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Publications
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The clinicopathologic features and molecular alterations in pediatric gliomas harboring NTRK fusions
Bitar M, Timmons C, Uddin N, Rajaram V United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). 2026 -
A comparative evaluation of canine meningioma supporting the canine patient as a naturally occurring animal model for human meningioma: A report from the NCI Comparative Brain Tumor Consortium (CBTC) Meningioma Pathology Board
Miller A, Church M, Rissi D, Koehler J, Beck J, Belluco S, Bitar M, Chkheidze R, Corps K, Matiasek K, Phillips J, Rajan S, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Yip S, Shih J, Mazcko C, LeBlanc A Veterinary Oncology 2026 -
Comparative pathology boards facilitate the translation of knowledge between canine and human cancer patients.
Beck JA, Mazcko C, Belluco S, Bitar M, Brat D, Bush JW, Chkheidze R, Corps KN, Frank C, Giannini C, Horbinski C, Huse JT, Koehler JW, Miller AD, Miller CR, O'Sullivan MG, Phillips JJ, Rissi DR, Schott CR, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Yip S, LeBlanc AK, Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2025 May e70013 -
Molecular diversity of embryonic-type neuroectodermal tumors arising from testicular germ cell tumors.
Zong Y, Huang R, Bitar M, Drakaki A, Zhang L, Lin DI, Ye H, Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc 2024 Dec 100702 -
Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney; Two consecutive cases, with district histomorphology and molecular alteration, at a single institution.
Zamiara P, Bitar M, Karne V, Ryan Schmidt R, Shillingford N, Warren M, , Zhou S, Wang L. Society for pediatric pathology (SPP). 2024 -
The clinicopathologic features and genetic alterations in three cases of pediatric colon adenocarcinoma.
Bitar M, Yang B, Harrell M, Raca G, Ryan Schmidt R, Shillingford N, Warren M, Zamiara P, Zhou S, Wang L. Society for pediatric pathology (SPP). 2024 -
Lipofibromatosis-like neuronal tumor presenting as a hamartoma in a 12 year old boy.
Thomas N, Dupuis D, Luketic L, Munabi N, Magee W, Bitar M, Shillingford N. Central American and Caribbean Congress of Pathology 2024 -
Colonic Malakoplakia in a child with activated PI3K-delta Syndrome.
Harrell M, Hook M, Joseph N, Bitar M, Costales C, Wang L, Shillingford N. Society for pediatric pathology (SPP). 2023 -
Quantitative Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for The Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Postmortem Brain Specimens.
Bitar M, McCortney K, Horbinski G, Jennings L. United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). 2023 -
Molecular Diversity of Testicular Embryonic-Type Neuroectodermal Tumors (ENETs; former PNETs) Arising from Germ Cell Tumors.
Zong Y, Huang R, Bitar M, Drakaki A, Zhang L, Lin DI, Ye H. United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). 2023 -
Atypical cellular neurothekeoma in children; two case reports with pan-cancer targeted next-generation sequencing and chromosomal microarray analysis.
Yang B, M. Harrell M, Bitar M, Zamiara P, Warren M, Shillingford N, Zhou S, Raca G, Schmidt R, Pawel B, Wang L. Society for pediatric pathology (SPP). 2023 -
Clinical Reasoning: Progressive Proximal Weakness in a 61-Year-Old Man.
Yu M, Bitar M, Collins M, Tavee J, Neurology 2022 Jan 98 3 122-127 -
Incidentally found splenic endometriosis during laparoscopic splenectomy for large splenic cyst.
Mills SA, Bitar M, Mueller KH. Journal of American College of Surgeons case reviews 2022 3 7 26-29 -
Histological analysis of the dura-membrane interface of chronic subdural hematomas.
Potts M, Bitar M, Alwakeal A, Jahromi BS. Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS). 2022 -
The Frequency of Focal Cortical Dysplasia-Like Histologic Features Near Adult-Type Diffuse Gliomas.
