Christine J. Ko, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pathology

Research Interests

adnexal tumors, benign and malignant epidermal tumors, vascular tumors

 

Education:	1995, BA, Princeton University, Molecular Biology 1999, MD, New York University School of Medicine
Training:	Intern, UCLA Resident, University of California, Irvine, Dermatology
Professional Associations:	American Academy of Dermatology American Society of Dermatopathology International Society of Dermatopathology
Editor/advisory boards:	Editorial board: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology Editorial board: Cutis

Books

• K Schwarzenberger, AE Werchniak, CJ Ko. Series editor DM Elston. Requisites in Dermatology: General Dermatology. United Kingdom: Elsevier, in preparation.
• CJ Ko, RJ Barr. Dermatopathology: Diagnosis by First Impression. United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell, in preparation.

Chapters

• CJ Ko. Dermatopathology. In: Dermatology In-Review, 2008. New York: PCE, 2008.
• CJ Ko. Vesiculo-bullous Disorders. In: Dermatology In-Review, 2008. New York: PCE, 2008.

Case Reports

• Templet JT, Straub R, Ko C. Botryomycosis presenting as pruritic papules in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient. Cutis. 2007 Jul;80(1):45-7.
• Hu JC, Ko CJ, Soriano TT, Chiu MW. Syringomatous carcinoma in a young patient treated with Mohs micrographic surgery. Cutis. 2006 Jan;77(1):19-24; quiz 37-8.
• CJ Ko, GP Sarantopoulos, S Bhuta, SW Binder. Paraffinoma of the scalp. Arch Pathol, 2004;128:1171-2.
• CJ Ko, GP Sarantopoulos, G Pai, SW Binder. Longitudinal melanonychia of the toenails with presence of Medlar bodies on biopsy. J Cut Pathol, 2005;32:63-5.
• CJ Ko, RJ Barr. Calcospherules associated with juvenile hyaline fibromatosis. Am J Dermatopathol 2003;25:53-6.
• C Ko, RJ Barr. Vesicular lesions in a patient with lipoid proteinosis: a probable acantholytic dermatosis. Am J Dermatopathol 2003;25:335-7.

Selected Publications

• CJ Ko, RJ Barr, A Subtil, JM McNiff. Acantholytic dyskeratotic acanthoma. J Cutan Pathol 2008;35:298-301.
• A Galan, C Ko. CD1a-positive cells in squamous cell carcinoma and pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia. J Cutan Pathol, 2007;34:950-952.
• CJ Ko, T Iftner, RJ Barr, SW Binder. Changes of Epidermodysplasia verruciformis in benign skin lesions. J Cut Pathol, 2007;34:44-48.
• CJ Ko, F Luo, A Cochran, SW Binder. Hidradenocarcinomas: an immunohistochemical study with criteria for malignancy and hypothesis of an apoeccrine origin. J Cut Pathol, 2006;33:726-730.
• CJ Ko, J Kim, J Phan, SW Binder. Bcl-2-positive epidermal dendritic cells in inverted follicular keratoses but not squamous cell carcinomas or seborrheic keratoses. J Cut Pathol, 2006;33:498-501.
• CJ Ko, P Shintaku, SW Binder. Comparison of benign keratoses using p53, bcl-1, and bcl-2. J Cut Pathol 2005;32(5):356-9.

Contact

Campus Address
Yale School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8059

Office Phone
(203) 785-4094