Annie McLean, D.M.D., M.S.

Pathology

Biography

Dr. McLean is a dual-trained oral and head and neck pathologist. She earned her D.M.D. from Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry in 2011. After practicing public health dentistry in New Mexico for five years, Dr. McLean undertook Texas A&M University College of Dentistry's oral and maxillofacial pathology residency program. She became a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology in 2019. The following year, she worked as a research assistant at UT Southwestern while finishing her MS in oral biology at Texas A&M. Dr. McLean completed a clinical Instructorship in head and neck/endocrine pathology at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in 2021, after which she returned to UT Southwestern. She is an Assistant Professor (and the first dentist) in the Department of Pathology. Dr. McLean lives in Dallas with her husband, Jeff, and their two wire-haired dachshunds and Maine coon cat.

Education & Training

Fellowship - Emory University Hospital Midtown (2020-2021), Head and Neck Endocrine Pathlogy
Residency - Texas A&M University College of Dentistry (2016-2019), Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology
Medical Education - Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry (2007-2011), Doctor of Dental Medicine
Graduate School - Texas A&M University College of Dentistry (2016-2019), Master of Science Oral Biology
Other - Texas A&M University College of Dentistry (2016-2019), Master of Science

Professional Associations & Affiliations

American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology (2010), Member
North American Society of Head & Neck Pathology (2018), Member
International Academy of Oral Pathology (2019), Member
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (2021), Member

Books & Publications

Books
- Survival Guide to Oral Pathology
  Almazyad, A, McLean AC, Wright JM (2024), Innovative Science Press
Publications
- The Pathologist as the Patient: Professional Insights Gained from a Personal Health Journey.
  McLean AC, Head and neck pathology 2024 Sep 18 1 88
- A case report and diagnostic discussion of maxillofacial low-grade myofibroblastic sarcoma.
  Spresser WJ, Neal TW, McLean AC, Schlieve T, Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology 2024 May
- A Subset of Salivary Intercalated Duct Lesions Harbors Recurrent CTNNB1 and HRAS Mutations: A Molecular Link to Basal Cell Adenoma and Epithelial-Myoepithelial Carcinoma?
  McLean AC, Rooper LM, Gagan J, Thompson LDR, Bishop JA, Head and neck pathology 2023 Jun 17 2 393-400
- Cystic Lesions of the Jaws: The Top 10 Differential Diagnoses to Ponder.
  McLean AC, Vargas PA, Head and neck pathology 2023 Mar 17 1 85-98
- Sinonasal Amoebiasis: An Unexpected Cause of Sinonasal Necroinflammatory Disease.
  McLean AC, Bishop JA, Guarner J, Montone KT, Morris CP, Sloan P, Rooper LM, The American journal of surgical pathology 2023 Jan 47 1 102-110
- Microsecretory Adenocarcinoma of the Skin Harboring Recurrent SS18 Fusions: A Cutaneous Analogue to a Newly Described Salivary Gland Tumor.
  Bishop JA, Williams EA, McLean-Holden AC, Gagan J, Rooper LM, Jordan RCK, LeBoit PE, Journal of cutaneous pathology 2022 Jun
- Frankly Invasive Carcinoma Ex-intraductal Carcinoma: Expanding on an Emerging and Perplexing Concept in Salivary Gland Tumor Pathology.
  McLean-Holden AC, Rooper LM, Lubin DJ, Magliocca KR, Manucha V, Sadow PM, Tobias J, Vargo RJ, Thompson LDR, Heidarian A, Weinreb I, Wenig B, Gagan J, Hernandez-Prera JC, Bishop JA, Head and neck pathology 2022 Jan
- Low Molecular Weight Cytokeratin Immunohistochemistry Reveals That Most Salivary Gland Warthin Tumors and Lymphadenomas Arise in Intraparotid Lymph Nodes.
  McLean-Holden AC, Bishop JA, Head and neck pathology 2021 Jun 15 2 438-442
- NUT Carcinoma in a Patient with Unusually Long Survival and False Negative FISH Results.
  McLean-Holden AC, Moore SA, Gagan J, French CA, Sher D, Truelson JM, Bishop JA, Head and neck pathology 2021 Jun 15 2 698-703
- Interphysician weight bias: A cross-sectional observational survey study to guide implicit bias training in the medical workplace.
  McLean ME, McLean LE, McLean-Holden AC, Campbell LF, Horner AM, Kulkarni ML, Melville LD, Fernandez EA, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2021 Apr
- Pediatric Warthin-like Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma: Report of Two Cases with One Persistent/Recurrent as Conventional Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma.
  Daoud EV, McLean-Holden AC, Pfeifer CM, Timmons CF, Oliai BR, Bishop JA, Head and neck pathology 2020 Dec 14 4 923-928
- Spindle-cell variant of ameloblastic carcinoma: a report of 3 cases and demonstration of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in tumor progression.
  McLean-Holden AC, Bishop JA, Kessler HP, Myers LL, Radwan AM, Wildey TC, Wright JM, Cheng YL, Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology 2019 Sep 128 3 e113-e121

Research