Bitar M, Chornenkyy Y, Flanagan ME, Steffens A, McCortney K, Horbinski C, Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2022 Jan 81 1 48-53 -
Case Report: Challenges and Triumphs in a Case of Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation with Pontine Perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids.
Tong Jia D, Brooker S, Bitar M, Grebenciucova E. American Neurological Association (ANA). 2022 -
Placental membrane myofibers, is it a feature of morbidly adherent placenta?
Gulliver J, Bitar M. Society for pediatric pathology (SPP). 2022 -
Placental vascular maldevelopment, intrauterine growth restriction, and pulmonary hypertension.
Mathias M, Bitar M, Aldulescu M, Birkett R, Perez M, Mestan K, Pulmonary circulation 2020 10 4 2045894020970056 -
Histologic Features of Cortical Dysplasia are a Common Finding Near Diffusely Infiltrative Gliomas.
Chornenkyy Y, Bitar M, and Horbinski G. American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP). 2020 -
The natural history of grade 2 pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma.
Feldman A, Snuderl M, Jennings L, Horbinski G, and Bitar M. American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP). 2020 -
Delayed-Onset Cyst Formation After Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy: Unreported Long-Term Complication.
Carminucci A, Parr M, Bitar M, Danish SF, World neurosurgery 2019 Apr 124 219-223 -
A Unique Case of Recurrent Intracranial Extravascular Papillary Endothelial Hyperplasia After Gross Total Resection and Brachytherapy.
Munier SM, Bitar M, Cohen M, Danish SF, World neurosurgery 2018 Sep 117 20-24 -
A newly diagnosed case of polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumor of the young.
Bitar M, Danish SF, Rosenblum MK, Clinical neuropathology 2018 37 4 178-181 -
A rare case of bilateral cavitary inferior olive lesions in brain autopsy of an adult patient
Bitar M, Zaldana F Human Pathology: Case Reports 2018 12 36-38 -
Teaching NeuroImages: hemispheric-onset Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with concordant MRI and EEG findings.
Yung B, Moeller JJ, Bitar M, Chong D, Neurology 2010 Oct 75 16 e66 -
An Envelope Mapping Algorithm and Its Applications in Enhancement and Segmentation of Pancreatic Cell Images
Wu HS, Bitar M, Burstein D, Ramer M, Gil J Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 2009 53 3 030501-6 -
Urinary bladder adenocarcinoma arising in a spina bifida patient.
Bitar M, Mandel E, Kirschenbaum AM, Unger PD, Annals of diagnostic pathology 2007 Dec 11 6 453-6 -
A case of lower gastrointestinal bleeding and small bowel tumorous masses.
Bitar M, Strauchen JA, Sequeira RJ, Wu M, Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 2005 Jun 129 6 800-2 -
Fast computerized texture analysis in pancreas cytology without accurate nuclear segmentation.
Bitar M, Wu HS, Szporn AA, Burstein DE and Gil J. Modern Pathology 2005 18, supplement 1:326A -
Histological grading of disease activity in chronic IBD, inter-and intra-observer variation among pathologists with different levels of experience.
Fiel MI, Qin L, Suriawinata A, Xu R, Qui L, Bitar M, Lee L and Harpaz N. Academy of Pathology. 2003
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The clinicopathologic features and molecular alterations in pediatric gliomas harboring NTRK fusions
Mireille Bitar, M.D.
- Pathology
Education & Training
- Medical Education - Unknown Licensure Board
- Medical Education - Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Medical Education - Aleppo University School of Medicine (1991-1998)
- Residency - Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2002-2005), Pathology
- Residency - New York Presbyterian Columbia University (2009-2011), Anatomic & Clinical Pathology
- Fellowship - New York Presbyterian Columbia University (2009-2011), Neuropathology
- Fellowship - UCLA (2022-2023), Molecular Genetics
- Fellowship - Children's Hospital Los Angeles (2023-2024), Pathology