Liver Pathology
Professor Dina Tiniakos MD PhD FRCPath
Dept of Pathology, Aretaieion Hospital,
Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
&
Translational & Clinical Research Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University, UK
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”.
Dermatopathology and Bone & Soft Tissue Pathology
Dr Jerad M. Gardner
Geisinger Medical Centre
Danville, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Breast Pathology
Professor Puay Hoon Tan
Luma Medical Centre Singapore
Department of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
A/Prof Nga obtained Histopathology Fellowships from both the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and the United Kingdom. Her area of subspecialty interest is Cytopathology. She is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Cytology, and completed her Cytology Fellowship at QEII Hospital in Western Australia, under the generous mentorship of Drs Felicity Frost and Gregory Sterrett.
A/Prof Nga is a council member of the Singapore Society of Cytology, and co-editor of their biannual newsletter, CytoPage. She is also a frequent speaker in local and international pathology conferences, and has been an invited keynote speaker conferences in Australia and India. Her particular areas of interest are in thyroid, lymph node and pancreatic cytology. She has authored a cytopathology book entitled Practical Diagnostic Approaches In Non-Gynaecologic Cytology, which is published by Springer (2022). Also amongst her writing credits are co-authorship of a chapter in the WHO Classification of Tumours: Paediatric Tumours (Papillary thyroid carcinoma). In 2024, A/Prof Nga delivered a Short Course in the USCAP Annual Scientific Meeting in Baltimore, on the topic of lymph node cytology.
A/Prof Nga is a keen driver of innovation in education. She has created several online teaching resources including Pathweb, a comprehensive online learning resource with several thousand registrants from over 130 countries. She is also the creator of the Pathweb Teacher YouTube channel which has more than 20000 subscribers. In addition, her Cytopathology website, Cytoweb, is featured in the International Academy of Cytology website as an educational resource. In 2019, she was the recipient of the National University of Singapore Outstanding Educator Award.
Outside the clinical realm, A/Prof Nga has also been an elected fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy, in which she has helmed the Teachers Who Inspire team, producing videos of inspiring teachers from various faculties. Since 2023, she has also been a member of the University Teaching Excellence Committee (UTEC), which determines the recipients of the highest teaching honours in NUS.
In addition to her work in undergraduate teaching, A/Prof Nga is also keenly interested in the mentoring and training pathology residents. She has served as Core Faculty in the NUHS Pathology Residency programme since its inception.