Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Resident, Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine 2007 - 2011
  • MD./PhD., Duke University School of Medicine 2007
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Member of the Duke Cancer Institute, Duke Cancer Institute, Institutes and Centers 2016 - 2021
  • Associate Professor of Pathology, Pathology, Clinical Science Departments 2021
  • Associate Professor of Pathology, Pathology, Clinical Science Departments 2020
  • Assistant Professor of Pathology, Pathology, Clinical Science Departments 2013 - 2020
  • Clinical Associate in the Department of Pathology, Pathology, Clinical Science Departments 2011 - 2013
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • CaMKK2 inhibition as an approach to increase tumor immunity in breast cancers awarded by Department of Defense 2020 - 2023
  • Molecular and Radiologic Predictors of Invasion in a DCIS Active Surveillance Cohort awarded by Breast Cancer Research Foundation 2020 - 2021
  • Culturally appropriate screening and diagnosis of cervical cancer in East Africa awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2021
  • Molecular and Radiologic Predictors of Invasion in a DCIS Active Surveillance Cohort awarded by Breast Cancer Research Foundation 2019 - 2020
  • Targeting precursor neural (N)-cadherin to eliminate chemotherapy-resistant triple-negative breast tumor cells awarded by Department of Defense 2017 - 2020
  • Molecular and Radiologic Predictors of Invasion in a DCIS Active Surveillance Cohort awarded by Breast Cancer Research Foundation 2018 - 2019
  • A novel strategy to see and treat breast cancer: translation to intra-operative breast margin assessment awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2019
  • (PQC3) Genomic Diversity and the Microenvironment as Drivers of Metastasis in DCIS awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2019
  • Molecular and Radiologic Predictors of Invasion in a DCIS Active Surveillance Cohort awarded by Breast Cancer Research Foundation 2016 - 2018
  • Towards a viable solution for a see and treat paradigm for cervical pre-cancer in East Africa awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2018
  • Anti-HPV RNA Interference Using Modified RNA's awarded by National Institutes of Health 2004 - 2005
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  External Relationships

  • Island Health, British Columbia, Canada
  • Island Heath, BC, Canada
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Sobhani, Faranak, Sathya Muralidhar, Azam Hamidinekoo, Allison H. Hall, Lorraine M. King, Jeffrey R. Marks, Carlo Maley, Hugo M. Horlings, E Shelley Hwang, and Yinyin Yuan. “Spatial interplay of tissue hypoxia and T-cell regulation in ductal carcinoma in situ.” Npj Breast Cancer 8, no. 1 (September 15, 2022): 105. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-022-00419-9.
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    • Gupta, Anjali, Veeral Saraiya, April Deveaux, Taofik Oyekunle, Klarissa D. Jackson, Omolola Salako, Adetola Daramola, et al. “Association of lipid profile biomarkers with breast cancer by molecular subtype: analysis of the MEND study.” Sci Rep 12, no. 1 (June 23, 2022): 10631. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13740-x.
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    • Akinyemiju, Tomi, Taofik Oyekunle, Omolola Salako, Anjali Gupta, Olusegun Alatise, Gabriel Ogun, Adewale Adeniyi, et al. “Metabolic Syndrome and Risk of Breast Cancer by Molecular Subtype: Analysis of the MEND Study.” Clin Breast Cancer 22, no. 4 (June 2022): e463–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clbc.2021.11.004.
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    • Grimm, Lars J., Habib Rahbar, Monica Abdelmalak, Allison H. Hall, and Marc D. Ryser. “Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: State-of-the-Art Review.” Radiology 302, no. 2 (February 2022): 246–55. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.211839.
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    • Fortunato, Angelo, Diego Mallo, Shawn M. Rupp, Lorraine M. King, Timothy Hardman, Joseph Y. Lo, Allison Hall, Jeffrey R. Marks, E Shelley Hwang, and Carlo C. Maley. “A new method to accurately identify single nucleotide variants using small FFPE breast samples.” Brief Bioinform 22, no. 6 (November 5, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbab221.
