Phillip McKee, MB, Bch, BAO, MD, FRCPath, qualified in medicine 1972 at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. This was followed by pathology training at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists in 1978. He then completed a Dermatopathology Fellowship at St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in London. He was appointed to the Faculty of St Thomas' Hospital Medical School in London in 1979 and subsequently to the Faculty of St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in 1992. In 1989 he was made Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and in 1992 was awarded his Doctorate in Medicine by Queen's University of Belfast.

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.

Antonina Kalmykova, MD, was graduated with honors from Zaporizhzhya State Medical University. After graduation, she finished internship and received a master’s degree in pathology. Antonina studied dermathopathology not only in Ukraine, but also in the Czech Republic, Austria, and the USA.

Since 2016, Antonina has been working as a dermatopathologist in the Medical Laboratory CSD. Her main field of interests is dermatopathology, as well as soft tissue pathology and hematopathology.

Olena Koshyk, MD, graduated from Donetsk State Medical University in 2002. She has been successfuly completed fellowships in surgical pathology in 2003 and oncology in 2013. Both in Donetsk State Medical University.

Since 2014 Dr. Koshyk has being worked in Medical Laboratory CSD. Her areas of expertise are soft tissue and bone, breast and skin pathology. Dr. Koshyk is a member of United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), International Academy of Pathology (IAP) and European Society of Pathology (ESP).

Jerad Gardner, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, where he is also the dermatopathology fellowship program director and the musculoskeletal/skin module co-director for the College of Medicine. Dr. Gardner obtained his MD from Tulane University in New Orleans, completed residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Houston Methodist Hospital, and completed fellowships in bone/soft tissue pathology and dermatopathology at Emory University in Atlanta.

Dr. Gardner has more than 90 peer-reviewed publications as well as multiple book chapters. He is also author of the in-press book Survival Guide to Dermatopathology and co-author of the book Survival Guide to Soft Tissue Pathology. He is particularly interested in cutaneous soft tissue tumors, skin adnexal tumors, medical education, and the professional use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media for pathologists. His work has been recognized by multiple awards, including the Resident Advocate Award (2015) and the Outstanding Communicator Award (2018) from the College of American Pathologists and the UAMS Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence (2018).

Also, he was named as a top five member of the 2017 “40 Under Forty” by the American Society of Clinical Pathology. Dr. Gardner is chair of the Social Media Subcommittee and also member-at-large on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Dermatopathology. He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.

Michal Michal – Professor, MD, internationally recognized expert on pathomorphological diagnostics, founder of the second in the world by the number of biopsies performed in the pathomorphological laboratory “Biopticka laborator” located in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Michal Michal is a member of editorial boards and editorial councils, of many scientific, practical and medical periodicals, winner of many scientific awards and the author of 683 publications in international editions. Among his scientific interests is the diagnosis of pathological conditions of various localization. The scientist is invited to deliver lectures at various universities of the world, he is a frequent guest of European, American and Global pathological congresses.

Viktoryia Kazlouskaya, MD/PhD, in 2002 graduated from Vitebsk State Medical University, Belarus. After completion of her residency and PhD in Dermatology she was working as Assistant Professor in her alma mater and later became an Associate Professor and Head of Dermatology at Gomel State Medical University of Belarus. She was trained in Dermatopathology in Germany and United States. Currently she is working as a clinical instructor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Dr. Kazlouskaya is an author of multiple scientific articles and book chapters, actively participates in professional meetings and societies, as well as stays tuned with newest developments in the fields of Dermatology and Dermatopathology.

Nima Mesbah Ardakani, MD, is a dermatopathologist at PathWest at QEII Medical Centre. He completed his training in anatomical pathology in Western Australia and received the fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia (FRCPA) in 2014. In addition, he completed a fellowship in dermatopathology and molecular pathology at PathWest in 2015. He has spent time in national and international academic centers such as Melanoma Institute Australia in Sydney, and UCSF Dermatopathology at the University of California, San Francisco as a visiting fellow in 2015.

