Bertram Schnitzer, M.D.
Professor of Pathology
Director of Hematopathology and the Hematology Laboratory
Campus Address:
HEMATOPATHOLOGY M5242E MSI 0602
1301 Catherine Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0602
Phone: 734/936-1874
raven@umich.edu
Departmental Annual Report
2000-2001
| 1999-2000
Clinical Interests
Pathology, Hematopathology, immunology, flow cytometry, electron microscopy
Research Interests
Flow cytometry, automated cytology lymphomes, leukemias
Publications
Izban KF, Ergin M, Huang Q, Qin JZ, Martinez RL, Schnitzer B, Ni H, Nickoloff BJ, Alkan S. Characterization of NF-kappaB expression in Hodgkin's disease: inhibition of constitutively expressed NF-kappaB results in spontaneous caspase-independent apoptosis in Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells. Mod Pathol, 2001 Apr;14(4):297-310.
Uherova P, Ross CW, Schnitzer B, Singleton TP, Finn WG. The clinical significance of CD10 antigen expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Am J Clin Pathol. 2001 Apr;115(4):582-8.
Yegappan S, Schnitzer B, Hsi ED. Follicular lymphoma with marginal zone differentiation: microdissection demonstrates the t(14;18) in both the follicular and marginal zone components. Mod Pathol, 2001 Mar;14(3):191-6.
Kroft SH, Domiati-Saad R, Finn WG, Dawson DB, Schnitzer B, Singleton TP, Ross CW. Precursor B-lymphoblastic transformation of grade I follicle center lymphoma. Am J Clin Pathol. 2000 Mar;113(3):411-8
Iravani S, Singleton TP, Ross CW, Schnitzer B. Precursor B lymphoblastic lymphoma presenting as lytic bone lesions. Am J Clin Pathol. 1999 Dec;112(6):836-43.
Brief Biography
Dr. Schnitzer earned his undergraduate degree at New York University in 1954 and his M.D. from the University of Basle Medical School, Basle, Switzerland in 1958. He carried out his internship in the Baltimore City Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland from 1958-1959, then his residency in the Department of Pathology, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C. from 1959-1963. During this residency, he served as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow from 1961-1963. The following three years, 1963-1966, Dr. Schnitzer was a pathologist in the Hematopathology Branch of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Schnitzer joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan in 1966 as an Instructor. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1967, Associate Professor in 1970, and to Professor of Pathology in 1974. Since 1978, Dr. Schnitzer has been the Director of the Clinical Hematology Laboratory in the University Hospital and Director of Hematology.
Dr. Schnitzer was a founding member of the Society for Hematopathology, served as its President from 1991-1992, and remains as a member of the Executive Committee. His major clinical interests include diagnostic hematopathology and the application of ancillary techniques to the diagnosis of lymphomas and leukemias.