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Name:

Anthony G. Montag, M.D.

 

Department of Primary Appointment:

Pathology

 

econdary

appointments:

Surgery

The College

 

Proposed rank:

PROFESSOR

 

Proposed track:

CLINICIAN-EDUCATOR

 

LAY SUMMARY:

Dr. Montag is a surgical pathologist specializing in biopsy and excision tissues from the musculoskeletal system and the female genital tract and is the primary institutional reference person for both these areas.  He sees on average over 3500 cases a year.  He is actively involved with both the Gynecologic Oncology service, participating in the multi-institutional Gynecologic Oncology Group, and the Orthopaedic Oncology service, participating in the Connective Tissue Oncology Society.  He is a regional consultant for both these organ systems.

 

Dr. Montag participates in a number of medical school and graduate courses, including the summer MSTP histology course, which he directs, and the histology segment of the medical school anatomy course, which he helps to organize.   He lectures on the musculoskeletal and gynecologic systems in the Clinical Pathophysiology and Therapy course, and on tumors in the Introduction to Cellular Pathology Course.  He also lectures in the Graduate Cancer Biology Course.  He is the director of the annual University of Chicago CME course in surgical pathology, and has lectured in this and other national review courses.  He is the director of a course on Frozen sections presented at the annual meeting of the U.S. Canadian Academy of Pathology.   He teaches general surgical pathology and his subspecialty areas to rotating senior medical students and pathology residents.  He also has assisted and advised many graduate students in Pathology, Immunology, Organismal Biology and Ecology and Evolution on the processing and evaluation of tissues involved in their research.

 

Administrative duties include the Scientific Directorship of the Cancer Research Center Core Facility for Immunohistochemistry, Associate Director of the Clinical Immunohistochemistry Laboratory, Medical School Admissions Committee, Section Quality Assurance, Oversight of the Anatomic Pathology computer system, Surgical Case Review Committee, Hospital Performance Improvement Council and Hospital Medical Legal Committee.

 

Dr. Montag’s publications in recent years have focused on neoplasia, especially the diagnosis and tumor biology of sarcomas.  Several publications have examined the presence of estrogen receptor beta in mesenchymal tumors, and he has an ongoing collaboration with the orthopaedic molecular oncology laboratory.  He has also collaborated on studies with other departments on a variety of non-neoplastic topics ranging from primate touch receptors to physiologic effects of stress

Awards and Honors:

               1988                     Honorary Mellon Fellow, University of Chicago

               1990                     Voted one of favorite teachers by class of 1990

               1991                     Voted one of favorite teachers by class of 1991

1994                               Voted one of favorite teachers by class of 1994

2006                AOA Faculty teaching award   

 

Professional Societies:

International Academy of Pathology

International Society of Gynecologic Pathologists

Arthur Purdy Stout Society

                              Sigma Xi

                              Chicago Pathology Society

                              Connective Tissue Oncology Society

                              International Society of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathologists

 

Regional and National Committee Assignments:

                              American Cancer Society IL Division CIER Committee, 1988 - 2001

                              Gynecologic Oncology Group

                                             Site Pathologist, 1992 - present

                                             Ovary Committee, 2001 – 2004

                                             Rare Tumor Committee, 2005-present

                              Children's Cancer Group, 1995 - 2002

                              ASCP Check Sample Committee, 2002 - present

 

Editorial Committee:

                              Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Sarcoma committee, 2005-

 

Ad Hoc Reviewer For:

                              American Journal of Clinical Pathology

                              American Journal of Pathology

                              American Journal of Sports Medicine

                        Archives of Pathology

                              Chest

                              Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer

Laboratory Investigation

PRESENTATIONS

Invited  Lectures:

 

"Endometrial hyperplasia and carcinoma". Chicago Osteopathic Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, May 1986

 

"The pathology of gastrin promotor/SV40 T antigen transgenic mice"  University of Washington, Dept. of Pathology.  September 1988

 

