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Timothy H. McCalmont, MD
Professor of Clinical Pathology and Dermatology; Co-Director, UCSF Dermatopathology Service, USA
Prof. McCalmont is interested in the advancement of diagnostic dermatopathology. UCSF Dermatopathology unit is particularly active as a bridge between conventional microscopy and molecular methods. In the realm of cutaneous lymphoma, he provide comprehensive consultation and classification, using both immunophenotyping and genotypic analysis (via both PCR and traditional Southern blot methods) as diagnostic supplements. Prof. McCalmont also provides consultative diagnoses for a large volume of melanocytic neoplasms, and a recent advance has been the clinical application of comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to the evaluation of a broad spectrum of melanocytic neoplasms, including melanoma, Spitz’s nevi, and cellular blue nevi, in collaboration with Dr. Boris Bastian.
After completing anatomic pathology training and mentoring with Dr. Wain White at Wake Forest University, Dr. McCalmont moved on to the University of California, where he has served as a consultant dermatopathologist for the past two decades. Dr. McCalmont co-directs the UCSF Dermatopathology Service with his longstanding colleague, Dr. Philip LeBoit. The UCSF Dermatopathology Service represents the largest academic dermatopathology unit in the western United States. Dr. McCalmont currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology. His passions outside the office include cycling and renewable energy.
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Jag Bhawan, MD
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Head of the Dermatopathology Section, Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Dr. Bhawan is Professor of Dermatology and Pathology and Head of the Dermatopathology Section at Boston University School of Medicine. He is also the director of the International Dermatopathology training program and of Skin Pathology Laboratory Inc. He received his M.D. degree Maulana Azad Medical College in 1968 and a doctorate degree in Pathology in 1972 from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He trained in Pathology and Dermatopathology at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA from 1973 to 1975, prior to joining the University of Massachusetts Medical School as the head of Dermatopathology and Assistant Professor of Pathology in July 1975. He was promoted to the rank of tenured professor in 1985. He also trained in Dermatology at the combined Boston University/Tufts Dermatology program from 1980 to 1983 before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1986.
Dr. Bhawan is board-certified in Pathology, Dermatology and Dermatopathology. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Dermatopathology, the International Society of Dermatopathology and the International Pigment Cell Society as well as the Society of Investigative Dermatolgy. He has published over 200 original articles, written several book chapters and recently co-authored an interactive dermatopathology atlas on CD-ROM. His research interests include cutaneous aging and pigmentary disorders.
Dr. Bhawan serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Dermatopathology, and trustee of the Dermatology Foundation. Dr. Bhawan served as the President of the American Society of Dermatopathology (September 2001 to October 2002). He was a member of Ethics committee of the American Academy of Dermatology (2002-07). Dr. Bhawan is recipient of many awards including 1998 Best Teacher of the year award from the dermatology residents of the combined Boston-Tufts Universities Dermatology program. He is recipient of 2006 Walter Nickel award for excellence in teaching of dermatopathology & 2008 Founders award given by the American Society of Dermatopathology. He has helped create two endowed professorships and two endowed international training fellowships in dermatopathology at Boston University School of Medicine. Most recently he was honored to become a member of The Chester S. Keefer, MD Society at Boston University School of Medicine for recognition of his generous contributions and commitment to the institution.
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Cyril Fisher, MA MD DSc FRCPath
Consultant Histopathologist, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK
Professor of Tumour Pathology, Institute of Cancer Research, UCL
Professor Cyril Fisher MA, MD, DSc, FRCPath, Hon MRCR, graduated in medicine from Oxford University and trained in pathology at University College Hospital Medical School, London. He has held senior academic appointments in the USA and the UK and is currently Professor of Tumour Pathology at the Institute of Cancer Research (University of London) and Consultant Histopathologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK
Prof. Fisher specialises in diagnosis of soft tissue tumours, including application and evaluation of the most advanced diagnostic techniques. He has been President of the International Society of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology, has given more than 175 invited lectures in 22 countries, and is an Editor of Sarcoma and a member of several other Editorial Boards. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 scientific publications.
Prof. Fisher deals with some 2000 specimens of soft tissue tumours and related conditions per year, and receives cases for second opinion from pathologists throughout the U.K. and worldwide. |
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Daniela Massi, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology, Division of Pathological Anatomy, Dept. of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Daniela Massi qualified M.D. with magna cum laude in 1993 at the University of Florence Medical School, Italy. She was awarded her Ph.D. in Human Pathology and Oncology from the University of Verona, Italy. Her pathology training included a Dermatopathology fellowship at the Institute for Dermatopathology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, under the direction of A. Bernard Ackerman. She then received a Post-Doctoral Research fellowship from the American-Italian Cancer Foundation (A.I.C.F.) that allowed her to pursue research in the field of cutaneous melanoma. Dr. Massi spent considerable time visiting highly qualified dermatopathology centers in Europe, including the Department of Dermatology, Graz, Austria (under the mentoring of Professor Lorenzo Cerroni) and the Melanoma Unit, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain (working in collaboration with Professor Susana Puig). From 1997-2003 she was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Dermatopathology and she is now Chairman of the Dermatopathology Working Group of the European Society of Pathology. Dr. Massi is currently working as an Associate Professor Staff Dermatopathologist at the Division of Pathological Anatomy, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence Medical School. Her research interests are mainly focused on skin tumors’ pathology, and particularly: i) signalling receptor pathways and molecular genetic alterations involved in melanoma; ii) tumor microenvironment, with particular reference to lymphangiogenesis and tumor-associated macrophages. She has authored 170 publications in international journals, 2 volumes and 13 chapters in books.
