Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Biosketch
Nicolas Kostelecky, MD, is a forensic pathologist. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He completed his Anatomic Pathology Residency at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. He completed his Neuropathology Fellowship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL, and his Forensic Pathology Fellowship at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology. His clinical, teaching, and research interests include sequelae of traumatic brain injury and addressing equitable access to Medical Examiner Services.
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Education and Training
- Fellowship 2025, Forensic Pathology, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
- Fellowship 2024, Neuropathology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital of Northwestern University
- Residency 2022, Anatomic Pathology, Barnes-Jewish Healthcare
- MD 2019, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- BA 2014, Biology, Boston University
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Publications
Kahaki S., Hagemann I.S., Cha K.H., Trindade C., Petrick N., Kostelecky N., Borden L.E., Atwi D., Fung K.M., Chen W. Deep learning-based ROI detection of AEH and EC on histopathology WSIs for predicting hormonal treatment response Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. 2024;12933
Kahaki S., Hagemann I.S., Cha K.H., Trindade C., Petrick N., Kostelecky N., Borden L.E., Atwi D., Fung K.M., Chen W. End-to-end deep learning method for predicting hormonal treatment response in women with atypical endometrial hyperplasia or endometrial cancer Journal of Medical Imaging. 2024;11(1)
Kostelecky N., Loxas M., Multz R., Flanagan M.E., Ahrendsen J.T., Goldstein J. Amniotic Fluid Embolism: An Illustrated Report and Review of Literature American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. 2024;45:e107-e109.
Kostelecky N., Wadhwani N., Golubovich I., Vormittag-Nocito E., Gao J., Jennings L., Caron M., Jamshidi P., Ahrendsen J.T., Castellani R., Brat D., Horbinski C. Transdifferentiation of metastatic melanoma into cerebellar angiosarcoma Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. 2024;83:1081-1083.
Jimenez J., Kostelecky N., Mitchell J.D., Zhang K.W., Lin C.Y., Lenihan D.J., Lavine K.J. Clinicopathological classification of immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis: possible refinement by measuring macrophage abundance Cardio-Oncology. 2023;9(1)
Kahaki S., Hagemann I.S., Cha K., Trindade C.J., Petrick N., Kostelecky N., Chen W. Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Predicting the Response to Hormonal Treatment of Women with Atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia: A Feasibility Study Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. 2023;12471
Kostelecky N., Kreutz K., Lin C.Y. Sensitivity of Antemortem Imaging for Pericarditis: An Institutional Experience American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. 2023;44(1):21-24.
Kostelecky N., Ozhegov E., Cao D., Krigman H. Metastatic Cholangiocarcinoma to the Uterus Morphologically Imitating Primary Intestinal-type Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma International Journal of Gynecological Pathology. 2023;42(4):398-402.
Stamm B., Dibiase R., Lee J., Primdahl D., Malavia T., Dixit K., Horbinski C., Kostelecky N., Elhodaky M., Potts M.B., Caprio F.Z., Bernstein R.A., Urday S. A Woman with Multifocal Ischemic Strokes and Progressive Cognitive Impairment due to Intravascular Lymphoma Stroke. 2023;54(10):E448-E451.
Wu S.A., Jia D.T., Schwartz M., Mulcahy M., Guo K., Tate M.C., Sachdev S., Kostelecky N., Escobar D.J., Brat D.J., Heimberger A.B., Lukas R.V. HER2+ esophageal carcinoma leptomeningeal metastases treated with intrathecal trastuzumab regimen CNS Oncology. 2023;12(3)
Bermea K.C., Kostelecky N., Rousseau S.T., Lin C.Y., Adamo L. The human myocardium harbors a population of naive B-cells with a distinctive gene expression signature conserved across species Frontiers in Immunology. 2022;13
Mitchell S.G., Schultz K.A.P., Rytting H., Kostelecky N., Hill D.A., Dehner L.P. DICER1-associated hepatic cystic neoplasm with pleuropulmonary blastoma-like features: a novel clinicopathologic diagnosis Modern Pathology. 2022;35(5):676-679.
Moreno J.D., Verma A.K., Kopecky B.J., Dehner C., Kostelecky N., Vader J.M., Lin C.Y., Schilling J.D. Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Antibody-mediated Rejection Following Orthotopic Heart Transplant: A Single-center Experience Transplantation. 2022;106(2):373-380.