Dejan Nikolic, MD, PhD

Microbiology and immunology; clinical pathology test implementation and utilization; medical student and pathology resident education

• College of American Pathologists
• American Society of Microbiology
• American Society for Clinical Pathology

• Annual Teaching Award for teaching pathology residents during 2016-17 academic year. Pathology Dept., Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Main Campus, Cleveland, OH
• First author of a peer–reviewed published study that was in top 10 articles read most by Pathologists in the United States in 2019
• Winning poster in Pathology Resident and Fellow category, Educational Symposium, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
• Award for Immunology research program at Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Hospital, New York, NY
• Award for Excellence in Scientific Presentation, Pathology Resident and Fellow category, 17th Annual Bruce R. Smoller Symposium, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
• Predoctoral Fellowship Grant Award from the American Heart Association, Ohio Valley Affiliate, #0315047B. Title: The role of integrin signaling pathways in SR-A-mediated macrophage adhesion.
• First Award for Poster Presentation, Research Day, Predoctoral category, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
• Travel Award, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), ASM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA

Nikolic, D. (2021). Spirochete Infections: Treponemal Diseases, Leptospira, Borrelia and agents of intestinal spirochetosis. In McPherson RA, Pincus MR, et al, editors: Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods 24th ed., Elsevier chapter 61, 2021:1229–1245.

Nikolic, D. (2021) Chlamydial and Mycoplasmal Infections. In McPherson RA, Pincus MR, et al, editors: Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods 24th ed., Elsevier chapter 62, 2021:1246–1253.

Nikolic, D., Kohn, D., Yen-Lieberman, B., & Procop, G. W. (2019). Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus and Varicella-Zoster Virus by Traditional and Multiplex Molecular Methods. American journal of clinical pathology, 151(1), 122–126. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqy111

Procop, G. W., Nikolic, D., Asamoto, K., Wyllie, R., Tuttle, R., & Richter, S. S. (2018). Reply to Beal et al., 'The "3-Day Rule" for Stool Tests May Not Apply When Using PCR Panels'. Journal of clinical microbiology, 56(4), e02029-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02029-17

Nikolic, D., Richter, S. S., Asamoto, K., Wyllie, R., Tuttle, R., & Procop, G. W. (2017). Implementation of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Stool Cultures and Parasitological Studies in Hospitalized Patients. Journal of clinical microbiology, 55(12), 3350–3354. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01052-17

Barry, C., Kaufman, S., Feinstein, D., Kim, N., Gandhi, S., Nikolic, D., Edmonston, T. B., & Bierl, C. (2020). Optimization of the Order Menu in the Electronic Health Record Facilitates Test Patterns Consistent With Recommendations in the Choosing Wisely Initiative. American journal of clinical pathology, 153(1), 94–98. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqz134

Post, S. R., Post, G. R., Nikolic, D., Owens, R., & Insuasti-Beltran, G. (2018). Development of an unbiased, semi-automated approach for classifying plasma cell immunophenotype following multicolor flow cytometry of bone marrow aspirates. Cytometry. Part B, Clinical cytometry, 94(5), 602–610. https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.b.21635