Symposium Speakers
London Dermatopathology Symposium 15-17 May 2013 Covent Garden London
Catherine M. Stefanato, MD, FRCPath. Symposium & Multi-Header Speaker
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.
Alistair Robson, FRCPath Dip RCPath, UK. Symposium & Multi-Header Speaker.
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.
Giuseppe Argenziano, Italy
Giuseppe Argenziano is Professor of Dermatology at the Second University of Naples, and Coordinator of the Skin Cancer Unit at the Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy. His main research field is dermato-oncology and, particularly, melanoma screening and the development of more accurate methods for the early recognition of skin cancer. He is author of numerous scientific articles and books concerning dermoscopy, a new technique increasing the performance of clinicians in the diagnosis of benign and malignant skin tumors.
He has established a successful pigmented lesion clinic particularly devoted to the management of patients with skin tumors. During his time at the University, he has supervised over 30 foreign students and 20 residents in Dermatology.
Over the past 15 years he has established scientific collaborations with more than 200 colleagues from more than 30 Nations, and organized more than 40 national and international scientific activities, courses and conferences (such as the Consensus Net Meeting on Dermoscopy, the International Short Course on Dermoscopy, and the First Congress of the International Dermoscopy Society).
He is co-founder and president of the International Dermoscopy Society; project leader for the development of a high diagnostic technology oncologic center at the Dermatology Unit, Medical Department, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova IRCCS, Reggio Emilia; faculty member of the Master of Science in Dermoscopy and Preventive Dermato-oncology, and the Short Course in Dermoscopy, two e-learning courses by the Medical University of Graz and by the Department of Dermatology of Cardiff University, respectively; and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Professor Argenziano has authored more than 290 full scientific articles and produced landmark primary publications and books in in the field of dermoscopy. Over the past 15 years he has been invited as speaker and/or chairman in more than 380 national and international conferences in the field of melanoma. His combined publications have received a sum total of 4675 citations with an h-index value of 35 (July 2012).
Trevor Beer
Dr Trevor Beer is a dermatopathologist with 25 years experience in anatomical pathology both in Australia and the UK. Originally from London, he graduated in Birmingham and trained in pathology in the West Midlands and on the south coast of England before practising as a consultant at the Royal Hospital Haslar military centre near Portsmouth.
Dr Beer reviews patients with complex melanomas in a multidisciplinary team clinic for the West Australian Melanoma Advisory Service. He previously undertook visiting fellowships to Dr Ackerman and McKee’s dermatopathology establishments in the US. He is the convener of the Dermatopathology Quality Assurance Program for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, a reviewer for numerous pathology journals and an editorial board member for the American Journal of Dermatopathology. He is the current treasurer of the Australasian Dermatopathology Society.
Dr Beer has practised in Perth, Australia for 12 years, with the last 9 years in full time private dermatopathology. He has written more than 70 peer reviewed articles and several book chapters. Current research includes prognostic markers in Merkel cell carcinoma, thin metastasising melanoma and atypical fibroxanthoma.
Jonathan Bowling, MBChB, FRCP
Dr Jonathan Bowling FRCP is a Consultant Dermatologist specialising in skin cancer diagnosis and treatment. He is the UK expert on using dermoscopy for melanoma diagnosis and mole screening and organises national and international courses on melanoma diagnosis for dermatologists and plastic surgeons.
Dr Richard A. Carr, MBChB, BMedSci, FRCPath, DipRCPath(DMT)
Dr Carr qualified in 1991 from Sheffield University Medical School and trained in cellular pathology in Birmingham and the South East Thames Regional Rotation culminating in 4 years as a Clinical Lecturer at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. Dr Carr previously participated in an international study funded by the National Institutes of Health in to the pathology of cerebral malaria.
Dr Carr developed his interest in Dermatopathology training with world renowned experts Dr Phillip H. McKee and Dr Eduardo Calonje at St Thomas’ hospital and the St John’s Institute of Dermatology. Dr Carr has the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) Diploma in Dermatopathology (set at expert referral level) and became an examiner for the diploma in 2005. Dr Carr receives cases for expert opinions from other histopathologists throughout the UK. Dr Carr is on the executive committee of the UK Dermatopathology EQA scheme.
