Laila Dahmoush, MBChB
Clinical Professor of Pathology
Introduction
Special interests include: fine needle aspiration biopsies, cytohistologic correlations of gynecologic and non-gynecologic specimens, breast, gynecologic and urologic pathology.
Current Positions
- Clinical Professor of Pathology
- Clinical Professor of Urology
- Director of Cytopathology
- Director, Cytopathology Fellowship Program, Pathology
- Director of Urologic Oncology Pathology - Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center (HCCC)
Education
- MBChB, Alexandria School of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt
- Resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC
- Resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD
- Fellow in Surgical Pathology, University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD
- Fellow in Cytopathology, National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Research Interests
- Cytopathology, Gynecologic, Breast and Urologic Pathology
Licenses & Certifications
- State of Iowa Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa
- Diplomate, Cytopathology, American Board of Pathology
- Diplomate, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology
- State of Maryland Medical License, Maryland Board of Medicine, Maryland
Selected Publications
- Gutierrez WR, Luo Y, Dahmoush L, Oleson JJ, Schlaepfer CH, Breyer BN, Elliott SP, Myers JB, Vanni AJ, Juhr D, Christel KN, Erickson BA. (2024) Deep Phenotyping the Anterior Urethral Stricture: Characterizing the Relationship Between Inflammation, Fibrosis, Patient History, and Disease Pathophysiology. J Urol. Apr 9:101097JU0000000000003962. DOI: 10.1097/JU.0000000000003962. PMID: 38593413
- Khan Q, Myers B, Bowar B, Khan M, Mullaney H, Gainey J, Schneider R, Dahmoush L, Nepple KG, Byrne JD. (2024) Case report: Robotically visualized and biopsy-confirmed peritoneal carcinomatosis as initial identification of metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma in a patient with a history of prostatic urethral lift. Front Oncol. Jan 19; 13:1284688. DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1284688. PMID: 38313211. PMCID: PMC10834618.
- Dundar B, Alrwashdeh A, Dahmoush L. (2023) Tumor to Tumor Metastasis: A Case Report of Metastatic Angiosarcoma to an Ovarian Brenner Tumor and Review of the Literature, Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2023 Mar 1; 42(2):176-181. doi: 10.1097/PGP.0000000000000854. PMID:35283447.
- Lutgendorf, S. K., Thaker, P. H., Goodheart, M. J., Arevalo JMG, Chowdhury, M. A., Noble, A. E., Dahmoush, L., Slavich, G. M., Penedo, F. J., Sood, A. K. & Cole, S. W. (2022). Biobehavioral factors predict an exosome biomarker of ovarian carcinoma disease progression. Cancer. Dec 1; 128(23):4157-4165. DOI: 10.1002/cncr.34496. PMID: 36251340. PMCID: PMC9744596.
- Bindra S, McGill MA, Triplett MK, Tyagi A, Thaker PH, Dahmoush L, Goodheart MJ, Ogden RT, Owusu-Ansah E, Karan KR, Cole S, Sood AK, Lutgendorf SK, Picard M. (2021) Mitochondria in epithelial ovarian carcinoma exhibit abnormal phenotypes and blunted associations with biobehavioral factors. Sci Rep. Jun 2; 11(1):11595. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89934-6. PMID: 34078919. PCMID: PMC8172869.
- Garje, R., Elhag, D., Yasin, H. A., Acharya, L., Vaena, D. & Dahmoush, L. (2021). Comprehensive review of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 160 103287. DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2021.103287. PMID: 33753250.
- Lutgendorf, S. K., Penedo, F., Goodheart, M. J., Dahmoush, L., Arevalo JMG, Thaker, P. H., Slavich, G. M., Sood, A. K. & Cole, S. W. (2020). Epithelial-mesenchymal transition polarization in ovarian carcinomas from patients with high social isolation. Cancer. DOI: 10.1002/cncr.33060. PMID: 32691853. PMCID: PMC7719066.
- Alzubaidi, A. N., Nepple, K. G., Vollstedt, A., Dahmoush, L., Ma, D., Henry, M. D. & Brown, J. A. (2019). Alpha-dystroglycan staining pattern and mortality in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy with lymph node positive prostate cancer. The Canadian journal of urology 26 (6) 10054-10060. PMID: 31860423.
- Grimes, M. D., Tesdahl, B. A., Schubbe, M., Dahmoush, L., Pearlman, A. M., Kreder, K. J. & Erickson, B. A. (2019). Histopathology of Anterior Urethral Strictures: Toward a Better Understanding of Stricture Pathophysiology. The Journal of urology 202 (4) 748-756. DOI: 10.1097/JU.0000000000000340.
- Frydenlund N, Zakharia Y, Garje R, Dahmoush L, O’Donnell MA. (2018) Non-Muscle Invasive Papillary Urothelial Carcinoma Metastatic to the Mandible. J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep. Oct 16; 6:2324709618806332. Doi: 10.1177/2324709618806332. PMID: 30349834.