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Ronald Hamilton, MD
Job Title
Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor B
Pittsburgh,
PA
15224
412-692-5660
Phone
412-692-6550
Fax
Email
hamiltonrl@upmc.edu
Education and Training
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Medical School: |
1989 University of Nebraska Medical Center |
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Residency: |
1991 University of California, San Diego, Resident Anatomic Pathology |
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Fellowship: |
1994 University of Pittsburgh, Fellow, Neuropathology |
Memberships
- Society for Neuroscience
- College of American Pathologists
- International Society of Neuropathology
Publications
- PK11195 labels activated microglia in Alzheimer's disease and in vivo in a mouse model using PET.
Venneti S, Lopresti BJ, Wang G, Hamilton RL, Mathis CA, Klunk WE, Apte UM, Wiley CA
Neurobiol Aging
Biography Summary
Dr. Hamilton has research interests in the molecular biology of brain tumors, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzhemier's, Lewy Body Dementia, ALS and Parkinson's disease. The pediatric brain tumor research is conducted with Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Dr. Ian Pollack, a pediatric neurosurgeon and the Children's Oncology Group (COG) and Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. As the diagnostic neuropathologist for the Neuropathology Core of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Consortium (ADRC) and Director of the Neuropathology Brain Bank, Dr. Hamilton also collaborates with numerous dementia researchers. Dr. Hamilton's laboratory investigates aggregation and proteolysis of alpha-synuclein (the main protein component of Lewy bodies) using immunoblots of human tissue, in vitro studies using recombinant protein and an inducible cell system (Tet-off) with a neural cell line (B65).
Clinical Specialties
- Anatomic Pathology
- Neuropathology
