THERESA A. STEEPER, M.D.

  Unity Hospital Laboratory

550 Osborne Road
Fridley, MN 55432

(763) 236-4843

fax (763) 236-4830

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

• Staff Pathologist, Hospital Pathology Associates, 1991 - present 

• Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, July 1987

• Staff Pathologist, Metro/Mt Sinai Hospital, 1984-1991

EDUCATION  

• Surgical Pathology Fellow, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN, 1983-1984

• Blood Bank Fellow, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN, 1982-1983

• Residency, Medical Fellow Specialist, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MM, 1982-1983

• Medical School, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, M.D. with honors, 1979

• Undergraduate, Duke University, Durham, NC, B.S. Zoology, summa cum laude, 1975

HONORS & AWARDS

• Re-election for Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Minnesota Medical Foundation, academic year 1987-1988

• Distinguished Clinical Teaching Award, University of Minnesota Medical Foundation, Elected by the 3^rd and 4^th year medical students for academic year, 1985-1986

• Kenneth F. Ernst Award for Outstanding Research in Anatomic Pathology, November 1982

• Alpha Omega Alpha, University of North Carolina, May 1979

• Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Duke University Chapter, Associate Member, awarded April 1975

• Phi Beta Kappa, Duke University, December 1974

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 1985

LICENSURE

• State of Minnesota - 1980

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Hennepin County Medical Society

• Minnesota Medical Association

• Minnesota Society of Pathologists

PUBLICATIONS

• Antley, R.M., Hwang, D.S., Theopold, W., Gorlin, R., Steeper, T.A., Pitt, D., Danks, D.M., McPherson, E., Bartels, H., Wiedeman, H., and Opitz,  J.  Further delineation of the C (trigonocephaly) syndrome.  Am. J. Med. Genet.  1981; 9:147-163.

• Steeper, T.A., Piscioli, F., and Rosai, J.  Squamous cell carcinoma with sarcoma-like stroma of the fema1e genital tract.  Clinicopathologic study of four cases.  Cancer 1983; 52:890-898.

• Steeper, T.A., and Mukai, K.  Solid ovarian teratomas.  An immunocytochemical study of thirteen cases with clinicopathologic correlation.  Pathol. Annual 1984; 19:81-92.

• Steeper, T.A., and Rasai, J.  Aggressive angiomyxoma of the female pelvis and perineum.  Report of nine cases of a distinctive type of gynecologic soft tissue neoplasm.  Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 1983; 7:463-475.

• Steeper, T.A., and McCullough, J.  Platelet and granulocyte transfusion in leukemia and lymphoma.  Contemporary issues in clinical oncology.  In Leukemias and Lymphomas (P. Wiernik, ed.).  New York:  Churchill Livingstone, vol. 4, pp. 247-279.

• Steeper, T.A., and McCullough, J.  Therapeutic cytapheresis using the Fenwal CS-3000 blood cell separator.  Vox Sang. 1985; 48:193-200.

• Carcangiu, M.L., Steeper, T., Zampi, G., and Rosai, J.  Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.  A study of 70 cases.  Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 1985; 83:135-158.

• Steeper, T.A., and Wick, M.  Minimal deviation adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix (“adenoma malignum"):  An immunohistochemical comparison with microglandular endocervical hyperplasia and conventional endocervical adenocarcinoma.  Cancer 1986; 58:1131-1138.

• Swanson, J., Sastomoienin, R., Steeper, T., and Sebring, E.  Gm allotyping to determine the origin of red cell antibodies in recipients of solid organ transplants. Vox Sang. 1987; 52:75-78.

• McCullough, J., Steeper, T.A., Connelly, D., Huntington, S., and Scott, E.  Platelet utilization in a large tertiary care hospital. JAMA 1988; 259:2414-2418.

• Steeper, T., Horwitz, C.A., Henle, W., and Henle, G.   Heterophil-negative EBV-induced mononucleosis.  An evaluation of problems encountered in the diagnosis of 75 cases (in preparation).

• Perrone, T., Steeper, T.A., and Dehner, L.P.  Alpha-fetoprotein localization in pure ovarian teratoma.  An immunohistochemical study of 12 cases.  Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 1987; 88:713-717.

• Steeper, T.A., Horwitz, C.A., Henle, W., and Henle, G.  Selected aspects of acute and chronic infectious mononucleosis and mononucleosis-like illnesses for the practicing allergist.  Ann. Allergy 1987; 59(10):243-250.

• Steeper. T.A.~ Horwitz, C.A., Moore, B., Henle, W., Henle, G., El1is, R., and Flynn, P.J.:  Severe thrombocytopenia in Epstein-Barr virus-induced mononucleosis: Clinical and laboratory data from seven cases with platelet counts below 26,000/mm3. Western J. Med. 1989; 150(2):170-173.

• Steeper, T.A., Horwitz, C.A., Peterson, L., Belzer, M., and Henle, W.  Heterophil-negative mononucleosis-like illnesses with atypical lymphocytosis in patients undergoing seroconversion to the human immunodeficiency virus.  Am. J. Clin. Pathol.  1988; 89:169-174.

• Berman D.A., Burgess, J.B., and Steeper, T.A.  Myocardial abscess due to Fusobacterium following acute myocardial infarction.  Clin. Cardio.  198; 11 ; 575-577.

• Horwitz, C.A., Steeper, T.A. et al:  HHV-6 induced mononucleosis-like illnesses, Chapter 13, pp 159-172 in HHV-6, Perspectives in Medical Virology, Vol 4, 1992, Elsevier, Ablashi, D.V., ed.

• Steeper, T.A., et al: Bacillary Epithelioid Angiomatoses involving liver, spleen, and skin.  Am J. Clin Pathol 97(5): 713-718, 1992.

• Horwitz, C.A., and Steeper, T.A.: Immunoserology of Infectious Mononucleosis.  Chapter 58, pp. 1535-1542, in Clinical Laboratory Medicine, McClatchkey, ed.  Williams and Wilkins, 1994.