Maressa Pollen, MD

Maressa Pollen is an assistant professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She received Bachelor of Arts degrees from Rutgers University and Emory University. She then received her MS from Georgetown University and her MD from Flinders University of South Australia. She has completed several postgraduate training programs, including:

• Louisianna State University - Shreveport, LA - Residency
• University of Mississippi Medical Center - Jackson, MS - Residency
• Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN - Fellowship
• University of Mississippi - Jackson, MS - Fellowship
• University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA - Fellowship

Her areas of interest include transfusion medicine, cytopathology, molecular genetic pathology, and anatomic and clinical pathology

Hospital Affiliations

• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - New Brunswick, NJ

Licensure

• State of New Jersey
• State of Arkansas
• State of Mississippi
• State of Florida

Certifications

• Board of American Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
• Board of American Pathology - Transfusion Medicine
• Board of American Pathology - Molecular Pathology
• Board of American Pathology - Cytopathology

• M Pollen, S El Jamal, J Lewin, V Manucha. Histoicytic Sarcoma in a Kidney Transplant Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Case Reports in Pathology, 2016; Article ID 3591050, 5 pages.
•  C Trosclair, M Pollen, J Cotelingam, RE Shackleford. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia without Maturation with a Retinoic Alpha-Receptor Deletion: A Case Report. Case Rep Oncol. 2014;7:407–409. 
• K Mikhitarian, M Pollen, Z Zhao, Y Shyr, NB Merchant, A Parikh, F Revetta, MK Washington, C Vnencak-Jones, C Shi. Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Pathway is Frequently Altered in Ampullary Carcinoma at Protein and Genetic Levels. Mod Pathol. 2014; 27:665-74.
• R. Shackleford, M Pollen, M Vora, T Jusian, J. Cotelingam, B Nair. Malignant Melanoma with Concurrent BRAF E586K and NRAS Q81K Mutations. Case Rep Oncol. 2014; 7:297-300. 
• A. Linscott, M. Pollen, J. Mathews-Greer. Comparison of three transport systems for the viability of clinically relevant organisms. Poster and abstract for the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology and the Infectious Disease Society of America, October, 2008
• CA Farmer, SE Ellis, M Pollen, AR Huber. Regulation of neutrophil transendothelial diapedesis by Gprotein-dependent and independent mechanisms. Clin Res 1992: 819.