Pathology

Carol J. Holman, MD, PhD

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Director of Leukemia Pathology, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology  - Clinical Pathology

Contact Information

Primary Office: 6229 Roy Carver Pavilion
Iowa City, IA 52242
Primary Office Phone: 319-356-3981

Email: carol-holman@uiowa.edu

Education

PhD, Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
MD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Residency, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Minnesota
Fellowship, Hematopathology, University of Minnesota

Licensure & Certifications

State of Iowa Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine
Hematology, American Board of Pathology
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology

Research

Dr. Holman has broad interests in many areas of hematopathology, including clinical diagnosis of patients with leukemia and lymphoma, as well as optimal laboratory testing for detection of minimal residual disease following therapy. She has research interests in the pathogenesis of Epstein-Barr virus infection and its role in a variety of diseases including post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, lymphomatoid granulomatosis, and infectious mononucleosis.

Center, Program and Institute Affiliations

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

Selected Publications

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Plasmablastic myeloma in ascitic fluid.  Mettler T, Holman C, McKenna R, Pambuccian S.  Diagn Cytopathol.  2012  June; 40 (9) :806-9.
[PubMed]

Follicular lymphoma transformed to "double-hit" B lymphoblastic lymphoma presenting in the peritoneal fluid..  Kaplan A, Samad A, Dolan M, Cioc A, Holman C, Schmechel S, Pambuccian S.  Diagnostic Cytopathology.  2012  May.
[PubMed]

Quantitative Epstein-Barr virus shedding and its correlation with the risk of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder..  Holman C, Karger A, Mullan B, Brundage R, Balfour H.  Clinical Transplantation.  2012  March; 26 (5) :741-7.
[PubMed]

Tim-3 enhances interferon gamma production in response to galectin-9 human natural killer cells..  Gleason M, Lenvik T, McCullar V, Felices M, O'Brien M, Cooley S, Verneris M, Cichocki F, Holman C, Panoskaltsis-Mortari A, Niki T, Hirashima M, Blazar B, Miller J.  Blood.  2012  March; 119 (13) :3064-72.
[PubMed]

Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders in lung transplant recipients: 20-yr experience at the University of Minnesota..  Wudhikarn K, Holman C, Linan M, Blaes A, Dunitz J, Hertz M, Peterson B.  Clinical Transplant.  2011; 25 (5) :705-13.
[PubMed]

A method for evaluating antiviral drug susceptibility of Epstein-Barr virus..  Romain C, Balfour, Jr H, Vezina H, Holman C.  Virus Adapt Treatment .  2010  January (1st Quarter/Winter); 2 :1-7.

Adrenal extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration and cerebrospinal fluid cytology and immunophenotyping: a case report..  Dunning K, Wudhikarn K, Safo A, Holman C, McKenna R, Pambuccian S.  Diagnostic Cytopathol.  2009  September; 37 (9) :686-95.
[PubMed]

A virologic pilot study of valacyclovir in infectious mononucleosis..  Balfour H, Hokanson K, Schacherer R, Fietzer C, Schmeling D, Holman C, Vezina H, Brundage R.  Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology.  2007  May; 39 (1) :16-21.
[PubMed]

A prospective clinical study of Epstein-Barr virus and host interactions during acute infectious mononucleosis..  Balfour H, Holman C, Hokanson K, Lelonek M, Giesbrecht J, White D, Schmeling D, Webb C, Cavert W, Wang D, Brundage R.  The Journal of Infectious diseases.  2005  November; 192 (9) :1505-12.
[PubMed]

Specific detection of human BK polyomavirus in urine samples of immunocompromised patients..  Holman C, van Burik J, Hinrichs S, Balfour Jr H.  Clinical Diagn Lab Immunol.  2003  January (1st Quarter/Winter); 10 (1) :66-9.
[PubMed]

Date Last Modified: 03/06/2013 - 11:41:57