Dr. Osunkoya is a Professor of Pathology and Urology at Emory University School of Medicine and also serves as a Senior Staff Pathologist at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is originally from Nigeria and graduated from the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan in 1998. Following his Internship, National Service year and two years of Pathology training, he emigrated from Nigeria to the United States and did his Pathology Residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center where he served as Chief Resident from 2004-2006. He then proceeded to The Johns Hopkins Hospital for his Urologic Pathology Fellowship. He subsequently joined the distinguished Faculty of the Department of Pathology at Emory University in 2007 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Professor of Pathology and Urology in 2016.

Dr. Osunkoya has served in several leadership roles in National and International organizations. He previously served as Chair of the Prize and Awards Committee of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society and Member of Council (2019-2023), elected Member of the Board of Directors of the USCAP (2017-2020), Director of Urologic Pathology at the USCAP Interactive Microscopy Center (2018-2020), Chair of the Excellence in Urological Pathology Resident/Fellow Research Award Committee of the International Society of Urological Pathology (2013-2018), Chair of the Stephen Vogel Award Committee of the USCAP (2014-2016), Member of the Education Committee of the USCAP (2012-2016), Member of the Stowell-Orbison Award Committee, Member of the Abstract Review Committee, and USCAP Ambassador. He serves on the Editorial Board of well-known Journals. He has presented several lectures at conferences and seminars in the United States and abroad, including the International Academy of Pathology, Asia Pacific International Academy of Pathology, and European Congress of Pathology/European Society of Pathology meetings. In addition, he has directed and presented at several Interactive Microscopy Courses in Palm Springs and Short Courses and Interactive Microscopy Courses at annual meetings of the USCAP. He has also been an invited speaker at the USCAP Long Course and Practical Pathology Seminars. Dr. Osunkoya has been involved in several major research grants over the years, and has published over 200 manuscripts and 25 book chapters, including contributions to the 4th and 5th editions of the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs. He has won numerous awards including the very prestigious Benjamin Castleman Award (2010) and the highly coveted Arthur Purdy Stout Prize (2015). He is currently President of the USCAP and Member of the Executive Committee.

On a personal note, Dr. Osunkoya is very happily married to his Medical School sweetheart Ojoru Osunkoya, MD (Pediatrician) and they are blessed with two wonderful children, Siji (Son) and Seyi (Daughter). He considers them to be his greatest achievement in life.

Dr. Billings completed his pathology residency at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.  Following residency, he completed fellowships in soft tissue pathology with Dr. Sharon Weiss at Emory University and dermatopathology with Dr. Antoinette Hood at Indiana University.  Upon completion of his post-graduate studies, he joined the faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine, where he practiced for several years.  In 2007 he joined the faculty at the Cleveland Clinic where he serves as a Professor of Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and as co-director of the dermatopathology section.  He also staffs the soft tissue pathology service.

His research interests are in dermatopathology and soft tissue pathology, with a special emphasis on cutaneous soft tissue tumors.  He has authored over 180 articles, 81 book chapters, and co-authored/edited 7 books.

He has a strong interest in education and gives numerous invited lectures and CME courses.  He is on the editorial board of several journals, a peer reviewer for many more, and served on the Consensus Committee for the WHO Classification of Skin Tumours.

For USCAP, he has given numerous lectures, served on the Education Committee, the Board of Directors, and is currently on the Executive Committee as Treasurer.  He was also instrumental in developing Interactive Microscopy at the Annual Meeting as well as the Palm Springs Interactive Center in his role as the first Chair of Interactive Microscopy for the Academy.  For these and other achievements, he was awarded the 2021 F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Hornick received a BA from Amherst College and an MD/PhD from the University of Southern California. He trained as a resident in Anatomic Pathology and pursued subspecialty fellowships in soft tissue pathology and gastrointestinal pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is the Director of Surgical Pathology and Immunohistochemistry. Dr. Hornick is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a consultant at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the 5th series of the AFIP fascicles. Dr. Hornick previously chaired the USCAP Education Committee, the USCAP Abstract Review Board and Assignment Committee, and the CAP Immunohistochemistry Committee and is currently on the USCAP Board of Directors. He has served on the USCAP Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award Committee and the Harvey Goldman Teaching Award Committee. Dr. Hornick has also served as Co-Director of the Diagnostic Pathology Update course; Coordinator for Soft Tissue Pathology Interactive Microscopy courses; and Moderator of the Bone and Soft Tissue Specialty Conference, the Surgical Pathology Specialty Conference, and Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology and Gastrointestinal Pathology platform sessions for the USCAP.

