Lauren Parsons, MD

Assistant Professor

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Locations

Pathology - Froedtert Hospital
Pathology - Children's

Specialties

Pathology - Anatomic
Pathology - Clinical
Pediatric Pathology
Cytopathology

Languages

English

Education

MD - Doctor of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Parsons is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Director of the Pediatric Cytopathology service at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Her clinical duties include pediatric cytopathology, pediatric surgical pathology, adult cytopathology, placental pathology, and perinatal/pediatric autopsy pathology. She is Associate Program Director for Anatomic Pathology for the Pathology Residency Program, the director of the pediatric pathology resident rotation, and actively participates in pediatric resident and fellow education. Dr. Parsons’ major clinical and research interests include the application of aspiration cytology in pediatrics, thyroid nodules and cancer (particularly in children), and pediatric renal tumors. She is an active member of the Society for Pediatric Pathology, the American Society of Cytopathology, and Children’s Oncology Group.

Research Interests

Pediatric cytopathology and minimally invasive biopsy

Pediatric thyroid nodules and cancer

Pediatric renal tumors

Pediatric/perinatal pathology

Outcome analysis of stage I epithelial-predominant favorable-histology Wilms tumors: A report from Children's Oncology Group study AREN03B2.

(Parsons LN, Mullen EA, Geller JI, Chi YY, Khanna G, Glick RD, Aldrink JH, Vallance KL, Kim Y, Fernandez CV, Dome JS, Perlman EJ.) Cancer. 2020 Jun 15;126(12):2866-2871 PMID: 32267967 04/09/2020
Adequacy and Accuracy of Core Biopsy in Children: A Radiologic/Pathologic Correlation Study.

(Parsons LN, Vo N, Moe DC, Jarzembowski JA.) Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019 Mar-Apr;22(2):137-141 PMID: 30428273 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85059101319 11/15/2018
An Evidence-based Recommendation for a Standardized Approach to Detecting Metastatic Neuroblastoma in Staging Bone Marrow Biopsies.

(Parsons LN, Gheorghe G, Yan K, Simpson P, Jarzembowski JA.) Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2017 Jan-Feb;20(1):38-43 PMID: 28276294 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85027123831 03/10/2017
Diagnostic Pediatric Cytopathology and Histopathologic Correlation.

(Parsons L.) Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2016 Nov/Dec;19(6):516 PMID: 28051368 01/05/2017
Author's Reply.

(Parsons L, Jarzembowski J.) Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2016 May-Jun;19(3):256-7 PMID: 26600427 11/26/2015
Improving Detection of Metastatic Neuroblastoma in Bone Marrow Core Biopsies: A Proposed Immunohistochemical Approach.

(Parsons LN, Gheorghe G, Yan K, Simpson P, Jarzembowski JA.) Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2016 May-Jun;19(3):230-6 PMID: 26491958 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84977628154 10/23/2015
An evidence-based recommendation for a standardized approach to detecting metastatic neuroblastoma in staging bone marrow biopsies.

(Parsons LN, Gheorghe G, Yan K, Simpson P, Jarzembowski JA.) Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2016 Mar 28: PMID: 27018850 03/29/2016
Intraparenchymal pulmonary lipoma: pathologic-radiologic correlation of a rare presentation of a common neoplasm.

(Parsons L, Shahir K, Rao N.) Ann Diagn Pathol. 2014 Aug;18(4):244-7 PMID: 24818636 05/14/2014
Effects of solid-medium type on routine identification of bacterial isolates by use of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry.

(Anderson NW, Buchan BW, Riebe KM, Parsons LN, Gnacinski S, Ledeboer NA.) J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Mar;50(3):1008-13 PMID: 22162546 PMCID: PMC3295166 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84857423338 12/14/2011