Nelli S. Lakis, M.D., MSc

Professional Background

Dr. Nelli Lakis is a Clinical Associate Professor in the in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She is Board certified in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology and Neuropathology. Dr. Lakis is the Director of Autopsy, and Neuro & Ocular pathology services at KUMC. She is an expert in diseases of the CNS, CNS tumor diagnoses, molecular tests, and the classification of CNS tumors & diseases.

• MS, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
• BS, Biology, American University of Beirut
• Residency, Pathology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
• Neuropathology, Lifespan Academic Medical Center - The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence , RI

• Anatomic and Clinical Pathology , American Board of Pathology
• Kansas License, KUMC
• Neuropathology , American Board of Pathology

• American Association of Neuropathologists, Member, 2015 - Present

• Audesse Amanda , GalinaKarashchuk, Gardell Zachary , Lakis Nelli, Maybury-Lewis Sun, Brown Abigail , Leeman Dena, Teo YeeVoan, Neretti Nicola, Anthony Douglas C, Brodsky Alexander , Webb Ashley. 2021. FOXO3 regulates a genomic program to restrain stem cell activation in both aging and glioblastoma. Aging and Cancer , 2 (4). https://doi.org/10.1002/aac2.12043
• Donahue JohnE, Yakirevich Evgeny, Zhong Shan, Treaba DianaO, Lakis Nelli, Ali SirajM, de la Monte SuzanneM, Mangray Shamlal. 2018. Primary Spinal Epidural CIC-DUX4 Undifferentiated Sarcoma in a Child.. Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society, 21 (4), 411-417
• Edmund Liz, Rotker KatherineL, Lakis Nelli, Brito, 3rd JosephM, Lepe Marcos, Lombardo KaraA, Renzulli, 2nd JosephF, Matoso Andres. 2017. Upgrading and upstaging at radical prostatectomy in the post-prostate-specific antigen screening era: an effect of delayed diagnosis or a shift in patient selection?. Human pathology, 59, 87-93
• Lakis Nelli, Li Yu, Abraham JerroldL, Upton Chris, Blair DonaldC, Smith Scott, Zhao Hui, Damon IngerK. 2015. Novel Poxvirus Infection in an Immune Suppressed Patient.. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 61 (10), 1543-8
• Lakis Nelli, Corona RobertJ, Toshkezi Gentian, Chin LawrenceS. 2013. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy – neuropathology in athletes and war veterans. Neurological Research, 35 (3), 290-299. https://doi.org/10.1179/1743132813y.0000000177
• Lakis Nelli, Matoso Andres, Mangray Shamlal, Resnick MurrayB., Yakirevich Evgeny. 2016. Expression of the Glucocorticoid Receptor in Prostatic Adenocarcinoma: An Immunohistochemical and Clinicopathologic Study. LABORATORY INVESTIGATION, 96, 244A-245A
• Lakis Nelli, Brodsky Alexander, Smith Tyler, Yang Dongfang, Wong Ian, Anthony Douglas. 2016. A Subset of Cells in Glioblastoma Multiforme Express Multiple Stem Cell Markers. JOURNAL OF NEUROPATHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY, 75 (6), 582-582