Dr. Hornick was a member of the expert editorial board for the 4th (2013) and 5th (2020) editions of the WHO Classification of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone. He serves on the Anatomic Pathology Test Development and Advisory Committee for the American Board of Pathology. Dr. Hornick was a member of the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Expert Panel for the AJCC and the Sarcoma Analysis Working Group for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). He is President-Elect of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists.

Dr. Hornick serves on 14 editorial boards, including the American Journal of Surgical Pathology and Modern Pathology. He is an Associate Editor for Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, a Regional Editor for Histopathology, an Associate Editor for Advances in Anatomic Pathology and Virchows Archives, and the Consulting Editor for Surgical Pathology Clinics.

Dr. Hornick has published over 500 original papers, review articles, and book chapters and edits the textbook Practical Soft Tissue Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach, which is in its 2nd edition. He received the 2012 Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists Annual Prize and the 2014 Jack Yardley Investigator Award from the Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. Dr. Hornick sings and plays keyboards for a rock band.

Dr. Hart did his pathology residency at UCLA Medical Center, followed by a Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology fellowship at the same institution. In 1991 he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Department of Pathology as an assistant professor and rose to the rank of full professor in 2004. In 1998 he started a fellowship program in Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology and has served as the director of the program since that time. The fellowship has graduated more than a dozen GI pathologists who are now working in academic pathology departments throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Hart has published more than 180 articles in the fields of gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology and has also authored numerous book chapters. He has lectured throughout the United States and in Europe, South America and Asia. He has been the director of a liver pathology course for the past 13 years and has participated in numerous additional educational courses in GI and hepatic pathology.

Dr. Hart has attended the USCAP annual meeting for the past 25+ years. He has been an abstract reviewer, platform session moderator, companion society and evening specialty session speaker and moderator, a member of the education committees of the USCAP and of the Rodger Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. He has also been a primary speaker at USCAP’s Diagnostic Pathology Update and Tutorials on Pathology of the GI Tract, Pancreas and Liver. He now serves as the Past President of USCAP.

Dr. Nucci is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, Vice Chair and Director of the Division Women’s and Perinatal Pathology, and Associate Director of the Pathology Residency Training Program in the Department of Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, USA. She also serves as a Consultant Pathologist for the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center where she is an Associate Member of the Gynecologic Cancer and Sarcoma Programs. Dr. Nucci was born in Newark, NJ. She did her undergraduate training at Haverford College and medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, and completed an AP residency as well as the Women’s and Perinatal Pathology Fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has been on staff at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital since 1996. She is past president of the New England Society of Pathologists and serves on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology, Human Pathology, and Advances in Anatomic Pathology. She is an active member of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, where she served on the Education Committee (2011-2017), was Chair of the Subcommittee for Unique Live Course Offerings (2012-2017) and is a member of the Board of Directors (2016-). She is also Past-President of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society. She is the co-editor of three widely read major gynecologic pathology textbooks: Diagnostic Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology edited by Drs. Crum, Nucci and Lee; Gynecologic Pathology. A Volume in the Series Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology edited by Drs. Nucci and Oliva; and Diagnostic Pathology Gynecological edited by Drs. Nucci and Oliva.

