Former Graduate Student

Farees Saqlain

Published

August 1, 2019

Abstract
Dr. Saqlain was a graduate student in The Miller Lab while he was a Harvard Medical Student.

Education

Bachelor of Science

  • Columbia University
  • 2011 - 2015

Biography

Farees Saqlain MSIV was a medical student at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Farees participated in the Scholars in Medicine Program at HMS and conducted his research in the Miller lab. His research was focused on evaluating the natural history of Merkel Cell carcinoma.

Peer Reviewed manuscripts from his work in The Miller Lab include:

Publications

  1. Saqlain, Farees, Sophia Z. Shalhout, Kevin S. Emerick, Tomas G. Neilan, Tatyana Sharova, and David Michael Miller. 2020. “Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma Masquerading as Multiple Immune-Related Adverse Events.” Edited by Jacek Cezary Szepietowski. Case Reports in Dermatological Medicine 2020 (September): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8890845.
  2. Saqlain, Farees, Sophia Z. Shalhout, Keith T. Flaherty, Kevin S. Emerick, and David M. Miller. 2021. “REDCap-Based Operational Tool to Guide Care Coordination in a Multidisciplinary Cutaneous Oncology Clinic.” JCO Oncology Practice 17 (9): 527–33. https://doi.org/10.1200/op.20.00673.
  3. Saqlain, Farees, Sophia Z Shalhout, Kayla Wright, and David M Miller. 2021. “Evaluation of Clinical Characteristics and Pre-Biopsy Impressions of Primary Merkel Cell Carcinoma of the Skin.” Dermatology Online Journal 27 (10). https://doi.org/10.5070/d3271055614.
  4. Saqlain, Farees, Sophia Z. Shalhout, Kevin S. Emerick, Howard L. Kaufman, Yen-Lin E. Chen, James C. Cusack, Kayla Wright, and David Michael Miller. 2022. “Diagnostic Yield of Staging Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Is Low in Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Single-Institution Cohort Study.” Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 87 (2): 434–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2021.08.060.
  5. Miller, David M, and Sophia Z Shalhout. 2022. "BodyMapR: An R Package and Shiny Application Designed to Generate Anatomical Visualizations of Cancer Lesions." JAMIA Open 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooac013.
  6. Shalhout, Sophia Z, Farees Saqlain, Kayla Wright, Oladayo Akinyemi, and David M Miller. 2022. “Generalizable EHR-R-REDCap Pipeline for a National Multi-Institutional Rare Tumor Patient Registry.” JAMIA Open 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooab118.