Academic Profile at a Glance

• Graduated from Amherst College in 1991 (majored in Russian and Biology)
• Graduated from Keck University of Southern California School of Medicine M.D./Ph.D. program in 1999
• Chair, Immunohistochemistry Committee, CAP
• Chair, Abstract Review Subcommittee, USCAP
• Consensus and Editorial Working Group, WHO Classification of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma Expert Panel, AJCC Staging System
• Editorial boards of AJSP, AJCP, Human Pathology, and others
• Regional Editor, Histopathology
• Associate Editor, Advances in Anatomic Pathology
• Consulting Editor, Surgical Pathology Clinics
• Associate Editor, Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology
• Editor of the 2013 textbook Practical Soft Tissue Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach
• Author of more than 230 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and book chapters on Soft Tissue Pathology, GI Pathology, and Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry
• Frequent participant in courses for the USCAP, European Congress of Pathology, and International Academy of Pathology Congress
• Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists Annual Prize in 2012, in recognition of significant career achievements in surgical pathology under the age of 45 years
• Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society Young Investigator Award in 2014, in recognition of seminal contributions that advance the field of GI pathology 

 More about the Anatomic Pathology Department 

• My residency in Anatomic Pathology and fellowships in Soft Tissue Tumor Pathology and GI Pathology were all at Brigham and Women's Hospital
• I am the Director of the Immunohistochemistry Laboratory
• Brigham and Women's Hospital also provides pathology services for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute 

• I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Portland, Oregon
• In my former life, I was a rock musician (keyboards, bass, vocals) -- I left music behind when I went to medical school 

 Most Important Achievement - Raising twins with my wife Harmony Wu 

• Practical Problems in Soft Tissue, GU, Pancreaticobiliary, Pulmonary and ENT
• Surgical Pathology for the Practicing Pathologist: GI, GYN, GU, Pancreaticobiliary
• Surgical Pathology Update: GI, GU, ENT and Soft Tissue

Past Lectures

• From KIT to Succinate Dehydrogenase: The GIST of It (02/22/2017)
• Subclassification of Pleomorphic Sarcomas: How and Why Should We Care? (02/21/2017)
• Best Diagnostic Markers: An Approach to Epithelioid Soft Tissue (02/21/2017)
• The Most Common Spindle Cell Tumors of Soft Tissue (02/20/2017)
• Differential Diagnosis of Cutaneous Spindle Cell Tumors: Location, Location, Location (02/20/2017)
• Mesenchymal Tumors of the GI Tract: What's New? (10/15/2015)
• Gastrointestinal Lymphomas: A Review for the Surgical Patholgist (10/14/2015)
• Distinguishing Primary Liver Tumors from Metastases: An Update on Immunohistochemistry (10/13/2015)
• Hereditary Colon Cancer Predisposition Syndromes: What Do We Need to Know? (10/12/2015)
• Colorectal Polyps: A Practical Approach (10/12/2015)
• An Approach to Spindle Cell Tumors of Deep Soft Tissue (06/18/2015)
• An Approach to Cutaneous Spindle Cell Tumors (06/18/2015)
• Vascular and Nerve Sheath Tumors: An Update (06/18/2015)
• An Approach to Pleomorphic and Epitheloid Soft Tissue Tumors (06/17/2015)
• Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: An Update (06/17/2015)