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John Wurzel, MD

Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Telephone:  215-707-3169

Fax:  215-707-2053

Email: jwurzel@temple.edu

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

BA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1970

 

MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1978

 

Pathology Residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1978-1981

 

Research Associate, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1980-1981

 

Research Fellow, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, NY, 1981-1982

 

Pathology Residency, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 1982-1983

 

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• Autopsy pathology
• Endocrinology

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Wurzel J, Caya JG, Hoenig EM, Coupland RH.  Mosby's ACE the Boards-Pathology.  Mosby:  St. Louis, 1997.

Goldman BI, Wursel J.  Effects of growth factors on human cardiac myocytes.  In:  Growth Factors and the Cardiovascular System.  Cummings P, ed.  Boston, MA; Kluver Academic Publishers, 1993, pp105-117.

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

19391636. Wurzel JM, How well do we communicate autopsy findings to next of kin? Arch Pathol Lab Med 133:4(510; author reply 510-1)2009 Apr

17316067. Goldman BI, Amin KM, Kubo H, Singhal A, Wurzel J, Human myocardial cell lines generated with SV40 temperature-sensitive mutant tsA58. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim 42:10(324-31)2006 Nov-Dec

15071134. Wurzel J, Goldman BI, Premature coronary disease in systemic lupus. N Engl J Med 350:15(1571-5; author reply 1571-5)2004 Apr 8

11596598. Goldman BI, Wurzel J, Evidence that human cardiac myocytes divide after myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med 345:15(1131)2001 Oct 11

11406661. Goldman BI, Wurzel J, Hematopoiesis/erythropoiesis in myocardial infarcts. Mod Pathol 14:6(589-94)2001 Jun

10896559. Wurzel J, Goldman BI, Angiogenesis factors in acute myocardial ischemia and infarction. N Engl J Med 343:2(148-9)2000 Jul 13

9609847. Caya JG, Wurzel JM, Robinson TM, Assessing teachers' effectiveness in a pathology course. Acad Med 73:5(446-7)1998 May

8912716. Goldman B, Mach A, Wurzel J, Epidermal growth factor promotes a cardiomyoblastic phenotype in human fetal cardiac myocytes. Exp Cell Res 228:2(237-45)1996 Nov 1

8564057. Goldman BI, Wurzel J, Human fetal cardiocytes in enriched culture. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim 31:10(731-4)1995 Nov

7949724. Cohen GS, Ball DS, Boyd-Kranis R, Gembala RB, Wurzel J, Peliosis hepatis mimicking hepatic abscess: fatal outcome following percutaneous drainage. J Vasc Interv Radiol 5:4(643-5)1994 Jul-Aug

1537751. Goldman BI, Wurzel J, Effects of subcultivation and culture medium on differentiation of human fetal cardiac myocytes. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 28A:2(109-19)1992 Feb

2168878. Ku DH, Kagan J, Chen ST, Chang CD, Baserga R, Wurzel J, The human fibroblast adenine nucleotide translocator gene. Molecular cloning and sequence. J Biol Chem 265:27(16060-3)1990 Sep 25

2157297. Chen ST, Chang CD, Huebner K, Ku DH, McFarland M, DeRiel JK, Baserga R, Wurzel J, A human ADP/ATP translocase gene has seven pseudogenes and localizes to chromosome X. Somat Cell Mol Genet 16:2(143-9)1990 Mar

6084634. Wurzel JM, Kourides IA, Brooks JS, Medullary carcinomas of the thyroid contain immunoreactive human chorionic gonadotropin alpha subunit. Horm Metab Res 16:12(677)1984 Dec

6194981. Wurzel JM, Curatola LM, Gurr JA, Goldschmidt AM, Kourides IA, The luteotropic activity of rat placenta is not due to a chorionic gonadotropin. Endocrinology 113:5(1854-7)1983 Nov

6196276. Schorr-Toshav NL, Halmi NS, Wurzel JM, Kourides IA, Immunocytochemical localization of the glycoprotein hormone alpha subunit in the median eminence of the mouse hypothalamus. Horm Metab Res 15:10(485-7)1983 Oct

6280970. Parks JS, Herd JE, Wurzel JM, Martial JA, Structural analysis of rodent growth hormone genes: application to genetic forms of hypopituitarism. Endocrinology 110:5(1672-5)1982 May

7169010. Wurzel JM, Parks JS, Herd JE, Nielsen PV, A gene deletion is responsible for absence of human chorionic somatomammotropin. DNA 1:3(251-7)1982

6171335. Wurzel J, Brooks JJ, Primary gastric choriocarcinoma: immunohistochemistry, postmortem documentation, and hormonal effects in a postmenopausal female. Cancer 48:12(2756-61)1981 Dec 15

6799903. Tom LW, Wurzel JM, Wetmore RF, Lowry LD, Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the hypopharynx. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 89:5(753-7)1981 Sep-Oct

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• Autopsy Service Director, Temple University Hospital
• Multidisciplinary Coordinator, Endocrine/Reproduction block of the second year medical school curriculum