OHSU Department of Pathology

Sakir Humayun Gultekin, MD

Neuropathologist and Surgical Pathologist; Director, Neuromuscular Pathology Laboratory; Assistant Program Director, Pathology Residency Program

Rank: Associate Professor

Clinical Services: Neuropathology, Surgical Pathology

Clinical Interests: Neuropathology, General Surgical Pathology, Oncologic Surgical Pathology

Research Interests: Development of Tissue Markers in Neuro-oncology Diagnosis Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes

Education:

1986    MD, Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey
1991    Istanbul University Dept. of Neurology, Neurology residency
1993    Neuropathology Fellow, UMass & Brigham & Women's Hospitals
1995    Anatomic Pathology resident, New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center
1996    Experimental Pathology Fellow, Memerial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)
1997    Oncologic Surgical Pathology Fellow, MSKCC
2000    Senior Research Fellow in Molecular Neuro-oncology, MSKCC

Boards:

1999 Anatomic Pathology
1999 Neuropathology

Previous Position:

2000-2004 Assistant Professor of Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, NY
2000-2002 Visiting Investigator, MSKCC, Dept. of Neurology, Cotzias Laboratory of Neuro-oncology, New York, NY

Selected References:

Fatterpekar GM, Naidich TP, Delman BN, Aguinaldo JG, Hof, PR, Gultekin SH, Sherwood CC, et al. Cytoarchitecture of the Human Cerebral Cortex: Microscopy of Excised Specimens at 9.4 Tesla. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2002;23:1313-21.
Germano IM, Fable J, Gultekin SH, Silvers A. Adenovirus/herpes simplex-thymidine kinase/ganciclovir complex: preliminary results of a phase I trial in patients with recurrent malignant gliomas. J Neurooncol 2003;65:279-89.
Fatterpekar GM, Delman BN, Boonn WW, Gultekin SH, Fayad ZA, Hoff PR, NaidichTP. MR microscopy of normal human brain. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 2003;11:641-53.
Henderson C, Meyers B, Gultekin S H, Liu B, Zhang DY. Intracranial tuberculoma in a liver transplant patient: first reported case and review of the literature. Am J Transplant. 2003;1:88-93.
Alva, S.H. Gultekin, E. Baehrecke. Autophagy in human tumors: cell survival or death? Cell Death and Differentiation 2004;11:1046-8
Gunduz C, Yener B, Gultekin SH. The cell graphs of cancer. Bioinformatics 2004 Aug 4;20 Suppl 1:I145-I151.
Naidich TP, Kang E, Fatterpekar GM, Delman BN, Gultekin SH, Wolfe D, Ortiz, O, Yousry I, Weismann M, Yousry TA. The insula: anatomic study and MR imaging display at 1.5 T. AJNR 2004;25:222-32.
Tukel T, Uzumcu A, Gezer A, Kayserili H, Apak MY, Uyguner O, Gultekin SH, et al. A new syndrome, congenital extraocular muscle fibrosis with ulnar hand anomalies, maps to chromosome 21qter. Journal of Medical Genetics 2005;42:408-15
C Gunduz, SH Gultekin, B Yener. Learning the topological properties of brain tumors. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics 2005;2(4):1-9.
C Demir, SH Gultekin and B Yener. Augmented cell-graphs for automated cancer diagnosis. Bioinformatics 2005 Sep 1;21 Suppl 2:ii7-ii12.

Last Updated: 02/17/2010