{"id":1786,"date":"2012-04-10T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/?page_id=1786"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T13:58:59","slug":"martha-skinner-m-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/martha-skinner-m-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Skinner, M.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"\/amyloid\/files\/2012\/04\/Skinner-pic_red-shirt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Skinner pic_red shirt\" src=\"\/amyloid\/files\/2012\/04\/Skinner-pic_red-shirt.jpg\" title=\"Skinner pic_red shirt\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1810\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Professor Emerita<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director of Special Projects, Amyloidosis Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director <\/strong>(1988-2007),<br \/>\n<strong>Amyloid Treatment\u00a0&amp; Research Program<\/strong> <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Affiliation: <\/strong>Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical College of Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Fellowship: Boston University School of Medicine, Rheumatology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Positions and Honors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President-Elect, International Society of Amyloidosis<\/li>\n<li>Associate Editor, Amyloid: International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Investigation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research interests<\/strong>:<br \/>\nTreatment and research of amyloid diseases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected\u00a0Publications <\/strong>(from 350)<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comenzo RL, Reece D, Palladini G, Seldin D, Sanchorawala V, Landau H, Falk R, Wells K, Solomon A, Wechalekar A, Zonder J, Dispenzieri A, Gertz M, Streicher H, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>, Kyle RA, Merlini G:\u00a0 A framework for clinical research in systemic light-chain (AL) amyloidosis: consensus report of the first Amyloidosis Foundation roundtable.\u00a0 Leukemia, in press 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Seldin DC, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>:\u00a0Amyloidosis, In Kelly\u2019s Textbook of Rheumatology, 9<sup>th<\/sup> edition, Ed by S Ruddy, CB Sledge, JS Sargent, RC Budd.\u00a0 Elsevier, Philadelphia, in press, 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skinner M<\/strong>: Editorial, The International Society of Amyloidosis: brief comments on our Symposia and our Society.\u00a0 Amyloid: J Prot Folding Disorders.\u00a0 19:3-4, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Charlot M, Seldin DC, O\u2019Hara C, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>, Sanchorawala V:\u00a0 Localized amyloidosis of the breast:\u00a0 a case series.\u00a0 Amyloid: J Prot Folding Disorders, 18: 72-75, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Cibeira MT, Sanchorawala V, Seldin DC, Quillen K, Berk JL, Dember LM, Segal A, Ruberg F, Meier-Ewert H, Andrea N, Sloan JM, Finn K, Doros G, Blade J, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>:\u00a0 Outcome of AL amyloidosis after high-dose melphalan and autologous stem-cell transplantation: long-term results in a series of 421 patients. Blood, 118:4346-4352, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Cowan AJ, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>, Berk JL, Sloan JM, O\u2019Hara C, Seldin DS, Sanchorawala V:\u00a0 Macroglossia\u2014not always AL amyloidosis. Amyloid: J. Prot Folding Disorders, 18: 83-86, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Girnius S, Dember L, Doros G, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>:\u00a0 The changing face of AA amyloidosis: a single center experience.\u00a0 XIIth International Symposium on Amyloidosis, 18, suppl 1:226-228, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Seldin DC, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>: Amyloidosis, in Harrison\u2019s Principles of Internal Medicine, 18<sup>th<\/sup> edition, Ed. By DL Longo, AS Fauci, DL Kasper, SK Hauser, JL Jameson, J Loscalzo. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp 945-950, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Seldin DC, Andrea N, Berenbaum I, Berk JL, Connors L, Dember LM, Doros G, Fennessey S, Finn K, Girnius S, Lerner A, Libbey C, Meier-Ewert H, O\u2019Connell R, Quillen K, Ruberg FL, Sam F, Segal A, Shelton A,\u00a0<strong>Skinner M<\/strong>, Sloan JM, Wiesman JF, and Sanchorawala V:\u00a0 High dose melphalan and autologous stem cell transplantation for AL amyloidosis: recent trends in treatment-related mortality and one-year survival at a single institution.\u00a0 XIIth International Symposium on Amyloidosis, 18, suppl 1:127-129, 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skinner M<\/strong>: Book review, Amyloidosis: Diagnosis and Treatment, Ed by M Gertz, V Rajkumar. Europ J Heme, 88:360, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Dey BR, Chung S, Spitzer TR, Zheng H, MacGillivray TE, Seldin DC, MsAfee S, Ballen K, Attar E, Wang T, Shin J, Newton-Cheh C, Moore S, Sanchorawala V, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>, Madsen JC, Semigran MJ:\u00a0 Cardiac transplantation followed by dose-intensive melphalan and autologous stem-cell transplantation for AL amyloidosis and heart failure. Transplantation, 90:905-911, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Girnius S, Seldin DC, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>, Finn KT, Quillen K, Doros G, Sanchorawala V:\u00a0 Short and long term outcome of treatment with high-dose melphalan and stem cell transplantation for multiple myeloma-associated AL amyloidosis.\u00a0 Annals of Hematology, 89:579-584, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Klimtchuk ES, Gursky O, Patel R, Laporte KL, Connors LH, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>, Seldin DC:\u00a0 The critical role of the constant region in thermal stability and aggregation of amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light chain.\u00a0 Biochemistry, 49: 9848-9857, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Rosenzweig M, Seldin DC, Remick DG, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>, Quillen K, Oran B, F Febrile reactions occurring with second cycle of high dose melphalan and stem cell transplantation in patients with AL amyloidosis: a \u201cmelphalan recall\u201d reaction.\u00a0 Bone Marrow Transplantation, 45: 21-24, 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Sanchorawala V, Seldin DC, Berk JL, Sloan M, Doros G, <strong>Skinner M<\/strong>:\u00a0 Oral cyclic melphalan and dexamethasone for patients with AL amyloidosis.\u00a0 Clin. Lymphoma, Myeloma, Leukemia 10: 469-472, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skinner M<\/strong>, Merlini G:\u00a0 Introducing the new editor of Amyloid:\u00a0 the journal of protein folding disorders, Per Westermark, M.D, Ph.D.\u00a0 Amyloid: J Prot Folding Disorders, 17: 99-100, 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emerita Director of Special Projects, Amyloidosis Center Director (1988-2007), Amyloid Treatment\u00a0&amp; Research Program Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology Education: Medical College of Pennsylvania Fellowship: Boston University School of Medicine, Rheumatology Positions and Honors President-Elect, International Society of Amyloidosis Associate Editor, Amyloid: International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Investigation Research interests: Treatment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5531,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1786\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/amyloid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}