Jennifer McNiff, MD
Professor of Dermatology and PathologyCards
About
Titles
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Director, Yale Dermatopathology Laboratory; Section Chief, Dermatopathology
Biography
Dr. McNiff is the Medical Director of Yale Dermatopathology and is an internationally recognized expert in the pathology of cutaneous disease. Her interests and publications are focused on general clinicopathologic correlations in dermatopathology, mycosis fungoides, animal models of lupus erythematosus and graft vs. host disease, and immunofluorescence techniques in dermatopathology. Dr. McNiff serves on the editorial board of numerous specialty publications. She is a frequent invited speaker at national and international meetings and is the past President of the American Society of Dermatopathology.
Appointments
Dermatology
ProfessorPrimaryPathology
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- Fellow
- Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA (1992)
- Chief Resident
- University of Virginia Health Services Center, Charlottesville, VA (1991)
- Resident
- University of Virginia Health Services Center, Charlottesville, VA (1990)
- MD
- University of Vermont (1986)
Research
Overview
My interests and publications are focused on general clinicopathologic correlations in dermatopathology, mycosis fungoides, animal models of lupus erythematosus and graft vs. host disease, and immunoflourescence techniques in dermatopathology.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Clinical Care
Overview
Accuracy is everything for dermatopathologist Jennifer McNiff, MD, who is the medical director of Dermatopathology at Yale Medicine. As a doctor who is highly trained in both dermatology and pathology, she runs a lab where skin samples from all over the world are sent for diagnoses. “We are trained to recognize every skin condition—from rashes to tumors,” says Dr. McNiff.
She and her team work very closely together in the lab, giving patients the benefit of more than one specialist’s expertise. “Our team of dermatopathologists reviews complex and challenging cases together daily, in a consensus conference at a multi-headed microscope,” Dr. McNiff says.
Dr. McNiff enjoys both helping patients and their treating physicians by using her experience to identify even subtle cell changes that are indicators of disease. Often the identifying features of skin diseases, including cancers, are so slight that it takes the know-how of leading experts to make the right diagnosis so that patients can receive the care they need.
“For me, it is all about the patient and the knowledge that we are positioned to help both patients and their treating physicians by generating accurate and timely diagnoses,” she says.
The past President of the American Society of Dermatopathology, Dr. McNiff is frequently invited to speak at national and international meetings.
Clinical Specialties
Board Certifications
Dermatopathology
- Certification Organization
- AB of Pathology
- Original Certification Date
- 1993
Anatomic & Clinical Pathology
- Certification Organization
- AB of Pathology
- Original Certification Date
- 1991
Yale Medicine News
Links & Media
Media
- Roy SF, Ghazawi FM, Choate KA, McNiff JM. Solitary and Multiple epidermolytic acathoma: A demographic and clinical study of 131 cases. J Cutan Pathol 2019; 46:305-309. Cheraghlou S, Atzmony L, Roy SF, McNiff JM, Choate KA. Mutations in KRT10 in epidermolytic acanthoma. J Cutan Pathol 2020;47:524-529.
- Ko CJ, McNiff JM. Punctate pemphigus: an underreported direct immunofluorescence pattern. J Cutan Pathol 2014 Mar;41(3):293-6.
- Roy SF, Dong D, Myung P, McNiff JM. Multinucleate cell angiohistiocytoma: A clinicopathologic study of 62 cases and proposed diagnostic criteria. J Cutan Pathol 2019;46:563-569.
News
- May 01, 2024
Yale Pathology Faculty Members Recognized as Top Doctors
- May 02, 2022
Yale Pathology Diagnostic Pathology CME Annual Review Scheduled for September 17-18 at Yale Club of NYC
- June 04, 2020
Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital physicians recognized as CT Magazine Best Doctors
- June 14, 2019
Over 200 Yale Medicine Physicians Make 2019 ‘Best Doctors’ List