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    • Meljen, Vivienne T., Rhonda Mittenzwei, Janice Wong, Allison Puechl, Regina Whitaker, Gloria Broadwater, Allison H. Hall, et al. “Endometrial Adenocarcinomas With No Specific Molecular Profile: Morphologic Features and Molecular Alterations of "Copy-number Low" Tumors.” Int J Gynecol Pathol 40, no. 6 (November 1, 2021): 587–96. https://doi.org/10.1097/PGP.0000000000000747.
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    • Akinyemiju, Tomi, Kelley Jones, Anjali Gupta, Taofik Oyekunle, Veeral Saraiya, April Deveaux, Omolola Salako, et al. “Association of body composition with odds of breast cancer by molecular subtype: analysis of the Mechanisms for Established and Novel Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Nigerian Women (MEND) study.” Bmc Cancer 21, no. 1 (September 25, 2021): 1051. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08775-8.
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    • Joh, Daniel Y., Jacob T. Heggestad, Shengwei Zhang, Gray R. Anderson, Jayanta Bhattacharyya, Suzanne E. Wardell, Simone A. Wall, et al. “Author Correction: Cellphone enabled point-of-care assessment of breast tumor cytology and molecular HER2 expression from fine-needle aspirates.” Npj Breast Cancer 7, no. 1 (September 17, 2021): 126. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-021-00335-4.
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    • Joh, Daniel Y., Jacob T. Heggestad, Shengwei Zhang, Gray R. Anderson, Jayanta Bhattacharyya, Suzanne E. Wardell, Simone A. Wall, et al. “Cellphone enabled point-of-care assessment of breast tumor cytology and molecular HER2 expression from fine-needle aspirates.” Npj Breast Cancer 7, no. 1 (July 2, 2021): 85. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-021-00290-0.
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    • Gupta, Anjali, Taofik Oyekunle, Omolola Salako, Adetola Daramola, Olusegun Alatise, Gabriel Ogun, Adewale Adeniyi, et al. “Association of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and odds of breast cancer by molecular subtype: analysis of the MEND study.” Oncotarget 12, no. 13 (June 22, 2021): 1230–42. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.27991.
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    • Narayanan, Priya Lakshmi, Shan E Ahmed Raza, Allison H. Hall, Jeffrey R. Marks, Lorraine King, Robert B. West, Lucia Hernandez, et al. “Unmasking the immune microecology of ductal carcinoma in situ with deep learning.” Npj Breast Cancer 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-020-00205-5.
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    • Gupta, Anjali, Kelley Jones, April Deveaux, Malcolm Bevel, Omolola Salako, Adetola Daramola, Allison Hall, et al. “Association of Life-Course Educational Attainment and Breast Cancer Grade in the MEND Study.” Ann Glob Health 87, no. 1 (2021): 59. https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3142.
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    • Ryser, Marc D., Diego Mallo, Allison Hall, Timothy Hardman, Lorraine M. King, Sergei Tatishchev, Inmaculada C. Sorribes, et al. “Minimal barriers to invasion during human colorectal tumor growth.” Nat Commun 11, no. 1 (March 9, 2020): 1280. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14908-7.
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    • Glynn, Emily H., Jeannette Guarner, Allison Hall, Ann M. Nelson, Linda R. Andiric, Dan A. Milner, and Quentin Eichbaum. “Survey of Global Health Education and Training in Pathology Residency Programs in the United States.” Am J Clin Pathol 153, no. 3 (February 8, 2020): 374–79. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqz178.
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    • Hayward, Mary-Kate, J. Louise Jones, Allison Hall, Lorraine King, Alastair J. Ironside, Andrew C. Nelson, E. Shelley Hwang, and Valerie M. Weaver. “Derivation of a nuclear heterogeneity image index to grade DCIS.” Comput Struct Biotechnol J 18 (2020): 4063–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2020.11.040.
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    • Cocce, Kimberly J., Jeff S. Jasper, Taylor K. Desautels, Logan Everett, Suzanne Wardell, Thomas Westerling, Robert Baldi, et al. “The Lineage Determining Factor GRHL2 Collaborates with FOXA1 to Establish a Targetable Pathway in Endocrine Therapy-Resistant Breast Cancer.” Cell Rep 29, no. 4 (October 22, 2019): 889-903.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2019.09.032.