Dr Carr has authored/co-authored 50 published papers and lectures regionally, nationally and internationally in dermatopathology and has active research interests in dermatopathology and laboratory organisation in cellular pathology. He also organises a slide of club of leading experts in the field of melanocytic pathology (allied with the National Dermatopathology EQA scheme), is commited to post-graduate teaching and receives regular local, national and international visitors to share his extensive slide collection.
Clay Cockerell, MD, USA
Dr. Clay Cockerell is a well known Dermatopathologist. He was the President of the American Association of Dermatology in 2004. For many years, Dr. Cockerell has overseen an educational program designed to train the next generation of Dermatopathologists. He receives five people in his office annually for the training. Dr. Cockerell also sees patients in the UT Southwestern General Dermatology clinic.
Paul Craig, FRCPath, DipRCPath (Dermpath), UK
Dr. Craig is a Consultant Dermatopathologist in the Departments of Histopathology in Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Cheltenham General Hospital) and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (Bristol Royal Infirmary), UK.
Dr. Craig’s medical training was at The Medical College of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and subsequently trained in Histopathology at St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals, London. He then worked as a Consultant Histopathologist at Fremantle Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, before returning to the UK to be the Fellow in Dermatopathology in the Department of Dermatopathology, St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, and obtained the Diploma in Dermatopathology of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of the UK and of Australasia.
Dr. Craig is currently an Examiner for the Diploma in Dermatopathology of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK and is a Committee Member of the British Society of Dermatopathology. His principal interest is inflammatory dermatopathology.
Ophelia E. Dadzie MRCP, DipRCPath (Dermpath), UK.
Consultant Dermatologist, Centre for Clinical Science and Technology, University College London Division of Medicine (Whittington Campus), London, UK
Dr Dadzie is a Consultant Dermatologist based at the Centre for Clinical Science and Technology, University College London Division of Medicine (Whittington Campus). Dr. Dadzie’s principle interests include ethnic dermatology and dermatopathology, histopathologic evaluation of soft tissue fillers and the use of molecular techniques in dermatopathology. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, as well as co-authored book chapters in her specialist areas.
Dr. Dadzie is a member of the British Association of Dermatologists, European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Royal Society of Medicine and GTPN (a sub-specialist group of the French Dermatology Society focused on ethnic dermatology). She is also the organizer of the annual London Ethnic Skin Course, as well as one of the editors of the upcoming textbook- Ethnic Dermatology; Principles and Practice (Wiley-Blackwell publications 2012).
Corrado D’Arrigo, MB ChB PhD FRCPath
Corrado is a consultant histopathologist at Dorset County Hospital in the South of England.
After medical school in Italy (Catania), he was Maitland Ramsay scholar at the University of St. Andrew (Scotland) where he discussed a PhD thesis on metastatic melanoma. In 1988 he held a Lecturer post in St. Andrews before moving as Clinical Lecturer to Dundee medical school in 1990, where he started his UK training in Histopathology. He held posts of Senior Registrar at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology, at University College London and at the Royal Marsden Hospital before taking the post of ICRF Senior Lecturer in Breast Pathology at Guy’s Hospital in London where he was Director of a large tissue bank and recipient of CRUK programme grants.
In 2007 he moved to Dorset where he is the Pathology Lead for Skin cancer. He has developed an interest in tissue based biomarkers and he is actively engaged in bringing the finding of translational research into clinical practice. He also works closely with national schemes of external quality assurance to develop and support QA programmes for tissue based testing.
Gerardo Ferrara, MD, Italy
Dr. Ferrara is Consultant Pathologist in the Department of Oncology, Anatomic Pathology Unit, at the Gaetano Rummo General Hospital of Benevento, Italy.
Dr Ferrara completed his residency training in Anatomic Pathology at the ‘Federico II’ University of Naples, Italy. Subsequently, he undertook residency training and qualified in Dermatology at the same institution.
