Pitt UPMC UPCI CMU

UPCI Melanoma Program

Howard Edington, M.D. Howard Edington, M.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Surgery

University of Pittsburgh
Suite 2523
Magee-Womens Hospital
300 Halket Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

office: 412-641-1342
fax: 412-641-5733

email:



Dr. Edington is the Surgical Director of the UPCI Melanoma Center.



Publications:


Wang W, Edington HD, Jukic DM, Rao UN, Land SR, Kirkwood JM (2008). Impact of IFNalpha2b upon pSTAT3 and the MEK/ERK MAPK pathway in melanoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 57: 1315-1321.

Moschos SJ, Smith AP, Mandic M, Athanassiou C, Watson-Hurst K, Jukic DM, Edington HD, Kirkwood JM, Becker D (2007). SAGE and antibody array analysis of melanoma-infiltrated lymph nodes: identification of Ubc9 as an important molecule in advanced-stage melanomas. Oncogene 26: 4216-4225.

McDonald SL, Edington HD, Kirkwood JM, Becker D (2004). Expression analysis of genes identified by molecular profiling of VGP melanomas and MGP melanoma-positive lymph nodes. Cancer Biol Ther. 3: 110-120.

Smith AP, Kirkwood JM, Edington HD, Jukic DM, Farkas DL, Becker D (2003). Fluorescence imaging analysis of upstream regulators and downstream targets of STAT3 in melanoma precursor lesions obtained from patients before and after systemic low-dose interferon-alpha treatment. Mol Imaging. 2: 65-73.