Randy L. Woltjer, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Director, Neuropathology Core of the Layton Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease Center

Biography

Dr. Randy L. Woltjer, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the School of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Neuropathology Core at the Layton Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease Center. He holds a B.S. from Grand Rapids, an M.A. from Michigan State University, and both a Ph.D. and M.D. from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Woltjer completed his residency and multiple fellowships at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, specializing in neuropathology. He is board-certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology as well as Neuropathology and is an active member of several professional associations, including the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine and the American Society for Investigative Pathology.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.S., 1985, Grand Rapids
    • M.A., 1986, Michigan State University
    • Ph.D., 1992, Vanderbilt University
    • M.D., 1994, Vanderbilt University
  • Residency

    • Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1994-1997
  • Fellowship

    • Research and Clinical Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville Tennessee, 1997-2000
    • Neuropathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 2000-2002
    • Fellow, OHSU Human Investigations Program, Portland, Oregon, 2008-2009
  • Certifications

    • Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology, 2000
    • Neuropathology, American Board of Pathology, 2005

Memberships and associations:

  • Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine American Society for Investigative Pathology

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Dysregulation of astrocytic Aquaporin-1 in the brains of oldest-old rhesus macaques

    GeroScience
    1. Opal Stayer-Wilburn
    2. Donald I. Brown
    3. Randy L. Woltjer
    4. Sathya Srinivasan
    5. Byung S. Park
    6. Penny Shultz
    7. Ana Vitantonio
    8. Christina Dimovasili
    9. Kelli L. Vaughan
    10. Matthew F. Starost
    11. Douglas Rosene
    12. Julie A. Mattison
    13. Henryk F. Urbanski
    14. Steven G. Kohama
  • The Effect of Rosuvastatin on a murine model of deep vein thrombosis

    Thrombosis Update
    1. Megan E. Barney
    2. Shenghao Zhou
    3. Anh Le-Cook
    4. Naly Setthavongsack
    5. Gabriel Nager
    6. Jennifer M. Loftis
    7. Randy L. Woltjer
    8. Monica Hinds
    9. Khanh P. Nguyen
  • A clathrin mediated endocytosis scaffolding protein, Intersectin 1, changes in an isoform, brain region, and sex specific manner in Alzheimer’s disease

    Frontiers in Neuroscience
    1. Sierra Jaye
    2. Ursula S. Sandau
    3. Trevor J. McFarland
    4. Randy L. Woltjer
    5. Julie A. Saugstad
  • Differential methylation analysis in neuropathologically confirmed dementia with Lewy bodies

    Communications Biology
    1. Paolo Reho
    2. Sara Saez-Atienzar
    3. Paola Ruffo
    4. Sultana Solaiman
    5. Zalak Shah
    6. Ruth Chia
    7. Karri Kaivola
    8. Bryan J. Traynor
    9. Bension S. Tilley
    10. Steve M. Gentleman
    11. Angela K. Hodges
    12. Dag Aarsland
    13. Edwin S. Monuki
    14. Kathy L. Newell
    15. Randy Woltjer
    16. Marilyn S. Albert
    17. Ted M. Dawson
    18. Liana S. Rosenthal
    19. Juan C. Troncoso
    20. Olga Pletnikova
    21. Geidy E. Serrano
    22. Thomas G. Beach
    23. Hariharan P. Easwaran
    24. Sonja W. Scholz
  • Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI assessment of venous Thrombus resolution and macrophage content in a murine deep vein thrombosis model

    Thrombosis research
    1. L. Morrison
    2. B. Smoody
    3. R. Woltjer
    4. M. T. Hinds
    5. J. M. Loftis
    6. C. W. Wyatt
    7. K. P. Nguyen
  • Investigation of the genetic aetiology of Lewy body diseases with and without dementia