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    • Zhu, Li, Jessica L. Narloch, Sayali Onkar, Marion Joy, Gloria Broadwater, Catherine Luedke, Allison Hall, et al. “Metastatic breast cancers have reduced immune cell recruitment but harbor increased macrophages relative to their matched primary tumors.” J Immunother Cancer 7, no. 1 (October 18, 2019): 265. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40425-019-0755-1.
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    • Singh, Tulika, Cesar A. Lopez, Camila Giuberti, Maria L. Dennis, Hannah L. Itell, Holly J. Heimsath, Helen S. Webster, et al. “Efficient transplacental IgG transfer in women infected with Zika virus during pregnancy.” Plos Negl Trop Dis 13, no. 8 (August 2019): e0007648. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007648.
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    • Racioppi, Luigi, Erik R. Nelson, Wei Huang, Debarati Mukherjee, Scott A. Lawrence, William Lento, Anna Maria Masci, et al. “CaMKK2 in myeloid cells is a key regulator of the immune-suppressive microenvironment in breast cancer.” Nature Communications 10, no. 1 (June 2019): 2450. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10424-5.
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    • Razzano, Dana, Allison Hall, Jerad M. Gardner, and Xiaoyin Sara Jiang. “Pathology Engagement in Global Health: Exploring Opportunities to Get Involved.” Arch Pathol Lab Med 143, no. 4 (April 2019): 418–21. https://doi.org/10.5858/arpa.2018-0280-ED.
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    • Crouch, Brian T., Jennifer Gallagher, Roujia Wang, Joy Duer, Allison Hall, Mary Scott Soo, Philip Hughes, Timothy Haystead, and Nirmala Ramanujam. “Exploiting heat shock protein expression to develop a non-invasive diagnostic tool for breast cancer.” Sci Rep 9, no. 1 (March 5, 2019): 3461. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40252-y.
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    • Mremi, Alex, Gloria Broadwater, Kahima Jackson, Patrick Amsi, Cosmas Mbulwa, Terry Hyslop, Cecilia Ong, and Allison Hall. “Breast cancer in Tanzanian, black American, and white American women: An assessment of prognostic and predictive features, including tumor infiltrating lymphocytes.” Plos One 14, no. 11 (2019): e0224760. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224760.
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    • Saha, Ashirbani, Michael R. Harowicz, Elizabeth Hope Cain, Allison H. Hall, Eun-Sil Shelley Hwang, Jeffrey R. Marks, Paul Kelly Marcom, and Maciej A. Mazurowski. “Intra-tumor molecular heterogeneity in breast cancer: definitions of measures and association with distant recurrence-free survival.” Breast Cancer Res Treat 172, no. 1 (November 2018): 123–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-4879-7.
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    • Ong, Cecilia T., Brittany M. Campbell, Samantha M. Thomas, Rachel A. Greenup, Jennifer K. Plichta, Laura H. Rosenberger, Jeremy Force, et al. “Metaplastic Breast Cancer Treatment and Outcomes in 2500 Patients: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Oncology Database.” Ann Surg Oncol 25, no. 8 (August 2018): 2249–60. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-018-6533-3.
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    • Davidson, Brittany A., Jessie Ehrisman, Sara Abbott, Zach Harmon, Angeles A. Secord, Andrew Berchuck, Paula S. Lee, et al. “Prospective Evaluation of Lymph Node Processing at Staging Surgery for High-grade Endometrial Cancer.” Int J Gynecol Pathol 37, no. 3 (May 2018): 252–55. https://doi.org/10.1097/PGP.0000000000000418.
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    • Crouch, Brian, Helen Murphy, Stella Belonwu, Amy Martinez, Jennifer Gallagher, Allison Hall, Mary Scott Soo, et al. “Leveraging ectopic Hsp90 expression to assay the presence of tumor cells and aggressive tumor phenotypes in breast specimens.” Sci Rep 7, no. 1 (December 13, 2017): 17487. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17832-x.
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    • Bialas, Kristy M., Takayuki Tanaka, Dollnovan Tran, Valerie Varner, Eduardo Cisneros De La Rosa, Flavia Chiuppesi, Felix Wussow, et al. “Maternal CD4+ T cells protect against severe congenital cytomegalovirus disease in a novel nonhuman primate model of placental cytomegalovirus transmission.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112, no. 44 (November 3, 2015): 13645–50. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511526112.
