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Dr Phillip McKee was a member of the Dermatopathology Examiners Subcommittee of the Royal College of Pathologists from 1992-1998 and chairman from 1995-1998. In 1998, Dr McKee was recruited to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston as Director of Dermatopathology and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. While there he received NIH funding for his involvement in two major research studies. He moved to Sedona, Arizona in 2004 where he is currently working on several new books including the 4th edition of Pathology of the Skin (due in July 2011), a book on cutaneous appendage tumors with Michal Michal and Dmitry Kazakov from the Czech Republic (due towards the end of 2011). He has recently co-authored with Nooshin Brinster, Vince Liu and Hafeez Diwan an atlas on dermatopathology (primarily for residents and fellows) with bulleted text entitled “High Yield Dermatopathology” (published in February 2011). The 3rd edition of Pathology of the Skin was awarded the first prize certificate in the Dermatology category in The Royal Society of Medicine and Society of Authors 2005 Annual Medical Book Competition and first prize certificate in the Dermatology Category in the British Medical Association 2005 Annual Medical Book Competition. Dr McKee spends a considerable time visiting medical centers both in the United States and abroad to lecture and present slide seminars and also has a private non-USA consultation practice. He does however offer free curbside opinions in the United States. He is author/co-author of 169 original articles and author or editor of 11 textbooks with 3 foreign language translations. He is currently working on the second edition of Essential Skin Pathology and an atlas of Cutaneous Soft Tissue Tumors with Eduardo Calonje and Alex Lazar.
He offers self assessment studies on his website (mckeedermpath.com) and also on Dermpedia.
He was awarded the Elson B Helwig lecture award in 2003 and was made honorary lifetime member of the American Society of Dermatopathology in 2009 and the British Society for Dermatopathology in 2010.
His wife Grace (once a full time cytopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School) is now a full time, extremely accomplished and successful artist. He has four children, Andrea (a pediatrician), Kathryn (a school teacher), Sharon (a television reporter and producer) and Stephen (a disc jockey).
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Gerald Saldanha MD FRCPath
Senior Lecturer University of Leicester and Consultant Dermatopathologist, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK
Dr Gerald Saldanha is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine at the University of Leicester and Honorary Consultant Histopathologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Pathologists know well that a stubborn minority of melanocytic tumours defy classification as either moles or melanoma. In addition, current ways of determining prognosis lack precision for individual patients. Yet, identifying patients who are destined have poor outcome is especially crucial as new "druggable" targets such as c-KIT and B-RAF emerge. As yet no molecular test can rival the simple, cheap assessment of a melanocytic tumour's microscopic histological features for determining diagnosis and prognosis. Dr Saldanha's research aims to address this by trying to add value to what can be gleaned from paraffin-embedded clinical samples, focusing on biomarkers that can be readily analysed in these tissues.
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Alistair Robson, FRCPath Dip RCPath
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.
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Dr Colin Fleming
Consultant Dermatologist and Mohs’ Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Tutor at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, UK
Dr Colin Fleming is a Consultant Dermatologist and Mohs’ Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Tutor at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School. He was an undergraduate at Glasgow University where he also studied for a BSc (Honours) in Immunology. He subsequently trained as dermatologist in Glasgow with Professor Rona MacKie. He developed an interest in skin cancer research and treatment through working in the Sydney Melanoma Unit in Australia and the Department of Dermatology in Glasgow. He subsequently trained in Mohs micrographic surgery in Lisbon, with Dr António Picoto in Portugal.
He has been a Consultant in Tayside since 1999 and established the Scottish Dermatologists’ Society skin cancer group in 2002. He took the lead in creation of the Tayside dermatology cancer centre, which opened in 2007, and is director of the NOSCAN Macmillan Mohs service. He has research interests in diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer, and has over 60 publications in skin cancer, skin surgery and general dermatology. He has been an active dermoscopist for 20 years and has taught dermoscopy in the UK at numerous courses and lectures. He also has interests in health informatics, and has been active in development of electronic patient records, and created Dernabase a web based diagnostic database for dermatology. He is one of two UK board members of the European Association of Dermato-Oncology, and a fellow of the American Society for Mohs Surgery. |
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