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Alexander J. Gallan MD

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Assistant Professor

Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Department: Pathology
Division: Administration


I am willing to collaborate on research projects.

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Research Experience

  • Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
  • Complement System Proteins
  • Glomerulonephritis
  • Kidney Neoplasms
  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Prostatic Neoplasms
  • Transplantation Immunology

    • Clinical Expertise

  • Acute Kidney Injury
  • Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
  • Glomerulonephritis
  • Kidney Diseases
  • Kidney Glomerulus
  • Kidney Neoplasms
  • Pathology, Surgical
  • genitourinary pathology
  • transplant pathology
  • renal pathology

    • Educational Expertise

  • Curriculum
  • Education, Medical
  • Education, Medical, Graduate
  • Education, Medical, Undergraduate

    • Publications (46)

  • Prostate Cancers Invisible on Multiparametric MRI: Pathologic Features in Correlation with Whole-Mount Prostatectomy. (Chatterjee A, Gallan A, Fan X, Medved M, Akurati P, Bourne RM, Antic T, Karczmar GS, Oto A) Cancers (Basel) 2023 Dec 13;15(24) PMID: 38136370 PMCID: PMC10742185 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85180711471 12/23/2023       1 Citation
  • COVID-19 Vaccination and New Onset Glomerular Disease: Results from the IRocGN2 International Registry. (Waldman M, Sinaii N, Lerma EV, Kurien AA, Jhaveri KD, Uppal NN, Wanchoo R, Avasare R, Zuckerman JE, Liew A, Gallan AJ, El-Meanawy A, Yagil Y, Lebedev L, Baskaran K, Vilayur E, Cohen A, Weerasinghe N, Petrakis I, Stylianou K, Gakiopoulou H, Hamilton AJ, Edney N, Millner R, Marinaki S, Rein JL, Killen JP, Rodríguez Chagolla JM, Bassil C, Lopez Del Valle R, Evans J, Urisman A, Zawaideh M, Baxi PV, Rodby R, Vankalakunti M, Mejia Vilet JM, Ramirez Andrade SE, Homan MP, Vásquez Jiménez E, Perinpanayagam N, Velez JCQ, Mohamed MMB, Mohammed KMG, Sekar A, Ollila L, Aron AW, Arellano Arteaga KJ, Islam M, Berrio EM, Maoujoud O, Morales RR, Seipp R, Schulze CE, Yenchek RH, Vancea I, Muneeb M, Howard L, Caza TN) Kidney360 2023 Mar 01;4(3):349-362 PMID: 36996301 PMCID: PMC10103269 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85161013131 03/31/2023       8 Citations
  • Cystic MED15::TFE3 translocation renal cell carcinoma: histologic mimicker of multilocular cystic renal neoplasm of low malignant potential with review of the literature. (Doytcheva K, Gallan AJ, Wang P, Wanjari P, Segal J, Antic T) Hum Pathol 2023 Jun;136:25-33 PMID: 36997032 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85152939566 03/31/2023       2 Citations
  • Checkpoint inhibitor-associated acute kidney injury: A strong case for a kidney biopsy. (Bhasin-Chhabra B, Joy CM, Gallan AJ) Clin Nephrol 2023 Jan;99(1):49-50 PMID: 36366965 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85148113779 11/12/2022    
  • A user-friendly tool for cloud-based whole slide image segmentation with examples from renal histopathology. (Lutnick B, Manthey D, Becker JU, Ginley B, Moos K, Zuckerman JE, Rodrigues L, Gallan AJ, Barisoni L, Alpers CE, Wang XX, Myakala K, Jones BA, Levi M, Kopp JB, Yoshida T, Zee J, Han SS, Jain S, Rosenberg AZ, Jen KY, Sarder P, Kidney Precision Medicine Project) Commun Med (Lond) 2022;2:105 PMID: 35996627 PMCID: PMC9391340 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85148639650 08/24/2022       14 Citations