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Gerald Saldanha MD FRCPath
Senior Lecturer University of Leicester and Consultant Dermatopathologist, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK
Dr Gerald Saldanha is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine at the University of Leicester and Honorary Consultant Histopathologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Pathologists know well that a stubborn minority of melanocytic tumours defy classification as either moles or melanoma. In addition, current ways of determining prognosis lack precision for individual patients. Yet, identifying patients who are destined have poor outcome is especially crucial as new "druggable" targets such as c-KIT and B-RAF emerge. As yet no molecular test can rival the simple, cheap assessment of a melanocytic tumour's microscopic histological features for determining diagnosis and prognosis. Dr Saldanha's research aims to address this by trying to add value to what can be gleaned from paraffin-embedded clinical samples, focusing on biomarkers that can be readily analysed in these tissues.
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Alistair Robson, FRCPath Dip RCPath
Consultant Dermatopathologist, Department of Dermatopathology, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, London, UK
Dr Robson graduated from the University of Birmingham with Honours in Medicine, having previously gained a first class degree in Pathology. Most of his training in general pathology was at the University Hospital of Wales during which time his interest in dermatopathology developed. He was Lecturer at the University of Leicester and was subsequently appointed Clinical Lecturer in Pathology at the University of Oxford. In 2000, he was appointed Consultant Dermatopathologist at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, London.
Dr Robson is the clinical pathology lead in cutaneous lymphoma, and is a member of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer for lymphoma. Other particular clinical interests include adnexal tumours and mast cell disease. He has presented and spoken at numerous national and international meetings in the UK, elsewhere in Europe, the USA, and Asia. He has been lead of the dermatopathology course component of the Kings College MSc Dermatology course since 2000. He is a joint Director of London Dermatopathology Teaching, a not-for-profit private company established to provide dermatopathology education in a variety of formats in the UK and abroad.
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Catherine M. Stefanato, MD, FRCPath
Consultant Dermatopathologist, Department of Dermatopathology, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, London, UK
Dr. Catherine M. Stefanato is Consultant Dermatopathologist in the Department of Dermatopathology, at the St. John's Institute of Dermatology, London, UK. Dr. Stefanato completed her residency training in Dermatology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, Italy. Subsequently, she undertook residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Yale University School of Medicine (USA), followed by Fellowship training in Dermatopathology at Boston University School of Medicine (USA), where she also worked as a Consultant Dermatopathologist and Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pathology. Dr. Stefanato is a Diplomate of the American Boards of both Anatomic Pathology and Dermatopathology.
Dr. Stefanato currently serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the ICDP-UEMS Dermatopathology Exmination. In addition, she holds memberships in eight other Dermatology and Dermatopathology Societies.
Dr. Stefanato's principal interests include the histopathologic evaluation of alopecia, clinical-pathologic correlation of dermatoscopic examination of pigmented skin lesions, and immunofluorescence diagnosis of immune-mediated bullous disorders. She has authored/co-authored more than 90 publications, primarily in the area of dermatopathology.
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Raymond L. Barnhill, MD MSc
Professeur Associe (Visiting Foreign Professor) in the Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, Saint-Louis Hospital and University of Paris VII, Paris, France.
Dr. Raymond Barnhill received his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine in 1976 with subsequent training in internal medicine and dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, in pathology at Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans, and in dermatopathology at the University of Miami and Yale University. While in Oxford in 1980-82, he was postdoctoral research fellow conducting research on angiogenesis and received an M.Sc. from Oxford in 1982. He was appointed Instructor and Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Yale University from 1984 to 1987, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School with appointments at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals in 1988, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School in 1991, and Director of Dermatopathology, at Brigham and Women’s and Children’s Hospitals, Boston, in 1992. In 1997 Dr. Barnhill was recruited to Johns Hopkins University as tenured Professor of Dermatology, Pathology, and Oncology and Director of Dermatopathology, and to George Washington University, Washington, DC as Chairman of the Department of Dermatology, 2000-2004. He was Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Pathology at the University of Miami while maintaining a consultation practice in dermatopathology, 2004-2008. In 2008 he was recruited as Professeur Associe (Visiting Foreign Professor) in the Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, Saint-Louis Hospital and University of Paris VII, Paris, France.
Dr. Barnhill’s research interests have focused on angiogenesis, the biology of melanoma and cutaneous melanocytic lesions, and more recently on mechanisms of melanoma metastasis. With Dr. Claire Lugassy, he has described and characterized the biological phenomenon of angiotropism and extravascular migratory metastasis in melanoma, other melanocytic lesions, and in other neoplasms. His academic and research work has been carried out as a member of the Yale Melanoma Unit; Co-Director of the Pigmented Lesion Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital; co-founder of the Melanoma Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; member of the WHO Melanoma Programme during its existence, Founder and Director of the North American Melanoma Pathology Study Group in 1994 and Founder and President of the International Melanoma Pathology Study Group in 2007, member of the Steering Committee of the Society for Melanoma Research, and since 2008 as Scientific Member of the EORTC Melanoma Group and Pathology Committee. Since 2008 he has also been a member of the Advisory Committee for the International Board Certification in Dermatopathology, sponsored by the European Union of Medical Specialists and the International Committee for Dermatopathology. Dr. Barnhill’s international lectures have included the Scarborough Lectureship at Emory University, Zeligman Lectureship at Johns Hopkins University, and the Gold Metal Lectureship of the Swedish Society of Pathology. He is the author of more than 215 original articles, chapters, and reviews, and the author, co-author, or editor of four books including (Textbook of) Dermatopathology, Third Edition 2010, and Pathology of Melanocytic Nevi and Malignant Melanoma, third edition in progress, 2012. Some of his former residents, fellows, and trainees currently hold positions at leading academic institutions in the United States, Canada, and around the world.
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