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Ruth Birbe, MD

Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Telephone:  215-707-3493

Fax:  215-707-8132

Email: ruth.birbe@tuhs.temple.edu

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

MD, Central University of Venezuela, Luis Razetti Medical School, Caracas, Venezuela, 1995

 

Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2004

 

Fellowship, Surgical Pathology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2005

 

Fellowship, Cytopathology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 2005-2006

 

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• Gastrointestinal pathology
• Urologic pathology
• Oncologic pathology

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• Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 2005
• Cytopathology, 2006

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• United States Academy of Pathology
• Canadian Academy of Pathology
• College of American Pathologists

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Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

19351847. Snook AE, Li P, Stafford BJ, Faul EJ, Huang L, Birbe RC, Bombonati A, Schulz S, Schnell MJ, Eisenlohr LC, Waldman SA, Lineage-specific T-cell responses to cancer mucosa antigen oppose systemic metastases without mucosal inflammatory disease. Cancer Res 69:8(3537-44)2009 Apr 15

18577748. Snook AE, Stafford BJ, Li P, Tan G, Huang L, Birbe R, Schulz S, Schnell MJ, Thakur M, Rothstein JL, Eisenlohr LC, Waldman SA, Guanylyl cyclase C-induced immunotherapeutic responses opposing tumor metastases without autoimmunity. J Natl Cancer Inst 100:13(950-61)2008 Jul 2

16899600. Schulz S, Hyslop T, Haaf J, Bonaccorso C, Nielsen K, Witek ME, Birbe R, Palazzo J, Weinberg D, Waldman SA, A validated quantitative assay to detect occult micrometastases by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction of guanylyl cyclase C in patients with colorectal cancer. Clin Cancer Res 12:15(4545-52)2006 Aug 1

16618413. Debruyne PR, Witek M, Gong L, Birbe R, Chervoneva I, Jin T, Domon-Cell C, Palazzo JP, Freund JN, Li P, Pitari GM, Schulz S, Waldman SA, Bile acids induce ectopic expression of intestinal guanylyl cyclase C Through nuclear factor-kappaB and Cdx2 in human esophageal cells. Gastroenterology 130:4(1191-206)2006 Apr

15910591. Nonaka D, Birbe R, Rosai J, So-called inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour: a proliferative lesion of fibroblastic reticulum cells? Histopathology 46:6(604-13)2005 Jun

15897563. Tarn C, Merkel E, Canutescu AA, Shen W, Skorobogatko Y, Heslin MJ, Eisenberg B, Birbe R, Patchefsky A, Dunbrack R, Arnoletti JP, von Mehren M, Godwin AK, Analysis of KIT mutations in sporadic and familial gastrointestinal stromal tumors: therapeutic implications through protein modeling. Clin Cancer Res 11:10(3668-77)2005 May 15

15868635. Kaur PP, Birbe RC, DeHoratius RJ, Rosai-Dorfman disease in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. J Rheumatol 32:5(951-3)2005 May

15754294. Birbe R, Palazzo JP, Walters R, Weinberg D, Schulz S, Waldman SA, Guanylyl cyclase C is a marker of intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia, and adenocarcinoma of the gastrointestinal tract. Hum Pathol 36:2(170-9)2005 Feb

15116335. Behling E, Birbe R, Veznadaroglu E, Andrews DW, Flanders A, Kenyon LC, Gliosarcoma arising from an anaplastic ependymoma: a case report of a rare entity. Hum Pathol 35:4(512-6)2004 Apr

15017568. Arthur GL, Schwartz MZ, Kuenzler KA, Birbe R, Glucagonlike peptide-2 analogue: a possible new approach in the management of inflammatory bowel disease. J Pediatr Surg 39:3(448-52; discussion 448-52)2004 Mar

14966727. Arthur LG, Schwartz MZ, Kuenzler KA, Birbe R, Hepatocyte growth factor treatment ameliorates diarrhea and bowel inflammation in a rat model of inflammatory bowel disease. J Pediatr Surg 39:2(139-43; discussion 139-43)2004 Feb

14663364. Santeusanio G, Bombonati A, Tarantino U, Craboledda P, Marino B, Birbe R, Ortenzi A, Villaschi S, Multifocal epithelioid angiosarcoma of bone: a potential pitfall in the differential diagnosis with metastatic carcinoma. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 11:4(359-63)2003 Dec

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