Toby Cornish, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology

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Medical School:
  • MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine (2005)
Graduate School :
  • PhD, University of Illinois At Urbana - Champaign (2004)
Undergraduate School:
  • BS, Bradley University (IL) (1995)
Residency:
  • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Program, Anatomic (2009)
Fellowships:
  • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Program, Selective Pathology (2010)
Department: Pathology

Professional Titles

  • Associate Professor
  • Vice-Chair for Informatics
  • Medical Director of the LIS, UCHealth
  • Medical Director of Pathology Informatics

Publications

  • Forjaz A, Vaz E, Romero VM, Joshi S, Braxton AM, Jiang AC, Fujikura K, Cornish T, Hong SM, Hruban RH, Wu PH, Wood LD, Kiemen AL, Wirtz D. Three-dimensional assessments are necessary to determine the true spatial tissue composition of diseased tissues. bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 6. PubMed PMID: 38106231
  • Kiemen AL, Wu PH, Braxton AM, Cornish TC, Hruban RH, Wood L, Wirtz D, Zwicker D. Power-law growth models explain incidences and sizes of pancreatic cancer precursor lesions and confirm spatial genomic findings. bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 4. PubMed PMID: 38105957
  • Xing F, Yang X, Cornish TC, Ghosh D. Learning with limited target data to detect cells in cross-modality images. Med Image Anal. 2023 Dec;90:102969. PubMed PMID: 37802010
  • Braxton AM, Kiemen AL, Grahn MP, Forjaz A, Babu JM, Zheng L, Jiang L, Cheng H, Song Q, Reichel R, Graham S, Damanakis AI, Fischer CG, Mou S, Metz C, Granger J, Liu XD, Bachmann N, Almagro-Pérez C, Jiang AC, Yoo J, Kim B, Du S, Foster E, Hsu JY, Rivera PA, Chu LC, Liu F, Niknafs N, Fishman EK, Yuille A, Roberts NJ, Thompson ED, Scharpf RB, Cornish TC, Jiao Y, Karchin R, Hruban RH, Wu PH, Wirtz D, Wood LD. Three-dimensional genomic mapping of human pancreatic tissue reveals striking multifocality and genetic heterogeneity in precancerous lesions. bioRxiv. 2023 Jan 28. PubMed PMID: 36747709
  • Patel AU, Williams CL, Hart SN, Garcia CA, Durant TJS, Cornish TC, McClintock DS. Cybersecurity and Information Assurance for the Clinical Laboratory. J Appl Lab Med. 2023 Jan 4;8(1):145-161. PubMed PMID: 36610432
  • Cornish TC and McClintock DS. “Whole Slide Imaging and Telepathology” in Whole Slide Imaging: Current Applications and Future Directions. Parwani AV (ed.), Springer, Cham. 2022. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-83332-9_7
  • McClintock DS, Abel JT and Cornish TC. “Whole Slide Imaging Hardware, Software, and Infrastructure” in Whole Slide Imaging: Current Applications and Future Directions. Parwani AV (ed.), Springer, Cham. 2022. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-83332-9_2
  • Cornish TC, McClintock DS. Are You Prepared? Laboratory Downtime in the Ransomware Era. Am J Clin Pathol. 2022 Apr 1;157(4):482-484. PubMed PMID: 35188947
  • Berkowitz SJ, Kwan D, Cornish TC, Silver EL, Thullner KS, Aisen A, Bui MM, Clark SD, Clunie DA, Eid M, Hartman DJ, Ho K, Leontiev A, Luviano DM, O'Toole PE, Parwani AV, Pereira NS, Rotemberg V, Vining DJ, Gaskin CM, Roth CJ, Folio LR. Interactive Multimedia Reporting Technical Considerations: HIMSS-SIIM Collaborative White Paper. J Digit Imaging. 2022 Aug;35(4):817-833. PubMed PMID: 35962150
  • Kiemen AL, Braxton AM, Grahn MP, Han KS, Babu JM, Reichel R, Jiang AC, Kim B, Hsu J, Amoa F, Reddy S, Hong SM, Cornish TC, Thompson ED, Huang P, Wood LD, Hruban RH, Wirtz D, Wu PH. CODA: quantitative 3D reconstruction of large tissues at cellular resolution. Nat Methods. 2022 Nov;19(11):1490-1499. PubMed PMID: 36280719
  • Hong ES, Messersmith WA, Hammad H, Cornish TC, Aisner DL. Tissue Displacement Versus Two Primary Colorectal Carcinomas? A Case Report on the Utility of Comparative Sequencing. JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 Oct;6:e2200252. PubMed PMID: 36240469
  • Xing F, Cornish TC. Low-Resource Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Cross-Modality Nucleus Detection. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2022 Sep;13437:639-649. PubMed PMID: 36383499
  • Lin He, Toby C. Cornish, Larry J. Kricka, Travis W. Vandergriff, Kim Yancey, Khang Nguyen, Jason Y. Park, Trends in dermatology eponyms, JAAD International, Volume 7, 2022, Pages 137-143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdin.2022.03.006.
