Jennifer McNiff, M.D.

Clinical Activities   

  • Director, Yale Dermatopathology Service

Honors and Awards

  • Walter R. Nickel Award for Excellence in the teaching of Dermatopathology, awarded by the American Society of Dermatopathology
  • President, American Society of Dermatopathology

Publications and Presentations

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
  • Assistant Editor, Journal of American Academy of Dermatology
  • Arthur Purdy Stout Society Companion Meeting Invited speaker: Benign mimics of malignancy: clues for differential diagnosis in dermatopathology.  United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology; Baltimore MD, 2013.
  • American Academy of Dermatology Course Director: Update platform on dermatopathology, New York NY, 2013.
  • Jedrych J, Leffell D, McNiff JM.  Desmoplastic trichoepithelioma with perineural involvement a series of seven cases.  J Cutan Pathol 2012;39:317-323.
  • Ko CJ, McNiff JM, Bosenberg M, Choate K.  Keratoacanthoma: clinical and histopathologic features of regression. J Am Acad Dermatol 10.1016/j.jaad.2012.02.041.
  • Li H, Demetris AJ, McNiff J, Matte-Martone C, Tan HS, Rothstein DM, Lakkis FG, Shlomchik WD.  Profound depletion of host conventional dendritic cells, plasmacytoid dendritic cells and B cells does not prevent graft-versus-host disease induction. J Immunol 2012;15:188(8):3804-11.
  • McKay K, McNiff J, Subtil A.  Prominent CD56 expression by damaged and regenerating muscle fibers in the skin.  J Cutan Pathol 2012;39:425-430.
  • Bunick CG, Mariwalla K, Ibrahim O, Modi B, Imaeda S, McNiff JM.  Expanding the histologic findings in smallpox-related post-vaccinial non-viral folliculitis.  J Cutan Pathol 2012 Nov 29. doi: 10.1111/cup.12064. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Levinsohn JL, Tian LC, Boyden LM, McNiff JM, Narayan D, Loring ES, Yun D, Sugarman JL, Overton JD, Mane SM, Lifton RP, Paller AS, Wagner AM, Antaya RJ, Choate KA.  Whole-Exome sequencing reveals somatic mutations in HRAS and KRAS, which cuase nevus sebaceous.  J Invest Dermatol 2012 Oct 25. doi: 10.1038/jid.2012.379. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Wititsuwannakul J, Klump As VR, McNiff JM, Ko CJ.  Detecting HPV in cutaneous lesions using anti-HPV antibody immunohistochemistry.  Am J Dermatopathol 2012 Oct 9. [Epub ahead of print]

Teaching Activities

  • Dermatology Grand Rounds
  • Dermatopathology didactic sessions