    Brain Communications
    1. Lesley Yue Wu
    2. Raquel Real
    3. Alejandro Martinez-Carrasco
    4. Ruth Chia
    5. Michael A. Lawton
    6. Maryam Shoai
    7. Catherine Bresner
    8. Cornelis Blauwendraat
    9. Andrew B. Singleton
    10. Mina Ryten
    11. Sonja W. Scholz
    12. Bryan J. Traynor
    13. Nigel M. Williams
    14. Michele T.M. Hu
    15. Yoav Ben-Shlomo
    16. Donald G. Grosset
    17. John Hardy
    18. Huw R. Morris
    19. Yevgeniya Abramzon
    20. Sarah Ahmed
    21. Camille Alba
    22. Marilyn S. Albert
    23. Dagmar Bacikova
    24. Matthew J. Barrett
    25. Thomas G. Beach
    26. David A. Bennett
    27. Lilah M. Besser
    28. Eileen H. Bigio
    29. Bradley F. Boeve
    30. Ryan C. Bohannan
    31. Chad A. Caraway
    32. Jose Alberto Palma
    33. Clifton L. Dalgard
    34. Dennis Dickson
    35. Jinhui Ding
    36. Kelley Faber
    37. Tanis Ferman
    38. Luigi Ferrucci
    39. Margaret E. Flanagan
    40. Tatiana M. Foroud
    41. Bernardino Ghetti
    42. J. Raphael Gibbs
    43. Alison Goate
    44. David Goldstein
    45. Neill R. Graff-Radford
    46. Heng Chen Hu
    47. Daniel Hupalo
    48. Scott M. Kaiser
    49. Horacio Kaufmann
    50. Randy Woltjer
  • Role of platelet count in a murine stasis model of deep vein thrombosis

    Platelets
    1. Rick Mathews
    2. Naly Setthavongsack
    3. Anh Le-Cook
    4. Andy Kaempf
    5. Jennifer M. Loftis
    6. Randall L. Woltjer
    7. Christina U. Lorentz
    8. Alexey Revenko
    9. Monica T. Hinds
    10. Khanh P. Nguyen
  • White matter hyperintensities and the surrounding normal appearing white matter are associated with water channel disruption in the oldest old

    Alzheimer's and Dementia
    1. Lisa C. Silbert
    2. Natalie E. Roese
    3. Victoria Krajbich
    4. Justin Hurworth
    5. David Lahna
    6. Daniel L. Schwartz
    7. Hiroko H. Dodge
    8. Randall L. Woltjer
  • Correlating continuously captured home-based digital biomarkers of daily function with postmortem neurodegenerative neuropathology

    PloS one
    1. Nathan C. Hantke
    2. Jeffrey Kaye
    3. Nora Mattek
    4. Chao Yi Wu
    5. Hiroko H. Dodge
    6. Zachary Beattie
    7. Randy Woltjer
  • Delayed cerebral ischemia associated with surgery for pituitary macroadenomas that express elevated levels of PACAP

    Brain Hemorrhages
    1. Dominic A. Siler
    2. Kate U. Rosen
    3. Stephen G. Bowden
    4. Andrew Y. Powers
    5. Jesse J. Liu
    6. Aclan Dogan
    7. Holly E. Hinson
    8. Maria Fleseriu
    9. Randy L. Woltjer
    10. Justin S. Cetas
  • Elevated a5 integrin expression on myeloid cells in motor areas in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a therapeutic target

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    1. Aude Chiot
    2. Shanu F. Roemer
    3. Lisa Ryner
    4. Alina Bogachuk
    5. Katie Emberley
    6. Dillon Brownell
    7. Gisselle A. Jimenez
    8. Michael Leviten
    9. Randall Woltjer
    10. Dennis W. Dickson
    11. Lawrence Steinman
    12. Bahareh Ajami
  • Genome-wide structural variant analysis identifies risk loci for non-Alzheimer's dementias

    Cell Genomics
    1. Karri Kaivola
    2. Ruth Chia
    3. Jinhui Ding
    4. Memoona Rasheed
    5. Masashi Fujita
    6. Vilas Menon
    7. Ronald L. Walton
    8. Ryan L. Collins
    9. Kimberley Billingsley
    10. Harrison Brand
    11. Michael Talkowski
    12. Xuefang Zhao
    13. Ramita Dewan
    14. Ali Stark
    15. Anindita Ray
    16. Sultana Solaiman
    17. Pilar Alvarez Jerez
    18. Laksh Malik
    19. Ted M. Dawson
    20. Liana S. Rosenthal
    21. Marilyn S. Albert
    22. Olga Pletnikova
    23. Juan C. Troncoso
    24. Mario Masellis
    25. Julia Keith
    26. Sandra E. Black
    27. Luigi Ferrucci
    28. Susan M. Resnick
    29. Toshiko Tanaka
    30. Anthony R. Soltis
    31. Coralie Viollet
    32. Gauthaman Sukumar
    33. Camille Alba
    34. Nathaniel Lott
    35. Elisa McGrath Martinez
    36. Meila Tuck
    37. Jatinder Singh
    38. Dagmar Bacikova
    39. Xijun Zhang
    40. Daniel N. Hupalo
    41. Adelani Adeleye
    42. Matthew D. Wilkerson
    43. Harvey B. Pollard
    44. Clifton L. Dalgard
    45. Ziv Gan-Or
    46. Ekaterina Rogaeva
    47. Alexis Brice
    48. Suzanne Lesage
    49. Georgia Xiromerisiou
    50. Randy Woltjer
  • Lifelong Association of Disorders Related to Military Trauma with Subsequent Parkinson's Disease