  • Bystander LECT2 amyloidosis in tumor nephrectomy. (Gallan AJ, Bhasin-Chhabra B, Kilari D, Johnson S, D'Souza A) CEN Case Rep 2023 Feb;12(1):104-109 PMID: 35986199 PMCID: PMC9892383 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85147317519 08/20/2022       1 Citation
  • Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis: an unusual cause of stroke. (Huckenpahler AL, Iqbal H, Gallan A, Jha P) BMJ Case Rep 2022 Apr 05;15(4) PMID: 35383095 PMCID: PMC8984058 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85127651686 04/07/2022    
  • Histologically resolved small RNA maps in primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis indicate progressive changes within glomerular and tubulointerstitial regions. (Williams AM, Jensen DM, Pan X, Liu P, Liu J, Huls S, Regner KR, Iczkowski KA, Wang F, Li J, Gallan AJ, Wang T, Baker MA, Liu Y, Lalehzari N, Liang M) Kidney Int 2022 Apr;101(4):766-778 PMID: 35114200 PMCID: PMC8940673 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85125312317 02/04/2022       12 Citations
  • NF2-mutated Renal Carcinomas Have Common Morphologic Features Which Overlap With Biphasic Hyalinizing Psammomatous Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Comprehensive Study of 14 Cases. (Paintal A, Tjota MY, Wang P, Fitzpatrick C, Wanjari P, Stadler WM, Gallan AJ, Segal J, Antic T) Am J Surg Pathol 2022 May 01;46(5):617-627 PMID: 35034039 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85124100970 01/17/2022       15 Citations
  • Histological validation of prostate tissue composition measurement using hybrid multi-dimensional MRI: agreement with pathologists' measures. (Chatterjee A, Antic T, Gallan AJ, Paner GP, Lin LI, Karczmar GS, Oto A) Abdom Radiol (NY) 2022 Feb;47(2):801-813 PMID: 34878579 PMCID: PMC8916544 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85121341088 12/09/2021       6 Citations
  • Acute kidney injury in a man taking vitamin supplements for COVID-19 prophylaxis. (Koratala A, Gallan AJ) Clin Nephrol 2021 Oct;96(4):251-252 PMID: 34402787 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85116807151 08/18/2021    
  • A multi-center retrospective cohort study defines the spectrum of kidney pathology in Coronavirus 2019 Disease (COVID-19). (May RM, Cassol C, Hannoudi A, Larsen CP, Lerma EV, Haun RS, Braga JR, Hassen SI, Wilson J, VanBeek C, Vankalakunti M, Barnum L, Walker PD, Bourne TD, Messias NC, Ambruzs JM, Boils CL, Sharma SS, Cossey LN, Baxi PV, Palmer M, Zuckerman JE, Walavalkar V, Urisman A, Gallan AJ, Al-Rabadi LF, Rodby R, Luyckx V, Espino G, Santhana-Krishnan S, Alper B, Lam SG, Hannoudi GN, Matthew D, Belz M, Singer G, Kunaparaju S, Price D, Chawla S, Rondla C, Abdalla MA, Britton ML, Paul S, Ranjit U, Bichu P, Williamson SR, Sharma Y, Gaspert A, Grosse P, Meyer I, Vasudev B, El Kassem M, Velez JCQ, Caza TN) Kidney Int 2021 Dec;100(6):1303-1315 PMID: 34352311 PMCID: PMC8328528 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85117146586 08/06/2021       85 Citations
  • Sensitive and Specific Immunohistochemistry Protocol for Nucleocapsid Protein from All Common SARS-CoV-2 Virus Strains in Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin Embedded Tissues. (Sun Y, Ge L, Udhane SS, Langenheim JF, Rau MJ, Patton MD, Gallan AJ, Felix JC, Rui H) Methods Protoc 2021 Jul 10;4(3) PMID: 34287344 PMCID: PMC8293419 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85111011758 07/22/2021       7 Citations