Dr. Weinreb graduated from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine in 2001 and after a short stint in General Surgery residency made a switch to Pathology where he graduated in 2006. After a head and neck fellowship in Toronto he began his academic position in 2007 at the University Health Network. He works in an exclusive head and neck subspecialty service, is the director of the head and neck Pathology fellowship program and the director of surgical pathology. He is the current lead author for head and neck pathology at the cancer committee for the College of American Pathologists. Dr. Weinreb has presented at numerous national and international meetings both as an invited speaker and in short courses in the College of American Pathologists, the Canadian Association of Pathologists, and the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). This includes multiple companion meeting presentations at USCAP, platform presentations, and stand-alone USCAP courses, including Practical Pathology Seminars, Diagnostic Pathology Update, and Interactive Microscopy courses at the Interactive Center in Palm Springs. He has been involved in numerous USCAP committees including the Education Committee (EC) and the subcommittee for unique live course offerings (SULCO). He is currently in his second stint on the EC and is the current chair of the SULCO committee. He is a member of the USCAP Canada Foundation as well. He has published over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts, multiple book chapters and is an author in the WHO classification of head and neck tumors and the American Registry of Pathology’s upcoming salivary gland fascicle, fifth series. His research is focused on head and neck mucosal disease, sinonasal neoplasms, and in particular salivary gland pathology. In the salivary gland he has contributed to the discovery of numerous tumor specific translocations and mutations and has a specific interest in salivary gland tumor classification.

Dr. Baloch received his medical degree from Liaquat Medical University in Hyderabad, Sind, Pakistan. After receiving his PhD in 1991 he joined the pathology residency at Hahnemann University Hospital. This was followed by fellowships in surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and cytopathology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia under the mentorship of late Dr. Prabodh K. Gupta. Dr. Baloch is currently a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine there. He has authored more than 200 peer reviewed publications in leading pathology journals on the subjects of endocrine and head and neck pathology, as well as book chapters and monographs. Dr. Baloch has delivered numerous lectures, workshops, and short courses at national and international meetings including USCAP, ASC, ASCP, CAP, ECC and IAP. He has co-authored 3 books and has served as co-editor of the most recent “Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology”. Dr. Baloch has also served as the chair of the terminology and morphologic criteria committee of the 2007 NCI sponsored thyroid FNA initiative which led to the development of “Bethesda Thyroid FNA Classification Scheme”. Dr. Baloch also served on the international panel which recommended the renaming of encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma to non-invasive follicular tumor with papillary like nuclear features (NIFTP). Dr. Baloch is Editor-in-Chief of Diagnostic Cytopathology and member of the editorial board of Cancer Cytopathology, Cytojournal, Endocrine Pathology and Journal of American Society of Cytopathology. He has served on USCAP’s Education Committee, as chair of ASCP’s annual meeting program committee (2014-2018), a member of Papanicolaou Society’s scientific program committee, ASC’s Executive Board, as chair of ASC’s scientific program committee, and ASCP’s committee for continuing professional development. He has served on the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology’s thyroid nodule guideline task force, American Thyroid Association’s laboratory test committee and well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma management guidelines committee and currently is one of the editors of the WHO Classification of Tumors of Neuroendocrine Organs. Dr. Baloch has received many awards from University of Pennsylvania, Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology, Philadelphia Pathology Society, and American Society for Clinical Pathology.

Dr. Dry is Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) where she has been on the faculty since 2000. Dr. Dry, originally from the Hartford, Connecticut area, received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her MD from the University of Connecticut. She completed her AP/CP training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and UCLA, and completed a soft tissue fellowship with Dr. Christopher Fletcher and a GI fellowship with Dr. Klaus Lewin at the Brigham and UCLA, respectively. Dr. Dry has been an active member of USCAP for over 20 years. She has served USCAP as an abstract reviewer, lead abstract reviewer, a moderator for platform sessions, a speaker for companion societies and evening specialty conferences, a faculty member at Interactive Microscopy Courses, a member of the Education Committee (EC) and she is currently a member of the EC subcommittee for unique live course offerings (SULCO). She is on the organizing committees for five new professional development educational offerings concerning EDI and women in pathology at the 2022 and 2023 USCAP annual meetings. She is a past Treasurer of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society and is a long-standing member of the Rodger Haggitt GI Pathology Society and the International Society of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology. She has numerous publications, mainly on bone and soft tissue and biobanking topics, and is on the Editorial Board of Biopreservation and Biobanking. Dr. Dry continues to sign out on the UCLA bone and soft tissue and GI services, and she greatly enjoys these opportunities to interact with and teach trainees.

