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Darcy Arendt Kerr, MD

Title(s)
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Department(s)
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Education
B.S. University of New Hampshire | 2004

M.D. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | 2010

Anatomic Pathology Residency
Massachusetts General Hospital | 2013

Fellowship in Cytopathology
Massachusetts General Hospital | 2014

Fellowship in Bone & Soft Tissue and Head & Neck Pathology
Massachusetts General Hosptial | 2015

Programs
Dartmouth Cancer Center

Contact Information

One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon NH 03756

Office: 603-650-7211
Phone: 603-650-3808
Fax: 603-650-7214
Email: Darcy.Arendt.Kerr@Dartmouth.edu


Professional Interests

Benign and malignant bone and soft tissue tumors, head and neck cancer, thyroid cancer, novel diagnostic tools, and improving pathology services in developing settings.

Courses Taught

Endocrinology; Orthopaedics in Derm-Rheum-Ortho; Pathology clinical electives


Selected Publications

 

VGLL3-rearranged Spindle Cell Rhabdomyoblastic Tumor: A Clinicopathologic and Molecular Genetic Study of 18 Cases with Consistently Indolent Behavior.
Baranov E, Ameline B, Berthold R, Perry KD, Torres-Mora J, Maclean F, Abrahao-Machado LF, Michal M, Kerr DA, Lu L, Hou T, Malik F, Goldfaden J, Prasad J, Gestrich C, Stelow E, Fanburg-Smith JC, LeGallo R, Zadeh S, Haglund de Flon F, Zhang PJ, Hartmann W, Miele E, Stejskal V, Alaggio R, Agaimy A, Nielsen GP, Demicco EG, Baumhoer D, Dehner CA
Mod Pathol. 2026 May 12;:101014. doi: 10.1016/j.modpat.2026.101014. Epub 2026 May 12.
PMID: 42128056

The Utility of Comprehensive Sampling in Cervical Lymph Node Dissection for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Is More Better?
Ould Ismail AA, Pettus JR, Tafe LJ, Black CC, Schutz SN, Pastel DA, Paydarfar JA, Kerr DA
Head Neck. 2026 Apr 23; doi: 10.1002/hed.70288. Epub 2026 Apr 23.
PMID: 42025582

Multimodal contrastive learning for non-invasive chondroid bone tumor classification and grading using radiographs.
Hua P, Sin JM, Henderson ER, Ha J, Kerr DA, Hassanpour S
BMC Med Imaging. 2026 Feb 20;26(1) doi: 10.1186/s12880-026-02239-w. Epub 2026 Feb 20.
PMID: 41721278

Feasibility Study of Preoperative CT-Derived Volume and Intraoperative Tissue Mass Measurements for Lymph Node Yield Prediction in Cervical Lymphadenectomy.
Tullo JM, Tooker GM, Kokko MA, Shen DW, Stoner RC, Barnacle BD, Wiredu K, Byrum TT, Martinez-Camblor P, Kerr DA, Halter RJ, Paydarfar JA, Pastel DA
Laryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol. 2025 Dec;10(6):e70328. doi: 10.1002/lio2.70328. Epub 2025 Dec 19.
PMID: 41427435

Seven-year retrospective review of medical microbiologist consultations on cytology specimens at an academic medical center.
Marotti JD, Gutmann EJ, Loeven NA, Liu X, Kerr DA, Vaickus LJ, Martin IW
Am J Clin Pathol. 2025 Nov 19;164(5):752-758. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqaf100.
PMID: 40994162

Cytologic atypia is predictive of increased risk of malignancy and BRAF mutations in thyroid follicular neoplasms (Bethesda category IV).
Dean MA, Emiliani F, Levy J, Rodrigues Simoes NJ, Coconubo DM, Gutmann E, Vaickus L, Marotti J, Kerr DA, Liu X
J Am Soc Cytopathol. 2026 Mar-Apr;15(2):113-119. doi: 10.1016/j.jasc.2025.07.003. Epub 2025 Jul 12.
PMID: 40908238

Bone Lesions of the Head and Neck.
Dashti NK, Kerr DA
Surg Pathol Clin. 2025 Sep;18(3):545-564. doi: 10.1016/j.path.2025.01.012. Epub 2025 May 22.
PMID: 40716921

In Vivo Classification of Oral Lesions Using Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy.
Lloyd SA, Lee TE, Murphy EK, Doussan AF, Thones JP, Kerr DA, Paydarfar JA, Halter RJ
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2026 Jan;73(1):311-321. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2025.3581465.
PMID: 40536863

Clinicopathological and molecular characterization of non-small cell lung cancer with pericardial effusions.
Ma W, Rodrigues Simoes NJ, Seery PP, Li T, Tafe LJ, Kerr DA, Liu X
Cancer Cytopathol. 2025 May;133(5):e70015. doi: 10.1002/cncy.70015.
PMID: 40227522

Extraaxial Poorly Differentiated Chordoma: Clinicopathologic and Molecular Genetic Characterization.
Sande WJ, Folpe AL, O'Connor P, Graham D, Molligan JF, Lo YC, Cheung YY, Ameline B, Baumhoer D, Harder D, Raskin KA, Mount CW, Hung YP, Nielsen GP, Kerr DA, Buehler D, Wenger DE, Thangaiah JJ
Mod Pathol. 2025 Mar;38(3):100664. doi: 10.1016/j.modpat.2024.100664. Epub 2024 Nov 20.
PMID: 39577663

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