Dr. Ferrara’s principal interests include the clinical-pathologic correlation of dermatoscopic examination of pigmented skin lesions, the histopathologic and molecular diagnosis of skin-based and nodal-based lymphomas, and immunofluorescence diagnosis of immune-mediated bullous disorders. He has authored/co-authored more than 150 publications, primarily in the area of dermatopathology and clinical dermatology.
Anjela Galan MD, USA. Self Assessment Speaker
Dr. Galan is Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pathology at Yale University School of Medicine, USA, where she is dedicated to the clinical and academic aspects of Dermatopathology. Dr. Galan received her Medical Degree from “N. Testimitanu” Kishinev State Medical Institute (USSR/Moldova) and completed her Pathology residency training at Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine, followed by Surgical Pathology and Dermatopathology Fellowships training at Yale University School of Medicine (USA). Dr. Galan has presented at national (USA) and international conferences and is member of multiple Dermatology and Dermatopathology Societies. Special interests include melanocytic neoplasms, viral and spirochetal associated skin disorders, and advancement of diagnostic Dermatopathology.
Samer Ghosn, MD, Lebanon
Dr. Samer H. Ghosn as assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology, American University of Beirut Medical Centre.
Dr. Ghosn in an MD graduate in the class of 1999, and he is well-known to many within the AUBMC community. He completed three years of residency training in Dermatology in 2002, following which he pursued subspecialty training in Dermatopathology at Boston University with the prominent dermatopathologist, Dr. Jag Bhawan.
Lynne Goldberg, MD, Professor of Dermatology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
After graduating from Downstate School of Medicine in New York, Dr. Goldberg trained in Internal Medicine at New York University and in Dermatology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine before moving to Boston to join the Dermatopathology Section at Boston University (BU), first as a dermatopathology fellow, and then as a faculty member. She is currently a Professor of Dermatology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at BU, where she splits her time between the practices of dermatopathology and clinical dermatology.
Dr. Goldberg is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Dermatology and Dermatopathology. She is an avid lecturer, and has presented at numerous local, national and international meetings. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology. At BU, she participates in the training of residents in dermatology, dermatopathology fellows, and international trainees, and has been recognized on two occasions with an award for Teacher of the Year for her efforts. Her academic interest is hair disorders; she participates in clinical research and directs the Hair Clinic at Boston Medical Center.
Dr. Hurt’s academic interests are in the fields of the philosophy of diagnosis, dermatopathology in historical perspective, and in presentations of dermatopathologic conditions with clinicopathologic correlations. He has written on the topics of cutaneous anatomy, adnexal tumors, as well as general chapters about dermatopathology — and he has written primary articles on specific conditions. He has co-authored a recent monograph on the subject of “dysplasia” & “atypia” that addresses why he considers those terms inappropriate to use in the practice of dermatopathology.
Dr. Hurt serves currently as the secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Dermatopathology and is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Dermatopathology, the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology, and is the Book Review Editor of Dermatology Practical and Conceptual. He is also on the board of directors of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine.
Dr Kubba is a graduate of Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. She completed her residency in anatomic pathology at the Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, and fellowship in dermatopathology at the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology and Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology in Dermatopathology.Dr Kubba has pioneered the dermatopathology service in India being the first formally trained and certified dermatopathologist and establishing the first dermatopathology laboratory– an academic private practice.Over the past 23 years Dr Kubba has devoted her energies to teaching and promoting dermatopathology as a specialty through lectures across India with emphasis on postgraduate education. She is actively involved in academic activities of the Dermatopathology Society of India that regularly conducts CME programmes and hands-on training workshops. Dr Kubba also is a coordinator of the Special Interest Group established by the Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists & Leprologists (IADVL) to promote Dermatopathology as an integral and essential part of Dermatology curricula and practice.Special interests include inflammatory dermatoses, facial melanoses, and immunofluorescence-based diagnosis of bullous diseases including the epidermolysis bullosa group.
She is currently working in a tertiary referral center for skin cancer and she is the coordinator of the in vivo and ex-vivo confocal microscopy unit.
Her research contributions have generated over 60 scientific papers on national and international peer-reviewed journals in the field of dermato-oncology and 3 issued patents.
Having grown up on autopsy work (in London and Kenya), he morphed into infectious diseases, marinaded in HIV clinical pathology (at home and in Africa), and got stuck into autopsy quality control, training and examinations.
