Dr. David Elder, MD

• Anatomic Pathology

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• University Of Otago / Medical School

  Medical School, 1970

• Implementing the Melanocytic Pathology Assessment Tool and Hierarchy for Diagnosis: Long-term effect of a simple educational intervention, 2023-03-12

• Pathologists' Use of Second Opinions in Interpretation of Melanocytic Cutaneous Lesions: Policies, Practices, and Perceptions, 2019-03-10

• Identification of Patients with Intermediate Thickness Melanoma at Low Risk for Sentinel Lymph Node Positivity, 2015-07-28

• The impact of longitudinal surveillance on tumor thickness for melanoma-prone families with and without pathogenic germline variants ofCDKN2AandCDK4, 2021-04-11

• Variability in mitotic figures in serial sections of thin melanomas, 2014-09-16

• Achieving consensus for the histopathologic diagnosis of melanocytic lesions: use of the modified Delphi method, 2016-07-01

• Clark Level Risk Stratifies Patients with Mitogenic Thin Melanomas for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, 2013-10-12

• Characterization of multiple diagnostic terms in melanocytic skin lesion pathology reports, 2021-09-21

• NRASQ61R andBRAFG466A Mutations in Atypical Melanocytic Lesions Newly Arising in Advanced Melanoma Patients Treated with Vemurafenib, 2018-12-27

• Lymphatic Invasion Predicts Aggressive Behavior in Melanocytic Tumors of Uncertain Malignant Potential (MELTUMP), 2013-03-01

• Prognosis of Patients with Melanoma and Microsatellitosis Undergoing Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, 2013-11-21

• Histopathological Diagnosis of Cutaneous Melanocytic Lesions: Blinded and Non-Blinded Second Opinions Offer Similar Improvement in Diagnostic Accuracy, 2022-06-22

• The diagnostic challenge of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma: Clinical manifestations and unusual human papillomavirus types, 2015-02-25

• Factors associated with use of immunohistochemical markers in the histopathological diagnosis of cutaneous melanocytic lesions, 2020-07-17

• Prognostic significance of primary tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in a contemporary melanoma cohort, 2022-03-17

• Risks of Melanoma and Other Cancers in Melanoma-Prone Families over 4 Decades, 2018-02-08

• Genome-wide association study identifies a new melanoma susceptibility locus at 1q21.3, 2011-10-09

• Birth cohort-specific trends of sun-related behaviors among individuals from an international consortium of melanoma-prone families, 2021-04-23

• Histopathologic Synoptic Reporting of Invasive Melanoma: How Reliable Are the Data?, 2021-05-04

• Relationship between sun exposure and melanoma risk for tumours in different body sites in a large case-control study in a temperate climate, 2010-11-30

• Characteristics and diagnostic performance of pathologists who enjoy interpreting melanocytic lesions, 2018-06-15

• The MPATH-Dx reporting schema for melanocytic proliferations and melanoma, 2013-10-28

• Terminology for Melanocytic Skin Lesions and the MPATH-Dx Classification Schema: A Survey of Dermatopathologists, 2020-11-06

• A comprehensive patient-derived xenograft collection representing the heterogeneity of melanoma, 2017-11-14

• An atypical melanocytic lesion without genomic abnormalities shows locoregional metastasis, 2013-04-11

• The self-reported use of immunostains and cytogenetic testing in the diagnosis of melanoma by practicing U.S. pathologists of 10 selected states, 2016-04-07

• More than just acral melanoma: the controversies of defining the disease SS Bernardeset al, 2021-07-02

• EstimatingCDKN2Amutation carrier probability among global familial melanoma cases using GenoMELPREDICT, 2019-02-05

• Stromal Inflammatory Cells are Associated with Poorer Prognosis in Primary Cutaneous Melanoma, 2019-04-06

• Fine mapping of genetic susceptibility loci for melanoma reveals a mixture of single variant and multiple variant regions, 2014-07-31

• Concordance and Reproducibility of Melanoma Staging According to the 7th vs 8th Edition of theAJCC Cancer Staging Manual Concordance and Reproducibility of Melanoma Staging byAJCC7th vs 8th Edition Definitions, 2018-05-18

• Association of germline variants in telomere maintenance genes (POT1, TERF2IP, ACD,andTERT) with spitzoid morphology in familial melanoma: A multi-center case series, 2023-01-30

• Histologic features of melanoma associated with germline mutations ofCDKN2A,CDK4, andPOT1in melanoma-prone families from the United States, Italy, and Spain, 2020-04-10

• Pathologists' Agreement on Treatment Suggestions for Melanocytic Skin Lesions, 2019-12-17

• Prognostic modeling of cutaneous melanoma stage I patients using cancer registry data identifies subsets with very-low melanoma mortality, 2022-11-07

• THE UTILIZATION OF SPITZ-RELATED NOMENCLATURE IN THE HISTOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF CUTANEOUS MELANOCYTIC LESIONS BY PRACTICING PATHOLOGISTS Results from the M-Path Study, 2016-10-28

• Variation among pathologists' treatment suggestions for melanocytic lesions: a survey of pathologists, 2016-09-28

• Complexities of Perceived and Actual Performance in Pathology Interpretation: A Comparison of Cutaneous Melanocytic Skin and Breast Interpretations, 2018-04-26

• High ALDH1 Expression Correlates with Better Prognosis in Tumorigenic Malignant Melanoma, 2017-01-20

• Histological Features of Melanoma Associated withCDKN2AGenotype, 2015-01-13

• Melanoma in the Blink of an Eye: Pathologists' Rapid Detection, Classification, and Localization of Skin Abnormalities, 2021-06-16

• Associations of pigmentary and naevus phenotype with melanoma risk in two populations with comparable ancestry but contrasting levels of ambient sun exposure, 2019-06-07

• Genetic and morphologic features for melanoma classification, 2011-05-13