Nooshin K. Brinster, MD

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Dermatology
Department of Pathology
Virginia Commonwealth University
July 2006 - Present
Office: 804-828-9739
nbrinster@mcvh-vcu.edu

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Professional Organizations | Recent Publications

Licenses & Certifications

Medical Licenses
Virginia (current)

Board Certifications
American Board of Dermatology-Subspecialty Dermatopathology 2005
American Board of Dermatology 2000, Recertified 2009

Education

Postgraduate Medical Education
Intern in Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 1996-1997
Resident in Dermatology, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 1997-1999
Chief Resident, Dermatology, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 1999-2000
Dermatopathology Fellowship, Harvard Medical School Hospitals, Boston, MA 2004-2005

Medical Education
MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA 1996

Undergraduate Education
BS, Biology, Duke University
Durham, NC 1992

Virginia Commonwealth University and Medical Center Appointments

Assistant Professor, Departments of Pathology and Dermatology
Director, Dermatopathology Services, Department of Pathology

Professional Organizations

American Academy of Dermatology 1997 - Present
Richmond Dermatologic Society 2006 - Present
American Society of Dermatopathology 2006 - Present
Medical Society of Virginia 2007 - Present

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Recent Publications

Berg, KD, Brinster NK, Huhn KM, Goggins MG. Jones RJ, Makary
Murphy KM, Griffin, CA, Rosenblu-Vos LS, Borowitz MJ, Nousari HC,
Eshelman JR.  Transmission of a T-cell Lymphoma by Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation. N Engl J Med 345: 1458-1463, 2001.

Goyal S., Brinster NK, Goyal S.  Ki-1(CD-30) positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma:  primary nodal disease relapsing as erythroderma.  J Am Acad Dermatol 47: S201-S204, 2002.

Rencic A., Brinster N., Nousari CH.  Keloid Morphea and nodular scleroderma: two distinct clinical variants of scleroderma?  J Cutan Med Surg. 2003 Jan-Feb;7(1) 20-4.  Epub 2002 Oct 09. Review.

Clark R, Chong B, Brinster N, Yamanaka K, Mirchandani N and Kupper T.  The vast majority of CLA+ T cells are resident in normal skin.  J Immunol. 2006 Apr 1;176(7):4431-9.

Brinster N, Gleason B, Granter S, Pinkus G, Lindeman N and Miller,D.  Intravascular lymphoma with NK cell phenotype: a case report and review of the literature. J Amer Acad Dermatol 2008 Feb; 58(2): 290-4.

Brinster NK. Dermatopathology for the surgical pathologist (Part I). Advances in Anatomic Pathology 15(2):76-96; 2008. (invited review)

Brinster NK Dermatopathology for the surgical pathologist (Part II).. Advances in Anatomic Pathology 15(6):350-369; 2008. (invited review)

Brinster, NK and Farmer ER. Rhabdomyomatous Mesenchymal Hamartoma presenting on a digit. J Cutan Pathol 2009 Jan;36(1):61-3.

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