Current Sitting President

Adeboye O. Osunkoya, MD

Emory University School of Medicine

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.