David Priemer M.D.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Kinesiology; University of Illnois at Chicago, 2010
Post-Sophomore Fellowship, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology; Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 2012-2013
Doctor of Medicine (MD); Saint Louis University, 2015
Residency Training, Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology (AP/NP); Indiana University School of Medicine, 2015-2019
Instructor, Autopsy Pathology; The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2019-2020

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

2022 James J. Leonard Award for Excellence in Clinical or Translational Research, Uniformed Services University F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine

Outstanding Pre-Clerkship Faculty award, presented by the Class of 2024, Uniformed Services University F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine

Honorable Mention, Moore Award for Best Clinico-Pathologic Paper in Neuropathology, presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists

Honorable Mention, Asao Hirano Award for Best Clinico-Pathologic Paper in Neurodegeneration, presented at the 99th annual meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists

Honorable Mention, Asao Hirano Award for Best Clinico-Pathologic Paper in Neurodegeneration, presented at the 95th annual meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists

Autopsy Award, presented by the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology at the 107th annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology for Best Autopsy Poster

Representative Bibliography

Priemer DS, Iacono D, Rhodes CH, Olsen CH, Perl DP. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in the Brains of Military Personnel. N Engl J Med. 2022 Jun 9;386(23):2169-2177.

Priemer DS, Folkerth RD. Dementia in the Forensic Setting: Diagnoses Obtained Using a Condensed Protocol at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York City. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2021; 80(8):724-730.

Priemer DS, Rhodes CH, Karlovich E, Perl DP, Goldman JE. Aβ Deposits in the Neocortex of Adult and Infant Hypoxic Brains, Including in Cases of COVID-19. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2022;81(12):988-995.

Scanlon MM, Shields MM, Perl DP, Priemer DS. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Pathognomonic Lesions Occurring in Isolation Adjacent to Infiltrative and Non-infiltrative White Matter Lesions. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2024 May 15; nlae046.

Benjamini D, Priemer DS, Perl DP, Brody DL, Basser PJ. Mapping astrogliosis in the individual human brain using multidimensional MRI. Brain. 2022; awac298

Hooper JE, Padera RF, Dolhnikoff M, da Silva LFF, Duarte-Neto AN, Kapp ME, Lacy JM, Mauad T, Saldiva PHN, Rapkiewicz AV, Wolf DA, Felix JC, Benson P, Shanes E, Gawelek KL, Marshall DA, McDonald MM, Muller W, Priemer DS, Solomon IH, Zak T, Bhattacharjee MB, Fu L, Gilbert AR, Harper HL, Litovsky S, Lomasney J, Mount SL, Reilly S, Sekulic M, Steffensen TS, Threlkeld KJ, Zhao B, Williamson AK. A Postmortem Portrait of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Large Multi-Institutional Autopsy Survey Study. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2021; 145(5):529-535.

Priemer DS, Gravenmier C, Batouli A, Hooper JE. Overview of Pathologic Findings of Vaping in the Context of an Autopsy Patient with Chronic Injury. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2020; 144(11):1408-1413.

Priemer DS, Vortmeyer AO, Zhang S, Chang HY, Curless KL, Cheng L. Activating KRAS mutations in arteriovenous malformations of the brain: frequency and clinicopathologic correlation. Hum Pathol. 2019; 89:33-39.

Priemer DS, Berry WA, Hawley DA, Cramer HM. Death within 30 days of fine needle aspiration: Post-mortem confirmation of FNA diagnoses and the contribution of FNA to patient mortality. Diagn Cytopathol. 2018; 46(12):993-1003.

Priemer DS, Curran JM, Phillips CL, Cummings OW, Saxena R. Concordance of Solid Organ Biopsy Diagnoses with Autopsy Findings and Contribution of Biopsies to Death. Cureus. 2023; 15(1): e33889.