  • Xing F, Cornish TC. Low-Resource Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Cross-Modality Nucleus Detection. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2022 Sep;13437:639-649. PubMed PMID: 36383499
  • Kiemen AL, Braxton AM, Grahn MP, Han KS, Babu JM, Reichel R, Jiang AC, Kim B, Hsu J, Amoa F, Reddy S, Hong SM, Cornish TC, Thompson ED, Huang P, Wood LD, Hruban RH, Wirtz D, Wu PH. CODA: quantitative 3D reconstruction of large tissues at cellular resolution. Nat Methods. 2022 Nov;19(11):1490-1499. PubMed PMID: 36280719
  • Hong ES, Messersmith WA, Hammad H, Cornish TC, Aisner DL. Tissue Displacement Versus Two Primary Colorectal Carcinomas? A Case Report on the Utility of Comparative Sequencing. JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 Oct;6:e2200252. PubMed PMID: 36240469
  • Berkowitz SJ, Kwan D, Cornish TC, Silver EL, Thullner KS, Aisen A, Bui MM, Clark SD, Clunie DA, Eid M, Hartman DJ, Ho K, Leontiev A, Luviano DM, O'Toole PE, Parwani AV, Pereira NS, Rotemberg V, Vining DJ, Gaskin CM, Roth CJ, Folio LR. Interactive Multimedia Reporting Technical Considerations: HIMSS-SIIM Collaborative White Paper. J Digit Imaging. 2022 Aug;35(4):817-833. PubMed PMID: 35962150
  • He L, Cornish TC, Kricka LJ, Vandergriff TW, Yancey K, Nguyen K, Park JY. Trends in dermatology eponyms. JAAD Int. 2022 Jun;7:137-143. PubMed PMID: 35497637
  • Cornish TC, McClintock DS. Are You Prepared? Laboratory Downtime in the Ransomware Era. Am J Clin Pathol. 2022 Apr 1;157(4):482-484. PubMed PMID: 35188947
  • Kricka LJ, Cornish TC, Park JY. Eponyms in clinical chemistry. Clin Chim Acta. 2021 Jan;512:28-32. PubMed PMID: 33242467
  • Arnold CA, Arnold MA, Cornish TC, Henn PA, Ho L, Kaplan J, Neto AG, Rubin E, Xu C, and Westbrook LM. Assessment of Zoom in Grading of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Dysplasia. Laboratory Investigation. 2021; 101(Suppl 1s): 384. Poster presentation at USCAP Virtual Annual Meeting 2021. March 2021.
  • Westbrook LM, Arnold MA, Cornish TC, Henn PA, Ho L, Kaplan J, Neto AG, Rubin E, Xu C, and Arnold CA. Assessment of Zoom Utility in Grading of Dysplasia in Barrett Esophagus (BE). Laboratory Investigation. 2021; 101(Suppl 1s): 489-490. Poster presentation at USCAP Virtual Annual Meeting 2021. March 2021.