  • Oxalate Nephropathy in a Renal Transplant Recipient After Receiving High Dose Ascorbic Acid. (Maike A, Sturgill D, Gallan A) Am J Med Sci 2022 Apr;363(4):e33-e34 PMID: 34077704 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85127727885 06/03/2021       1 Citation
  • Characterization of the Peritumoral Atrophic Band and Nonneoplastic Renal Parenchyma in Radical Nephrectomy Specimens. (Dernell C, Bhasin B, Iczkowski KA, Gallan AJ) Am J Clin Pathol 2021 Oct 13;156(5):913-919 PMID: 34075420 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85118598075 06/03/2021    
  • Distal Tubular Hyperplasia: A Proposal for a Unique Form of Renal Tubular Proliferation Distinct From Papillary Adenoma. (Williamson SR, Al-Obaidy KI, Cheng L, Smith SC, Cox RM, McKenney JK, Gokden N, Phillips CL, Giannico GA, Gallan AJ, Przybycin CG, Grignon DJ) Am J Surg Pathol 2021 Apr 01;45(4):516-522 PMID: 33560656 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85102905706 02/10/2021       2 Citations
  • Anti-LRP2 Nephropathy. (Gallan AJ, Garg A, Collins AB, Beck LH Jr, Trivin-Avillach C, Henriksen KJ, Chang A) Kidney Int Rep 2020 Dec;5(12):2365-2370 PMID: 33305133 PMCID: PMC7710829 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85093702614 12/12/2020       3 Citations
  • Anti-LRP2 Nephropathy (Gallan AJ, Garg A, Collins AB, Beck LH, Trivin-Avillach C, Henriksen KJ, Chang A) Kidney International Reports December 2020;5(12):2365-2370 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85093702614 12/01/2020       3 Citations
  • BAP1-Mutated Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. (Gallan AJ, Parilla M, Segal J, Ritterhouse L, Antic T) Am J Clin Pathol 2021 Apr 26;155(5):718-728 PMID: 33210135 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105763697 11/20/2020       31 Citations
  • Morphological correlation of urinary bladder cancer molecular subtypes in radical cystectomies. (Han L, Gallan AJ, Steinberg GD, Sweis RF, Paner GP) Hum Pathol 2020 Dec;106:54-61 PMID: 32987034 PMCID: PMC7746505 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85096480482 09/29/2020       4 Citations
  • Hemoglobin Cast Nephropathy. (Mahmud S, Dernell C, Bal N, Gallan AJ, Blumenthal S, Koratala A, Sturgill D) Kidney Int Rep 2020 Sep;5(9):1581-1585 PMID: 32954084 PMCID: PMC7486172 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089487078 09/22/2020       1 Citation
  • Hemoglobin Cast Nephropathy (Mahmud S, Dernell C, Bal N, Gallan AJ, Blumenthal S, Koratala A, Sturgill D) Kidney International Reports September 2020;5(9):1581-1585 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089487078 09/01/2020       1 Citation
  • Corpora amylacea in benign prostatic acini are associated with concurrent, predominantly low-grade cancer. (Palangmonthip W, Wu R, Tarima S, Bobholz SA, LaViolette PS, Gallan AJ, Iczkowski KA) Prostate 2020 Jun;80(9):687-697 PMID: 32271960 PMCID: PMC10561550 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85083052266 04/10/2020       5 Citations
  • A New Paradigm for Renal Thrombotic Microangiopathy. (Gallan AJ, Chang A) Semin Diagn Pathol 2020 May;37(3):121-126 PMID: 32085935 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85079773669 02/23/2020       18 Citations
  • Clinicopathologic Features of Small Renal Masses Associated With Distant Metastatic Disease. (Gallan AJ, Antic T) Am J Clin Pathol 2020 Apr 15;153(5):613-617 PMID: 31848569 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85083882337 12/19/2019       6 Citations
  • Renal Vasculitis and Pauci-immune Glomerulonephritis Associated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. (Gallan AJ, Alexander E, Reid P, Kutuby F, Chang A, Henriksen KJ) Am J Kidney Dis 2019 Dec;74(6):853-856 PMID: 31204194 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85067201266 06/18/2019       55 Citations
