Scott R. Florell, M.D.

Associate Professor of Dermatology

B.S., highest distinction, 1989, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.D., Alpha Omega Alpha, 1993, University of Nebraska
Residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 1993 – 1997, University of Utah and Dermatology, 1998 – 2002, University of Utah
Board Certification in Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

Clinical and Research Interests
My clinical interests include diagnostic dermatopathology, the use of digital technology in quantitative immunohistochemistry, and diagnostic telepathology.

Selected Publications
Wada DA, Perkins SL, Tripp S, Coffin CM, Florell SR. Human Herpesvirus 8 and iron staining are useful in differentiating Kaposi sarcoma from interstitial granuloma annulare. Am J Clin Pathol 127:263-70;2007.

McKenna JK, Florell SR. Cost-effective telepathology in the Mohs surgery laboratory utilizing iChat AV videoconferencing software. Dermatol Surg 33:62-8;2007.

Florell SR, Cessna M, Lundell RB, Boucher KM, Bowen GM, Harris RM, Petersen MJ, Zone JJ, Tripp S, Perkins SL. Utility (or lack, thereof) of immunophenotyping in atypical cutaneous T-cell infiltrates. Am J Clin Pathol 125:727-736;2006.

Florell SR, Meyer LJ, Boucher KM, Hart M, Cannon-Albright LA, Harris RM, Samlowski WE, Zone JJ, Brinton JP, Leachman SA. Nevus distribution in a Utah melanoma kindred with a temperature-sensitive CDKN2A mutation. J Invest Dermatol 125:1310-1312;2005.

Florell SR, Boucher KM, Astle J, Kerber R, Mineau G, Wiggins C, Noyes RD, Tsodikov A, Cannon-Albright LA, Leachman SA. A population-based analysis of prognostic factors and survival in familial melanoma. J Clin Oncol 23:7168-77;2005.

Florell SR, Bowen AR, Hanks AN, Murphy KJ, Grossman D. Proliferation, apoptosis, and survivin expression in a spectrum of melanocytic nevi. J Cutan Pathol 32:45-49;2005.

Egan CA, Florell SR. Cicatricial pemphigoid. N Engl J Med 350(24):2499;2004.

Florell SR, Meyer LJ, Boucher KM, Porter-Gill PA, Hart M, Erickson J, Cannon-Albright LA, Pershing LK, Harris RM, Samlowski WE, Zone JJ, Leachman SA. Longitudinal assessment of the nevus phenotype in a melanoma kindred. J Invest Dermatol 123:576-582;2004.

Yang DT, Holden JA, Florell SR. CD117, CK20, TTF-1, and DNA topoisomerase II-a antigen expression in small cell tumors. J Cutan Pathol 31(3):254-61, 2004.

Florell SR, Krueger GG, Egan CA. Keratoderma blenorrhagicum. N Engl J Med 349(24):2367-8, 2003.

Florell SR, Schmidt SJ, Porter-Gill PA, Albertine KH, Murphy KJ, McKinney CB, Boucher KM, Grossman D, Biddle DL, Clayton F, Layfield LJ, Leachman SA. Novel application of a fibrin cell block method to evaluate melanocytic cell populations. Pigment Cell Res 16:662-69, 2003.

Florell SR, Boucher KM, Leachman SA, Azmi F, Harris RM, Malone JC, Martignoni G, Bowen GM, Gerwels JW, Hood AF. Histopathologic recognition of involved margins of lentigo maligna excised by staged excision: an interobserver comparison study, Accepted for publication, Arch Dermatol, 2002 Aug.

Florell SR, Layfield LJ, Gerwels JW. A comparison of touch imprint cytology and Mohs frozen section histology in the evaluation of Mohs micrographic surgical margins. J Am Acad Dermatol 2001;44:660-664

Florell SR, Zone JJ, Gerwels JW. Basal cell carcinomas are populated by melanocytes and Langerhans cells. Am J Dermatopathol 2001;23:24-28

Florell SR, Coffin CM, Holden JA, Zimmerman JW, Gerwels JW, Summers BK, Jones DA, Leachman SA. Preservation of RNA for functional genomic studies: a multidisciplinary tumor bank protocol. Mod Pathol 2001;14:116-128

Sawada S, Florell S, Purandare S, Ota M, Stephens K, Viskochil D. Identification of NF1 mutations in both alleles of a dermal neurofibroma. Nat Genet 1996;14:110-112