Kimmo Johannes Hatanpaa, MD Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center

Education and Training

Medical School

University of Tampere (1991)

Residency

Yale-New Haven Medical Center (2000), Pathology

Fellowship

John Hopkins Hospital (2002), Pathology
National Institute on Aging (1998)

Departments & Programs

Research & Publications

Research Interests

• Brain tumors
• Neurodegenerative diseases

Selected Publications

• High expression of the stem cell marker nestin is an adverse prognostic factor in WHO grade II-III astrocytomas and oligoastrocytomas., Hatanpaa KJ, Hu T, Vemireddy V, Foong C, Raisanen JM, Oliver D, Hiemenz MC, Burns DK, White CL, Whitworth LA, Mickey B, Stegner M, Habib AA, Fink K, Maher EA, Bachoo RM J. Neurooncol. 2014 Mar 117 1 183-9
• Hippocampal sclerosis in dementia, epilepsy, and ischemic injury: differential vulnerability of hippocampal subfields., Hatanpaa KJ, Raisanen JM, Herndon E, Burns DK, Foong C, Habib AA, White CL J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol. 2014 Feb 73 2 136-42
• Neuropathology of viral infections., Hatanpaa KJ, Kim JH Handb Clin Neurol 2014 123 193-214
• Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in glioma: signal transduction, neuropathology, imaging and radioresistance, Hatanpaa KJ, Burma S, Zhao D, and Habib AA Neoplasia 2010 12(9) 675-84
• Abnormal neurites containing C-terminally truncated alpha-synuclein are present in Alzheimer’s disease without conventional Lewy body pathology, Lewis KA, Su Y, Jou O, Ritchie C, Foong C, Hynan LS, White CL 3rd, Thomas PJ, and Hatanpaa KJ Am J Pathol 2010 177(6): 3037-3050

Professional Activities

Professional Associations and Affiliations

• American Association of Neuropathologists
• Association for Molecular Patholog

Awards & Honors

• American Association of Neuropathologists - Moore Award for the Best Paper on Clinico-Pathological Correlation, honorable mention (2010)

Appointments & Locations