Nicholas Willard, DO
Assistant Professor, Pathology

Recognition & Awards

• Summit Award for Excellence in Teaching and Education of Pathologists, University of Colorado, Department of Pathology (2022)
• Harry B. Neustein Award, Society for Pediatric Pathology (2021)
• Provider of the Month, Children's Hospital Colorado (2021)
• Gary J. Miller Award for Outstanding Research by a Graduate Student or Resident, University of Colorado, Department of Pathology (2019)
• Harry B. Neustein Award, Society for Pediatric Pathology (2017)

Research Interests

Publications

• Willard N, Sholl L, Aisner D. Panel Sequencing for Targeted Therapy Selection in Solid Tumors. Clin Lab Med. 2022 Sep;42(3):309-323. PubMed PMID: 36150814
• Riemondy KA, Venkataraman S, Willard N, Nellan A, Sanford B, Griesinger AM, Amani V, Mitra S, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Sill M, Ocasio J, Weir SJ, Malawsky DS, Gershon TR, Garancher A, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Hesselberth JR, Foreman NK, Donson AM, Vibhakar R. Neoplastic and immune single-cell transcriptomics define subgroup-specific intra-tumoral heterogeneity of childhood medulloblastoma. Neuro Oncol. 2022 Feb 1;24(2):273-286. PubMed PMID: 34077540
• Yildiz Bölükbasi E, Karolak JA, Szafranski P, Gambin T, Willard N, Abman SH, Galambos C, Kinsella JP, Stankiewicz P. High-level gonosomal mosaicism for a pathogenic non-coding CNV deletion of the lung-specific FOXF1 enhancer in an unaffected mother of an infant with ACDMPV. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2022 Sep 20;:e2062. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36124617
• Fu R, Norris GA, Willard N, Griesinger AM, Riemondy KA, Amani V, Grimaldo E, Harris F, Hankinson TC, Mitra S, Ritzmann TA, Grundy RR, Foreman NK, Donson AM. Spatial transcriptomic analysis delineates epithelial and mesenchymal subpopulations and transition stages in childhood ependymoma. Neuro Oncol. 2022 Oct 10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36215273
• Fu, Rui, Gregory Norris, Nicholas Willard, Andrea Griesinger, Kent A. Riemondy, Vladimir Amani, Enrique Grimaldo et al. "Spatial transcriptomic analysis of childhood ependymoma implicates unresolved wound healing as a driver of tumor progression." bioRxiv (2022).
• Chan M, Hanna MG, Willard N, Treece A, Dixon BP. Hypocomplementemic Atypical IgA Vasculitis: A Case Report. Front Pediatr. 2022;10:886371. PubMed PMID: 35757129
• Drake, Erin, Nicholas Willard, Amy Treece, Andrea Bischoff, and Veronica Alaniz. "Abdominal wall endometrioma in the setting of prior vaginostomy tube drainage of hematometrocolpos." Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology 35, no. 2 (2022): 229.
• Norris GA, Willard N, Donson AM, Gaskell A, Milgrom SA, O'Neill BR, Nijmeh H, Haag M, Gilani A, Foreman NK, Dahl NA. PDGFB:APOBEC3C fusion in congenital diffuse high-grade glioma of the brainstem. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2022 Nov 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36440550
• Katherine T Lind, MD, Hannah V Chatwin, BA, John DeSisto, MS, Philip Coleman, BA, Bridget Sanford, MS, Andrew M Donson, BS, Kurtis D Davies, PhD, Nicholas Willard, DO, Calvin A Ewing, Aaron J Knox, PhD, Jean M Mulcahy Levy, MD, Ahmed Gilani, MD, Adam L Green, MD, Novel RAF Fusions in Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas Demonstrate MAPK Pathway Activation, Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, 2021;, nlab110, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnen/nlab110
• Kent A Riemondy, Sujatha Venkataraman, Nicholas Willard, Anandani Nellan, Bridget Sanford, Andrea M Griesinger, Vladimir Amani, Siddhartha Mitra, Todd C Hankinson, Michael H Handler, Martin Sill, Jennifer Ocasio, Seth J Weir, Daniel S Malawsky, Timothy R Gershon, Alexandra Garancher, Robert J Wechsler-Reya, Jay R Hesselberth, Nicholas K Foreman, Andrew M Donson, Rajeev Vibhakar, Neoplastic and immune single-cell transcriptomics define subgroup-specific intra-tumoral heterogeneity of childhood medulloblastoma, Neuro-Oncology, 2021;, noab135, https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noab135
• Roberts SJ, McNally B, Rosser JA, Willard N, Golitz L, Wisell J. Diverse clinical and histopathologic features of cutaneous post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders: A presentation of two cases. Australas J Dermatol. 2019 Nov;60(4):e317-e321. PubMed PMID: 31144292
• Willard N, Honce JM, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK. PRES: Review of Histological Features. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2018 Feb 1;77(2):100-118. PubMed PMID: 29325172
• Willard N, Bocsi GT. A New Monoclonal Band in a Patient with Refractory Multiple Myeloma. Clin Chem. 2017 Apr;63(4):927-935. PubMed PMID: 28351858
• Willard N, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK. Massive dissemination of adult glioblastomas. Clin Neuropathol. 2015 Nov-Dec;34(6):330-42. PubMed PMID: 26308254