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Editorial Board

Journal of Clinical Pathology Editorial Board members have agreed and adhere to the BMJ Editor Roles and Responsibilities guidelines; including our Editor policy on competing interests.

Editor-in-Chief

Vikram Deshpande, Editor in Chief
Vikram Deshpande Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, USA ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-4230-9308 Declaration of Interests: Nothing to Declare Editorial office: info.jcp@bmj.com
Professor Vikram Deshpande is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a Pathologist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre. His research interests include all aspects of IgG4-related disease and gastrointestinal, pancreatic and hepatic pathology. He is the Director of Gastrointestinal Pathology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Associate Editors

Munita Bal
Munita Bal Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai, India ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-0345-5620
Dr Bal is a Professor of Pathology at Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India. Her areas of specialization are Head and Neck Pathology and Gastrointestinal Pathology. She has 21 years of teaching experience and is a post-graduate teacher in the MD program. Dr Bal is a subcommittee member of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) task force for managing cancers. She is also a member of the National Cancer Grid guidelines for managing Head and Neck and Gastrointestinal Cancers. She is a part of the dataset authorizing committee of the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting. She is also a member of the Steering committee of the HN-CLEAR initiative.
Runjan Chetty
Runjan Chetty University of Toronto Toronto, Canada ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-2124-515X
Runjan Chetty is an Anatomical Pathologist/Histopathologist with speciality interests in GI and pancreatic pathology, who has held chairs of Pathology in Durban, South Africa and Glasgow, and was Program Medical Director/Pathologist in Chief, University Health Network, Toronto. Currently, he is Chief Medical Officer of Diagnexia and Emeritus Professor of Pathology at the Universities of Toronto and Cape Town.
Sarah Chiang
Sarah Chiang Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, USA ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0001-9698-0936
Dr. Chiang is an Associate Attending Pathologist on the gynecologic pathology service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her research is focused on the molecular genetic understanding of gynecologic cancers, particularly uterine sarcomas for which she has recently described several novel tumor entities.
Laura Collins
Laura Collins Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, USA
Dr. Laura Collins is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She is the Vice Chair of Anatomic Pathology and Director of Breast Pathology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Collins is internationally recognized for her diagnostic excellence. Her research has focused on furthering our understanding of a variety of pathologic entities of the breast.
David Creytens
David Creytens Ghent University Hospital Ghent, Belgium ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-6064-1673
David Creytens is Professor of Soft Tissue and Bone Pathology at the Ghent University. He is currently Head of Clinics of the Department of Pathology at the Ghent University Hospital. His aim is to crosslink patient care (diagnostic pathology of bone and soft tissue tumors) with basic research (elucidating the molecular events underlying sarcoma development and progression) in order to establish improved diagnosis, prognosis and treatment for patients with bone and soft tissue tumors. One of his major research interests are the lipomatous tumors, in particular ‘liposarcomagenesis’, and pediatric sarcomas.
Laurence de Leval
Laurence de Leval Lausanne University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Laurence de Leval is a full Professor of Pathology and Director of the Institute of Pathology at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is an internationally recognized hematopathologist with seminal discoveries in the field of peripheral T-cell lymphomas. Her research interests include diagnostic biomarkers, genomic profiling, high-dimensional imaging, and digital pathology in hematologic malignancies.
Deepa Patil
Deepa Patil Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School Boston, USA ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0001-7837-1299
Deepa T. Patil, M.B.B.S, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a Gastrointestinal Pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. She also serves as a consultant at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Patil is a clinical expert in Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Pathology, including small bowel and liver transplant pathology. Her research focuses on investigating histologic and molecular aspects of Barrett's esophagus, idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease and upper GI cancers.
Eric Rosenberg
Eric Rosenberg Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, USA
Dr. Eric Rosenberg is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and Physician and Pathologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital where he is an Infectious disease clinician and serves as the Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Dr. Rosenberg is also the Editor for the Case Records of the MGH, published weekly in the New England Journal of Medicine. His research focuses on diagnostic testing of infectious diseases, and the diagnosis, treatment, immunology and pathogenesis of HIV infection.
Patrick Twomey

Patrick Twomey St. Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin, Ireland ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0001-7284-4673

Professor Patrick Twomey is Consultant Chemical Pathologist at St. Vincent’s University Hospital and Clinical Professor at the School of Medicine, University College Dublin. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts in various fields of Chemical Pathology, including cardiovascular risk and nutrition.
Murali Varma
Murali Varma University Hospital of Wales Cardiff, UK ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-1385-2045
Murali Varma is a Consultant Histopathologist at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom. His area of expertise is urological pathology, particularly related to the prostate and bladder. He is passionate about critically appraising and optimising the use of available evidence in routine surgical pathology practice.
Yoh Zen
Yoh Zen Kings College Hospital London, UK ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0001-8370-6508
Professor Yoh Zen is a Consultant Histopathologist at Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College Hospital, London, contributing to the diagnostic work of complex liver and pancreatobiliary diseases at this tertiary referral centre. He is also an international expert in IgG4-related disease. He has published 350 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 33 book chapters.

