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Sherri Besmer, M.D.

Associate professor, Division of Pediatric Pathology; Medical director, satellite laboratory at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
Department of Pathology

Education

Fellowship
Pediatric pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Residency
Anatomic and clinical pathology, Hahnemann University Hospital/Drexel University College of Medicine

Medical School
Drexel University College of Medicine

Bachelor of Science
Muhlenberg College

Practice Areas

  • Pediatric pathology

Research Interests

  • Placental pathology
  • Pediatric gastrointestinal pathology

Publications and Media Placements

  • Stanley ZD, Besmer S, Hong L, Zierold M, Fey E, Huang R, Vogler C, Guerrero J, Chavan NR. Extremes of Fetal Fraction on Noninvasive Prenatal Screening and Placental Histopathology: Is There an Association? J. Clin. Med. 2025, 14, 8185. https://doi.org/10.3390/ jcm14228185
  • Gestrich CK, Kreiger P, Surrey L, Besmer S, Lopez-Terrada D, Church AJ; Society for Pediatric Pathology (SPP) Practice Committee. The implementation of molecular tumor profiling in the practice of pediatric cancer pathology: The pathologists' experience. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025 Jan;72(1):e31370. doi: 10.1002/pbc.31370. Epub 2024 Oct 10. PMID: 39387390.
  • Manithody C, Denton C, Mehta S, Carter J, Kurashima K, Bagwe A, Swiderska-Syn M, Guzman M, Besmer S, Jain S, McHale M, Qureshi K, Nazzal M, Caliskan Y, Long J, Lin CJ, Hutchinson C, Ericsson AC, Jain AK. Intraduodenal fecal microbiota transplantation ameliorates gut atrophy and cholestasis in a novel parenteral nutrition piglet model. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2024 Nov 1;327(5):G640-G654. doi: 10.1152/ajpgi.00012.2024. Epub 2024 Aug 20. PMID: 39163019; PMCID: PMC11559648.
  • Warren M, Reed RC, Prasad V, Rajaram V, Roberts D, Kreiger PA, Darrisaw L, Besmer S, Church AJ, Keisling M, Craver RD, Cole BL, Robers J, Lopez-Terrada D. Current Utilization of Electron Microscopy in the Pediatric Pathology Setting: A Survey by the SPP Practice Committee. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2023 Jul-Aug;26(4):411-422. doi: 10.1177/10935266231170102. Epub 2023 May 10. PMID: 37165545.
  • Côté-Arsenault D, Hanson K, Hawsawi S, Besmer S. Looking for answers: parent experiences of perinatal autopsy. Death Stud. 2022 Oct 14:1-11. 
  • Gauntner TD, Karumuri M, Guzman MA, Starnes SE, Besmer S, Pinz H, Braddock SR, Andreone TL. Hirschsprung disease in an infant with L1 syndrome: report of a new case and a novel L1CAM variant. Clin Case Rep. 2021 Feb 4;9(3):1518-1523. 
  • Guzman M, Manithody C, Krebs J, Denton C, Besmer S, Rajalakshmi P, Jain S, Villalona GA, and Jain AK. Impaired gut–systemic signaling drives total parenteral nutrition-associated injury. Nutrients 2020, 12(5), 1493.
  • Besmer S. Clinical Pathology: Selected Abstracts—RH genotype matching for transfusion support in sickle cell disease. Article by Chou ST, Evans P, Vege S et al. Blood. 2018;132(11):1198-1207. Editor, Sesok-Pizzini D. CAP Today. Jan 2019.
  • Ghali MGZ, Samkari A, Hou JS, Balasubramanian M, Besmer S, Keisling M, Narayan P. Synchronous primary central nervous system and pulmonary lymphoma in a 7-year-old female with unspecified T-cell immunodeficiency. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2018;53(5):311-316.
  • Varadarajan I, Basu A, Besmer S, et al. Solitary skeletal muscle metastasis as first site of recurrence of cervical cancer- a case report. Case Rep Oncol. 2017 Aug 4;10(2):694-698. 
  • Besmer S, Hou JS, Balasubramanian M. Multifocal extranodal B-cell lymphoma (brain and lung) in a patient with primary immunodeficiency, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 146, Issue suppl_1, September 2016, 158.
  • Besmer S, Abdulrahman A, Mapow B, Hanau C. Use of a comment box for reporting issues anonymously in residency training, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 146, Issue suppl_1, September 2016, 129. 
  • Nahoum V, Spector S, Loll PJ. Structure of ristocetin A in complex with a bacterial cell-wall mimetic. Corrigendum. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 67(Pt 6):592. June 2011.
  • Nahoum V, Spector S, Loll PJ. Structure of ristocetin A in complex with a bacterial cell-wall mimetic. Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological Crystallography. 2009 Aug;65(Pt 8):832-8. 

Honors and Awards

  • Faculty of the Year, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology (2023)
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, Drexel University College of Medicine (2017)
  • Richard Schuman Award for Excellence in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine (2013)
  • Humanities Scholar, Drexel University College of Medicine (2013)
  • Commendation for Exemplary Professional Conduct, Drexel University College of Medicine (2011)
  • Summa Cum Laude, Muhlenberg College (2009)
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Muhlenberg College (2009)
  • Omicron Delta Kappa, Muhlenberg College (2007)

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • Society of Pediatric Pathology
  • College of American Pathology
  • American Society of Clinical Pathology