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Michael Balatico
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Michael Balatico, MFA, MD

Languages spoken: English

Specialties

  • Pathology, Anatomical

Board Certification

American Board of Pathology (Anatomic & Clinical)
American Board of Pathology (Sub: Cytopathology)

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pathology -Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Board Certification
American Board of Pathology (Anatomic & Clinical)
American Board of Pathology (Sub: Cytopathology)

Education history

Undergraduate Literary Arts - Brown University B.A.
Graduate Training Creative Writing - School of the Art Institute of Chicago M.F.A.
Professional Medical Medicine - Indiana University School of Medicine M.D.
Residency Anatomic & Clinical Pathology - University of Utah School of Medicine Resident
Fellowship Cytopathology - University of Utah School of Medicine Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Badve SS, Dougherty R, Balatico M, Kesler KA, Loehrer P, Gökmen-Polar Y (2021). Thymic Carcinomas and Second Malignancies: A Single-Center Review. Cancers (Basel), 13(10).
  2. Smith EA, Belote RL, Cruz NM, Moustafa TE, Becker CA, Jiang A, Alizada S, Prokofyeva A, Chan TY, Seasor TA, Balatico M, Cortes-Sanchez E, Lum DH, Hyngstrom JR, Zeng H, Deacon DC, Grossmann AH, White RM, Zangle TA, Judson-Torres R (2024). Receptor tyrosine kinase inhibition leads to regression of acral melanoma by targeting the tumor microenvironment. Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research, 43(1), 317.
  3. Mahlow J, Barry M, Albertson DJ, Jo YJ, Balatico M, Seasor T, Gebrael G, Kumar SA, Sayegh N, Tripathi N, Agarwal N, Swami U, Sirohi (2024). Histologic patterns in prostatic adenocarcinoma are not predictive of mutations in the homologous recombination repair pathway. Human pathology, 144, 28-33.
  4. Wilcock D, Sirohi D, Coleman JF, Adelhardt P, Kim JT, Albertson D, Affolter K, Beech C, Jedrzkiewicz J, Ruano AL, Cleary AS, Mahlow J, Balatico M, Gulbahce H (2025). HER2 fluorescence in situ hybridization groups 2-4 breast cancers classified as positive after targeted recounts following equivocal (2+) immunohistochemistry. American journal of clinical pathology, 163(6), 837-846.
  5. Hutman-Zahler A, Goldstein J, Anderson T, Balatico M, Brophy DR, Aoki J, Miller K, Kovach K, Jacobsen A, Carter (2025). A Rare Case of Fulminant Myocarditis Leading to the Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. JACC. Case reports, 30(19), 104049.
  6. Perez-Gutierrez VA, Ahmed M, Krishna B G, Hird K, Balatico M, Waqar MA, Chambers J, Ansari S (2025). Extracranial Spread of Meningiomas: Molecular Determinants, Diagnostic Pathways, and Lessons from Three Thoracic Metastases. . Cureus,

Letter

  1. Kator S, Zurko J, Webb BJ, Balatico MA, Clayton F, Palmer CA, Konopa K, Motyckova G, Ford CD, Ostronoff F (2020). Disseminated toxoplasmosis and haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis following chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy. [Letter to the editor]. Br J Haematol, 189(1), e4-e6.
  2. Balatico M, Ruano AL, Cleary AS, Lomo L, Gulbahce H (2024). Male Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer: Clinicopathologic Features Including Recurrence Score Results From a Population-Based Database. Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 148(3), 263-264.