Melissa Forouhar

Education

Undergraduate: United States Military Academy
West Point, NY 1992-1996
Chemistry, B.S.

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH 1996-2000
M.D.

Internship: Pediatrics, Tripler Army Medical Center
Honolulu, HI 2000-2001

Residency: Pediatrics, Tripler Army Medical Center
Honolulu, HI 2001-2003

Fellowship: Pediatric Hematology Oncology
Duke University
Durham, NC 2003-2006

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

Chief of Pediatrics, Madigan Army Medical Center 2020

BG Michael A Dunn “Press-On Energy” Obelisk Award. Madigan Research Day 2012

Case Report: Intracranial Ewing’s Sarcoma, Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2005 Nov; 45(6):850-6 Melissa A. Mazur, MD, Sridharan Gururangan, MRCP (UK), Julia A. Bridge, MD, Thomas J. Cummings, MD, Srinivasan Mukundan, MD, PhD, Herbert Fuchs, MD, PhD,Nicole Larrier, MD, Edward C. Halperin, MD

Case Report: Transplantation of a Child With Sickle Cell Anemia With an Unrelated Cord Blood Unit After Reduced Intensity Conditioning, Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 2006 Dec;28(12):840-4 Melissa Mazur, MD, Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Edward Halperin, MD, Gilbert Ciocci, MSN,and Paul Szabolcs, MD

Ex vivo expansion and Th1/Tc1 maturation of umbilical cord blood T cells by CD3/CD28 costimulation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008 Oct;14(10):1190-6. Mazur MA, Davis CC, Szabolcs P.

Short Communication: Ewing's sarcoma family tumors mimicking primary central nervous system neoplasms, Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2009 Sep; 284(1-2): 186-189. Brett J. Theeler, Joren Keylock, Stephen Yoest, Melissa Forouhar

Small Cell Ovarian Carcinoma A Rare, Aggressive Tumor Masquerading as Constipation in a Teenager With a Fatal Outcome, J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2010 May;32(4):e139-41. Jesse Barondeau, MD, Matthew Rodgers, MD LoRanee Braun, MD Kenneth Azarow, MD Melissa Forouhar, MD and Kelly Faucette, MD

Germline ETV6 mutations in familial thrombocytopenia and hematologic malignancy , Nature Genetics. 2015 Jan 12. doi: 10.1038/ng.3177. Zhang MY1, Churpek JE2, Keel SB3, Walsh T4, Lee MK4, Loeb KR5, Gulsuner S4, Pritchard CC6, Sanchez-Bonilla M1, Delrow JJ7, Basom RS7, Forouhar M8, Gyurkocza B1, Schwartz BS9, Neistadt B2, Marquez R2, Mariani CJ2, Coats SA1, Hofmann I10, Lindsley RC11, Williams DA10, Abkowitz JL3, Horwitz MS12, King MC4, Godley LA2, Shimamura A13

Hb Grifton [a87(F8)His!Pro; HBA1: C.263A4C (or HBA2)] Causes Abnormal Pulse Oximetry Measurements, Hemoglobin. 2016 May 25:1-3. Aubri M. Waters1, Jason B. Caboot2, Madeleine M. Verhovsek3, David P. Harper4, and Melissa A. Forouhar4

Recurrent Severe Staphylococcus epidermidis Urinary Tract Infections in a 7-Year-Old Boy. Clinical Pediatrics 2021 Jul. Emily Parsons 1 , Catherine Albert 2 , Melissa Forouhar 1 , Anjali Kunz 1 , Rebecca Sainato 1