Charles Franklin Timmons Jr., MD
Pathologist
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
Charles Timmons, M.D., Ph.D., is a pathologist at Children’s Health℠.
Dr. Timmons attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the M.D./Ph.D. program, where he completed his doctoral dissertation in the Division of Human Genetics and Metabolism. He did a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and served as chief resident during his senior year. He then did a two-year fellowship in anatomic and clinical pediatric pathology at Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver.
Dr. Timmons joined the faculty of UT Southwestern Medical Center in 1988 in the Division of Pediatric Pathology. He is currently a professor of pathology and a representative-at-large to the leadership council of the Program Directors Section of the Association of Pathology Chairs.
Dr. Timmons is also active in the Society for Pediatric Pathology, having served on its Education, Abstract, Practice and Long-Term Planning Committees and Sub-Committees and as chair of the Slide Survey program. He is currently chair of the Fellowship Committee and a member of the Council of the Society.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Med) (1977)
- Internship
- Northwestern University Medical School (1983), Pathology
- Residency
- Northwestern University Medical School (1986), Pathology
- Fellowship
- Children's Hospital of Denver (1988), Pediatric Pathology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pathology/Pediatric Pathology,
American Board of Pathology-Anatomic & Clinical
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Genetic analysis of hemoglobinopathies
- Pathology of pediatric tumors
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Publications
- Update on Non-Neoplastic Disorders of the Blood and Bone Marrow in Pediatric Pathology, Timmons CF Perspectives Pediatr Pathol 2011 28 41-59
- PRCC-TFE3 renal carcinomas: morphologic, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and molecular analysis of an entity associated with the t(X;1)(p11.2;q21)., Argani P, Antonescu CR, Couturier J, Fournet JC, Sciot R, Debiec-Rychter M, Hutchinson B, Reuter VE, Boccon-Gibod L, Timmons C, Hafez N, Ladanyi M Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 2002 Dec 26 12 1553-66
- Primary renal neoplasms with the ASPL-TFE3 gene fusion of alveolar soft part sarcoma: a distinctive tumor entity previously included among renal cell carcinomas of children and adolescents., Argani P, Antonescu CR, Illei PB, Lui MY, Timmons CF, Newbury R, Reuter VE, Garvin AJ, Perez-Atayde AR, Fletcher JA, Beckwith JB, Bridge JA, Ladanyi M Am. J. Pathol. 2001 Jul 159 1 179-92
- Low-grade Bone Lesions in Survivors of Childhood Medulloblastoma/Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor., Koral K, Roy D, Timmons CF, Gargan L, Bowers DC Acad Radiol 2012 Jan 19 1 35-9
- Melanotic Neuroectodermal Tumor of Infancy: Report of One Calvarial Lesion with T1 Shortening and One Maxillary Lesion., Koral K, Derinkuyu B, Timmons C, Schwartz-Dabney CL, Swift D Clin Imaging 2010 34 5 382-384
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Professional Activities
- American Board of Pathology (2015)
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (2013)
- American Society for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (2009)
- Association of Pathology Chairs - Program Directors Section (2002)
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (1989)
- College of American Pathologists (1989)
- U.S. & Canadian Academy of Pathology (1989)
- Society for Pediatric Pathology (1986)
- American Society of Human Genetics (1980)
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Awards and Honors
- College of American Pathologists 2017, Resident Advocate Award
- Society for Pediatric Pathology 2012, Presidential Award for Meritorious Service and Leadership
- Medical Student Teaching Award 2002, MSII Pathology Course - Small group teaching