Dr. Hameed is Chief of Surgical Pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and Professor of Pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Training included Medical School (Madras University), Residency (Hahnemann University) and Fellowship in oncologic surgical pathology (MSKCC). Her academic career began at Montefiore/Albert-Einstein to Rutgers-NJMS, prior to MSKCC. She is also a molecular pathologist with leadership positions in this field at both Rutgers-NJMS and MSKCC (Program Director). As Chief of Surgical Pathology, Dr. Hameed’s vision is to incorporate the use of digital technology into diagnostic pathology. She is actively involved in the digitization, integration of workflow and consultative access, and the use of digital platforms for interfacing with other disciplines. She is also Co-Director of the Warren Alpert Center for Digital and Computational Pathology with over 4 million scanned images, has developed an infrastructure for deep learning and computational pathology at MSKCC. The Center also is paving the way towards utilizing new imaging modalities. Dr. Hameed is known for her expertise in bone and soft tissue pathology and has presented at national and international conferences. She served as a member of the Education Committee and Nominating Committees of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and the Meritorious Award Committee of the American Society of Investigative Pathology. She is the Treasurer of the International Society of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology. She is a member of the International Skeletal Society and has served as Executive Council Member of that society. She serves on the Molecular Oncology Committee of the College of American Pathologists and has served on the Clinical Practice Committee of the Association of Molecular Pathology. She has authored over 160 publications as well as many book chapters and review articles. She has Co-Directed several short courses for USCAP. She serves as an Associate Editor of American Journal of Pathology and is an Editorial Board Member of Modern Pathology. In all these roles, she has focused on the continuing evolution of pathology in the age of personalized medicine. Her expertise in multiple aspects of modern pathology provides her with a unique perspective.

Dr. Kunju is Professor of Pathology, Director of Surgical Pathology and Urologic Pathology, and Medical Director of the Molecular Testing Laboratory of Michigan Center of Translational Pathology (MCTP) at the University of Michigan. She received her medical degree from the Seth G.S. Medical College & King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bombay, India in 1996. Her research interests are genitourinary neoplasms including morphologic and molecular underpinnings of prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancers, and breast cancers with emphasis on morphology and molecular markers that predict breast cancer development. She holds numerous grants, has lectured widely, has accrued over 100 peer-reviewed publications, contributed three book chapters and is involved in more than 120 abstracts. She serves on the CME Subcommittee of USCAP.

Dr. Longacre received a BA from St. John’s College, a BS from the University of New Mexico, and an MD from the University of New Mexico. She trained as a resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of New Mexico and pursued subspecialty fellowships in hematopathology, gastrointestinal pathology and general surgical pathology at Stanford Medicine, where she is now Director of Gynecologic Pathology and Gastrointestinal Pathology. She is the Richard L. Kempson Endowed Professor of Surgical Pathology at Stanford and directs the Gynecologic Pathology and Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship programs.

Dr. Longacre was a member of the 2013 and 2019 consensus and editorial working group for the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Female Genital Tract. She is a former President of the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology and served on the Test Development and Advisory Committee for Anatomic Pathology for the American Board of Pathology for over 10 years.

Dr. Longacre has established a clinical research program that is focused on gynecologic and gastrointestinal pathology with an emphasis on diagnosis and screening of hereditary gynecologic and gastrointestinal cancer syndromes. She has published extensively in national and international journals and has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters in gynecologic and gastrointestinal pathology. She co-authored a textbook on the Uterine Corpus and Cervix. She serves on many editorial boards, including the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, and International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology. She is the Editor for Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology. She has extensive national and international teaching experience in gynecologic and gastrointestinal pathology and currently coordinates the Annual Dr. Richard L. Kempson Diagnostic Pathology Course for Scientific Symposiums International. She and her husband, a private practice pathologist, have three grown children and three grandchildren, who never fail to surprise and fascinate.