His main interests are: HIV and other infections, particuarly ‘high-risk’ cases; maternal mortality; sickle cell disease; and post-operative mortality.
He guided the now-historical RCPath Guidelines for Autopsy Practice, promoted two major revisions of the FRCPath autopsy exam process, and spends much time trying to optimize the antiquated UK medico-legal system so as to benefit the wider hospital and public health systems.
Giovanni Pellacani, Head of Dermatology Departmentof the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Primary areas of interest: Since 1995 his research is mainly focused in the field of non invasive diagnosis in dermatology and dermato-oncology. He is author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters concerning diagnosis of pigmented skin lesions and early recognition of melanoma by dermoscopy, digital imaging systems and in vivo reflectance-mode confocal scanning laser microscopy for the study of cytological and architectural aspects of skin tumours.
Medical training: graduated in Medicine in July 1995 with honour, completed Residency in Dermatology in 1999. Assistant Professor from 2001 and Associate Professor from 2004, now is Full Professor from the end of 2007.
Victor Prieto, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Victor G. Prieto, M.D., Ph.D., received his BA degree from the International School Lope de Vega, Benidorm, Spain; his M.D. from the University of Alicante, Spain; and his Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona, Spain. He took residency training in Pathology at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona and at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He took Fellowship training in Oncologic Pathology, at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and in Dermatopathology at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center under the supervision of Dr. Scott McNutt. Dr. Prieto is a tenured Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he is currently Section Chief of Dermatopathology, Co-Director of the MDACC Melanoma Tissue Bank and the Medical Director over the histology laboratory. He formally served as Director of the Dermatopathology Fellowship Program for 11 years. Dr. Prieto’s main research interests are adnexal, mesenchymal, and particularly melanocytic lesions, in particular the examination of sentinel lymph nodes. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology.
Ed Rytina, BSc MBBS PhD FRCPath, Cambridge
Ed Rytina is a consultant histopathologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He qualified in medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London and trained in clinical pathology, then histopathology, at Guy’s, the Norfolk and Norwich hospital and Addenbrooke’s.
His PhD was as a research fellow in cell biology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now CRUK) and University College, London, in the Keratinocyte Laboratory with Dr. Fiona Watt, investigating keratinocyte stem cell behaviour and the epidermal proliferative unit.
Initially a consultant general histopathologist in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, he is now lead consultant for dermatopathology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital where there is a local and regional referral practice, with particular interest in inflammatory dermatoses and melanoma.
Maria Angelica Selim, MD
Associated Professor of Pathology and Dermatology, Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), USA
Maria Angelica Selim MD joined the Duke faculty in 1999, upon completion of a pathology residency-training program at New England Deaconess Hospital and a fellowship in Dermatopathology at Harvard Medical School. She is presently the Director of the Dermatopathology Unit at Duke, ranked as one of the ten top hospitals in United States. Her research interests include vulvar pathology and cutaneous lymphomas, and she is an active member of the International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas and International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Diseases including the North American Chapter. She has authored/co-authored more than 90 publications, primary in the area of dermatopathology. Her second true passion is teaching. She is the director of the dermatopathology fellowship at DUMC and has coordinated and directed courses and seminars for medical students, residents, and practicing pathologists in national and international societies.
Khin Thway, UK
Dr Khin Thway is a Consultant Histopathologist to the Sarcoma Unit, the Paediatrics Unit and the Head and Neck Unit at The Royal Marsden.
Dr Thway qualified in medicine from the University of London, and undertook her general histopathology training at University College London Hospitals and The Royal Marsden. She subsequently received fellowship training in surgical pathology of soft-tissue tumours under Professor Cyril Fisher at The Royal Marsden. She was appointed Consultant Histopathologist at The Royal Marsden Hospital in 2007.
Dr Thway’s special interests in adult and paediatric soft-tissue tumours include clinicopathologic correlations, the development of novel diagnostic immunohistochemical markers, and the molecular biology of sarcomagenesis.
