Melina Flanagan, MD

Professor and Vice Chair; Pathology Residency Program Director; Cytopathology Director

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Pathology, Anatomy and Laboratory Medicine

Classification:

Faculty

• MD, Tulane University School of Medicine
• AP/CP, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• BA, Vassar College

Selected Publications:

• Masab M, Gross A, Flanagan M, et al. Neuroendocrine Neoplasm of the Breast Presenting as a Liver Metastasis: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge. Cureus. 2021 Aug 3;13(8):e16860. doi: 10.7759/cureus.16860. PMID: 34513437; PMCID: PMC8413109

• Bonar E, Beatty C, Flanagan MB. Educational Case: Melanoma. Academic Pathology. 2021 Jun. PMID: 34250224

• Sangani R, Rojas E, Forte M, Zulfikar R, Prince N, Tasoglou A, Goldsmith T, Casuccio G, Boyd J, Olfert IM, Flanagan M, Sharma S. Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI): A Rural Appalachian Experience. Hosp Pract (1995). 2021 Apr;49(2):79-87. doi: 10.1080/21548331.2020.1843282. Epub 2021 Jan 21. PMID: 33136442
• Shmookler A, Flanagan MB. Educational Case: Febrile Nonhemolytic Transfusion Reaction. Academic Pathology. 2020 July. PMID: 32728618
• Sauter JL, Chen Y, Alex D, Balassanian R, Cuda J, Flanagan MB, Griffith CC, Illei P, Johnson DN, McGrath CM, Randolph ML, Reynolds JP, Spiczka AJ, Van Zante A, Vanderlaan, PA. Results from the 2019 American Society of Cytopathology Survey on rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) –Part 2: subjective views among the cytopathology community. Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology. 2020 July. PMID: 32861593
•  Scholl AR, Flanagan MB. Educational Case: Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast. Academic Pathology. 2020 Jan. PMID: 32010760
• Tsui JMG, Grewal NKS, Sivapragasam M, Flanagan M, Golden DW, Alfieri J, Mattes MD. Tumor Board Shadowing: A Unique Approach For Integrating Radiation Oncologists Into General Medical Student Education. International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics. 2019 Apr 2 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID 30951806
• Ahn J, Flanagan MB. Eosinophilic Angiocentric Fibrosis: a review and update of its association with IgG4-related disease, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 2018 Dec; 142(12): 156-1563. PMID: 30289267
• Flanagan, MB. Primary High-Risk HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening in the United States: Is it time?" Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 2018 Jun; 142(6):688-692. PMID: 29848034

• Ahn J, Flanagan MB. Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma in the Cerebrospinal Fluid, Diagnostic Cytopathology. 2018 Sep;46(9):772-775. PMID: 29663721.

• Ducatman BD, Hashmi M, Darrow M, Flanagan MB, Courtney P, Ducatman AM. Use of Pathology Data to Improve High-Value Treatment of Cervical Neoplasia. Academic Pathology 2016 Nov; 3: 1-7. PMID: 28725782.

• Baloch ZW, Shafique K, Flanagan M, Livolsi VA. Encapsulated Classic and Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Comparative Clinicopathologic Study. Endocr Pract. 2010 Nov-Dec; 16 (6):952-9. PMID: 20497934.

• Abraham J, Flanagan M, Hazard H, Jubilerer S, Tirona MT, Vona-Davis L. Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in West Virginia. WV Medical Journal. 2009; 105: 55-59. PMID: 19999267.

     Link to PubMed for full list of publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Melina+Flanagan

Focus

• Cytopathology and Medical Education
• Program Director, Pathology Residency Program

Twitter Link : @MBDFlanaganMD

cytopathology

Research Interests:

• Breast and gynecologic pathology
• Cytopathology
• Medical Education