Dr. Sanders is Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and expert breast pathologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she is also Director of Breast Pathology. She joined the Vanderbilt Surgical Pathology faculty and Breast Consultation Service faculty in 2001, after training in breast pathology under Dr. David Page. Her expertise spans the full spectrum of benign proliferative lesions, distinction of atypical hyperplasia from carcinoma in situ, spindle cell and papillary lesions, metaplastic carcinoma and other unusual subtypes of breast carcinoma. She is a frequent presenter at national meetings and society-sponsored courses. Dr. Sanders has authored 2 breast pathology books and numerous book chapters on a variety of breast pathology topics. Throughout her career, Dr. Sanders has also been highly active in translational breast cancer research and clinical trial pathology. She serves as the lead breast pathologist for the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center breast cancer research program and tissue core director for the Vanderbilt NCI-sponsored Breast SPORE grant since 2005. Her research interests include genomic markers of endocrine resistance in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, tumor immunology, genomic subcategorization of TNBC, markers predictive of response to neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) and genomic characterization of residual disease following NAT. Dr. Sanders has also provided histopathologic guidance for spectroscopy studies seeking to evaluate margins intraoperatively and imaging studies to identify radiologic correlates of response to neoadjuvant therapies. She has co-authored over 90 papers in breast pathology and cancer research.

Dr. Weinberg received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago followed by medical degree from Vanderbilt School of Medicine. She participated in Howard Hughes medical student fellowship at UCLA and subsequently did her residency training in anatomic pathology and a surgical pathology and hematopathology fellowships at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Weinberg started her academic career at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s hospital and recently moved to UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she serves as an associate professor of pathology, director of fellowship education and hematology laboratory. Dr. Weinberg has served on numerous education committees including USCAP, Society of Hematopathology, and International Clinical Cytometry Society and is currently a member of the executive committee of the Society of Hematopathology and board member of International Society for Laboratory Hematology. She has co-organized a national Society of hematopathology workshop on “Molecular Genetics of Hematopoietic Neoplasms” in 2017 that was attended by over 400 hematopathologists. She has taught and directed numerous education courses including initiating a successful Harvard CME course ‘Current concepts in hematopathology’ in the Boston area as well as held numerous hematopathology courses at USCAP, CAP and ASCP conferences. She has attended the USCAP annual meetings for the past 15 years and has been an abstract reviewer, platform session moderator, companion society and evening specialty session speaker and recently directed an interactive microscopy course in Palm Springs. On a clinical research side, she has a long-standing interest in acute leukemias and myeloid neoplasms and published over 90 papers in well-regarded journals including Modern Pathology, American Journal of Hematology, Blood and Blood Advances and presented her work at numerous national conferences including USCAP, ASH and ASCP and CAP. She has served on editorial boards of several well-known journals and co-authored numerous chapters and edited a book on flow cytometry.

Dr. Ming Zhou is the Pathologist-in-Chief and Chair of the Tufts Medical Center Department of Pathology, and the Chair of the Department of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He graduated summa cum laude from Fudan University Medical School in Shanghai, China. He completed his pathology residency training at the University of Michigan and a fellowship in the Urological and Kidney Diseases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He previously held faculty positions at Cleveland Clinic and New York University, and was the Dr. Charles T. Ashworth Endowed Professor of Pathology and the Director of Anatomic Pathology in the Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Dr. Zhou has devoted his clinical and research effort to diagnostic urological pathology, and discovery and validation of tumor markers for urological malignancy. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and numerous book chapters, and he is the editor of 5 textbooks of urological and prostate pathology. He frequently lectures at national and international meetings on urological pathology. He was the co-course director of the prostate cancer long course at the 2018 USCAP Annual Meeting. He was a faculty of three USCAP short courses and four IM courses. He is currently the IM GU course coordinator. He served on the Cancer Committee of the College of American Pathologists from 2011 to 2017 and is one of the primary authors of the genitourinary cancer protocols, the guidelines for practicing pathologists on diagnosis and reporting genitourinary cancers. He also serves on the editorial board of several pathology journals, including the International Advisory Board of the Pathology International.