Jose Jessurun, M.D.

Professor
612-273-3328
jessu001@umn.edu

Educational Background

• National University of Mexico, Mexico City (1977), M.D.
• University of Mexico, Florida & Harvard(Mexico City, Miami, Boston)(1984), Residency (Pathology)
• Johns Hopkins University (1986), Fellowship (Pathology (GI))

Professional Background

• Research Assistant, Department of Microbiology, Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, 1973 - 1974
• Instructor, Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Mexico City, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, 1977 - 1982
• Instructor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 1982 - 1983
• Assistant in Pathology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1985 - 1986
• Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, 1986 - 1991
• Underdirector/Medical Research, General Hospital of Mexico City, Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico, 1989 - 1991
• Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, 1991 - 1999
• Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, 1999 - present

Professional Honors

• Honorific Mention, Professional Examination for Medical Degree, 1976
• Magna Cum Laude, The Radiological Society of North America, 1985

Professional Memberships

• Minnesota Society of Clinical Pathology, 1993 - present
• Twin-Cities Society of Pathology, 1992 - present
• United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, 1992 - present
• Latin American Society of Pathology, 1989 - present
• National Research System (Mexico), 1987 - 1991
• Mexican Association of Pathologists, 1986 - present
• Gastrointestinal Pathology Society (USA), 1986 - present
• Mexican Council of Anatomic Pathology, 1982 - present

Publications

• Hertz MI, Jessurun J, King MB, Savik SK, Murray JJ: Reproduction of obliterative bronchiolitis lesion after heterotopic transplantation of mouse airways. Am J Pathol 142:1945-1951 (1993)
• Buson H, Castro-Diaz D, Manivel JC, Dayan CM,Jessurun J, Gonzalez R: The development of tumors in experimental gastrocystoplasty. J Urol 150:730-733 (1993)
• Henke C, Marinelli W, Jessurun J, Fox J, Harms D, Peterson M, Chiang L: Macrophage production of basic fibroblast growth factor in the fibroproliferative disorder of intraalveolar fibrosis following acute lung injury. Am J Pathol 143:1189-1199 (1993)
• Al-Dossari GA, Jessurun J, Bolman RM, Kshettry VR, King MB, Murray JJ, Hertz MI: Pathogenesis of obliterative bronchiolitis: Possible roles of PDGF and bFGF. Transplantation 59:143-145 (1995)
• Wahoff DC, Paplois BE, Najarian JS, Kendall DM, Farney AC, Leone JP, Jessurun J, Dunn DL, Robertson RP, Sutherland DER: Autologous islet transplantation to prevent diabetes after pancreatic resection. Annals of Surgery 222:562-75 (1995)
• Juckett MB, Balla J, Balla G, Jessurun J, Jacob SH, Vercellotti GM: Ferritin protects endothelial cell from oxidized low-density-lipoprotein In Vitro. Am J Pathol 147:782-789 (1995)
• Svee K, White J, Vaillant P, Jessurun J, Roongta U, Krumwiede M, Johnson D, Henke C: Acute lung injury fibrobalst migration and invasion of a fibrin matrix is mediated by CD44. J Clin Invest 98(8):1713-1727 (1996)
• Everett JE, Palmer MN, Jessurun J, Shumway SJ: Noninvasive diagnosis of cardiac allograft rejection in an orthotopic canine model. Ann Thorac Surg 62(5):1337-1340 (1996)
• King M, Jessurun J, Savik SK, Murray JJ, Hertz MI: Cyclosporine A reduces development of obliterative bronchiolitis in a murine heterotopic airway model. Transplantation 63:528-532 (1997)
• Toralakovic E, Cherwitz DL, Jessurun J, Scholes J, McGlennen R: B-cell gene rearrangement in benign and malignant lymphoid proliferations of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue and lymph nodes. Human Pathol 28:166-173 (1997)
• Jessurun J, Bolio-Solis A, Manivel JC: Diffuse lymphoplasmacytic acalculous cholecystitis. A distinctive form of chronic cholecystitis associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis. Hum Pathol 28:512-517 (1988)
• Anwar F, Erice A, Jessurun J: Are there cytopathic features associated with cytomegalovirus infection predictive of resistance to antiviral therapy? Ann Diagn Pathol 3:1-5 (1999)
• Jessurun J, Romero-Guadarrama M, Manivel JC: Medullary adenocarcinoma of the colon. Clinicopathologic Study of 11 Cases. Hum Pathol 30:843-848 (1999)
• Li W, Anwar F, Jessurun J, Erice A: Analysis of UL97 and gB sequences in tissues from immunocompromised patients with disseminated infection caused by ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus. (Accepted for publication in Scan J Microbiol).