"Tumor formation in a transgenic mouse model" Northwestern University, Department of Pathology, February 1990

 

Faculty, Cook County Graduate School of Medicine Medical Oncology Update   Course, 1991, 1993 (Gynecology, Soft tissue)

 

Faculty, Cook County Graduate School of Medicine Surgical Pathology Update Course, 1991, 1992, 1994 (Soft tissue)

 

Invited speaker, NIH pulmonary neuroendocrine workshop, September 1991. Montag A: Transgenic technologies.  Anatomical Record 236(1):147-50; discussion 150-1, 1993

 

Faculty, Osler Institute Pathology Board Review Course, 1993, 1994 (Soft tissue)

 

“Soft Tissue Sarcomas”, Rush Medical School, Department of Pathology, 1995.

 

“Bone Tumors”.  Chicago Pathology Society, April 1999.

 

“B7-2 NOD knockout mouse model of peripheral neuropathy”, University of Iowa, Department of Pathology, May 2000.

 

Frozen Section Diagn Director, Frozen Section Diagnosis: Pitfalls and Indications, USCAP Short course, 2005-2008

 

Pediatric Bone Tumors, Diagnostic Pediatric Surgical Pathology, July 2005

 

“Estrogen receptor in mesenchymal tumors: Is beta better?” Rush Medical School, Department of Pathology, December 2005

 

“Estrogen receptor in mesenchymal tumors” Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Pathology, January 2006

 

Albert Kreutner Lectureship in Bone and Joint Disease, Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Pathology, April 2006

 

 

 

Director, “Current Issues in Pathology”, University of Chicago Department of Pathology, November, 2001; October, 2002; November, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

 

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS.

Abstracts presented at scientific meetings since 2000:

 

1.           Doss BJ, Maslan AM, Montag AG, Waggoner S, Rotmensch J, Reeves WA, DeMay RM:  Atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance (AGUS) in postmenopausal women.  Accepted for presentation at 89th Annual Meeting, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathologists, New Orleans, 2000. Modern Pathology 13 (1 suppl): 33A, 2000

 

2.           Albarracin CT, Montag AG, Recant W, Kuan SF: Mammary Paget cells and Toker cells express the same immunophenotype of mucin and cytokeratin genes.  Accepted for presentation at 89th Annual Meeting, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathologists, New Orleans, 2000. Modern Pathology 14 (1 suppl): 59A, 2000

 

3.           Albarracin CT, Rizzo P, Metker C, Kuan SF, Jafri J, Carbone M, Montag AG: Identification of simian virus 40 DNA sequences in mixed mullerian tumors of the uterus.  Accepted for presentation at 89th Annual Meeting, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathologists, New Orleans, 2000. Modern Pathology 14 (1 suppl): 120A, 2000

 

4.                 Yamada S Diane, Montag AG, Hrobowski Y, Benson D, Rinker-Schaeffer C: Expression of MKK4, a metastasis suppressor gene, is down regulated in ovarian carcinomas.  Accepted for presentation at the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists 32nd Annual Meeting,  Nashville, March 2001.

 

5.                 Kuan SF, Krausz T, Montag AG: Comparative immunohistochemical study on the expression of mucin genes in vulvar Paget’s disease and skin appendages. Modern Pathology 14 (1 suppl): 69A, 2001

 

6.                 Kuan SF, Hart J, Montag AG: Can CK7/CK20 cytokeratin and MUC2/MUC5AC mucin immunohistochemistry predict the primary tumor site of pseudomyxoma peritonei in women?  Modern Pathology 14 (1 suppl): 139A, 2001

 

7.                 Anastasi J, Montag AG, Lewis VO, Dickstein JI, Vardiman JW and LeBeau MM: Primary large B cell lymphoma of bone with multilobated nuclei: a study of 20 cases including cytogenetic analysis.  Modern Pathology 14 (1 suppl): 155A, 2001

 

