I am a Professor of Pathology at Duke University School of Medicine where I am the course director of our medical school pathology course. I am also a co-editor of the 1st edition of Robbins Essential Pathology and the 11th edition of Robbins and Kumar Basic Pathology. I served on the Association of Pathology Chairs Undergraduate Medical Education Council from 2020 to 2022. I am deeply committed to education and want to help all of you to become the best physicians you can. I believe that excellent patient care is based on a clear understanding of the pathophysiology of disease. This will help you to build a broad yet targeted differential diagnosis, to choose the correct laboratory tests, to interpret those tests results correctly and to design appropriate treatment.

I received my undergraduate degree at Princeton University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, my Ph.D. from the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago and my M.D. from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. I completed my residency in Anatomic Pathology at the University of Chicago and did a one-year fellowship in soft tissue pathology with Dr. Sharon Weiss at Emory University.

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