Jonathan R. Oppenheimer, M.D. , F.C.A.P.

Medical Director and Chief Pathologist,

Prostate Lab
1450 Elm Hill Pike
Nashville, TN  37210
Tel. 800-881-0470
Fax: 615-232-8009
Email: prostatelab@gmail.com



Board Certification

National Board of Medical Examiners, 1989
American Board of Pathology - Anatomic Pathology, 1993
American Board of Pathology - Clinical Pathology, 1993


Post-Graduate Training and Experience

9/96-present -- Medical Director and Chief Pathologist, Oppenheimer urologic reference laboratory and Prostate Lab, Nashville, TN
7/96-3/97 -- Staff Pathologist, UroCor, Inc. Oklahoma City, OK
7/95-6/96 -- Post-Doctoral Fellow in Urologic Pathology (with J.Epstein), Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
7/93-7/95 -- Associate Pathologist, Clin-Path Laboratories, Phoenix, AZ and Portsmouth General Hospital, Portsmouth, VA
7/90-6/93 -- Resident and Fellow in Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
7/88-6/90 -- Intern and Resident in Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Pathology, Health Science Center at the State University of New York, Syracuse, NY

College

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.  Degree: BS (Biomedical Science, 1983)

Medical Education

University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.  Degree: MD  (1986)



Societies

Member, College of American Pathologists (1990-present, elected Fellow 1993)
Member, American Society of Clinical Pathologists (1989-present, elected Fellow 1993)
Member, International Academy of Pathology (1995-present)
Member, American Association for Cancer Research (1996-present)
Founding Member, Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Committee, National Prostate Cancer Coalition (1996-97)
Affiliate Member, American Urologic Association (1997-present)

American Association of Clinical Urologists (1997-present)

Publications

1.Epithelioid Osteosarcoma of Bone: Immunocytochemical Evidence Suggesting Divergent Epithelial and Mesenchymal Differentiation in a Primary Osseous Neoplasm, Cancer Vol. 71 (1993), No. 10, pp. 2977-2982.

2.Oppenheimer, JR and Epstein, JI. Granulomatous prostatitis on needle biopsy. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Vol 121 (July 1997): 724-729. (Poster and Abstract presented at 1996 Annual Meeting of International Academy of Pathology).

3.Oppenheimer JR, Willis ML, and Epstein JI. Partial Atrophy in Prostate Needle Cores - Another Diagnostic Pitfall for the Surgical Pathologist. American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Vol 22(4): 440-445, 1998.

4.Computer Modeling of Gleason Grading on Needle Core Biopsies of the Prostate (in Progress).

The Prostate Lab www.prostatelab.com

"Focused on the Prostate since 1996"