Research and Clinical Interests:

Dr. Mikolaenko's primary interests are in surgical neuropathology with a special focus on tumors of the central nervous system. She is board certified in anatomical and clinical pathology and neuropathology. She completed her residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and did two fellowships: in neuropathology at the Johns Hopkins University and a second neuropathology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical school.

Selected Publications

• Shvartsbeyn M, Bassani L, Mikolaenko I, Wisoff JH. Brain metastasis of Wilms tumor with diffuse anaplasia and complex cytogenetic phenotype in a child with neurofibromatosis Type 1. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2011 Oct;8(4):353-6. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 21961578. doi: 10.3171/2011.7.PEDS1119.
  
• Saffra N, Kaplow E, Mikolaenko I, Kim A, Rubin B, Jafar J. Isolated sixth cranial nerve palsy as the presenting symptom of a rapidly expanding ACTH positive pituitary adenoma: a case report. BMC Ophthalmol. 2011 Feb;11(1):4. Epub 2011 Jan 27. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 21272327. doi: 10.1186/1471-2415-11-4.
  
• Lim I, Mikolaenko I, Cohen M. A 3-year- old girl with altered mental status, gait difficulty, and vomiting. Brain Pathol. 2011 Jan;21(1):105-8. Epub 2010 Dec 3. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 21129064. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2010.00450.x.
  
• Robinson S, Mikolaenko I, Thompson I, Cohen ML, Goyal M. Loss of cation-chloride cotransporter expression in preterm infants with white matter lesions: implications for the pathogenesis of epilepsy. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2010 Jun;69(6):565-72. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 20467335. doi: 10.1097/NEN.0b013e3181dd25bc.
  
• Kalhorn SP, Frempong-Boadu AK, Mikolaenko I, Becske T, Harter DH. Metameric Thoracic Lesion: Report of a Rare Case and Guide to Management. J Neurosurg Spine. 2010 May;21(5):497-502. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 20433297. doi: 10.3171/2009.11.SPINE09259.
  
• Modkovski R, Elliott R, Rubin B, Mikolaenko I, Zagzag D, Jafar J. Giant cell tumor of the occipital bone and secondary aneurysmal bone cyst: Case report and review of literature. Internet Journal of Neurosurgery. 2010;7(2):
  
• Olasunkanmi A, Elliott R, Newman K, Mikolaenko I, Zagzag D, Golfinos J. Metachronous pituitary stalk and cerebellar hemangioblastomas in a patient without von Hippel-Lindau disease: Case report and review of literature. Internet Journal of Neurosurgery. 2010;7(2):
  
• Tuchman A, Kalhorn SP, Mikolaenko I, Wisoff JH. Cystic choroid plexus papilloma in the cavum septum pellucidum. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2009 Dec;4(6):580-3. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 19951048. doi: 10.3171/2009.7.PEDS08484.
  
• Mikolaenko I, Listinsky CM. Systemic CD5+ MALT lymphoma: presentation with Waldenstrom syndrome. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2009 Aug;13(4):272-7. Epub 2008 Jul 7. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 19608087. doi: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2008.04.010.
  
• Fry LC, Lazenby AJ, Mikolaenko I, Barranco B, Rickes S, Mönkemüller K. Diagnostic quality of polyps resected by snare polypectomy: does the type of electrosurgical current used matter? Am J Gastroenterol. 2006 Sep;101(9):2123-7. Epub 2006 Jul 18. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16848810.
  
• Mikolaenko I, Mikolaenko I, Conner MG, Jinnah HA. A 50-year-old man with acute-onset generalized seizure. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and associated giant cell reaction. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006 Jan;130(1):e5-7. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16390252.
  
• Purow BW, Haque RM, Noel MW, Su Q, Burdick MJ, Lee J, Sundaresan T, Pastorino S, Park JK, Mikolaenko I, Maric D, Eberhart CG, Fine HA. Expression of Notch-1 and its ligands, Delta-like-1 and Jagged-1, is critical for glioma cell survival and proliferation. Cancer Res. 2005 Mar 15;65(6):2353-63. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 15781650.
  
• Mikolaenko I, Pletnikova O, Kawas CH, O’Brien R, Resnik S, Crain B, Troncoso JC. Alpha-Synuclein Lesions in Normal Aging, Parkinson Disease and Alzheimer Disease: Evidence From the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2005 Feb;64(2):156-62. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 15751230.
  
• Fan X, Mikolaenko I, Elhassan I, Ni X, Wang Y, Ball D, Brat DJ, Perry A, Eberhart CG. Notch1 and Notch2 have opposite effects on embryonal brain tumor growth. Cancer Res. 2004 Nov 1;64(21):7787-93. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 15520184.
  
• Parwani AV, Mikolaenko I, Eberhart CG, Burger PC, Rosenthal DL, Ali SZ. Rhabdoid Meningioma: cytopathologic findings in cerebrospinal fluid. Diagn Cytopathol. 2003 Nov;29(5):297-9. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 14595800.
  

Selected Books

• Bagby CM, Cohen ML, Mikolaenko I. Pigmented Spindle Cell Tumor In a Patient With a Neurocutaneous Syndrome. In: American Society for Clinical Pathology. Surgical Pathology No. SP 09-5 (SP-365), Check Sample. Vol. 37, No. 5; 2009.

Organizational Associations

American Association of Neuropathologists

Hospital Affiliations

Tisch Hospital
Bellevue Hospital