8.                 Montag AG, Lu J, Warren B, Doss BJ and Greene G: Expression of estrogen receptor beta in ovarian granulosa cell tumors.  Modern Pathology 14(1 suppl): 141A, 2001

 

9.                 Deyrup AT, Krausz TN, Montag AG: C-Kit positivity in giant cell tumor of bone.  Modern Pathology 15 (1 suppl): 13A, 2002

 

10.              Deyrup AT, Haydon RC, Ishikawa A, He T-C, Montag AG: Beta-Catenin reactivity in bone and soft tissue sarcomas: an analysis of 127 cases.  Modern Pathology 15 (1 suppl): 13A, 2002

 

11.              Yang XJ, Takahasi M, Tretiakova M, Khramtsov A, Montag A, The BT: Molecular profiling of Wilms’ tumor by cDNA microarrays.  Modern Pathology 16 (1 suppl): 303A, 2003

 

12.              Chen HM, Berney DM, Medenica M, Montag A, Krausz T: Pilar melanocytic tumor: a rare biphasic neoplasm. Modern Pathology 16 (1 suppl): 89A, 2003

 

13.              Montag AG, Richardson MS, Tretiakova M: Nasopharyngeal angiofibromas: consistent expression of estrogen receptor beta.  Modern Pathology 17 (1 suppl): 228A, 2004

 

14.              Wong T, Krausz T, Tretiakova M, Montag AG: Expression of PPAR in liposarcoma and benign lipomatous lesions.  Modern Pathology 17 (1 suppl): 20A, 2004

 

15.              Deyrup AT, Tretiakova M, Khramtsov A, Montag AG: Estrogen receptor expression in vascular neoplasms.  Modern Pathology 17 (1 suppl): 12A, 2004

 

16.              Ryan CW, Montag A, Hayden JB, Hung AY, Samuels B, Hosenpud JR, Undevia S, Peabody TD, Skoog L: Preoperative chemoradiotherapy for soft-tissue sarcomas (STS) using pathologic necrosis as a primary endpoint.  Presented at Connective Tissue Oncology Society, Montreal, 2004.

 

17.              Piotrowski A, Tretiakova M, Montag AG: Ezrin expression in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST): A comparison with tumors of smooth muscle and nerve sheath origin.  Presented at 94th Annual Meeting, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathologists, San Antonio, 2005. Modern Pathology 18 (1 suppl): 20A, 2005

 

18.              Turkyilmaz M, Tretiakova M, Krausz T, Lengyel E, Montag A: C-Met expression in different types of ovarian epithelial tumors. Modern Pathology 18 (1 suppl): 207A, 2005

 

19.              Deyrup AT, Unni KK, Montag AG: Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone revisited: immunohistochemical analysis of 29 cases.  Modern Pathology 18 (1 suppl): 13A, 2005

 

20.              Pytel P, Wollmann RL, Montag AG: Histopathologic abnormalities in specimens from orthopedic spine surgeries.  Modern Pathology 18 (1 suppl): 21A, 2005

 

21.              Pytel P, Piotrowsi A, Gong C, Montag AG: Ezrin expression in syndromic and sporadic peripheral nerve sheath tumors. Accepted for Connective Tissue Oncology Society Meeting, Boca Raton FL, 2005

 

22.              Chang T, Fahey A, Khramtsov A, Chmura S, Montag AG. Phosphorlyated H2AX Expression in Cervical Neoplasia.  Modern Pathology 19 (1 suppl): 174A, 2006

 

23.              Deyrup AT, Montag AG, Unni KK: Sarcomas arising in Paget Disease of Bone, Still bad after all these years: clinicopathologic analysis of 68 cases.  Modern Pathology 19 (1 suppl): 10A, 2006

 

24.              Sattar HA, Husain AN, Fu X, Montag A, Trtiakova M, Krausz T: The role of regulatory T-Cells in immunologically preparing secretory endometrium for fetal implantation. Modern Pathology 19 (1 suppl): 294A, 2006