UC Davis Medical Group Physician's Referral Guide

Alexander Borowsky, M.D.

Title: Assistant Professor

Specialty: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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Undergraduate Education:	Pomona College Claremont, California B.A. 1989
Medical Education:	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, Tennesse M.D. 1994
Residency:	Vanderbilt Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee 1994-96 Anatomic Pathology
Fellowship:	Vanderbilt Medical Center Nashville , Tennessee 1996-97 Surgical Pathology
Professional Memberships:	American Association for the Advancement of Science College of American Pathologists United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology

Clinical/Research Interests: Alexander Borowsky is a surgical pathologist with expertise in diagnostic breast pathology and interests in molecular oncology and genetically engineered mouse pathology. His research training includes characterization of a fusion oncogene central to the pathogenesis of lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT). He is a member of the UC Davis Center for Comparative Medicine and Mouse Biology Program.
Publications: A. Borowsky, B. Nicholson, D. Page, and D. Johnson. "Metaplastic Carcinoma of the Breast." In: Textbook of Uncommon Cander, 2nd Edition, Wiley, New York, 1999. H. Gobbi, J. Simpson, A. Borowsky, R. Jensen, and D. Page, "Metaplastic breast tumors with a dominant fibromatosis-like phenotype have a high risk of local recurrence." Cancer, May 15, 1999; 85(10):2170-82. A. Borowsky, and H. Gobbi, "Metaplastic Carinoma of the Breast, Grading and Behavior of Predominantly spindle Cell Lesions." Pathology Case Reviews, September/October 1999. J. Morgan, Y. Yi, A. Borowsky, et al., "Breakpoints of the t(11;18)(q21;q21) in MALT Lymphoma Lie Within or Near the Previously Undescribed Gene MALT1 in Chromosome 18." Cancer Research, Dec. 15, 1999, 59(24):6205-13. S. Kasper, P. sheppard, Y. Yan, N. Pettigrew, A. Borowsky, G. Prins, J. Dodd, M. Duckworth, and R. Matusik, " Development, progression, and androgen-dependence of prostate tumors in probasin-large T antigen transgenic mice: a model for prostate cancer." Laboratory Investigation, March, 1998, 78(3):319-33. Meyerowitz, A. Fleischer, D. Pickens, G. Thurman, A. Borowsky, G. Thirsk, C. Hellerqvist, "Quantitation of tumor vascularity and flow with amplitude color Doppler sonography in an experimental model: preliminary results." Journal of Ultrasound Medicine, December, 1996, 15(12):827-33. A. Borowsky, S. Stein, N. Tulipan, and T. Dermody, "Menigitis caused by mixed anaerobic species complicating tethered cord syndrome.: Clinical Infectious Diseases, September, 1995, 21(3):706-7.