Lauren Parsons, MD

Associate Professor

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Locations

Pathology - Froedtert Hospital
Pathology - Children's

Specialties

Pathology - Anatomic
Pathology - Clinical
Pediatric Pathology
Cytopathology

Languages

English

Education

MD - Doctor of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Parsons is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Director of the Pediatric Cytopathology service at Children’s Wisconsin. Her clinical duties include pediatric cytopathology, pediatric surgical pathology, adult cytopathology, placental pathology, and perinatal/pediatric autopsy pathology. She is Program Director for Anatomic Pathology for the Pathology Residency Program, the director of the pediatric pathology resident rotation, and actively participates in pediatric resident and fellow education. Dr. Parsons’ major clinical and research interests include the application of aspiration cytology in pediatrics, thyroid nodules and cancer (particularly in children), and pediatric renal tumors. She is an active member of the Society for Pediatric Pathology, the American Society of Cytopathology, and Children’s Oncology Group.

Research Interests

Pediatric cytopathology and minimally invasive biopsy

Pediatric thyroid nodules and cancer

Pediatric renal tumors

Pediatric/perinatal pathology

Long-term outcomes and patterns of relapse in patients with bilateral Wilms tumor or bilaterally predisposed unilateral Wilms tumor, a report from the COG AREN0534 study.

(Murphy AJ, Brzezinski J, Renfro LA, Tornwall B, Malek MM, Benedetti DJ, Cost NG, Smith EA, Aldrink J, Romao RLP, Dome JS, Davidoff AM, Treece AL, Parsons LN, Mullen EA, Shamberger RC, Paulino AC, Lo AC, Geller JI, Ehrlich PF.) Int J Cancer. 2024 Nov 15;155(10):1824-1831 PMID: 38973574 PMCID: PMC11570340 07/08/2024
Bilateral Wilms tumor with anaplasia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group Study AREN0534.

(Romao RLP, Aldrink JH, Renfro LA, Mullen EA, Murphy AJ, Brzezinski J, Malek MM, Benedetti DJ, Cost NG, Smith E, Dome JS, Davidoff AM, Treece A, Parsons LN, Fernandez CV, Tornwall B, Shamberger RC, Paulino A, Kalapurakal JA, Geller JI, Ehrlich PF.) Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Jul;71(7):e30981 PMID: 38637871 PMCID: PMC11116047 04/19/2024
Putting It All Together: Postmortem Diagnosis of a Rare Ichthyosis Syndrome.

(Jain PV, Maxey J, W Lawlor M, Parsons LN.) Cureus. 2023 May;15(5):e38787 PMID: 37303350 PMCID: PMC10249999 06/12/2023
Clinical utility of whole-genome DNA methylation profiling as a primary molecular diagnostic assay for central nervous system tumors-A prospective study and guidelines for clinical testing.

(Galbraith K, Vasudevaraja V, Serrano J, Shen G, Tran I, Abdallat N, Wen M, Patel S, Movahed-Ezazi M, Faustin A, Spino-Keeton M, Roberts LG, Maloku E, Drexler SA, Liechty BL, Pisapia D, Krasnozhen-Ratush O, Rosenblum M, Shroff S, Boué DR, Davidson C, Mao Q, Suchi M, North P, Hopp A, Segura A, Jarzembowski JA, Parsons L, Johnson MD, Mobley B, Samore W, McGuone D, Gopal PP, Canoll PD, Horbinski C, Fullmer JM, Farooqui MS, Gokden M, Wadhwani NR, Richardson TE, Umphlett M, Tsankova NM, DeWitt JC, Sen C, Placantonakis DG, Pacione D, Wisoff JH, Teresa Hidalgo E, Harter D, William CM, Cordova C, Kurz SC, Barbaro M, Orringer DA, Karajannis MA, Sulman EP, Gardner SL, Zagzag D, Tsirigos A, Allen JC, Golfinos JG, Snuderl M.) Neurooncol Adv. 2023;5(1):vdad076 PMID: 37476329 PMCID: PMC10355794 07/21/2023
It Takes a Village: Providing International Pediatric Pathology Services in a Resource-Limited Setting.

(Hopp AM, Tetzlaff JE, Kopidlansky K, Leventaki V, Parsons LN, Bone K, Drendel HM, Sreynich K, Lyvannak S, Heng S, Chanpheaktra N, Putchhat H, Khauv P, Camitta BM, Jarzembowski JA.) Am J Clin Pathol. 2022 Jul 01;158(1):81-95 PMID: 35050350 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85133980519 01/21/2022
Pathology of Wilms' tumour in International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) and Children's oncology group (COG) renal tumour studies: Similarities and differences.

(Vujanić GM, Parsons LN, D'Hooghe E, Treece AL, Collini P, Perlman EJ.) Histopathology. 2022 Jun;80(7):1026-1037 PMID: 35275409 03/12/2022
Correlation of anal cytology with follow-up histology and Human Papillomavirus genotyping: A 10-year experience from an academic medical center.

(Hopp AM, Pant M, Sniedze S, Parsons LN, Hunt B, Giorgadze T.) Ann Diagn Pathol. 2021 Feb;50:151670 PMID: 33310590 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85097476735 12/15/2020
Wilms Tumor: Challenges and Newcomers in Prognosis.

(Parsons LN.) Surg Pathol Clin. 2020 Dec;13(4):683-693 PMID: 33183727 11/14/2020
Outcome analysis of stage I epithelial-predominant favorable-histology Wilms tumors: A report from Children's Oncology Group study AREN03B2.

(Parsons LN, Mullen EA, Geller JI, Chi YY, Khanna G, Glick RD, Aldrink JH, Vallance KL, Kim Y, Fernandez CV, Dome JS, Perlman EJ.) Cancer. 2020 Jun 15;126(12):2866-2871 PMID: 32267967 PMCID: PMC7717680 04/09/2020
Adequacy and Accuracy of Core Biopsy in Children: A Radiologic/Pathologic Correlation Study.

(Parsons LN, Vo N, Moe DC, Jarzembowski JA.) Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019;22(2):137-141 PMID: 30428273 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85059101319 11/15/2018
Fine needle aspiration of alveolar soft part sarcoma in a child: Cytomorphological clues for the surgical pathologist.

(Mostafa M, Abbott D, Parsons LN.) Ann Diagn Pathol. 2018 Jun;34:85-88 PMID: 29661735 04/18/2018
An Evidence-based Recommendation for a Standardized Approach to Detecting Metastatic Neuroblastoma in Staging Bone Marrow Biopsies.

(Parsons LN, Gheorghe G, Yan K, Simpson P, Jarzembowski JA.) Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2017;20(1):38-43 PMID: 28276294 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85027123831 03/10/2017