Virginia Commonwealth University Service 

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

Licenses & Certifications

Medical Licenses
Virginia (current)
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania

Board Certifications
American Board of Dermatology-Subspecialty Dermatopathology 2005
American Board of Dermatology 2000

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

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

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

Professional Organizations

American Academy of Dermatology 1997 - Present
Pennsylvania Academy of Dermatology 2000 - 2003
Philadelphia Dermatologic Society 2000 - 2003
Pennsylvania Medical Society 2000 - 2003
Richmond Dermatologic Society 2006 - Present
American Society of Dermatopathology 2006 - Present
Medical Society of Virginia 2007 - Present

Recent Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kimyai-Asadi A, Nousari HC, Ketabchi N, Henneberry J.
Costarangos C.  Diffuse dermal angiomatosis: a variant of reactive
angioendotheliomatosis associated with atherosclerosis.  J Am Acad
Dermatol 40:257-8, 1999.

Nousari H, Kimyai-Asadi A, Ketabchi N, Diaz LA, Anhalt GJ. Severe non-endemic pemphigus foliaceous presenting in the post-partum period.  J Am Acad Dermatol 40:845-6, 1999.

Nousari H, Kimyai-Asadi A, Ketabchi N, Hughes M, Anhalt GJ. A patient with a refractory cutaneous bullous eruption.  J. Cutan Med Surg 3:201-4, 1999.

Tausk FA, Whitmore SE, Ketabchi N. Dermatitis from Interferon alpha2b.  J. Clin Dermatol 2(3)19-20, 1999.

Nousari H, Kimyai-Asadi A, Ketabchi N, Cohen VA. Urticarial eruption associated with rheumatic fever in a child.  Pediatric Dermatology 16:288-291, 1999.

Recent Posters

Intravascular lymphoma with NK cell immunophenotype.  Brinster N, Granter S, Pinkus G and Lindeman, N.  American Society of Dermatopathology, October 2004.

IgA Vasculitis:  A chronic subtype associated with IgA monoclonal gammopathy.  Nooshin Ketabchi, Hossein C. Housari and Grant J. Anhalt.  American Academy of Dermatology, March 2000.  Poster and Discussion.

Keloid Morphea and Nodular Scleroderma:  Ketabchi N, Wigley F. Nousari H. American Academy of Dermatology, March 1999.

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Updated February 27, 2009