Ashley M. Cimino-Mathews, MD
Pathology
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Ashley M. Cimino-Mathews
Professional Titles
- Director, Breast Pathology Program
Primary Academic Title
Professor of Pathology
Background
Dr. Ashley Cimino-Mathews is a professor of pathology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include general surgical pathology and breast pathology. She joined the Breast Pathology Service at Johns Hopkins in July 2012.
Dr. Cimino-Mathews obtained her B.S. degree with highest honors from Emory University, where she studied breast cancer tumor vaccine development. She received her M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College, followed by a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Cimino-Mathews's ongoing research interests include breast cancer immunotherapy, the pathogenesis of breast cancer metastasis, and breast stromal neoplasms.
She is strongly committed to women's health care and breast cancer research. Her numerous awards for scholarship and research include Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, the Weill Cornell "Good Physician" Award, the 4th Annual Safeway Breast Cancer Retreat Runner-up Poster Award in 2011 and the Johns Hopkins Pathology Young Investigator's Day Top Prize in Clinical in 2011, a Career Development Award in 2013, the Pathology Housestaff Anatomic Pathology Teaching Award in 2014, and acceptance into the Emerging Women's Leadership Program in 2015.
Additional Academic Titles
Professor of Oncology
Research Interests
breast stromal and spindle cell neoplasms, Breast tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy, pathogenesis of breast cancer metastasis
Research Summary
Dr. Cimino-Mathews's research focuses on the breast cancer tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy, the pathogenesis of breast cancer metastasis, and breast stromal neoplasms.
Selected Publications
Cimino-Mathews A, Subhawong AP, Illei PB, Sharma R, Halushka MK, Vang R, Fetting JH, Park BH, Argani PA. GATA-3 Expression in Breast Carcinoma: Utility in Triple Negative, Sarcomatoid and Metastatic Carcinomas. Human Pathol. 2013 Jul;44:1341-9.
Cimino-Mathews A, Thompson E, Taube JM, Ye X, Lu Y, Meeker A, Xu H, Sharma R, Lecksell K, Cornish TC, Cuka N, Argani P, Emens LA. PD-L1 (B7-H1) Expression and the Immune Tumor Microenvironment in Human Primary and Metastatic Breast Carcinomas. Hum Pathol. 2016 Jan;47(1):52-63
Cimino-Mathews A, Verma S, Figueroa-Magalhaes MC, Jeter SC, Zhang Z, Argani P, Stearns V, Connolly RM. A clinicopathologic analysis of 45 patients with metaplastic breast carcinoma. Amer J Clin Pathol. 2016 Mar;145(3):365-72
Cowan M, Argani P, Cimino-Mathews A. Benign and Low-Grade Fibroepithelial Neoplasms of the Breast have Low Recurrence Rate after Positive Surgical Margins. Mod Pathol. 2016 Mar;29(3):259-65
Thompson E, Taube JM, Elwood H, Sharma R, Meeker A, Warzecha HN, Argani P, Cimino-Mathews A*, Emens LA*. The Immune Microenvironment of Breast Ductal Carcinoma in Situ. Mod Pathol. 2016 Mar;29(3):249-58. *Co-senior corresponding authors
Honors
- Weill Cornell "Good Physician"
- Award, Alpha Omega Alpha
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Young Investigator's Day Top Prize in Clinical, Johns Hopkins Pathology, 1/1/11
- Runner-up Poster Award, 4th Annual Safeway Breast Cancer Retreat, 1/1/11
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency, Pathology, 2012Weill Cornell Medical College
Medical Education, MD, 2008Board Certifications
Clinical Pathology
American Board of Pathology, 2012Anatomic Pathology
American Board of Pathology, 2012Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- 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)