Suntrea Hammer, M.D.

Pathology

Biography

Dr. Suntrea Hammer received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She completed additional training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, as well as focused fellowship training in general surgical pathology and gastrointestinal and liver pathology at the University of Michigan. Her practice focuses on neoplastic and inflammatory pathology with an emphasis on the liver and the gastrointestinal tract.

Her research interests include neuroendocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, neoplasms of the liver and gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary tracts, and medical education.

In 2019 and 2020, Dr. Hammer was named a Texas Monthly Super Doctor Rising Star.

Education & Training

Medical School - University of Michigan Medical School (2003-2007)
Fellowship - University of Michigan Health System (2011-2012), Surgical Pathology
Residency - University of Michigan Health System (2007-2011), Anatomic & Clinical Pathology
Fellowship - University of Michigan Health System (2012-2013), Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases

Professional Associations & Affiliations

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (2007), Membership Committee
American Society of Clinical Pathologists (2007), Education Committee
Texas Society of Pathologists (2014)
College of American Pathologists (2007)
American Gastroenterological Association (2011)

Honors & Awards

Texas Monthly Super Doctors, Rising Star 2020
Texas Monthly Super Doctors, Rising Star 2019

Books & Publications

Publications
- Clinical and Histopathologic Features Can Help Target Immunohistochemical Stain Use in the Diagnosis of Viral Esophagitis.
  Desai N, Albahra S, Lucas E, Singal AG, Hammer STG, Gopal P, Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology : AIMM 2021 Aug
- Metastases can occur in cirrhotic livers with patent portal veins.
  Mahdi Z, Ettel MG, Gonzalez RS, Hart J, Alpert L, Fang J, Liu N, Hammer ST, Panarelli N, Cheng J, Greenson JK, Swanson PE, Westerhoff M, Diagnostic pathology 2021 Feb 16 1 18
- Reproducibility of AJCC Criteria for Classifying Deeply Invasive Colon Cancers Is Suboptimal for Consistent Cancer Staging.
  Panarelli NC, Hammer STG, Lin J, Gopal P, Nalbantoglu I, Zhou L, Cheng J, Gersten AJ, McHugh JB, Parkash V, Lucas E, Westerhoff M, The American journal of surgical pathology 2020 10 44 10 1381-1388
- Hispanic/Latino Patients with Gastric Adenocarcinoma Have Distinct Molecular Profiles Including a High Rate of Germline CDH1 Variants.
  Wang SC, Yeu Y, Hammer STG, Xiao S, Zhu M, Hong C, Clemenceau JR, Yoon LY, Nassour I, Shen J, Agarwal D, Reznik SI, Mansour JC, Yopp AC, Zhu H, Hwang TH, Porembka MR, Cancer research 2020 06 80 11 2114-2124
- When Phenotype Does Not Match Genotype-The Importance of Returning to the Raw Data.
  Wachsmann MB, Verma UN, Arriaga YE, Hammer ST, Oliver D, The journal of applied laboratory medicine 2019 11 4 3 446-450
- Assessment of circularized E7 RNA, GLUT1, and PD-L1 in anal squamous cell carcinoma.
  Chamseddin BH, Lee EE, Kim J, Zhan X, Yang R, Murphy KM, Lewis C, Hosler GA, Hammer ST, Wang RC, Oncotarget 2019 Oct 10 57 5958-5969
- Lymphocytic esophagitis: an update on histologic diagnosis, endoscopic findings, and natural history.
  Patil DT, Hammer S, Langer R, Yantiss RK Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2018 Dec 1434 1 185-191
- Novel Application of Extracorporeal Photopheresis as Treatment of Graft-versus-Host Disease Following Liver Transplantation.
  Brown TJ, Gentry C, Hammer ST, Hwang CS, Vusirikala M, Patel PA, Matevosyan K, Tujios SR, Mufti AR, Collins RH ACG case reports journal 2017 4 e48
- Esterase-activatable ?-lapachone prodrug micelles for NQO1-targeted lung cancer therapy.
  Ma X, Huang X, Moore Z, Huang G, Kilgore JA, Wang Y, Hammer S, Williams NS, Boothman DA, Gao J Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society 2015 Feb 200C 201-211
- Beyond acute appendicitis: imaging and pathologic spectrum of appendiceal pathology.
  Gaetke-Udager K, Maturen KE, Hammer SG Emergency radiology 2014 Oct 21 5 535-42
- Sporadic lymphoplasmacytic cholecystitis: a clinicopathologic entity.
  Hammer ST, Appelman HD American journal of clinical pathology 2014 Aug 142 2 209-12
- A Novel Th17-Prone CD146+CCR5+ T-Cell Population As an Early Marker of Intestinal Graft-Versus-Host Disease
  Wei Li, Liangyi Liu, Aurelie Gomez, Qing Zhang, Jilu Zhang, Abdulraouf Ramadan, Christen L Mumaw, Joel K. Greenson, Suntrea Hammer, Jingmei Lin, Thomas M. Braun, Di Jiang, Elizabeth Virts, Stephanie L Kelich, Hong Wei Chu, Samir Hanash, Helmut Hanenberg and Sophie Paczesny Blood 2014 124 21
- Pancreatoblastoma: a rare, adult pancreatic tumor with many faces.
  Hammer ST, Owens SR Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 2013 Sep 137 9 1224-6
- The clinical significance of duodenal lymphocytosis with normal villus architecture.
  Hammer ST, Greenson JK Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 2013 Sep 137 9 1216-9
- Low Paneth cell numbers at onset of gastrointestinal GVHD identify patients at high risk for non-relapse mortality.
  Levine JE, Huber E, Hammer ST, Harris AC, Greenson JK, Braun TM, Ferrara JL, Holler E Blood 2013 Jun
- Anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma presenting as retroperitoneal fibrosis.
  Hammer ST, Jentzen JM, Lim MS Human pathology 2011 Nov 42 11 1810-2
- Robot-assisted laparoscopic myomectomy versus abdominal myomectomy: a comparison of short-term surgical outcomes and immediate costs.
  Advincula AP, Xu X, Goudeau S, Ransom SB Journal of minimally invasive gynecology 2007 Nov-Dec 14 6 698-705