Vishala Neppalli, MD

Assistant Professor of Oncology

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Profile

Areas of Expertise:

Hematology

Hematopathology

Research

Research Interests:

Molecular epidemiology of lymphomas

Classification and evaluation of prognostic markers in lymphoid malignancies

Selected Publications:

1. Sebastian Rutsch, Vishala Neppalli, Dong-Mi Shin, Wendy DuBois, Herbert C. Morse, Hartmut Goldschmidt, and Siegfried Janz: IL-6 and MYC collaborate in plasma cell tumor formation in mice. (Paper in press, Blood journal)

2. Vishala Neppalli, Michel Nasr, Brian Link, Mohammad Salama: Composite Lymphoma with follicular lymphoma and classical Hodgkin lymphoma: analysis of morphologic, immunophenotypic and molecular characteristics. Case of the quarter November 2008, on-line publication, Society of Hematopathology, http://www.socforheme.org/caseqtr.asp

3. Iqbal J, Neppalli VT, Wright G, Dave BJ, Horsman DE, rosenwald A, Lynch J, Hans CP, Weisenburger DD, Greiner TC, Gascoyne RD, Campo E, Ott G, Muller-Hermelink HK, Delabie J, Jaffe ES, Grogan TM, Connors JM, Vose JM, Armitage JO, Staudt LM, Chan WC. BCL2 expression is a prognostic marker for the activated B-cell-like type of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 24(6):961-8, 2006.

4. "Mucosal Nerve Deficiency in Chronic Childhood Constipation: A Post Migration Defect?". Gwen Wendelschafer-Crabb, Vishala Neppalli, Jose Jessurun, James Hodges, Karl Vance, Daniel Saltzman, Robert Acton, William R Kennedy. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 665-872 (April 2009)

Background Information

Residency:

2000-2003 - AP/CP Resident, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Professional Experience:

2010-Present - Assistant Professor of Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY

2006-2010 - Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa

2005-2006 - Instructor/Senior Fellow, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Board Certification:

Diplomate, American Board of Pathology- Hematology (Hematopathology)

Diplomate, American Board of Pathology

Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates

Fellowships:

2004-2006 - Hematopathology Fellow, University of Nebraska Medical Center, NE

2003-2004 - Surgical Pathology Fellow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Professional Memberships:

American Society of Hematology

Society of Hematopathology

International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology

Publications

Publications:

Rutsch S, Neppalli VT, Shin D-M, DuBois W, Morse III HC, Goldschmidt H, Janz S. IL-6 and MYC collaborate in plasma cell tumor formation in mice. Blood 2010; 115(9):1746-54
Bhatt AP, Neppalli VT, Kelley EA, Schlueter AJ, Thomas CP. Dextran removal by plasmapheresis in a kidney-pancreas transplant recipient with dextran 40-induced osmotic nephrosis. American journal of kidney diseases 2011; 57(4):621-623
Baum CL, Link BK, Neppalli VT, Swick BL, Liu V. Reappraisal of the provisional entity primary cutaneous CD4+ small/medium pleomorphic T-cell lymphoma: a series of 10 adult and pediatric patients and review of the literature. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2011; 65(4):739-748
Morton LM, Cerhan JR, Hartge P, Vasef MA, Neppalli VT, Natkunam Y, Dogan A, Dave BJ, Jain S, Levy R, Lossos IS, Cozen W, Davis S, Schenk MJ, Maurer MJ, Lynch CF, Rothman N, Chatterjee N, Yu K, Staudt LM, Weisenburger DD, Wang SS. Immunostaining to identify molecular subtypes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a population-based epidemiologic study in the pre-rituximab era. International journal of molecular epidemiology and genetics 2011; 2(3):245-252
Lee EC, Fitzgerald M, Bannerman B, Donelan J, Bano K, Terkelsen J, Bradley DP, Subakan O, Silva MD, Liu R, Pickard M, Li Z, Tayber O, Li P, Hales P, Carsillo M, Neppalli VT, Berger AJ, Kupperman E, Manfredi M, Bolen JB, Van Ness B, Janz S. Antitumor activity of the investigational proteasome inhibitor MLN9708 in mouse models of B-cell and plasma cell malignancies. Clinical cancer research 2011; 17(23):7313-7323
Montgomery E, Chevalier A, Neppalli V. Potential Diagnostic Pitfalls Related to Bone Marrow Biopsy Quality in Staging Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. Laboratory investigation 2012; 92(Suppl. 1):504A