In addition to her diagnostic practice, she is a Research Fellow in Molecular Cytogenetics (Team Leader Dr Janet Shipley) in the Section of Molecular Carcinogenesis at The Institute of Cancer Research. Her research focuses on clinicopathological correlations of expression of cell surface receptors and co-receptors in soft-tissue sarcomas, and translating these scientific advances into clinical practice. This is hoped to lead to better prediction of behaviour and therapy of sarcomas, particularly rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive tumour mainly affecting children and young adults.
Dr Thway currently has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and 24 book chapters on benign and malignant soft-tissue lesions, and is co-author of two textbooks on diagnostic surgical pathology of soft-tissue tumours.
Iris Zalaudek, Italy
Iris Zalaudek is Board certified Dermatologist and since 2008 Associate Professor at the Division of Dermatology of the Medical University of Graz; Austria. Her main research fields are clinical dermatooncology and in particular, dermoscopy, nevogenesis, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. She has published more than 160 scientific articles in international peer-review journals. Her combined publications have received an impact factor of 432 and a h-index value of 21 (February 2012). She frequently lectures on these topics nationally and internationally. In 2003 her work was awarded by the Hans-Weitgasser Price from the Styrian Association of Dermatologists and in 2008, she was elected among awarded the Best Researcher of the Medical University of Graz, Austria. Prof. Zalaudek was invited as Research Fellow to the Dermatology Department of Second University of Naples, Italy (2004 to 2006) and worked as consultant at the Melanoma Unit of the Dermato-Oncology Department of the San Gallicano Institute in Rome, Italy (2009 to 2011). Since 2011, she is working as consultant at the Dermatology and Skin Cancer Unit of the Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova – IRCCS in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Prof. Zalaudek is General Secretary of the International Dermoscopy Society (www.dermoscopy-ids.org), Board Member of the European Academy of Dermato-Oncology (www.eado.org) and director of the Master of Science in Dermoscopy and Dermato-oncology of the Medical University of Graz, Austria (www.medunigraz.at/dermoscopy).
Oscar Tellachea, Consultant Dermatopathologist
Self Assessment Speaker Profiles
The Self Assessment Course is aimed at FRCPath and Diploma candidates and involves review of 50 cases over day 1 with a planned review in the lecture hall by the invited speakers at 2 p.m. on day 2.
Trevor Beer
Dr Trevor Beer is a dermatopathologist with 25 years experience in anatomical pathology both in Australia and the UK. Originally from London, he graduated in Birmingham and trained in pathology in the West Midlands and on the south coast of England before practising as a consultant at the Royal Hospital Haslar military centre near Portsmouth.
Dr Beer reviews patients with complex melanomas in a multidisciplinary team clinic for the West Australian Melanoma Advisory Service. He previously undertook visiting fellowships to Dr Ackerman and McKee’s dermatopathology establishments in the US. He is the convener of the Dermatopathology Quality Assurance Program for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, a reviewer for numerous pathology journals and an editorial board member for the American Journal of Dermatopathology. He is the current treasurer of the Australasian Dermatopathology Society.
Dr Beer has practised in Perth, Australia for 12 years, with the last 9 years in full time private dermatopathology. He has written more than 70 peer reviewed articles and several book chapters. Current research includes prognostic markers in Merkel cell carcinoma, thin metastasising melanoma and atypical fibroxanthoma.
Lydia R. Essary M.D, USA. Self Assessment Speaker
Associate Dermatopathologist, Cockerell & Associates Dermatopathology Laboratories, Dallas, Texas and Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Dr. Essary completed her Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and additional fellowship training in Surgical Pathology at Washington University-Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, followed by a Dermatopathology Fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas under Dr. Clay Cockerell. Dr. Essary commenced her graduate medical training at Cayetano Heredia University School of Medicine, Lima, Peru.
Dr. Essary’s laboratory is home to an ACGME-accredited dermatopathology fellowship, which trains four fellows yearly under the leadership of Dr. Cockerell, where she trains future dermatopathologists and dermatologists in the field of dermatopathology. While she is board certified in dermatopathology and cytopathology, her current practice is fully devoted to dermatopathology, and she is personally dedicated to improving the future of that field. Dr. Essary lectures regularly at UT Southwestern and conferences in the United States and South America. Her areas of interest include melanocytic neoplasms and pediatric dermatopathology.
