About David F. Carpentieri, MD

As a pediatric pathologist, David F. Carpentieri, MD, analyzes tissue, blood and other fluids to diagnose and treat diseases. His areas of expertise include vascular anomalies, disorders of sexual development, rare diseases, pediatric oncology and biorepository.

A native Brazilian, Dr. Carpentieri earned his medical degree at the Faculdade De Ciencias Medicas Da Santa Casa De Sao Paulo. He began his career in the United States as an intern at Jackson Memorial Hospital, worked as an ultrasound fellow at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and trained as an anatomic and clinical pathologist at Lankenau Hospital/ Jefferson Health Care System. He then completed his education as a pediatric pathology fellow at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Dr. Carpentieri moved to Arizona after a few years on staff at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. As such, he became the first registered pediatric pathologist in the state and co-founded the Phoenix Children's clinical laboratory.

Dr. Carpentieri has been appointed to multiple national and international committees through his participation in numerous organizations. Among these, he spearheaded a state sponsored pediatric biobank, co-founded an international pediatric biobank group and represented the American Association for Clinical Chemistry on Capitol Hill.

As a researcher, Dr. Carpentieri has earned more than $3 million in grants, including funding from the National Institutes of Health. He has over 100 publications and serves as an associate professor at the University of Arizona, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Creighton University.

Dr. Carpentieri advocates for children's healthcare, believing their needs should be a priority at all costs.

When he's not working, Dr. Carpentieri enjoys playing sports, reading, listening to music, and socializing with friends.

Medical School / Education

Faculdade De Ciencias Medicas Da Santa Casa De Sao Paulo, Brazil

Internship

Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL

Residency

Lankenau Hospital/Thomas Jefferson University, Wynnewood, PA

Fellowship

(Pediatric Pathology) The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA

Pediatric Pathology, Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology

American Board of Pathology

Pediatric Pathology

Biorepositories

Proteomics

Pediatric Tumors

Rare Diseases

Best Doctors in America, 2010-2014

Academic Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Mayo Medical School

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Pediatrics, University of Arizona

Assistant Professor in the Clinician Scholar Track in Biorepository/Pathology, Barrow Neurological Institute

Professional Affiliations

Children's Oncology Group (COG)

Society for Pediatric Pathology (SPP)

American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)

United States-Human Proteome Organization (US-HUPO)

International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER)

Shusterman S, Grupp SA, Barr R, Carpentieri D, Zhao H, Maris JM. The angiogenesis inhibitor tnp-470 effectively inhibits human neuroblastoma xenograft growth, especially in the setting of subclinical disease. Clin Cancer Res 2001 Apr;7(4):977-84. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11309349/

Zhang Q, Raghunath PN, Xue L, Majewski M, Carpentieri DF, Odum N, Morris S, Skorski T, Wasik MA. Multilevel dysregulation of STAT3 activation in anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive T/null-cell lymphoma. J Immunol 2002 Jan 1;168(1):466-74. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11751994/

Carpentieri DF, Nichols K, Chou PM, Matthews M, Pawel B, Huff D. The expression of WT1 in the differentiation of rhabdomyosarcoma from other pediatric small round blue cell tumors. Mod Pathol 2002 Oct;15(10):1080-6. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12379755/

Fleming MD, Pinkus JL, Fournier MV, Alexander SW, Tam C, Loda M, Sallan SE, Nichols KE, Carpentieri DF, Pinkus GS, Rollins BJ. Coincident expression of the chemokine receptors CCR6 and CCR7 by pathologic Langerhans cells in Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Blood 2003 Apr 1;101(7):2473-5. Erratum in: Blood 2003 Nov 15;102(10):3477. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12642342/

Carpentieri DF, Wherli S, Pawel B, Henretig FM. Potential applications of proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the diagnosis and management of methanol intoxication in the pediatric population. Pediatr Emerg Care 2003 Jun;19(3):178-180. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12813306/

Tang XX, Robinson ME, Riceberg JS, Kim DY, Kung B, Titus TB, Hayashi S, Flake AW, Carpentieri D, Ikegaki N. Favorable neuroblastoma genes and molecular therapeutics of neuroblastoma. Clin Cancer Res 2004 Sep 1; 10(17):5837-44. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15355914/

Carpentieri DF, Qualman SJ, Bowen J, Krausz T, Marchevsky A, Dickman PS; Cancer Committee, College of American Pathologists. Protocol for the examination of specimens from pediatric and adult patients with osseous and extraosseous ewing sarcoma family of tumors, including peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor and ewing sarcoma. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2005 Jul; 129(7):866-73. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15974809/

Fortin SP, Ennis MJ, Savitch BA, Carpentieri D, McDonough WS, Winkles JA, Loftus JC, Kingsley C, Hostetter G, Tran NL. Tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis stimulation of glioma cell survival is dependent on Akt2 function. Mol Cancer Res. 2009 Nov;7(11):1871-81. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19861406/

Campbell LD et al. 2012 best practices for repositories collection, storage, retrieval, and distribution of biological materials for research international society for biological and environmental repositories (ISBER). Biopreserv Biobank. 2012 Apr;10(2):79-161. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24844904/

Chakravadhanula M, Tembe W, Legendre C, Carpentieri D, Liang WS, Bussey KJ, Carpten J, Berens ME, Bhardwaj RD. Detection of an Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Brain Tumor Gene Deletion in Circulating Blood Using Next-Generation Sequencing. J Child Neurol. 2014 Sep 29(9). [Epub 2013, Oct 17]. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24141276/

VandenHeuvel KA, Carpentieri DF, Chen J, Fung KM, Parham DM. Ectomesenchymoma with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma and ganglioneuroma, arising in association with benign triton tumor of the tongue. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2014 May-Jun;17(3):226-30. [Epub 2014 Mar 20]. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24650353/

Biorepositories

Proteomics

Pediatric Tumors

Rare Diseases

Locations

Phoenix Children's Hospital - Thomas Campus

1919 E. Thomas Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85016

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