  • Cornish TC, Kricka LJ, Park JY. A Biopython-based method for comprehensively searching for eponyms in Pubmed. MethodsX. 2021;8:101264. PubMed PMID: 34434786
  • Roth CJ, Clunie DA, Vining DJ, Berkowitz SJ, Berlin A, Bissonnette JP, Clark SD, Cornish TC, Eid M, Gaskin CM, Goel AK, Jacobs GC, Kwan D, Luviano DM, McBee MP, Miller K, Hafiz AM, Obcemea C, Parwani AV, Rotemberg V, Silver EL, Storm ES, Tcheng JE, Thullner KS, Folio LR. Multispecialty Enterprise Imaging Workgroup Consensus on Interactive Multimedia Reporting Current State and Road to the Future: HIMSS-SIIM Collaborative White Paper. J Digit Imaging. 2021 Jun;34(3):495-522. PubMed PMID: 34131793
  • Cornish TC. Artificial intelligence for automating the measurement of histologic image biomarkers. J Clin Invest. 2021 Apr 15;131(8). PubMed PMID: 33855974
  • Xing F, Cornish TC, Bennett TD, Ghosh D. Bidirectional Mapping-Based Domain Adaptation for Nucleus Detection in Cross-Modality Microscopy Images. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2021 Oct;40(10):2880-2896. PubMed PMID: 33284750
  • Kolb JM, Aihara H, Wani S, Cornish TC, Hammad H. Severe submucosal fibrosis and granuloma complicating endoscopic submucosal dissection: unintended consequences of a lifting agent (with video). Gastrointest Endosc. 2021 Feb;93(2):524-526. PubMed PMID: 32763243
  • Xing F, Cornish TC, Bennett TD, Ghosh D. Bidirectional Mapping-Based Domain Adaptation for Nucleus Detection in Cross-Modality Microscopy Images. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2020 Dec 7;PP. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33284750
  • Abel JT, Ouillette P, Williams CL, Blau J, Cheng J, Yao K, Lee WY, Cornish TC, Balis UGJ, McClintock DS. Display Characteristics and Their Impact on Digital Pathology: A Current Review of Pathologists' Future "Microscope". J Pathol Inform. 2020;11:23. PubMed PMID: 33042602
  • Kolb JM, Aihara H, Wani S, Cornish TC, Hammad H. Severe submucosal fibrosis and granuloma complicating endoscopic submucosal dissection: unintended consequences of a lifting agent (with video). Gastrointest Endosc. 2020 Aug 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32763243
  • Zhang X, Cornish TC, Yang L, Bennett TD, Ghosh D, Xing F. Generative Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Nucleus Quantification in Images of Tissue Immunohistochemically Stained for Ki-67. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2020 Jul;4:666-679. PubMed PMID: 32730116
  • Cornish TC. Clinical Application of Image Analysis in Pathology. Adv Anat Pathol. 2020 Jul;27(4):227-235. PubMed PMID: 32467397
  • Westbrook LM, Henn PA, Cornish TC. Lifting Agent Granuloma. Am J Clin Pathol. 2020 Apr 15;153(5):630-638. PubMed PMID: 31875886
  • Xing F, Zhang X, and Cornish TC. Artificial Intelligence for Pathology in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Technical Basis and Clinical Applications. Xing L, Giger ML, and Min JK (eds.), Academic Press, Elsevier. 2020.