    Movement Disorders
    1. Gregory D. Scott
    2. Lee E. Neilson
    3. Randy Woltjer
    4. Joseph F. Quinn
    5. Miranda M. Lim
  • Low-Intensity Ultrasound Reduces Brain Infarct Size by Upregulating Phosphorylated Endothelial Nitric Oxide in Mouse Model of Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion

    Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
    1. Catherine M. Davis
    2. Azzdine Y. Ammi
    3. Wenbin Zhu
    4. Carmen Methner
    5. Zhiping Cao
    6. David Giraud
    7. Nabil J. Alkayed
    8. Randy L. Woltjer
    9. Sanjiv Kaul
  • Multi-modality imaging assessment of microbubbles and cerebral emboli in left ventricular pulsed field ablation

    Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
    1. Laith Alkukhun
    2. Uday Sandhu
    3. James Hodovan
    4. Yan Zhao
    5. Kirby Chiang
    6. Quim Castellvi
    7. Peter Stenzel
    8. Randy Woltjer
    9. Xin Li
    10. Ramon F. Barajas
    11. Babak Nazer
  • Postmortem 7T MRI for guided histopathology and evaluation of cerebrovascular disease

    Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
    1. David Lahna
    2. Natalie Roese
    3. Randy Woltjer
    4. Erin L. Boespflug
    5. Daniel Schwartz
    6. John Grinstead
    7. Hiroko H. Dodge
    8. Rachel Wall
    9. Jeffrey A. Kaye
    10. William D. Rooney
    11. Lisa C. Silbert
  • Preserved autophagy in cognitively intact non-demented individuals with Alzheimer's neuropathology

    Alzheimer's and Dementia
    1. Batbayar Tumurbaatar
    2. Anna Fracassi
    3. Pietro Scaduto
    4. Jutatip Guptarak
    5. Randall Woltjer
    6. Daniel Jupiter
    7. Giulio Taglialatela
  • Targeted Transcriptional Analysis of IgA Vasculitis, IgA Nephropathy, and IgA-Dominant Infection-Related Glomerulonephritis Reveals Both Distinct and Overlapping Immune Signatures

    Kidney360
    1. Vanderlene L. Kung
    2. Rupali Avasare
    3. Marcia A. Friedman
    4. Stephanie Mengden Koon
    5. Tanaya L. Neff
    6. Sara Protzek
    7. Christopher Corless
    8. Victoria Krajbich
    9. Naly Setthavongsack
    10. Rebecca Ditmore
    11. Randall Woltjer
    12. Nicole K. Andeen
  • TREM2-induced activation of microglia contributes to synaptic integrity in cognitively intact aged individuals with Alzheimer's neuropathology

    Brain Pathology
    1. Anna Fracassi
    2. Michela Marcatti
    3. Batbayar Tumurbaatar
    4. Randall Woltjer
    5. Sandra Moreno
    6. Giulio Taglialatela
  • 18 Fluoromisonidazole (FMISO) PET/MRI hypoxic fraction distinguishes neuroinflammatory pseudoprogression from recurrent glioblastoma in patients treated with pembrolizumab

    Neuro-Oncology Practice
    1. Ramon F. Barajas
    2. Prakash Ambady
    3. Jeanne Link
    4. Kenneth A. Krohn
    5. Ahmed Raslan
    6. Nadine Mallak
    7. Randy Woltjer
    8. Leslie Muldoon
    9. Edward A. Neuwelt
  • Aggregated Alpha-Synuclein Inclusions within the Nucleus Predict Impending Neuronal Cell Death in a Mouse Model of Parkinsonism

    International journal of molecular sciences
    1. Leah J. Weston
    2. Anna M. Bowman
    3. Valerie R. Osterberg
    4. Charles K. Meshul
    5. Randall L. Woltjer
    6. Vivek K. Unni
  • Decoding perineuronal net glycan sulfation patterns in the Alzheimer's disease brain

