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, Galina Karashchuk, 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 John E, Yakirevich Evgeny, Zhong Shan, Treaba Diana O, Lakis Nelli, Ali Siraj M, de la Monte Suzanne M, 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 Katherine L, Lakis Nelli, Brito, 3rd Joseph M, Lepe Marcos, Lombardo Kara A, Renzulli, 2nd Joseph F, 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 Jerrold L, Upton Chris, Blair Donald C, Smith Scott, Zhao Hui, Damon Inger K. 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 Robert J, Toshkezi Gentian, Chin Lawrence S. 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 Murray B, 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