Pamela Groben, M.D., Associate Professor and Director, UNC Dermatopathology Lab

Education/Degrees

  • University of Kentucky, B.S., 1972
  • Tulane University Medical School, M.D., 1977

Postgraduate Training

  • Internship (Flexible): Charity Hospital, Tulane Service, New Orleans, LA, 1977-1978
  • Residency (Clinical and Anatomic Pathology): University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 1979-1983
  • Fellowship (Surgical Pathology): University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 1983-1985
  • Fellowship (Dermatopathology):  Wake Forest University School of Medicine (AP/CP), 1996-1997

Academic Career

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Associate Professor & Director, UNC Dermatopathology Lab), 2005-Present
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Clinical Professor), 2004-2005
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Clinical Associate Professor), 1997-2004
  • Alamance County Hospital (Alamance Regional Hospital), Burlington, NC (Pathology and Laboratory Director 1988), 1985-1996

Publications

1.      Eruptive post chemotherapy dysplastic nevi and melanoma in situ. JC Reutter, EM Long, DS Morrell, NE Thomas, PA Groben. Pediatric Dermatology, submitted for publication.

2.      Myers ER, Silva S, Barhart K, Groben PA, Richardson MS, Robboy SJ, Leppert P, Coutifarisc; NICHD National Cooperative Reproductive Medicine Network.. Interobserver and intraobserver variability in the histologic dating of the endometrium in fertile and infertile women. Fertility and Sterility 82:1278-82, 2004.

3.      Boruta DM, Gehrig PA, Groben PA, Bae-Jump V, Boggess, JF, Fowler WC, Van Le L. Uterine serous and grade 3 endometrial carcinomas. Is there a survival difference? Cancer 101:2214-21, 2004.

4.      Stitzenberg KB, Groben PA, Stern SL, Thomas NE, Hensing TA, Sansbury LB, Ollila DW. Indications for lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymphadenectomy in patients with thin melanoma (Breslow thickness <=1.0mm).  Annals of Surgical Oncology 11::900-6, 2004.

5.       Gehrig PA, Bae-Junp VL, Boggess JF, Groben PA, Fowler WC, Van Le L. Association between uterine serous carcinoma and breast carcinoma. Gynecologic Oncol 94(1):208-11, 2004

6.      Thomas NE, Groben P. Invasive superficial spreading melanomas arising from clinically normal skin. J Am Acad Dermatol 51(3):466-70, 2004.

7.      Andreoni K, Groben PA, et.al., Liver Transplantation 27 years subsequent to BMT from the same Liver Donor, letter to the editor, N Engl J Med, 350:2624-2625,2004.

8.      Grenache D, Moller KA, Groben P. Endometrial adenocarcinoma associated with elevated serum concentration of the free b subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin. Am J Clin Pathol. 121(5):748-53, 2004 2004.

9.      Thomas NE, Alexander A, Edmiston SN, Parrish E, Millikan RC, Berwick M, Groben PA, Ollila DW, Conway K. Tandem BRAF mutations in primary invasive melanomas. J Invest Dermatol, 122:1245-1250, 2004.

10.  Gehrig PA, Boggess JF, Ollila DW, Groben PA, Van Le L. Appendix cancer mimicking ovarian cancer. International J Gynecol CA, 12:768-772, 2002.

11.  Gehrig PA, Groben PA, Fowler WC, Walton LA, Van Le L. Uterine serous carcinomas: noninvasive uterine lesions herald metastatic disease. Obstet Gynecol 97:153-157, 2001.

12.  Groben PA, Harvell JD, White WL. Epithelioid blue nevus.  Am J Dermatopathol 22:473-488, 2000.

13.  Wheeler, CE, Carroll A, Groben PA, Briggaman RA, Prose NS, Davis DA. Autosomal dominantly inherited generalized basaloid follicular hamartoma syndrome: report of a new disease in a North Carolina family. J Am Acad Dermatol 43:189-206, 2000.

14.  Modesitt SC, Groben PA, Walton LA, Fowler WC, Van Le L. Expression of Ki-67 in Vulvar carcinoma and vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia III: Correlation with clinical prognostic features. Gynecol Oncology 76:51-55, 2000.

15.  Ghali FE, Reed AM, Groben PA, McCauliffe DP. Panniculitis in juvenile dermatomyositis. Ped Dermatol 16:270-272,1999.

16.  Groben PA, Hitchcock MG, Leshin B, White WL. Apocrine poroma: A distinctive case in a patient with nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome.  Am J Dermatopathol 21:31-33, 1999.

17.  Ghali FE, Groben PA. Thickened palms and soles in a toddler. Pediatric Dermatol 15:477- 479, 1998.

18.  Pursley HG, Williford PM, Groben PA, White, WL. CD-34 positive eruptive fibromas. J Cutan Pathol 25:122-125, 1997.

19.  Groben P, Siegal GP, Ulshen MH, Shub M, Hargrove C, and Askin FB. Gastroesophageal reflux and esophagitis in infants and children: A review. Perspectives in Pediatric Pathology 11:124-151, 1987.

20.  Groben P., et. al., Immunohistochemical evidence for the vascular origin of primary adrenal pseudocysts. Arch Pathol Lab Med 110:121-123, 1986.

21.  Siegal GP, Groben P, et. al., Neuron specific enolase immunoreactivity in small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. (letter) Arch Pathol Lab Med 109:5-6, 1985.

22.  Groben P, Reddick R, Askin FB. The pathologic spectrum of small cell carcinoma of the cervix. International J of Gynecol Pathol 4:42-57, 1985.

Academic Highlights

  • Fred Dalldorf Award for Excellence in Teaching Medical Students, 2002.
  • Frederic Askin Award for Excellence in Teaching Anatomic Pathology, 2001.