    Alzheimer's and Dementia
    1. Aric F. Logsdon
    2. Kendra L. Francis
    3. Nicole E. Richardson
    4. Shannon J. Hu
    5. Chelsea L. Faber
    6. Bao Anh Phan
    7. Vy Nguyen
    8. Naly Setthavongsack
    9. William A. Banks
    10. Randy L. Woltjer
    11. C. Dirk Keene
    12. Caitlin S. Latimer
    13. Michael W. Schwartz
    14. Jarrad M. Scarlett
    15. Kimberly M. Alonge
  • Differential protein expression in the hippocampi of resilient individuals identified by digital spatial profiling

    Acta Neuropathologica Communications
    1. Jamie M. Walker
    2. Shiva Kazempour Dehkordi
    3. Anna Fracassi
    4. Alison Vanschoiack
    5. Anna Pavenko
    6. Giulio Taglialatela
    7. Randall Woltjer
    8. Timothy E. Richardson
    9. Habil Zare
    10. Miranda E. Orr
  • Endovascular Venous Stenosis and Thrombosis Large Animal Model

    Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
    1. Ningcheng Li
    2. Jack Ferracane
    3. Nicole Andeen
    4. Steven Lewis
    5. Randy Woltjer
    6. Sandra Rugonyi
    7. Younes Jahangiri
    8. Barry Uchida
    9. Khashayar Farsad
    10. John A. Kaufman
    11. Ramsey A. Al-Hakim
  • Genetic evaluation of dementia with Lewy bodies implicates distinct disease subgroups

    Brain
    1. Karri Kaivola
    2. Zalak Shah
    3. Ruth Chia
    4. Sandra E. Black
    5. Ziv Gan-Or
    6. Julia Keith
    7. Mario Masellis
    8. Ekaterina Rogaeva
    9. Alexis Brice
    10. Suzanne Lesage
    11. Georgia Xiromerisiou
    12. Andrea Calvo
    13. Antonio Canosa
    14. Adriano Chio
    15. Giancarlo Logroscino
    16. Gabriele Mora
    17. Reijko Krüger
    18. Patrick May
    19. Daniel Alcolea
    20. Jordi Clarimon
    21. Juan Fortea
    22. Isabel Gonzalez-Aramburu
    23. Jon Infante
    24. Carmen Lage
    25. Alberto Lleó
    26. Pau Pastor
    27. Pascual Sanchez-Juan
    28. Francesca Brett
    29. Dag Aarsland
    30. Safa Al-Sarraj
    31. Johannes Attems
    32. Steve Gentleman
    33. John A. Hardy
    34. Angela K. Hodges
    35. Seth Love
    36. Ian G. Mckeith
    37. Christopher M. Morris
    38. Huw R. Morris
    39. Laura Palmer
    40. Stuart Pickering-Brown
    41. Mina Ryten
    42. Alan J. Thomas
    43. Claire Troakes
    44. Marilyn S. Albert
    45. Matthew J. Barrett
    46. Thomas G. Beach
    47. Lynn M. Bekris
    48. David A. Bennett
    49. Bradley F. Boeve
    50. Clifton L. Dalgard
    51. Ted M. Dawson
    52. Dennis W. Dickson
    53. Kelley Faber
    54. Tanis Ferman
    55. Luigi Ferrucci
    56. Margaret E. Flanagan
    57. Tatiana M. Foroud
    58. Bernardino Ghetti
    59. J. Raphael Gibbs
    60. Alison Goate
    61. David S. Goldstein
    62. Neill R. Graff-Radford
    63. Horacio Kaufmann
    64. Walter A. Kukull
    65. James B. Leverenz
    66. Qinwen Mao
    67. Eliezer Masliah
    68. Edwin Monuki
    69. Kathy L. Newell
    70. Jose Alberto Palma
    71. Olga Pletnikova
    72. Alan E. Renton
    73. Susan M. Resnick
    74. Liana S. Rosenthal
    75. Owen A. Ross
    76. Clemens R. Scherzer
    77. Geidy E. Serrano
    78. Vikram G. Shakkottai
    79. Ellen Sidransky
    80. Toshiko Tanaka
    81. Eric Topol
    82. Ali Torkamani
    83. Juan C. Troncoso
    84. Randy Woltjer
    85. Zbigniew K. Wszolek
    86. Sonja W. Scholz
  • Genome-wide association study and functional validation implicates JADE1 in tauopathy