Honorary Editors

Cheok Soon Lee University of Western Sydney Sydney, Australia
Tahir Pillay University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa

Social Media Editors

Swati Bhardwaj Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai NY, USA Adam Booth Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, USA
Lisa Zhang Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, USA

Statistical Editor

Fowzia Ibrahim Kings College London London, UK

Editorial Board

Dorothy Adcock Labcorp Diagnostics Durham, USA Volkan Adsay Koc Healthcare Istanbul Turkey Abbas Agaimy Universitätsklinikum Erlangen Erlangen, Germany Alyaa Al-Ibraheemi Boston Children's Hospital Boston, USA Manju Aron Keck School of Medicine at USC San Diego, USA Sylvia Asa Case Western Reserve University Toronto, Canada Adrian C. Bateman University Hospital Southampton Southampton, UK Jacob Bledsoe Boston Childrens Hospital Boston, USA Julian Burton University of Sheffield Sheffield, UK Mark Catherwood Belfast City Hospital Belfast, UK Liang Cheng Indiana University Bloomington, USA John Chrisinger Washington University St Louis, USA Nicole Cipriani The University of Chicago Chicago, USA Kumarasen Cooper University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA Wendy Cooper Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney, Australia Kristine Cornejo Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, USA Gábor Cserni Bács-Kiskun County Teaching Hospital Kecskemét, Hungary Kyle Devins Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, USA Brendan Dickson Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada Fei Dong Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, USA Mona El-Bahrawy Imperial College London London, UK Wendy Erber The University of Western Australia Nedlands, Australia Ana Felix Nova University Lisbon, Portugal Rousseau Gama University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton, UK
Rajib Gupta University of California Davis, Sacramento, USA Ruta Gupta Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Russell A. Higgins The University of Texas San Antonio, USA Seung-Mo Hong Asan Medical Center Seoul, South Korea Venkateswaran Iyer AIIMS New Delhi, India Deepali Jain AIIMS New Delhi, India Darcy Kerr Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Dartmouth, USA Gregor Krings University of California San Francisco San Francisco, USA Long Le Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, USA Hwa Jeong Lee Albany Medical Centre Albany, USA Abner Louissaint Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, USA Catriona McKenzie Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney, Australia Claire Meek University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK Santosh Menon Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai, India Sambit K. Mohanty Advanced Medical Research Institute and CORE Diagnostics New Delhi, India Sanjay Mukhopadhyay Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, USA Kikkeri Naresh University of Washington Seattle, USA Robert Odze Tufts Medical Center Boston, USA Jon Oxley North Bristol NHS Trust Bristol, UK Sanjay Pai Manipal Hospital Yeshwanthpur Bangalore, India Anupma Nayak Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA Young Nyun Park Yonsai University Hospital Seoul, South Korea Komala Pillay Red Cross Children’s Hospital Cape Town, South Africa
Juan Putra Children's Hospital Boston, USA Emad Rakha Nottingham City Hospital Nottingham, UK John Reith Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, USA Tim Reynolds Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Burton-on-Trent, UK Lisa Rooper Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, USA Christophe Rosty University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia Tristan Rutland Western Sydney University Sydney, Australia Aidan Ryan Cork University Hospital Biochemistry Laboratory University College Cork College of Medicine and Health Cork, Ireland Sunati Sahoo Uniersity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, USA Aliyah Sohani Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, USA Rajeev Shukla Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, UK Bill Simpson Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Aberdeen, UK Steven Tahan Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, USA Giancarlo Troncone University Federico Naples, Italy Paul VanderLaan Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, USA Michael Vieth Klinikum Bayreuth Bayreuth, Germany Monica Vyas Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, USA Erik A. Williams University of Miami Miami, USA Christina Wojewoda University of Vermont Medical Center Burlington, USA Omer Yilmaz Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, USA Osman Yilmaz Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, USA Lei Zhao Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, USA

Publishing Team

Publishing Executive: Anna Savage Senior Publisher: Henry Spilberg Head of Portfolio: Kathleen Lyons