Ivo Francischetti, MD, PhD
Hematologic Pathology
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Ivo Francischetti
Professional Titles
- Director, Hematology and Coagulation Laboratory
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Background
Ivo M.B. Francischetti, M.D., Ph.D., is an assistant professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is hematology, coagulation and hematopathology. Dr. Francischetti received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. After moving to the United States, he worked as staff scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/National Institutes of Health (NIH), in vascular biology, vector and molecular biology, and cerebral malaria. He completed his residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in New York, followed by a fellowship in hematopathology at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Francischetti joined the faculty in July 2020, and as Director of the Hematology and Coagulation Laboratory in 2021. He envisions applying his clinical expertise in coagulation and hematopathology in the study of bone marrow and hematolymphoid neoplasms. He has published several peer-reviewed publications, review articles and book chapters and has served as a Chair of an educational subcommittee of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH). He is currently a member of Hematology and Pathology Societies.
Selected Publications
Francischetti IM, Toomer V, Zhang Y, Jani J, Siddiqui Z, Brotman DJ, Hooper JE, Kickler TS. Upregulation of pulmonary tissue factor, loss of thrombomodulin and immunothrombosis in SARS-CoV-2 infection. E Clinical Medicine 2021 Sep;39:101069
Francischetti IM, Valenzuela JG, Andersen JF, Mather TN, Ribeiro JM. Ixolaris, a novel recombinant tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) from the salivary gland of the tick, Ixodes scapularis: identification of factor X and factor Xa as scaffolds for the inhibition of factor VIIa/tissue factor complex. Blood. 2002 May 15;99(10):3602-12
Obiorah, IE, Francischetti IM, Wang H-W, Ahn IE, Wang W, Raffeld M, Kreitman RJ, Wiestner A, Calvo KR. Concurrent chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma and hairy cell leukemia: clinical, pathologic and molecular features. Leuk Lymphoma 2020 Aug 5; 1-11
Pittaluga S, Francischetti IM, Song JY, Jaffe ES. Chapter 78: Lymphomas. In: Clinical Immunology, 6th Edition. Eds., Robert R Rich et al. Elsevier, 2022.
Schechter ME, Andrade BB, He T, Richter GH, Tosh KW, Policicchio BB, Singh A, Raehtz KD, Sheikh V, Ma D, Brocca-Cofano E, Apetrei C, Tracy R, Ribeiro RM, Sher A, Francischetti IMB, Pandrea I, Sereti I. Inflammatory monocytes expressing tissue factor drive SIV and HIV coagulopathy. Sci Transl Med. 2017 Aug 30;9(405)
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
National Institutes of Health
Fellowship, Hematopathology, 2019Montefiore Medical Center
Residency, Pathology - Anatomic & Clinical, 2018Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Graduate School, PhD, 1997Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Medical Education, MD, 1995Insurance
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- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)