Keynote Speakers

Dina Tiniakos is Professor of Pathology & Director, Dept of Pathology, Aretaieion Hospital, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Visiting Professor, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, UK. She is Past President of the European Society of Pathology (ESP) and current Chair, ESP Advisory Board.

Dina’s main research interests are steatotic and autoimmune liver disease and hepatocarcinogenesis. She is leading/co-leading European and international research consortia on liver pathology, including the LITMUS (Liver Investigation: Testing Marker Utility in Steatohepatitis) Histopathology Group and the International Autoimmune Hepatitis Pathology Group, and is central pathologist for international therapeutic clinical trials in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and primary biliary cholangitis.

She is  an invited member of the prestigious International Liver Study Group “Gnomes” and the Laennec Liver Pathology Society. Dina has authored/co-authored  >230 peer-reviewed scientific articles and chapters in textbooks of liver pathology (H index 67, ~21,000 citations). She is Associate Editor of “Journal of Hepatology” and Editorial Board member of “Liver International” and  “Annals of Gastroenterology”.

Dr. Gardner is a dermatopathologist and section head of bone/soft tissue pathology at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania.

He has 130 peer-reviewed publications as well as multiple book chapters. He is also author of the book Survival Guide to Dermatopathology and co-author of the book Survival Guide to Soft Tissue Pathology. He has given over 300 invited lectures (over 70 of which were international). He is particularly interested in cutaneous soft tissue tumors, skin adnexal tumors, medical education, and the professional use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Kiko, and other social media for pathologists.

He has created over 1000 free educational videos which have been viewed over 7 million times. His work has been recognized by multiple awards, including the UAMS Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence (2018), which is the University’s highest educational award. He was a top five member of the 2017 “40 Under Forty” by the American Society of Clinical Pathology and was ranked first place on the 2019 Power List of pathology trailblazers issued by The Pathologist magazine. Dr. Gardner is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.

Dr Tan Puay Hoon is a Pathologist with Luma Medical Centre Singapore and a Visiting Consultant to the Department of Pathology at the Kandang Kerbau Women’s and Children’s Hospital Singapore as well as Parkway Laboratories Ltd. She is an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and a Visiting Professor to the University of Western Sydney Australia.

She has active interests in breast and urologic pathology, and was a Volume Editor of the 2012 (4th series) WHO Classification of Tumours of the Breast, and a Standing Editorial Board Member for the 5th series of the WHO Classification of Tumours, IARC, Lyon, also serving as an expert member for the Breast volume in the 5th series published in 2019. She is currently in the Expert Editorial Board for the 6th edition of the WHO Breast Tumour Classification. She is on the expert panels of the WHO-IARC-IAC Cytology series for breast and urologic cytology and is part of the IARC-WHO Evidence Gap Map Project for the WHO Classification of Breast Tumours.