Carolyn Compton

About

Dr. Carolyn Compton is an academic pathologist specializing in gastrointestinal disease, with board certification in both anatomic and clinical pathology. She holds the position of Professor of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and is also a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic. Additionally, she serves as an adjunct professor of pathology at the University of Arizona and Johns Hopkins University. Her extensive career includes roles such as former professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, chief of Gastrointestinal Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and pathologist-in-chief of the Boston Shriners Children’s Hospital. She has served as CEO and president of the Critical Path Institute, director of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research at the National Cancer Institute, and chair of the Department of Pathology at McGill University. Dr. Compton is actively involved in various professional organizations, including serving as chair of the Precision Medicine Core of the American Joint Committee on Cancer and chair of the Pre-analytics for Precision Medicine Project Team at the College of American Pathologists. She has authored over 500 scientific manuscripts, review articles, books, and chapters, contributing significantly to the fields of biomarker development, biobanking, and precision medicine.

Research topics

• Information Retrieval
• Computer Science
• Data Mining
• Internal medicine
• Genetics
• Pathology
• Gynecology
• Database
• Oncology
• Family medicine

Selected publications

• Mismatch Repair and Microsatellite Instability Testing for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: ASCO Endorsement of College of American Pathologists Guideline

  Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2023 · 110 citations

  PURPOSE: The College of American Pathologists (CAP) has developed a guideline on testing for mismatch repair (MMR) and microsatellite instability (MSI) for patients considered for immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. ASCO has a policy and set of procedures for endorsing clinical practice guidelines that have been developed by other professional organizations. METHODS: The CAP guideline was reviewed for developmental rigor by methodologists. An ASCO Endorsement Panel subsequently reviewed the con…

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• Pathology: Hub and Integrator of Modern, Multidisciplinary [Precision] Oncology

  Clinical Cancer Research · 2021-12-10 · 11 citations

  articleOpen access

  Every profession has an essential, behind-the-scenes component without which it cannot function. Medicine is no exception. Pathologists are one of medicine's group of specialists whose work as diagnosticians is critical for patient care. This article describes the multifaceted role that pathologists play in oncology practice and cancer research. To do so, we will highlight the role of pathologists in a typical "day-in-the-life" of a patient's journey in cancer care. Clinicians, clinical trialist…

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• Towards Preanalytical Best Practices for Liquid Biopsy Studies: A BLOODPAC Landscape Analysis

  Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics · 2024-08-20 · 8 citations

  reviewOpen access

  BLOODPAC is a public-private consortium that develops best practices, coordinates clinical and translational research, and manages the BLOODPAC Data Commons to broadly support the liquid biopsy community and accelerate regulatory review to aid patient accessibility. BLOODPAC previously recommended 11 preanalytical minimal technical data elements (MTDEs) for BLOODPAC-sponsored studies and data submitted to BLOODPAC Data Commons. The current landscape analysis evaluates the overlap of the BLOODPAC…

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• Cancer: The Enemy from Within: A Comprehensive Textbook of Cancer’s Causes, Complexities and Consequences

  2020-05-07 · 8 citations

  book1st authorCorresponding
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• Correction to: Cancer: The Enemy from Within

  2020-07-30 · 5 citations

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01GM035242

  NIH · $567k · 1994

Frequent coauthors

• Donna Niedzwiecki

  Duke University

  308 shared

• Monica M. Bertagnolli

  275 shared

• Robert J. Mayer

  262 shared

• Richard M. Goldberg

  Applied Physical Sciences (United States)

  169 shared

• Robert S. Warren

  University of California, San Francisco

  158 shared

• Patrick L. Fitzgibbons

  St. Jude Medical Center

  155 shared

• Mark Redston

  Harvard University

  152 shared

• L P Fielding

  University of Hull

  133 shared

Education

• B.A.

  Bryn Mawr College

  1969

• M.D.

  Harvard Medical School

  1977

• Ph.D.

  Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

  1977

Awards & honors

• Aesulapian Society – Harvard Medical School (1972)
• President’s Award – College of American Pathologists (2000)
• Frank W. Harman Award – College of American Pathologists (20…
• Award of Merit – NIH (Group award for the Biorepository Coor…
• Award of Merit – NIH (Group award for the Biorepository and…

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