cell lymphoma. Am J Dermatopathol. 22(4): 299-304, 2000.
• Abesamis-Cubillan E, El-Shabrawi-Caelen L, LeBoit PE. Merkel cells and sclerosing epithelial neoplasms. Am J Dermatopathol. 22(4): 311-315, 2000.
• Bastian BC, LeBoit LE, Pinkel D. Mutations and copy number increase of HRAS in Spitz nevi with distinctive histopathological features. Am. J. Pathol. 157(3): 967-72, 2000
• Kim BS, LeBoit LE. Histopathologic features of erythema nodosum-like lesions in Behcet disease: A comparison with erythema nodosum focusing on the role of vasculitis. Am J Dermatopathol, 22(5): 379-90, 2000
• Cowper SE, Robin HS, Steinberg SM, Su LD, Gupta S. LeBoit PE. Scleromyedema-like cutaneous diseases in renal-dialysis patients. The Lancet. 356:1000-01, 2000.
• Zackheim HS, Vonderheid EC, Ramsay DL, LeBoit LE, Rothfleisch J, Kashani-Sabet M. Relative frequency of various forms of primary cutaneous lymphomas. J Am Acad Dermatol. 43:793-6, 2000.
• Kasper RC, Wood GS, Nihal M, LeBoit PE. Anetoderma arising in cutaneous B-cell lymphoproliferative disease. Am J Dermatopathol. 23(2): 124-32, 2001
• Toro JR, Finlay D, Dou X, Zheng S, LeBoit PE, Connolly, MK. Detection of type 1 cytokines in discoid lupus erythematosus. Arch Dermatol, 136:1497-1501, 2001
• Mraz-Gernhard S, Natkunam Y, Hoppe RT, LeBoit P, Kohler S, Kim YH. Natural killer/natural killer-like T- cell lymphoma, CD56+, presenting in the skin: an increasingly recognized entity with an aggressive course. J Clin Oncol. 19(8):2179-88, 2001.
• Fye KH, Crowley E, Berger TG, LeBoit PE, Connolly MK. Celecoxib-induced Sweet's syndrome: A case report. J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 45(2):300-2, 2001
• Cowper SE, Su LD, Bhawan J, Robin HS, LeBoit PE. Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy. Am J Dermatopathol 23(5): 383-93, 2001
• Bastian BC; LeBoit PE; Pinkel D. Genomic approaches to skin cancer diagnosis. Arch Dermatol. 137:1507-11, 2001.
• Harvell JD, Bastian BC, LeBoit PE. Persistent (recurrent) Spitz nevi: a histopathologic, immunohistochemical and molecular pathologic study of 22 cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 26(5): 654-661,2002
• Su LD, Kim YH, LeBoit PE, Swetter SM, Kohler S.Interstitial mycosis fungoides, a variant of mycosis fungoides resembling granuloma annulare and inflammatory morphea. J Cutan Pathol. 2002 Mar;29(3):135-141.
• Zackheim HS, Koo J, LeBoit PE, McCalmont TH, Bowman PH, Kashani-Sabet M, Jones C, ZehnderJ. Psoriasiform mycosis fungoides with fatal outcome following treatment with cyclosporine. J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 2002; 47:155-6.
• Bastian BC, Xiong J, Frieden IJ, Williams ML, Chou P, Busam K, Pinkel D, LeBoit PE. Genetic changes in atypical neoplasms arising in congenital melanocytic nevi: Differences between nodular proliferations and melanomas. Am J Pathol. 2002 Oct;161(4):1163-9.
• Zackheim HS, Jones C, Leboit PE, Kashani-Sabet M, McCalmont TH, Zehnder J.Lymphomatoid papulosis associated with mycosis fungoides: a study of 21 patients including analyses for clonality. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2003 Oct;49(4):620-3.
• Bastian BC, Olshen AB, LeBoit PE, Pinkel D. Classifying melanocytic tumors based on DNA copy number changes. Am J Pathol. 2003; 163:1765-1770.
• Jan F, Segal JM, Dyer J, LeBoit P, Siegried E, Frieden IL. Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy: two pediatric cases. J Ped. 2003; 143: 678-681.
• Shapiro M, Chren M-M, Levy RM, Elder DE, LeBoit PE, Mihm MC Jr, Margolis DJ, Gimotty PA, Ming ME. Variability in nomenclature used for nevi with architectural disorder and cytologic atypia (microscopically dysplastic nevi) by dermatologists and dermatopathologists. J Cutan Pathol. 2004 Sep;31(8):523-30.
• Massi G, LeBoit PE. Histology of Nevi and Melanoma. Steinkopff Verlag Darmstadt/ Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2004