  • Xing F, Cornish TC, Bennett T, Ghosh D, Yang L. Pixel-to-Pixel Learning With Weak Supervision for Single-Stage Nucleus Recognition in Ki67 Images. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2019 Nov;66(11):3088-3097. PubMed PMID: 30802845
  • Evans AJ, Bauer TW, Bui MM, Cornish TC, Duncan H, Glassy EF, Hipp J, McGee RS, Murphy D, Myers C, O'Neill DG, Parwani AV, Rampy BA, Salama ME, Pantanowitz L. US Food and Drug Administration Approval of Whole Slide Imaging for Primary Diagnosis: A Key Milestone Is Reached and New Questions Are Raised. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2018 Nov;142(11):1383-1387. PubMed PMID: 29708429
  • Robertson SA, Cimino-Mathews A, Cornish TC. HER2 Status in Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinomas: Correlation Between Immunohistochemistry and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Methodologies. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2018 Jan;26(1):35-39. PubMed PMID: 27153447
  • Li W, Youssef G, Procter-Gray E, Olendzki B, Cornish T, Hayes R, Churchill L, Kane K, Brown K, Magee MF. Racial Differences in Eating Patterns and Food Purchasing Behaviors among Urban Older Women. J Nutr Health Aging. 2017;21(10):1190-1199. PubMed PMID: 29188879
  • Baena-Del Valle JA, Zheng Q, Hicks JL, Fedor H, Trock BJ, Morrissey C, Corey E, Cornish TC, Sfanos KS, De Marzo AM. Rapid Loss of RNA Detection by In Situ Hybridization in Stored Tissue Blocks and Preservation by Cold Storage of Unstained Slides. Am J Clin Pathol. 2017 Nov 2;148(5):398-415. PubMed PMID: 29106457
  • Park JY, Cornish TC, Hogarth M, Jackson BR, Rosati KB. Patient Privacy and Clinical Laboratory Data. Clin Chem. 2017 Aug;63(8):1321-1325. PubMed PMID: 28588122
  • Sunshine JC, Nguyen PL, Kaunitz GJ, Cottrell TR, Berry S, Esandrio J, Xu H, Ogurtsova A, Bleich KB, Cornish TC, Lipson EJ, Anders RA, Taube JM. PD-L1 Expression in Melanoma: A Quantitative Immunohistochemical Antibody Comparison. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Aug 15;23(16):4938-4944. PubMed PMID: 28428193
  • Yanik EL, Kaunitz GJ, Cottrell TR, Succaria F, McMiller TL, Ascierto ML, Esandrio J, Xu H, Ogurtsova A, Cornish T, Lipson EJ, Topalian SL, Engels EA, Taube JM. Association of HIV Status With Local Immune Response to Anal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Implications for Immunotherapy. JAMA Oncol. 2017 Jul 1;3(7):974-978. PubMed PMID: 28334399
  • Hempel HA, Cuka NS, Kulac I, Barber JR, Cornish TC, Platz EA, De Marzo AM, Sfanos KS. Low Intratumoral Mast Cells Are Associated With a Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer Recurrence. Prostate. 2017 Mar;77(4):412-424. PubMed PMID: 27868214
  • Duran R, Mirpour S, Pekurovsky V, Ganapathy-Kanniappan S, Brayton CF, Cornish TC, Gorodetski B, Reyes J, Chapiro J, Schernthaner RE, Frangakis C, Lin M, Sun JD, Hart CP, Geschwind JF. Preclinical Benefit of Hypoxia-Activated Intra-arterial Therapy with Evofosfamide in Liver Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jan 15;23(2):536-548. PubMed PMID: 27440271
  • Palchaudhuri S, Cornish T, Inouye C, Nimgaonkar A. Tough to Swallow: Esophageal Food Impaction from Esophageal Amyloidosis. Dig Dis Sci. 2017 May;62(5):1165-1167. PubMed PMID: 26961786
  • Thompson ED, Zahurak M, Murphy A, Cornish T, Cuka N, Abdelfatah E, Yang S, Duncan M, Ahuja N, Taube JM, Anders RA, Kelly RJ. Patterns of PD-L1 expression and CD8 T cell infiltration in gastric adenocarcinomas and associated immune stroma. Gut. 2017 May;66(5):794-801. PubMed PMID: 26801886
