Charles Timmons, MD, PhD

Professor
Pathology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-456-2323
Office Fax: 214-456-6199

charles.timmons@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

Dr. Timmons is was born in South Carolina and raised primarily in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended Davidson College in Davidson, NC, as an undergraduate, followed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the M.D.-Ph.D. program, where he completed his doctoral dissertation under Dr. Neil Kirkman in the Division of Human Genetics and Metabolism. He did a residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and served as Chief Resident during his senior year. He then did a two year fellowship in Anatomic and Clinical Pediatric Pathology at The Children's Hospital in Denver, where he studied with Dr. J. Bruce Beckwith. Dr. Timmons joined the faculty of the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in 1988 in the Division of Pediatric Pathology, based at Children's Medical Center of Dallas. He participates in the service activities of the Surgical Pathology, Hematopathology, and Autopsy services. He is active on the Medical Staff of Children's, having chaired the Transfusion, By-Laws, and Medical Records Committees of the hospital, and was recognized in 2001 for leading a task force that completely revised the hospital constitution. He also participates in the Perinatal Autopsy service at Parkland Memorial Hospital. In 2002, he was named Director of Resident Training for the Department of Pathology at UT-Southwestern. He is currently a representative-at-large to the leadership council of the Program Directors Section of the Association of Pathology Chairs. He is also active in the Society for Pediatric Pathology, having served on the Education, Abstract, Practice and Long-Term Planning Committees and Sub-Committees of that Society and as Chair of the Slide Survey program of the Society. He is currently Chair of the Fellowship Committee and a member of the Council of the Society.

Education

FellowshipChildren's Hospital of Denver (1988)
ResidencyNorthwestern U. Medical Ctr.-Chicago (1985)
InternshipNorthwestern U. Medical Ctr.-Chicago (1983)
UniversityUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill (1982)
Medical SchoolUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill (1977)

Research Interests

Pathology of pediatric tumors

Publications

Featured
Update on Non-Neoplastic Disorders of the Blood and Bone Marrow in Pediatric Pathology

Timmons CF, Perspectives in Pediatric Pathology, 2011; 28:41-59

Featured
PRCC-TFE3 renal carcinomas: morphologic, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and molecular analysis of an entity associated with the t(X;1)(p11.2;q21).

Argani P, Antonescu CR, Couturier J, Fournet JC, Sciot R, Debiec-Rychter M, Hutchinson B, Reuter VE, Boccon-Gibod L, Timmons C, Hafez N, Ladanyi M, The American journal of surgical pathology, 2002 Dec; 26 (12):1553-66

Featured
Primary renal neoplasms with the ASPL-TFE3 gene fusion of alveolar soft part sarcoma: a distinctive tumor entity previously included among renal cell carcinomas of children and adolescents.

Argani P, Antonescu CR, Illei PB, Lui MY, Timmons CF, Newbury R, Reuter VE, Garvin AJ, Perez-Atayde AR, Fletcher JA, Beckwith JB, Bridge JA, Ladanyi M, The American journal of pathology, 2001 Jul; 159 (1):179-92

Low-grade Bone Lesions in Survivors of Childhood Medulloblastoma/Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor.

Koral K, Roy D, Timmons CF, Gargan L, Bowers DC, Academic radiology, 2012 Jan; 19 (1):35-9

Melanotic Neuroectodermal Tumor of Infancy: Report of One Calvarial Lesion with T1 Shortening and One Maxillary Lesion.

Koral K, Derinkuyu B, Timmons C, Schwartz-Dabney CL, Swift D, Clinical Imaging, 2010; 34 (5):382-384

Unusual case of Epstein-Barr virus DNA tissue positive: blood negative in a patient with post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder.

Levenson BM, Ali SA, Timmons CF, Mittal N, Muthukumar A, Payne DA, Pediatric transplantation, 2009 Feb; 13 (1):134-8

Imaging characteristics of atypical teratoid-rhabdoid tumor in children compared with medulloblastoma.

Koral K, Gargan L, Bowers DC, Gimi B, Timmons CF, Weprin B, Rollins NK, AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2008 Mar; 190 (3):809-14

A severely affected female infant with x-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata: a case report and a brief review of the literature.

Rakheja D, Read CP, Hull D, Boriack RL, Timmons CF, Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society, 2007 Mar-Apr; 10 (2):142-8

KAI-1 expression in pediatric high-grade osteosarcoma.

Leavey PJ, Timmons C, Frawley W, Lombardi D, Ashfaq R, Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society, 2006 May-Jun; 9 (3):219-24

Absence of expression of SMARCB1/INI1 in malignant rhabdoid tumors of the central nervous system, kidneys and soft tissue: an immunohistochemical study with implications for diagnosis.

Sigauke E, Rakheja D, Maddox DL, Hladik CL, White CL, Timmons CF, Raisanen J, Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc, 2006 May; 19 (5):717-25

Honors/Awards

Medical Student Teaching Award

MSII Pathology Course - Small group teaching (2006)

Medical Student Teaching Award

MSII Pathology Course - Small group teaching (2004)

Medical Student Teaching Award

MSII Pathology Course - Small group teaching (2002)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Society for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

(2009)

Association of Pathology Chairs - Program Directors Section

Governing Council 2009-present (2002)

American Society for Clinical Pathology

Residency In-Service Examination Committee 2010-present

College of American Pathologists

Society for Pediatric Pathology

Practice Committee 1192-1995, 1998-2001; Slide Survey Subcommittee, 1998-2001, Chair, 1999-2001; Education Committee, 1998-2001; Abstract Selection Sub-Committee 1998-2001; Long-Term Planning Committee 2001-2004; Fellowship Committee, 2006-present, Chair, 2009-present; Governing Council 2009-present

U.S. & Canadian Academy of Pathology