Debra Hawes, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology

Director of Pathology Core Lab

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Overview

Dr. Hawes began her education by pursuing a certificate in vocational nursing from Santa Ana College followed by a BA degree in French from Cal State Fullerton. She then attended medical school, and upon graduation she was first introduced to the Keck School of Medicine as a resident in the pathology department at LAC+USC Medical Center. While in medical school, Dr. Hawes demonstrated a profound aptitude for her studies when she was awarded to the Dean’s List of Outstanding Achievement in the Basic Sciences. Currently, Dr. Hawes is an assistant professor of clinical pathology and an instructor of the Pathology Multidisciplinary Laboratories at USC. She has reviewed manuscripts for the several medical journals, including the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. In addition to her vast academic and clinical responsibilities, Dr. Hawes has a number of research interests, such as cancer prevention, new technology development and biologic markers of disease progression. Dr. Hawes has co-authored nearly 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and a number of book chapters and abstracts.

Publications

  • Anti-angiogenic activity of contortrostatin, a disintegrin from Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix snake venom. Angiogenesis. 2003; 6(3):213-24.. View in PubMed
  • Correlation of p53 immunostaining in primary and residual ovarian cancer at the time of positive second-look laparotomy and its prognostic role: a Southwest Oncology Group ancillary study. Gynecol Oncol. 2002 Oct; 87(1):17-23.. View in PubMed
  • Thrombospondin-1 expression in patients with pathologic stage T3 prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomy: association with p53 alterations, tumor angiogenesis, and tumor progression. Urology. 2002 Jan; 59(1):97-102.. View in PubMed
  • Occult metastases in patients with breast cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2001 Oct; 8(9 Suppl):60S-63S.. View in PubMed
  • Detection of occult metastasis in patients with breast cancer. Semin Surg Oncol. 2001 Jun; 20(4):312-8.. View in PubMed
  • Occult metastasis. Biomed Pharmacother. 2001 May; 55(4):229-42.. View in PubMed
  • Calcium-induced modification of protein conformation demonstrated by immunohistochemistry: What is the signal? J Histochem Cytochem. 1999 Apr; 47(4):463-70. Shi SR, Cote RJ, Hawes D , Thu S, Shi Y, Yo . View in PubMed
  • Detection of occult metastases in lung carcinomas: progress and implications for lung cancer staging. J Surg Oncol. 1998 Dec; 69(4):265-74.. View in PubMed
  • Magnetic resonance imaging for detection of prostate cancer metastatic to bone. J Urol. 1993 Jun; 149(6):1482-4.. View in PubMed
  • Epstein-Barr virus-associated gastric adenocarcinoma among Japanese Americans in Hawaii. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 1993 May-Jun; 2(3):213-7.. View in PubMed