Portia A. Kreiger, MD
Appointments and Referrals: 1-800-TRY-CHOP (1-800-879-2467)
MD - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Anatomic Pathology - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Pediatric Pathology - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Anatomic Pathology – American Board of PathologyPediatric Pathology – American Board of Pathology
Chief, Anatomic Pathology
Staff Pathologist
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Victoria T, Srinivasan AS, Pogoriler J, Kreiger PA, Laje P, Oliver ER, Danzer E, Johnson AM, Moldenhauer JS, Peranteau WH, Adzick NS. The rare solid fetal lung lesion with T2-hypointense components: prenatal imaging findings with postnatal pathological correlation. Pediatr Radiol. 2018 Jul 14; PMID: 30008034
Rood LE, Rao S, Paessler M, Kreiger PA, Chu N, Stelekati E, Wherry EJ, Behrens EM: ST2 contributes to T cell hyperactivation and fatal hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in mice. Blood 127(4): 426-35, January 2016 Notes: Epub 2015 Oct 30.
Mitchell CA, Kreiger P, Goff C, Shah UK: Pediatric foreign body aspiration: A nidus for Aspergillus colonization. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 79(6): 938-940, June 2015.
Rodriguez E, Sakowski L, Hobson GM, Armani MH, Kreiger PA, Zhu Y, Waldman SA, Shaffer TH: Plp1 gene duplication inhibits airway responsiveness and induces lung inflammation. Pulm Pharmacol Ther 30: 22-31, Feb 2015.
Lieberman S, Kreiger P, Koretzky G: Reversible lacrimal gland-protective regulatory T cell dysfunction underlies male-specific autoimmune dacryoadenitis in the nonobese diabetic mouse model of Sjogren syndrome. Immunology 145(2): 8, Jan 2015.
Interferon-γ mediates anemia but is dispensable for fulminant toll-like receptor 9-induced macrophage activation syndrome and hemophagocytosis in mice. Canna SW, Wrobel J, Chu N, Kreiger PA, Paessler M, Behrens EM. Arthritis Rheum. 2013 Jul;65(7):1764-75.
Repeated TLR9 stimulation results in macrophage activation syndrome-like disease in mice. Behrens EM, Canna SW, Slade K, Rao S, Kreiger PA, Paessler M, Kambayashi T, Koretzky GA. J Clin Invest. 2011 Jun;121(6):2264-77.
Not all hemophagocytes are created equally: appreciating the heterogeneity of the hemophagocytic syndromes. Behrens EM, Canna SW, Slade K, Rao S, Kreiger PA, Paessler M, Kambayashi T, Koretzky GA. J Clin Invest. 2011 Jun;121(6):2264-77.
2016, Good Safety Catch, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2005, Gordon L. Vawter Pathologist in Training Award, Society for Pediatric Pathology/Paediatric Pathology Society Fall 2005 Joint Meeting (Tours, France)
2002, Jesse H. Frank, M.D. Prize in Pathology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2015-present, International Journal of Surgical Pathology
2014-present, Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, Official Journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society
2017-present, Anatomic Pathology Representative, Intraoperative Lab Orders Assessment Project, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2017-present, Member, Medical Staff Bylaws Committee, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2017-present, Member, Neuropathology faculty search committee, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2017-present, Member, Neuropathology faculty search committee, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2016-present, Member, Executive Quality Team, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2015-present, Member, Operative Invasive/Non-invasive Committee, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2015-present, Member, Medical Staff Bylaws Committee, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2015-present, Member, Clinical Quality Improvement Committee of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2015-present, Children's Oncology Group
2004-present, Society for Pediatric Pathology
2002-present, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
2008-present, College of American Pathologists