  • Re: Multiparametric MRI Features and Pathologic Outcome of Wedge-Shaped Lesions in the Peripheral Zone on T2-Weighted Images of the Prostate. (Siegel C) J Urol 2019 Aug;202(2):190 PMID: 31035837 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85069295657 05/01/2019    
  • Revisiting quantitative multi-parametric MRI of benign prostatic hyperplasia and its differentiation from transition zone cancer. (Chatterjee A, Gallan AJ, He D, Fan X, Mustafi D, Yousuf A, Antic T, Karczmar GS, Oto A) Abdom Radiol (NY) 2019 Jun;44(6):2233-2243 PMID: 30955071 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85064479088 04/08/2019       29 Citations
  • Diagnosis of non-neoplastic renal diseases in renal mass biopsies (Melissa Y Tjota, Alexander J Gallan, Gladell P Paner, Tatjana Antic, Arieh L Shalhav, Scott E Eggener, Kammi J Henriksen, Anthony Chang) Journal of Onco-Nephrology 2019, Vol. 3(1) 49–52 03/15/2019    
  • Patterns of Urachal Remnant Involvement by Urothelial Carcinoma: Intraluminal Noninvasive Spread Can Mimic a Deep-seated Bladder Invasion. (Han L, Gallan A, Paner GP) Am J Surg Pathol 2019 Apr;43(4):475-479 PMID: 30475253 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85057215272 11/27/2018       4 Citations
  • Contemporary Grading and Staging of Urothelial Neoplasms of the Urinary Bladder: New Concepts and Approaches to Challenging Scenarios. (Gallan AJ, Choy B, Paner GP) Surg Pathol Clin 2018 Dec;11(4):775-795 PMID: 30447841 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85056574041 11/19/2018       7 Citations
  • Multiparametric MRI Features and Pathologic Outcome of Wedge-Shaped Lesions in the Peripheral Zone on T2-Weighted Images of the Prostate. (Chatterjee A, Tokdemir S, Gallan AJ, Yousuf A, Antic T, Karczmar GS, Oto A) AJR Am J Roentgenol 2019 Jan;212(1):124-129 PMID: 30403532 PMCID: PMC6437777 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85058902292 11/08/2018       14 Citations
  • Neurometabolic indicators of mitochondrial dysfunction in repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. (Kim S, Han SC, Gallan AJ, Hayes JP) Concussion 2017 Nov;2(3):CNC48 PMID: 30202587 PMCID: PMC6128012 09/12/2018    
  • Collapsing Glomerulopathy in Lambda Light Chain Amyloidosis: A Report of 2 Cases. (Khalighi MA, Gallan AJ, Chang A, Meehan SM) Am J Kidney Dis 2018 Oct;72(4):612-616 PMID: 29908693 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85048729413 06/18/2018       2 Citations
  • Bowman capsulitis predicts poor kidney allograft outcome in T cell-mediated rejection. (Gallan AJ, Chon WJ, Josephson MA, Cunningham PN, Henriksen KJ, Chang A) Hum Pathol 2018 Jun;76:47-51 PMID: 29501487 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85046856242 03/05/2018       1 Citation
  • Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer with Noninvasive Estimation of Prostate Tissue Composition by Using Hybrid Multidimensional MR Imaging: A Feasibility Study. (Chatterjee A, Bourne RM, Wang S, Devaraj A, Gallan AJ, Antic T, Karczmar GS, Oto A) Radiology 2018 Jun;287(3):864-873 PMID: 29393821 PMCID: PMC5978456 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85047623616 02/03/2018       71 Citations
