Michael J. Absalon, MD, PhD
Appointment
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Email
michael.absalon@cchmc.org
Phone
513-636-4266
Fax
513-636-3549
Credentials
BS: Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, 1987
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1994
MD: Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, 1998
Fellowship: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 2005
Awards and Honors
- AACR Workshop on Molecular Biology in Clinical Oncology, 2002
- Outstanding Resident Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin, Dept. Pediatrics, 2001
- American Society of Hematology Summer Research Fellowship, Oregon Health Sciences University, 1995
- Elected to Sigma Xi, The Research Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992
- Honors in Chemistry, Lewis and Clark College, 1987
Research
New therapeutics; ataxia telangiectasia; DNA damage response mechanisms
Presentations
Invited Speaker, "Pediatric Leukemia and Lymphoma, Update." Surgery Grand Rounds, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, April 2008.
Invited Speaker, "Childhood Lymphoma." CPON Review Course, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, April 2008.
Invited Speaker, "Lung Ditzels: to Biopsy or not to Biopsy?" Second Annual Musculoskeletal Tumor Symposium, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, September 2007.
Invited Speaker, "On Being Junior Faculty." Cincinnati Children's Hospital Fellows Rounds, February 2007.
Invited Speaker, "Childhood Lymphoma." CPON Review Course, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, February 2007.
Invited Speaker, "Childhood Leukemia." Third Annual Cincinnnati Children's BMT/Oncology Nursing Symposium, Covington, KY, May 2006.
Publications, Most Recent
Connect to Mike Absalon's publications on PubMed
"Pulmonary nodules discovered during the initial evaluation of pediatric patients with bone and soft-tissue sarcoma." Pediatr Blood Cancer 50:1147-53, 2008.
Takagi M, Absalon MJ, McLure KG, Kastan MB. Regulation of p53 translation and induction after DNA damage by ribosomal protein L26 and nucleolin. Cell. 2005 Oct 7;123(1):49-63.
Absalon MJ, Harding CO, Fain DR, Li L, Mack KJ. "Leigh syndrome in an infant due to mitochondrial DNA depletion." Pediatr Neurology. 24:60-63, 2001.
Professional Organization Memberships
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Society of Pediatric Hematology / Oncology
- American Association for Cancer Research
- Children's Oncology Group, Associate member
Special Interests
Relapsed leukemia; lymphoma
Related Areas
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