  • Hempel HA, Cuka NS, Kulac I, Barber JR, Cornish TC, Platz EA, De Marzo AM, Sfanos KS. Low Intratumoral Mast Cells Are Associated With a Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer Recurrence. Prostate. 2016 Nov 21. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27868214
  • Zampella JG, Rodic N, Yang WR, Huang CR, Welch J, Gnanakkan VP, Cornish TC, Boeke JD, Burns KH. A map of mobile DNA insertions in the NCI-60 human cancer cell panel. Mob DNA. 2016 Oct 31;7:20. PubMed PMID: 27807467
  • Aiello NM, Bajor DL, Norgard RJ, Sahmoud A, Bhagwat N, Pham MN, Cornish TC, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Vonderheide RH, Stanger BZ. Metastatic progression is associated with dynamic changes in the local microenvironment. Nat Commun. 2016 Sep 15;7:12819. PubMed PMID: 27628423
  • Criscione SW, Theodosakis N, Micevic G, Cornish TC, Burns KH, Neretti N, Rodic N. Genome-wide characterization of human L1 antisense promoter-driven transcripts. BMC Genomics. 2016 Jun 14;17:463. PubMed PMID: 27301971
  • Anene DF, Rosenberg AZ, Kleiner DE, Cornish TC, Halushka MK. Utilization of HPASubC for the Identification of Sinusoid-Specific Proteins in the Liver. J Proteome Res. 2016 May 6;15(5):1623-9. PubMed PMID: 27005832
  • Sue PK, Salazar-Austin NM, McDonald OG, Rishi A, Cornish TC, Arav-Boger R. Cytomegalovirus Enterocolitis in Immunocompetent Young Children: A Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016 May;35(5):573-6. PubMed PMID: 26862673
  • Cimino-Mathews A, Thompson E, Taube JM, Ye X, Lu Y, Meeker A, Xu H, Sharma R, Lecksell K, Cornish TC, Cuka N, Argani P, Emens LA. PD-L1 (B7-H1) expression and the immune tumor microenvironment in primary and metastatic breast carcinomas. Hum Pathol. 2016 Jan;47(1):52-63. PubMed PMID: 26527522
  • Palchaudhuri S, Cornish T, Inouye C, Nimgaonkar A. Tough to Swallow: Esophageal Food Impaction from Esophageal Amyloidosis. Dig Dis Sci. 2016 Mar 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26961786
  • Thompson ED, Zahurak M, Murphy A, Cornish T, Cuka N, Abdelfatah E, Yang S, Duncan M, Ahuja N, Taube JM, Anders RA, Kelly RJ. Patterns of PD-L1 expression and CD8 T cell infiltration in gastric adenocarcinomas and associated immune stroma. Gut. 2016 Jan 22. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26801886
  • Shi C, Gonzalez RS, Zhao Z, Koyama T, Cornish TC, Hande KR, Walker R, Sandler M, Berlin J, Liu EH. Liver metastases of small intestine neuroendocrine tumors: Ki-67 heterogeneity and World Health Organization grade discordance with primary tumors. Am J Clin Pathol. 2015 Mar;143(3):398-404. PubMed PMID: 25696798
  • Le DT, Uram JN, Wang H, Bartlett BR, Kemberling H, Eyring AD, Skora AD, Luber BS, Azad NS, Laheru D, Biedrzycki B, Donehower RC, Zaheer A, Fisher GA, Crocenzi TS, Lee JJ, Duffy SM, Goldberg RM, de la Chapelle A, Koshiji M, Bhaijee F, Huebner T, Hruban RH, Wood LD, Cuka N, Pardoll DM, Papadopoulos N, Kinzler KW, Zhou S, Cornish TC, Taube JM, Anders RA, Eshleman JR, Vogelstein B, Diaz LA Jr. PD-1 Blockade in Tumors with Mismatch-Repair Deficiency. N Engl J Med. 2015 Jun 25;372(26):2509-20. PubMed PMID: 26028255
  • Rowe SP, Gage KL, Faraj SF, Macura KJ, Cornish TC, Gonzalez-Roibon N, Guner G, Munari E, Partin AW, Pavlovich CP, Han M, Carter HB, Bivalacqua TJ, Blackford A, Holt D, Dannals RF, Netto GJ, Lodge MA, Mease RC, Pomper MG, Cho SY. ¹8F-DCFBC PET/CT for PSMA-Based Detection and Characterization of Primary Prostate Cancer. J Nucl Med. 2015 Jul;56(7):1003-1010. PubMed PMID: 26069305
