Sindhuja Sominidi Damodaran, M.B.B.S., M.D.

  1. Dermatologist
  1. Banks SA, Abeykoon JP, Rech K, Morris P, Tan QKG, Veres LN, Schoonover KL, Aksamit AJ, Keating GF, Kissoon N, Sominidi Damodaran S, Maredia HS, Davidge-Pitts CJ, Villasboas JC, Go R, Tobin WO, Mayo Clinic-University of Alabama at Birmingham Histiocytosis Working Group. SLC29A3 Pathogenic Variants Resulting in Dural Based Fibroinflammatory Mass Lesions and H Syndrome Treated With Cobimetinib: A Case Report. Neurol Genet. 2024 Dec; 10 (6):e200197 Epub 2024 Oct 14
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  2. Sadeghi S, Johnson EF, Sominidi Damodaran S, Mittal S, Mohandesi NA. Solitary ulcerated nodule on the scalp in an 11-year-old girl. Pediatr Dermatol. 2024 Sep-Oct; 41 (5):909-911 Epub 2024 July 16
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  3. Akpala C, Kim G, Froehling D, Comfere N, Sominidi Damodaran S. Cholesterol Embolization Syndrome Post Invasive Arterial Procedure: A Case Report. Cureus. 2023 Oct; 15 (10):e46986 Epub 2023 Oct 13
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  4. Xie F, Sominidi-Damodaran S. Pityriasis Amiantacea. Mayo Clin Proc. 2022 Oct; 97 (10):1769-1770
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  5. Hieken TJ, Sadurni MB, Quattrocchi E, Kobic A, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Dwarkasing JT, Meerstein-Kessel L, Bridges AG, Meves A. Using the Merlin assay for reducing sentinel lymph node biopsy complications in melanoma: a retrospective cohort study. Int J Dermatol. 2022 Jul; 61 (7):848-854 Epub 2022 Jan 31
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  6. Kung FF, Arias-Mejias SM, Quattrocchi E, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Bridges AG, Lehman JS, Weaver AL, Meves A. PD-1, PD-L1, and BIM as Predictors of Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Primary Cutaneous Melanoma. J Invest Dermatol 2020 Nov; 140 (11):2301-2304.e3 Epub 2020 Apr 08
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  7. Eggermont AMM, Bellomo D, Arias-Mejias SM, Quattrocchi E, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Bridges AG, Lehman JS, Hieken TJ, Jakub JW, Murphree DH, Pittelkow MR, Sluzevich JC, Cappel MA, Bagaria SP, Perniciaro C, Tjien-Fooh FJ, Rentroia-Pacheco B, Wever R, van Vliet MH, Dwarkasing J, Meves A. Identification of stage I/IIA melanoma patients at high risk for disease relapse using a clinicopathologic and gene expression model. Eur J Cancer. 2020 Nov; 140:11-18 Epub 2020 Oct 05
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  8. Quattrocchi E, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Murphree DH, Meves A. beta3 integrin immunohistochemistry as a method to predict sentinel lymph node status in patients with primary cutaneous melanoma. Int J Dermatol. 2020 Oct; 59 (10):1241-1248 Epub 2020 Aug 09
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  9. Arias-Mejias SM, Warda KY, Quattrocchi E, Alonso-Quinones H, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Meves A. The role of integrins in melanoma: a review. Int J Dermatol. 2020 May; 59 (5):525-534 Epub 2020 Mar 10
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  10. Bellomo D, Arias-Mejias SM, Ramana C, Heim JB, Quattrocchi E, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Bridges AG, Lehman JS, Hieken TJ, Jakub JW, Pittelkow MR, DiCaudo DJ, Pockaj BA, Sluzevich JC, Cappel MA, Bagaria SP, Perniciaro C, Tjien-Fooh FJ, van Vliet MH, Dwarkasing J, Meves A. Model Combining Tumor Molecular and Clinicopathologic Risk Factors Predicts Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Primary Cutaneous Melanoma. JCO Precis Oncol. 2020; 4:319-334 Epub 2020 Apr 14
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  11. Lehman JS, Dasari S, Damodaran SS, El-Azhary RA, Gibson LE, Hashmi SK, Hogan WJ, Kenderian SJ, Patnaik MS, Litzow MR, Lazarus HM, Meves A. Differential expression of interferon-induced genes and other tissue-based biomarkers in acute graft-versus-host disease vs. lupus erythematosus in skin. Clin Exp Dermatol. 2019 Jun; 44 (4):e81-e88 Epub 2018 Oct 02
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  12. Heim JB, McDonald CA, Wyles SP, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Squirewell EJ, Li M, Motsonelidze C, Bottcher RT, van Deursen J, Meves A. FAK auto-phosphorylation site tyrosine 397 is required for development but dispensable for normal skin homeostasis. PLoS One. 2018; 13 (7):e0200558 Epub 2018 July 12
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  13. Sominidi-Damodaran S, Guo R, Meves A, Bridges AG. Expanded traditional melanoma FISH testing versus CAP-QPCR to identify high-risk melanocytic lesions. Int J Dermatol 2017 Sep; 56 (9):e182-e184 Epub 2017 Mar 20
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  14. Laniosz V, Onajin O, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Meves A, Gibson LE, Baum CL. Natural killer cell response is a predictor of good outcome in MCPyV+ Merkel cell carcinoma: A case series of 23 patients. J Am Acad Dermatol 2017 Jul; 77 (1):31-32 Epub 2017 Mar 25
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  15. Heim JB, Squirewell EJ, Neu A, Zocher G, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Wyles SP, Nikolova E, Behrendt N, Saunte DM, Lock-Andersen J, Gaonkar KS, Yan H, Sarkaria JN, Krendel M, van Deursen J, Sprangers R, Stehle T, Bottcher RT, Lee JH, Ordog T, Meves A. Myosin-1E interacts with FAK proline-rich region 1 to induce fibronectin-type matrix. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Apr 11; 114 (15):3933-3938 Epub 2017 Mar 27
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  16. Sominidi-Damodaran S, Meves A. Cell adhesion phenotyping by quantitative polymerase chain reaction in melanoma: Clarifying misconceptions. J Am Acad Dermatol 2017 Jan; 76 (1):e23
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  17. Barrick BJ, Ida CM, Laniosz V, Jentoft ME, Sominidi-Damodaran S, Wieland CN, Meves A, Lehman JS. Bullous Pemphigoid, Neurodegenerative Disease, and Hippocampal BP180 Expression: A Retrospective Postmortem Neuropathologic Study. J Invest Dermatol 2016 Oct; 136 (10):2090-2092 Epub 2016 June 24
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  18. Sominidi-Damodaran S, Pittelkow MR, Meves A. Gene Expression Profiling in Cutaneous Melanoma: Caveats for Clinicians. Mayo Clin Proc 2016 Aug; 91 (8):1147-8
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  19. Sominidi-Damodaran S, Daniel SJ, Janaki C, Madhu S, Manjula J, Prabhavathy D, Arunadevi R, Jayakumar S. A study on chronic autoimmune urticaria and efficacy of autologous serum therapy The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University E - Dissertation. 2012.
  20. Sominidi-Damodaran S, Tharani G, Jayakumar S. Dowling Degos Disease with Reticulate Acropigmentation of Kitamura a case report The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University. 2011.