Jane L. Messina MD
Vice Chair, Department of Anatomic Pathology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida; Professor of Oncologic Sciences, Pathology and Cell Biology, and Dermatology, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FloridaAfter completing residency in anatomic and clinical pathology and a fellowship in dermatopathology, Dr. Messina joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa in 1994, where she practiced for 20 years before moving to Moffitt Cancer Center.
She is currently Vice Chair of the Department of Anatomic Pathology at Moffitt, Senior Member in the Departments of Anatomic Pathology and Cutaneous Oncology at Moffitt, section head of Dermatopathology and Professor of Oncologic Sciences, Pathology and Cell Biology, and Dermatology at USF.
Her passions include teaching and mentoring of pathology and dermatology residents, as well as 14 dermatopathology fellows to date, and practicing within the busy diagnostic service at Moffitt, which treats >2,000 new melanoma patients annually.
She has been director of the dermatopathology fellowship at USF since 2011. She was a leader of the pathology core of the Moffitt Skin SPORE grant. Her research interests include pathology of the sentinel node, biomarkers of prognosis in cutaneous melanoma, and etiology and treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma, and she has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals.