Deniz Aslan, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Educational Background

• Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey (1999), M.D.
• University of Minnesota Medical School (2004), Residency (Anatomic & Clinical Pathology)
• University of Minnesota Medical School (2005), Fellowship (Molecular Diagnostics)
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2006), Fellowship (Oncologic Pathology)
• Cornell University Weill Medical College (2007), Fellowship (Cytopathology)

Publications

• Aslan DL, Pambuccian SE, Prekker FL, Schacker TW, Southern P, Savik K, McKeon D, Gulbahce HE. Accuracy of herpes simplex virus detection in liquid-based (SurePath) Papanicolaou tests: a comparison with polymerase chain reaction. Diagn Cytopathol. 2008 Feb; 36(2):94-103.
• Aslan DL, Crapanzano JP, Harshan M, Erroll M, Vakil B, Pirog EC. The Bethesda System 2001 recommendation for reporting of benign appearing endometrial cells in Pap tests of women age 40 years and older leads to unwarranted surveillance when followed without clinical qualifiers. Gynecol Oncol. 2007 Oct; 107(1):86-93.
• Aslan DL, Peterson BA, Long-Tsai, M, Eastlund, T. Early-onset autoimmune hemolytic anemia after cladribine therapy for Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia. Transfusion. 2006 Jan; 46(1):90-4.
• Aslan DL, Pambuccian SE, Gulbahce HE, Tran, ML, Manivel JC. Prostatic glands and urothelial epithelium in a seminal vesicle cyst: report of a case and review of pathologic features and prostatic ectopy. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006 Feb; 130(2):194-7.
• Aslan DL, Oprea GM, Jagush SM, Gulbahce HE, Adams GL, Gaffney PM, Savik K, Pambuccian SE. C-kit (CD117) Expression in Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma does not Have an Impact on Local and Distant Tumor Recurrence. Head Neck. 2005 Oct 20; [Epub ahead of print].
• Aslan DL, Gulbahce HE, Pambuccian SE, Manivel JC, Jessurun J. Preservation of Immunoreactivy for MIB-1 Aids in the Differential Diagnosis of Pulmonary Small Cell Carcinoma and Carcinoid Tumor in Specimens with Extensive Crush Artifacts. Ki-67 immunoreactivity in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary neuroendocrine neoplasms in specimens with extensive crush artifact. Am J Clin Pathol. 2005 Jun; 123(6):874-8.
• Aslan DL, McKeon DM, Stelow EB, Gulbahce HE, Kjeldahl K, Pambuccian SE. The diagnosis of trichomonas vaginalis in liquid-based Pap tests: Morphological characteristics. Diagn Cytopathol. 2005 May; 32(5):253-9.
• Aslan DL, Gulbahce HE, Stelow EB, Setty S, Brown CA, McGlennen RC, Pambuccian SE. The diagnosis of Trichomonas vaginalis in liquid-based Pap tests: Correlation with PCR. Diagn Cytopathol. 2005 May 6; 32 (6):341-344
• Roychowdhury M , Pambuccian SE, Aslan DL, Jessurun J, Rose AG, Manivel JC, Gulbahce HE. Pulmonary Complications After Bone Marrow Transplantation: An Autopsy Study from a Large Bone Marrow Transplantation Center. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2005 Mar; 129(3):366-71.
• Burgher A, Aslan D, Laudi N, Bowman R. Use of BNP to Evaluate TRALI. Transfusion 2004, V44 (10):1533-4.
• Aslan D, Apple FS. Ischemia Modified Albumin Measured by the Albumin Cobalt Binding Test: Clinical and Analytical Review. Lab Med 2004, number 1, vol 35: 6-9.