  • Baras AS, Mitchell CJ, Myers JR, Gupta S, Weng LC, Ashton JM, Cornish TC, Pandey A, Halushka MK. miRge - A Multiplexed Method of Processing Small RNA-Seq Data to Determine MicroRNA Entropy. PLoS One. 2015;10(11):e0143066. PubMed PMID: 26571139
  • Cornish TC, Chakravarti A, Kapoor A, Halushka MK. HPASubC: A suite of tools for user subclassification of human protein atlas tissue images. J Pathol Inform. 2015;6:36. PubMed PMID: 26167380
  • Olson MT, Novak A, Boonyaarunnate T, Trotter J, Sachs S, Kelly D, Ford S, Cornish TC, Toll A, Tatsas AD, Maleki Z, Erozan YS, Rosenthal DL. Reproducibility of the Johns Hopkins Hospital template for urologic cytology samples. J Am Soc Cytopathol. 2014 May - Jun;3(3):156-164. PubMed PMID: 31051740
  • Wu YE, Baras A, Cornish T, Riedel S, Burton EC. Fatal spontaneous Clostridium septicum gas gangrene: a possible association with iatrogenic gastric acid suppression. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2014 Jun;138(6):837-41. PubMed PMID: 24878026
  • Kent OA, McCall MN, Cornish TC, Halushka MK. Lessons from miR-143/145: the importance of cell-type localization of miRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jul;42(12):7528-38. PubMed PMID: 24875473
  • Pavlovich CP, Cornish TC, Mullins JK, Fradin J, Mettee LZ, Connor JT, Reese AC, Askin FB, Luck R, Epstein JI, Burke HB. High-resolution transrectal ultrasound: pilot study of a novel technique for imaging clinically localized prostate cancer. Urol Oncol. 2014 Jan;32(1):34.e27-32. PubMed PMID: 23558161
  • Ellison TA, Wolfgang CL, Shi C, Cameron JL, Murakami P, Mun LJ, Singhi AD, Cornish TC, Olino K, Meriden Z, Choti M, Diaz LA, Pawlik TM, Schulick RD, Hruban RH, Edil BH. A single institution's 26-year experience with nonfunctional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: a validation of current staging systems and a new prognostic nomogram. Ann Surg. 2014 Feb;259(2):204-12. PubMed PMID: 23673766
  • Chapiro J, Wood LD, Lin M, Duran R, Cornish T, Lesage D, Charu V, Schernthaner R, Wang Z, Tacher V, Savic LJ, Kamel IR, Geschwind JF. Radiologic-pathologic analysis of contrast-enhanced and diffusion-weighted MR imaging in patients with HCC after TACE: diagnostic accuracy of 3D quantitative image analysis. Radiology. 2014 Dec;273(3):746-58. PubMed PMID: 25028783
  • Haider BA, Baras AS, McCall MN, Hertel JA, Cornish TC, Halushka MK. A critical evaluation of microRNA biomarkers in non-neoplastic disease. PLoS One. 2014;9(2):e89565. PubMed PMID: 24586876
  • Samols MA, Smith NE, Gerber JM, Vuica-Ross M, Gocke CD, Burns KH, Borowitz MJ, Cornish TC, Duffield AS. Software-automated counting of Ki-67 proliferation index correlates with pathologic grade and disease progression of follicular lymphomas. Am J Clin Pathol. 2013 Oct;140(4):579-87. PubMed PMID: 24045557
  • McCall CM, Shi C, Cornish TC, Klimstra DS, Tang LH, Basturk O, Mun LJ, Ellison TA, Wolfgang CL, Choti MA, Schulick RD, Edil BH, Hruban RH. Grading of well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors is improved by the inclusion of both Ki67 proliferative index and mitotic rate. Am J Surg Pathol. 2013 Nov;37(11):1671-7. PubMed PMID: 24121170
  • Tobian AA, Grabowski MK, Kigozi G, Redd AD, Eaton KP, Serwadda D, Cornish TC, Nalugoda F, Watya S, Buwembo D, Nkale J, Wawer MJ, Quinn TC, Gray RH. Human papillomavirus clearance among males is associated with HIV acquisition and increased dendritic cell density in the foreskin. J Infect Dis. 2013 Jun 1;207(11):1713-22. PubMed PMID: 23345339
