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Graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982
Graduated from University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1986
Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (1991) and Dermatopathology (1993)
Past President of the American Society of Dermatopathology, Recipient of the Walter R. Nickel Award for Excellence in Teaching of Dermatopathology
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Course director and lecturer for numerous meetings of the American Academy of Dermatology, American Society of Dermatopathology, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, International Society of Dermatopathology and others.
Board of Directors, American Society of Dermatopathology 2008-2013; Nominations Committee, American Society of Dermatopathology 2012-2016; Associate Editor, Journal of American Academy of Dermatology; Yale Appointments and Promotion Committees, Ad Hoc Task Force on Gender Equity, Co-Chair Status of Women in Medicine; Fellow, Trumbull College

Hobbies include hiking, sewing, quilting, reading, boating and time with family. Served as medical examiner in Virginia during residency.

I have had many career opportunities and enjoyed them all, but I am most proud of my family and my children.

Ko CJ, Glusac EJ, McNiff JM, Rodic N, Leffell DJ. Squamous proliferations on the legs of women: Qualitative examination of histopathology, TP53 sequencing, and implications for diagnosis in a series of 30 cases. J Am Acad Dermatol 2017;77:1126-32.
Panse G, McNiff JM, Ko CJ. Basal cell carcinoma: CD56 and cytokeratin 5/6 staining patterns in the differential diagnosis with Merkel cell carcinoma. J Cutan Pathol 2017;44:553-556.
Levy L, Layher H, McNiff JM, Ko CJ. Dermatomyositis: histopathologic findings of parakeratosis and dermal edema revisited. J Cutan Pathol 2018;DOI: 10.1111/cup.13104.
Ko CJ, Antaya RJ, Zubek A, Craiglow B, Damsky W, Galan A, McNiff JM. Revisiting the histopathologic findings in Goltz syndrome. J Cutan Pathol 2016;43:418-21.
Alomari AK, Glusac EJ, McNiff JM. P40 is a more specific marker than p63 for cutaneous poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. J Cutan Pathol 2014;41:839-40.
Ko CJ, McNiff JM. Punctate pemphigus: an underreported direct immunofluorescence pattern. J Cutan Pathol 2014 Mar;41(3):293-6.
Alomari A, McNiff JM. The significance of eosinophils in hypertrophic lichen planus. J Cutan Pathol 2014 Apr;41(4):347-52.
Ko CJ, McNiff JM. Cutaneous metastases. Chapter 122 in Dermatology, fourth edition. Jean L. Bolognia, Ed. (Mosby Elsevier), 2018.

Update on IHC for Epithelial and Inflammatory Lesions (10/26/2023)
MF and Its Mimics (10/25/2023)
Update on Cutaneous Drug Reactions (10/24/2023)
CPC from New England: Panel (10/23/2023)
Uncommon Presentations of Inflammatory Diseases (10/23/2023)
From H&E to FITC: Update on Blistering Diseases (10/11/2018)
New Concepts In Iatrogenic Dermatoses (10/11/2018)
Immunohistochemistry Of Epithelial Lesions (10/11/2018)
Diagnosing Melanoma In Situ: Traps And Pitfalls: Panel (10/10/2018)
Uncommon Presentations Of Inflammatory Diseases (10/09/2018)

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