Presentations

• DL Aslan, JP Crapanzano, M Harshan, M Erroll, B Vakil and EC Pirog. The Bethesda System 2001 recommendation of reporting endometrial cells seen in Pap tests of women age 40 years and older is overly conservative. Poster presentation at 2007 meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.
• DL Aslan, P Wagner, G Sica, M Harshan, JP Crapanzano, A Saqi and MF Vazquez. Combined cytopathologic and radiologic diagnosis of adenocarcinoma with bronchioloalveolar alveolar features is highly predictive of subsequent histopathologic diagnosis and clinical outcome. Platform presentation at 2007 meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.
• DL Aslan, J Jessurun, C Lit, HE Gulbahce, X Wang. Microsatellite Instability Testing With Mononucleotide Markers Recommended by the 2002 nci Panel Demonstrates Better Performance Compared to Dinucleotide Markers. poster presentation at the American Association for Molecular Pathology 2005 Meeting.
• Deniz Aslan, Xinjing Wang, Stefan Pambuccian. ASC-US With Insufficient Residual Sample For PCR-Based HPV DNA Reflex Testing: Should We Worry? poster presentation in American Society of Cytopathology 2005 Meeting.
• DL Aslan, MD, DM McKeon SCT, S Setty, MD, GM Oprea, MD, HE Gulbahce, MD, RC McGlennen, MD, SE Pambuccian, MD. Are “Inflammatory” Pap Tests Caused by Infection? Poster Presentation at the 2005 meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.
• DL Aslan, MD, S Setty, MD, GM Oprea, MD, DM McKeon SCT, RC McGlennen, MD, SE Pambuccian, MD. Are Infections other than HPV Responsible for ASC-US? Poster Presentation at the 2005 meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.
• TM Knutson, S Setty, MD, GL Adams, MD, DL Aslan, MD, SE Pambuccian, MD. Post-Therapy Histologic Patterns of Tumor Regression in Cervical Lymph Nodes Correlate with RT-PCR Detected Minimal Residual Disease and Locoregional Recurrences in Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Poster Presentation at the 2005 meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.
• DL Aslan, GM Oprea, S Jagush, HE Gulbahce, SE Pambuccian. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. C-kit (CD117) Expression in Adenoid Cystic Carcinomas does not Have an Impact on Local and Distant Tumor Recurrence. Poster presentation at 2004 meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. Mod pathol. 2oo4 Jan; 17(S1):221A.
• DL Aslan, H E Gulbahce, S E Pambuccian, J C Manivel, J Jessurun. Preservation of Immunoreactivy for MIB-1 Aids in the Differential Diagnosis of Pulmonary Small Cell Carcinoma and Carcinoid Tumor in Specimens with Extensive Crush Artifacts. Poster presentation at 2004 meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. Mod pathol. 2oo4 Jan; 17(S1):333A.
• M Roychowdhury, S E Pambuccian, DL Aslan, J Jessurun, A G Rose, J C Manivel and H E Gulbahce. Pulmonary Complications After Bone Marrow Transplantation: An Autopsy Study from a Large Bone Marrow Transplantation Center. Poster presentation at 2004 meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. Mod pathol. 2oo4 Jan; 17(S1):9A.
• DL Aslan, F L Prekker, T Schacker, P Southern S, D McKeon, H E Gulbahce and S E Pambuccian. Accuracy of Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus in Liquid-Based (Surepath™) Pap Tests. Poster Presentation at 2004 meeting of the American Society of Cytopathology. Acta Cytol. 2004 Sep-Oct; 48(5):754-5.
• DL Aslan, K U Warren, S Meisamy, P J Bolan, M Garwood, D Yee, T M Tuttle, S E. Pambuccian and H E Gulbahce. Proliferation Markers Predict Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer Which Correlates with Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Findings. Platform presentation, 2003 ‘Pathology Today’ meeting of the American Society of Clinical Pathology. Am J Clin Pathol 2003; 120:441.
• GM Oprea, DL Aslan, HE Gulbahce GA Niehans, G. Adams, SE Pambuccian. Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Expression in Adenoid Cystic Carcinomas: Correlation with Clinical Findings and Prognosis. Poster presentation, 2003 ‘Pathology Today’ meeting of the American Society of Clinical Pathology. Am J Clin Pathol 2003; 120:460.
• GM Oprea, GA Niehans, DL Aslan, HE Gulbahce, and SE Pambuccian. Value of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Immunostaining in the Differential Diagnosis of Basaloid Tumors of the Head and Neck. Platform presentation, 2003 ‘Pathology Today’ meeting of the American Society of Clinical Pathology. Am J Clin Pathol 2003; 120:443.
• DL Aslan MD, S Setty MD, HE Gulbahce MD, K Kjeldahl CT, C Brown PhD, DM McKeon SCT, SE Pambuccian MD. PCR Based Trichomonas Vaginalis Detection in Residual Surepath™ Samples Confirms the Accuracy of the Morphologic Diagnosis of T. vaginalis in Surepath™ Pap Tests. Poster presentation at 2003 meeting of the American Society of Cytopathology. Acta Cytol. 2003 Sep-Oct; 47(5):892.
• Susie LaFreniere, MS, Suman Setty, MD, PhD, Megan Browning, Deniz Aslan, MD, and Ron McGlennen, MD, Microarray based detection and typing of human papillomavirus and other sexually transmitted diseases. Abstract, Am J Clin Pathol 2003; 120:286.