  • Bai H, Zhang N, Xu Y, Chen Q, Khan M, Potter JJ, Nayar SK, Cornish T, Alpini G, Bronk S, Pan D, Anders RA. Yes-associated protein regulates the hepatic response after bile duct ligation. Hepatology. 2012 Sep;56(3):1097-107. PubMed PMID: 22886419
  • Cornish TC, Swapp RE, Kaplan KJ. Whole-slide imaging: routine pathologic diagnosis. Adv Anat Pathol. 2012 May;19(3):152-9. PubMed PMID: 22498580
  • Bisht S, Khan MA, Bekhit M, Bai H, Cornish T, Mizuma M, Rudek MA, Zhao M, Maitra A, Ray B, Lahiri D, Maitra A, Anders RA. A polymeric nanoparticle formulation of curcumin (NanoCurc™) ameliorates CCl4-induced hepatic injury and fibrosis through reduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines and stellate cell activation. Lab Invest. 2011 Sep;91(9):1383-95. PubMed PMID: 21691262
  • Johnson KE, Redd AD, Quinn TC, Collinson-Streng AN, Cornish T, Kong X, Sharma R, Tobian AA, Tsai B, Sherman ME, Kigozi G, Serwadda D, Wawer MJ, Gray RH. Effects of HIV-1 and herpes simplex virus type 2 infection on lymphocyte and dendritic cell density in adult foreskins from Rakai, Uganda. J Infect Dis. 2011 Mar 1;203(5):602-9. PubMed PMID: 21220779
  • Cornish TC, Hruban RH. Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia. Surg Pathol Clin. 2011 Jun;4(2):523-35. PubMed PMID: 26837486
  • Meriden Z, Shi C, Edil BH, Ellison T, Wolfgang CL, Cornish TC, Schulick RD, Hruban RH. Hyaline globules in neuroendocrine and solid-pseudopapillary neoplasms of the pancreas: a clue to the diagnosis. Am J Surg Pathol. 2011 Jul;35(7):981-8. PubMed PMID: 21677537
  • Shi C, Scudiere JR, Cornish TC, Lam-Himlin D, Park JY, Fox MR, Montgomery EA. Clear cell change in colonic tubular adenoma and corresponding colonic clear cell adenocarcinoma is associated with an altered mucin core protein profile. Am J Surg Pathol. 2010 Sep;34(9):1344-50. PubMed PMID: 20697252
  • Park JY, Cornish TC, Lam-Himlin D, Shi C, Montgomery E. Gastric lesions in patients with autoimmune metaplastic atrophic gastritis (AMAG) in a tertiary care setting. Am J Surg Pathol. 2010 Nov;34(11):1591-8. PubMed PMID: 20975338
  • Lam-Himlin D, Park JY, Cornish TC, Shi C, Montgomery E. Morphologic characterization of syndromic gastric polyps. Am J Surg Pathol. 2010 Nov;34(11):1656-62. PubMed PMID: 20924281
  • Halushka MK, Cornish TC, Lu J, Selvin S, Selvin E. Creation, validation, and quantitative analysis of protein expression in vascular tissue microarrays. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2010 May-Jun;19(3):136-46. PubMed PMID: 19211265
  • Selvin E, Najjar SS, Cornish TC, Halushka MK. A comprehensive histopathological evaluation of vascular medial fibrosis: insights into the pathophysiology of arterial stiffening. Atherosclerosis. 2010 Jan;208(1):69-74. PubMed PMID: 19632677
  • Hillel AT, Taube JM, Cornish TC, Sharma B, Halushka M, McCarthy EF, Hutchins GM, Elisseeff JH. Characterization of human mesenchymal stem cell-engineered cartilage: analysis of its ultrastructure, cell density and chondrocyte phenotype compared to native adult and fetal cartilage. Cells Tissues Organs. 2010;191(1):12-20. PubMed PMID: 19546516
  • Cornish TC, Halushka MK. Color deconvolution for the analysis of tissue microarrays. Anal Quant Cytol Histol. 2009 Oct;31(5):304-12. PubMed PMID: 20701098
  • Cornish TC, Bagnasco SM, Macgregor AM, Lu J, Selvin E, Halushka MK. Glomerular protein levels of matrix metalloproteinase-1 and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 are lower in diabetic subjects. J Histochem Cytochem. 2009 Nov;57(11):995-1001. PubMed PMID: 19506087
  • Halushka MK, Selvin E, Lu J, Macgregor AM, Cornish TC. Use of human vascular tissue microarrays for measurement of advanced glycation endproducts. J Histochem Cytochem. 2009 Jun;57(6):559-66. PubMed PMID: 19223295