    Acta Neuropathologica
    1. Kurt Farrell
    2. Soong Ho Kim
    3. Natalia Han
    4. Megan A. Iida
    5. Elias M. Gonzalez
    6. Marcos Otero-Garcia
    7. Jamie M. Walker
    8. Timothy E. Richardson
    9. Alan E. Renton
    10. Shea J. Andrews
    11. Brian Fulton-Howard
    12. Jack Humphrey
    13. Ricardo A. Vialle
    14. Kathryn R. Bowles
    15. Katia de Paiva Lopes
    16. Kristen Whitney
    17. Diana K. Dangoor
    18. Hadley Walsh
    19. Edoardo Marcora
    20. Marco M. Hefti
    21. Alicia Casella
    22. Cheick T. Sissoko
    23. Manav Kapoor
    24. Gloriia Novikova
    25. Evan Udine
    26. Garrett Wong
    27. Weijing Tang
    28. Tushar Bhangale
    29. Julie Hunkapiller
    30. Gai Ayalon
    31. Robert R. Graham
    32. Jonathan D. Cherry
    33. Etty P. Cortes
    34. Valeriy Y. Borukov
    35. Ann C. McKee
    36. Thor D. Stein
    37. Jean Paul Vonsattel
    38. Andy F. Teich
    39. Marla Gearing
    40. Jonathan Glass
    41. Juan C. Troncoso
    42. Matthew P. Frosch
    43. Bradley T. Hyman
    44. Dennis W. Dickson
    45. Melissa E. Murray
    46. Johannes Attems
    47. Margaret E. Flanagan
    48. Qinwen Mao
    49. M. Marsel Mesulam
    50. Sandra Weintraub
    51. Randy L. Woltjer
    52. Thao Pham
    53. Julia Kofler
    54. Julie A. Schneider
    55. Lei Yu
    56. Dushyant P. Purohit
    57. Vahram Haroutunian
    58. Patrick R. Hof
    59. Sam Gandy
    60. Mary Sano
    61. Thomas G. Beach
    62. Wayne Poon
    63. Claudia H. Kawas
    64. María M. Corrada
    65. Robert A. Rissman
    66. Jeff Metcalf
    67. Sara Shuldberg
    68. Bahar Salehi
    69. Peter T. Nelson
    70. John Q. Trojanowski
    71. Edward B. Lee
    72. David A. Wolk
    73. Corey T. McMillan
    74. C. Dirk Keene
    75. Caitlin S. Latimer
    76. Thomas J. Montine
    77. Gabor G. Kovacs
    78. Mirjam I. Lutz
    79. Peter Fischer
    80. Richard J. Perrin
    81. Nigel J. Cairns
    82. Erin E. Franklin
    83. Herbert T. Cohen
    84. Towfique Raj
    85. Inma Cobos
    86. Bess Frost
    87. Alison Goate
    88. Charles L. White
    89. John F. Crary
  • Human Brain Lipidomics

    Metabolites
    1. Aaron W. Beger
    2. Beatrix Dudzik
    3. Randall L. Woltjer
    4. Paul L. Wood
  • Human Brain Lipidomics

    Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
    1. Aaron W. Beger
    2. Kathleen A. Hauther
    3. Beatrix Dudzik
    4. Randall L. Woltjer
    5. Paul L. Wood
  • Impact of Postthrombotic Vein Wall Biomechanics on Luminal Flow during Venous Angioplasty and Stent Placement

    Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
    1. Ningcheng Li
    2. Jack Ferracane
    3. Nicole Andeen
    4. Steven Lewis
    5. Randy Woltjer
    6. Sandra Rugonyi
    7. Younes Jahangiri
    8. Barry Uchida
    9. Khashayar Farsad
    10. John A. Kaufman
    11. Ramsey Al-Hakim
  • Loss of perivascular aquaporin-4 localization impairs glymphatic exchange and promotes amyloid β plaque formation in mice

    Alzheimer's Research and Therapy
    1. Matthew Simon
    2. Marie Xun Wang
    3. Ozama Ismail
    4. Molly Braun
    5. Abigail G. Schindler
    6. Jesica Reemmer
    7. Zhongya Wang
    8. Mariya A. Haveliwala
    9. Ryan P. O’Boyle
    10. Warren Y. Han
    11. Natalie Roese
    12. Marjorie Grafe
    13. Randall Woltjer
    14. Detlev Boison
    15. Jeffrey J. Iliff