Jenny Weon, M.D., Ph.D.

Pathology

Biography

Dr. Jenny Weon joined the Department of Pathology at UT Southwestern as an Assistant Instructor in 2024 and currently serves as the Medical Director of Pathology Informatics and Associate Medical Informatics Officer for Parkland Health. She is concurrently completing her second year of Neuropathology fellowship.

Dr. Weon received her MD and PhD through the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern in 2019 and completed pathology residency at UT Southwestern (co-chief resident, 2021-2022). She recently completed the Clinical Informatics portion of her integrated Clinical Informatics and Neuropathology fellowships at UT Southwestern.

She is passionate about utilizing data and incorporating new technology to improve the quality of patient care and advance the practice of pathology. Her current operational priority is the implementation of digital pathology and her current research priority is to develop a predictive model for Alzheimer's Disease using multimodal data that can be implemented in the electronic health record at the point-of-care.

Education & Training

Graduate School -

Professional Associations & Affiliations

American Association of Neuropathologists
American Medical Informatics Association
Association of Pathology Informatics, Co-Chair, Membership Committee (2024-2026)

Honors & Awards

Bruce D. Fallis, M.D. Resident Teaching Award, UT Southwestern 2024
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, 100th Annual American Association of Neuropathologists 2024
Educational Grant, Mass Spectrometry & Advances in the Clinical Lab 2024 2024
Bruce D. Fallis, M.D. Resident Teaching Award, UT Southwestern 2022
Department of Pathology Service Award, UT Southwestern 2022
Texas Society of Pathologists Educational Foundation Scholarship 2020
Society of 67 of the Association of Pathology Chairs Trainee Project Grants in Health Services Research and Education 2019
Vernie A. Stembridge Award for Excellence in Pathology, UT Southwestern 2019
Cecile M. Pickart Student Travel Award, Cold Spring Harbor: The Ubiquitin Family Conference 2017

Books & Publications

Publications
- Early identification of patients at risk for iron-deficiency anemia using deep learning techniques.
  Garduno-Rapp NE, Ng YS, Weon JL, Saleh SN, Lehmann CU, Tian C, Quinn A, American journal of clinical pathology 2024 Apr
- Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization.
  Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, Aarts J, Ahmad HB, Araj E, Bauml JA, Benham-Hutchins M, Boyd AD, Brecht-Doscher A, Butler-Henderson K, Butte AJ, Cardilo AB, Chilukuri N, Cho MK, Cohen JK, Craven CK, Crusco S, Dadabhoy F, Dash D, DeBolt C, Elkin PL, Fayanju OA, Fochtmann LJ, Graham JV, Hanna JJ, Hersh W, Hofford MR, Hron JD, Huang SS, Jackson BR, Kaplan B, Kelly W, Ko K, Koppel R, Kurapati N, Labbad G, Lee JJ, Lehmann CU, Leitner S, Liao ZC, Medford RJ, Melnick ER, Muniyappa AN, Murray SG, Neinstein AB, Nichols-Johnson V, Novak LL, Ogan WS, Ozeran L, Pageler NM, Pandita D, Perumbeti A, Petersen C, Pierce L, Puttagunta R, Ramaswamy P, Rogers KM, Rosenbloom ST, Ryan A, Saleh S, Sarabu C, Schreiber R, Shaw KA, Sim I, Sirintrapun SJ, Solomonides A, Spector JD, Starren JB, Stoffel M, Subbian V, Swanson K, Tomes A, Trang K, Unertl KM, Weon JL, Whooley MA, Wiley K, Williamson DFK, Winkelstein P, Wong J, Xie J, Yarahuan JKW, Yung N, Zera C, Ratanawongsa N, Sadasivaiah S, Applied clinical informatics 2023 Jan 14 1 164-171
- Histologically heterogeneous pediatric glioneuronal tumor with FGFR1::TACC1 fusion.
  Canan F, Daoud EV, Weon JL, Raisanen JM, Burns DK, Hatanpaa KJ, Park JY, Kelley S, Rajaram V, Clinical neuropathology 2022 41 4 185-189
- Esophagus-Like Bronchus: A Noncommunicating Bronchopulmonary Foregut Malformation.
  Weon JL, Megison S, Timmons CF, Rakheja D, International journal of surgical pathology 2021 Dec 29 8 847-849
- Recurrent lymphangioleiomyomatosis in a lung allograft with COVID-19: autopsy case report and literature review
  Sathirareuangchai S, Weon JL, Tintle S, Batra K, Yan SX, Torrealba JR Surgical and Experimental Pathology 2021 4 1-8
- Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa with clinical features of pyoderma gangrenosum
  J Pineider, J Weon, L West, B Nanes, T Vandergriff, MM Mauskar Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology Case Reports 2020 6 12 1291-1293
- Novel therapeutic approaches to xeroderma pigmentosum.
  Weon JL, Glass DA, The British journal of dermatology 2019 Aug 181 2 249-255
- Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Assembly Is Evolutionarily Tuned by a Cancer-Amplified Ubiquitin Ligase.
  Weon JL, Yang SW, Potts PR, Molecular cell 2018 Jan 69 1 113-125.e6
- The MAGE protein family and cancer.
  Weon JL, Potts PR, Current opinion in cell biology 2015 Dec 37 1-8
- Degradation of AMPK by a cancer-specific ubiquitin ligase.
  Pineda CT, Ramanathan S, Fon Tacer K, Weon JL, Potts MB, Ou YH, White MA, Potts PR, Cell 2015 Feb 160 4 715-728

Research

Artificial intelligence
Brain tumors
Iron metabolism
Neurodegeneration