  • Gurel B, Iwata T, Koh CM, Jenkins RB, Lan F, Van Dang C, Hicks JL, Morgan J, Cornish TC, Sutcliffe S, Isaacs WB, Luo J, De Marzo AM. Nuclear MYC protein overexpression is an early alteration in human prostate carcinogenesis. Mod Pathol. 2008 Sep;21(9):1156-67. PubMed PMID: 18567993
  • Yegnasubramanian S, Haffner MC, Zhang Y, Gurel B, Cornish TC, Wu Z, Irizarry RA, Morgan J, Hicks J, DeWeese TL, Isaacs WB, Bova GS, De Marzo AM, Nelson WG. DNA hypomethylation arises later in prostate cancer progression than CpG island hypermethylation and contributes to metastatic tumor heterogeneity. Cancer Res. 2008 Nov 1;68(21):8954-67. PubMed PMID: 18974140
  • Cornish T, Branch DW, Wheeler BC, Campanelli JT. Microcontact printing: a versatile technique for the study of synaptogenic molecules. Mol Cell Neurosci. 2002 May;20(1):140-53. PubMed PMID: 12056845
  • Cornish T, Chi J, Johnson S, Lu Y, Campanelli JT. Globular domains of agrin are functional units that collaborate to induce acetylcholine receptor clustering. J Cell Sci. 1999 Apr;112 ( Pt 8):1213-23. PubMed PMID: 10085256
  • Braun KM, Cornish T, Valm A, Cundiff J, Pauly JL, Fan S. Immunotoxicology of cigarette smoke condensates: suppression of macrophage responsiveness to interferon gamma. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1998 Apr;149(2):136-43. PubMed PMID: 9571981
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Professional Memberships

  • United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), Member, 2005 - present
  • College of American Pathologists (CAP), Member, 2006 - present
  • Association for Pathology Informatics (API), Member, 2007 - present
  • Association for Pathology Informatics (API), President-Elect, 2021
  • Association for Pathology Informatics (API), President, 2022
  • Digital Pathology Association (DPA), Member, 2012 - present
  • American Telemedicine Association (ATA), Member, 2016 - present
  • Gastrointestinal Pathology Society (GIPS), Member, 2018 - present
  • Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), 2019 - present
  • Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), Member, 2019 - present

Practice Locations

UCHealth Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion - Anschutz Medical Campus
12605 E. 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0000

Hospital Affiliation
  • University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Anatomic, Board Certification
  • Clinical Informatics, Board Certification (2015)
Clinical Interests
My clinical interests include general gastrointestinal and pancreaticobiliary pathology with a special interest in pancreatic cancer and pancreatic cancer precursors. I am also interested in applied clinical informatics, pathology informatics, laboratory information systems, telepathology, digital pathology, and computational pathology (i.e. the application of computational methods, such as machine learning and image analysis, to the practice of pathology).

General Information

Medical Schools:
  • MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine (2005)
Graduate Schools:
  • PhD, University of Illinois At Urbana - Champaign (2004)
Undergraduate Schools:
  • BS, Bradley University (IL) (1995)
Residency Programs:
  • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Program, Anatomic (2009)
Fellowships:
  • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Program, Selective Pathology (2010)
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