  • Nuclear grade and necrosis predict prognosis in malignant epithelioid pleural mesothelioma: a multi-institutional study. (Rosen LE, Karrison T, Ananthanarayanan V, Gallan AJ, Adusumilli PS, Alchami FS, Attanoos R, Brcic L, Butnor KJ, Galateau-Sallé F, Hiroshima K, Kadota K, Klampatsa A, Stang NL, Lindenmann J, Litzky LA, Marchevsky A, Medeiros F, Montero MA, Moore DA, Nabeshima K, Pavlisko EN, Roggli VL, Sauter JL, Sharma A, Sheaff M, Travis WD, Vigneswaran WT, Vrugt B, Walts AE, Tjota MY, Krausz T, Husain AN) Mod Pathol 2018 Apr;31(4):598-606 PMID: 29327706 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85045563941 01/13/2018       73 Citations
  • C3 glomerulopathy in adults: a distinct patient subset showing frequent association with monoclonal gammopathy and poor renal outcome. (Lloyd IE, Gallan A, Huston HK, Raphael KL, Miller DV, Revelo MP, Khalighi MA) Clin Kidney J 2016 Dec;9(6):794-799 PMID: 27994856 PMCID: PMC5162413 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85015776721 12/21/2016       37 Citations
  • Immune--Mediated Colitis with Novel Immunotherapy : PD-1 Inhibitor Associated Gastrointestinal Toxicity. (Gondal B, Patel P, Gallan A, Hart J, Bissonnette M) Acta Gastroenterol Belg 2016;79(2):379-381 PMID: 27821037 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85009191922 11/09/2016       3 Citations
  • Benign müllerian glandular inclusions in men undergoing pelvic lymph node dissection. (Gallan AJ, Antic T) Hum Pathol 2016 Nov;57:136-139 PMID: 27438608 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84985945416 10/25/2016       12 Citations
  • Lambda Light Chain Crystalline Cast Nephropathy and Proximal Tubulopathy. (Gallan AJ, Khalighi MA) Kidney Int Rep 2016 Nov;1(4):316-320 PMID: 29142933 PMCID: PMC5678630 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84995596020 08/12/2016       11 Citations
  • Candida dubliniensis Pneumonia: A Case Report and Review of Literature. (Petty LA, Gallan AJ, Detrick JA, Ridgway JP, Mueller J, Pisano J) Mycopathologia 2016 Oct;181(9-10):765-8 PMID: 27342836 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84976292926 06/28/2016       11 Citations
  • Vertical integration of biochemistry and clinical medicine using a near-peer learning model. (Gallan AJ, Offner GD, Symes K) Biochem Mol Biol Educ 2016 Nov 12;44(6):507-516 PMID: 27123831 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84995912094 04/29/2016       16 Citations
  • TRPC6 channel translocation into phagosomal membrane augments phagosomal function. (Riazanski V, Gabdoulkhakova AG, Boynton LS, Eguchi RR, Deriy LV, Hogarth DK, Loaëc N, Oumata N, Galons H, Brown ME, Shevchenko P, Gallan AJ, Yoo SG, Naren AP, Villereal ML, Beacham DW, Bindokas VP, Birnbaumer L, Meijer L, Nelson DJ) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015 Nov 24;112(47):E6486-95 PMID: 26604306 PMCID: PMC4664321 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84948398452 11/26/2015       54 Citations
  • Integration of basic science and clinical medicine: the innovative approach of the cadaver biopsy project at the Boston University School of Medicine. (Eisenstein A, Vaisman L, Johnston-Cox H, Gallan A, Shaffer K, Vaughan D, O'Hara C, Joseph L) Acad Med 2014 Jan;89(1):50-3 PMID: 24280854 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84893712235 11/28/2013       47 Citations
  • Disease-causing mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator determine the functional responses of alveolar macrophages. (Deriy LV, Gomez EA, Zhang G, Beacham DW, Hopson JA, Gallan AJ, Shevchenko PD, Bindokas VP, Nelson DJ) J Biol Chem 2009 Dec 18;284(51):35926-38 PMID: 19837664 PMCID: PMC2791021 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-72149093771 10/20/2009       109 Citations
    • Last update: 02/23/2024