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    • Previs, Rebecca A., James M. Edwards, Angeles A. Secord, Marisa R. Nucci, Rex C. Bentley, and Allison H. S. Hall. “Cystic fibrosis involving the cervix, mimicking a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma: a case report.” Int J Gynecol Pathol 33, no. 1 (January 2014): 100–104. https://doi.org/10.1097/PGP.0b013e318278b832.
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    • Kernagis, Dawn N., Allison H. S. Hall, and Michael B. Datto. “Genes with bimodal expression are robust diagnostic targets that define distinct subtypes of epithelial ovarian cancer with different overall survival.” J Mol Diagn 14, no. 3 (2012): 214–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoldx.2012.01.007.
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    • Hall, Allison H. S., and Sarah M. Bean. “Minocycline-induced black thyroid.” Diagn Cytopathol 38, no. 8 (August 2010): 579–80. https://doi.org/10.1002/dc.21227.
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    • Wang, Carolyn L., Amy M. Neville, Terence Z. Wong, Allison H. Hall, Erik K. Paulson, and Rex C. Bentley. “Colonic schwannoma visualized on FDG PET/CT.” Clin Nucl Med 35, no. 3 (March 2010): 181–83. https://doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181cc632a.
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    • Hall, Allison H. S., Jing Wan, April Spesock, Zinaida Sergueeva, Barbara Ramsay Shaw, and Kenneth A. Alexander. “High potency silencing by single-stranded boranophosphate siRNA.” Nucleic Acids Res 34, no. 9 (2006): 2773–81. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkl339.
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    • Hall, Allison H. S., Jing Wan, Erin E. Shaughnessy, Barbara Ramsay Shaw, and Kenneth A. Alexander. “RNA interference using boranophosphate siRNAs: structure-activity relationships.” Nucleic Acids Res 32, no. 20 (2004): 5991–6000. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkh936.
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    • Hall, Allison H. S., and Kenneth A. Alexander. “RNA interference of human papillomavirus type 18 E6 and E7 induces senescence in HeLa cells.” J Virol 77, no. 10 (May 2003): 6066–69. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.77.10.6066-6069.2003.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Sobhani, F., A. Hamidinekoo, A. H. Hall, L. King, J. R. Marks, C. Maley, H. M. Horlings, E. Shelley Hwang, and Y. Yuan. “Automated Dcis Identification From Multiplex Immunohistochemistry Using Generative Adversarial Networks.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Vol. 2022-March, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI52829.2022.9761413.
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    • Narayanan, P. L., S. E. A. Raza, A. H. Hall, J. R. Marks, L. King, R. B. West, L. Hernandez, et al. “Unmasking the immune microecology of ductal carcinoma in situ with deep learning.” In Npj Breast Cancer, Vol. 7, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-020-00205-5.
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    • Crouch, B. T., J. Duer, R. Wang, J. Gallagher, A. Hall, M. S. Soo, P. Hughes, T. A. J. Haystead, and N. Ramanujam. “Optimizing fluorescently-tethered Hsp90 inhibitor dose for maximal specific uptake by breast tumors.” In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging  Proceedings of Spie, Vol. 10478, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2285210.
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    • Hall, A. H. S., D. N. Kernagis, and M. B. Datto. “Bimodally Expressed Genes in Ovarian Carcinoma.” In Laboratory Investigation, 91:443A-443A. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2011.
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    • Hall, A. H. S., D. N. Kernagis, and M. B. Datto. “Bimodally Expressed Genes in Ovarian Carcinoma.” In Modern Pathology, 24:443A-443A. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2011.
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  • Datasets

    • Hall, Allison, Alex Mremi, Terry Hyslop, Patrick Amsi, Gloria Broadwater, Kahima Jackson, Cosmas Mbulwa, and Cecilia Ong. “Data from: Breast cancer in Tanzanian, black American, and white American women: An assessment of prognostic and predictive features, including tumor infiltrating lymphocytes,” October 2, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7924/r4bv7g09k.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • PATHOL 448C: Practical Surgical and Cytopathology 2021

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