Dr. Essary also participates in and serves on committees of professional societies including the American Society of Dermatopathology and International Society of Dermatopathology . She is also a CAP inspector for Latin American countries.
Laura Pincus, Consultant Dermatopathologist
“Dr. Pincus earned her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University. During medical school, she received a Howard-Hughes fellowship to spend a year in a basic science laboratory studying T-cell trafficking to the skin. After medical school, she completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and then moved to San Francisco for residency in dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Following residency, she spent a year conducting clinical research in cutaneous lymphoma while also working in the Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic at UCSF. The subsequent year, she completed a fellowship in dermatopathology at UCSF.
Dr. Pincus joined the faculty of the UCSF Dermatopathology Service in 2010. She serves both as a dermatopathologist and the Co-Director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic. Her primary areas of interest include cutaneous lymphomas, connective tissue diseases, cutaneous infectious diseases, and melanocytic neoplasms. She has published in numerous peer-review journals and has lectured at national meetings.”
Roberto Ricci
Dr. Ricci is Consultant Pathologist at the Anatomic Pathology Unit of the Department of Haematooncology, University Hospital of Parma, Italy, where he serves as a full-time dermatopathologist.
Dr. Ricci certified in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Parma, Italy and subsequently underwent his dermatopathology training in the Department of Dermatology of University of Graz, Austria and at the UCSF Dermatopathology Service, University of California San Francisco, USA.
Dr. Ricci is Professor of Dermatopathology in the departments of Anatomic Pathology, Dermatology and Plastic Surgery of the University of Parma Medical School, Parma, Italy.
He greatly enjoys teaching the residents at the multiheader microscope; he is interested in the clinico-pathological correlation of pigmented and inflammatory skin lesions, and has co-authored several papers in the field of dermatopathology.
Ed Rytina, BSc MBBS PhD FRCPath, Cambridge
Ed Rytina is a consultant histopathologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He qualified in medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London and trained in clinical pathology, then histopathology, at Guy’s, the Norfolk and Norwich hospital and Addenbrooke’s.
His PhD was as a research fellow in cell biology at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now CRUK) and University College, London, in the Keratinocyte Laboratory with Dr. Fiona Watt, investigating keratinocyte stem cell behaviour and the epidermal proliferative unit.
Initially a consultant general histopathologist in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, he is now lead consultant for dermatopathology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital where there is a local and regional referral practice, with particular interest in inflammatory dermatoses and melanoma.
Tony Subtil
Dr. Antonio Subtil is an Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology at Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA). He works primarily at Yale Dermatopathology Laboratory and is part of a highly skilled team of eight board-certified, fellowship-trained dermatopathologists who are committed to excellence and expertise in making accurate dermatopathologic diagnoses. This practice is recognized as one of the most technically advanced referral centers for expert diagnosis of benign and malignant skin diseases, hair and nail disorders, and hematopoietic diseases. The laboratory is equipped with both routine and advanced techniques, including comprehensive immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence, as well as access to multiple molecular diagnostic tests and flow cytometry.
Dr. Subtil received his MD from Federal University of Goias School of Medicine in Brazil and his MBA from University of Missouri Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. He completed his pathology residency and surgical pathology fellowship at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, his dermatopathology fellowship at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), and his hematopathology fellowship at Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Dr. Subtil is one of the very few physicians with combined training and expertise in both Dermatopathology and Hematopathology. This unique combination is a perfect fit for expert diagnosis of cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders and for the Yale Cutaneous Lymphoma Program, which is world-renowned for the study and treatment of cutaneous lymphomas and includes specialists from Dermatology, Dermatopathology, Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Oncology, and Radiation Oncology. This group uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide patients with accurate diagnosis and a wide range of treatment options varying from standard treatments to cutting-edge clinical therapies. Dr. Subtil’s research interests include cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders, alopecia, infectious diseases, and atypical melanocytic neoplasms.
Dr Nilu Wijesuriya
Luisa Motta, Consultant Dermatopathologist, Manchester
Raffaele Gianotti, Consultant dermatopathologist