Dr. Ardakani has been involved in substantial research in skin and molecular pathology with a focus on melanocytic neoplasms, culminating in many publications, several conference appearances as a speaker as well as awards and a textbook chapter in pediatric dermatopathology. He is also active in teaching medical students and pathology trainees as well as promoting dermatopathology via social media and online resources.

Vasileia Damaskou, MD, has graduated from the School of Medicine Carol Davila in the University of Bucharest, Rumania. This was followed by training in Pathology at the General Hospital of Korinthos, in Oncological Pathology at the St Savvas Hospital in Athens, and in Cytology at the Alexandra’s General Hospital in Athens.

Dr. Damaskou was awarded with a Board Certification in Pathology. She completed fellowship in Dermatopathology under Dr. Eduardo Calonje at St John’s Institute of Dermatology at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Currently, she is appointed at the 2nd Department of Pathological Anatomy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens.

Dr. Damaskou is a co-chair of the Hellenic Dermatopathology Working Group, a member of the Dermatopathology Working Group of the European Society of Pathology and of the European Society of Dermatopathologists. She is the manager of the slide collection and responsible for the Histology Practical Session in Dr.Calonje’s London Diagnostic Dermatopathology Course.

Dr. Damaskou has contributed in the 5th edition of Mckee’s Pathology of the Skin (Connective Tissue Tumors). She has also co-authored the chapter of non-neoplastic Dermatopathology in the HIPON e-learning Platform. Her current research interest in Dermatopathology includes Melanoma and Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia.

Adrienne Jordan MD, is the Director of Dermatopathology, Medical Director of Special Procedures Lab and Associate Thread Director of Medical School Curriculum at the University of Louisville. She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and a graduate of Northeast Ohio Medical University. Dr. Jordan completed her residency in Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY and Dermatopathology fellowship at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA.

Dr. Jordan comes to the University after serving as the assistant laboratory director at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, specializing in Dermatopathology and head and neck pathology. Dr. Jordan also has additional experience and interest in regulatory and compliance requirements, having successfully prepared for and completed numerous credentialing and accreditation inspections to include the College of American Pathologists and the Joint Commission.

Dr. Jordan serves on national committees, including the Social Media Committee for the American Society of Dermatopathology. She is involved in numerous projects to advance the use of social media in patient care and medical education.

Dr. Jordan's research interests reflect her wide range of expertise. She is widely published in those topics: infectious disease of the skin, uveal melanoma, and head and neck tumors. She has written several book chapters and lectured at National Meetings.

Oscar Marin, MD, has graduated from National University of La Plata, Argentina and compelled his doctorate degree at Buenos Aires University, Argentina. Dr. Marin is a member of United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), Argentine Society of Pathology, Argentine Society of Gastroenterology and Latin American Society of Haematopatholoy among others.

Dr. Marin is certified as specialist in Pathology by the Argentine Society of Pathology (SAP), Argentina Medical Association (AMA), the Federal Council of Medical Specialties and the National Health Ministry of Argentina. Dr. Marin dedicates his work mainly to the field of Haematopatholoy and Gastrointestinal Pathology. He completed fellowship at JICA (Japan International Cooperative Agency) in detection of Early Gastrointestinal Cancer (The Cancer Institute, Tokyo, Japan, The National Cancer Centre Hospital, Tokyo, Japan and the Tokyo Medical and Dental School of Medicine).

Dr. Marin is head of Pathology Service in the Pablo Soria Hospital, Jujuy, Argentina, after previous works in the French Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Institute for General, Oncologic Pathology and Haematopatholoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, among others. In addition, he is an author in many publications in Argentinian and in international journals.

Geronimo Junior, MD, graduated in medicine at the Federal University of Piaui, Brazil with medical residency in surgical pathology by the São Paulo State University (UNESP) and expert title recognized by the Brazilian Society of Pathology.

Dr. Geronimo is Master in Science and Health at the Federal University of Piaui. He is Director of the Laboratory of surgical and molecular pathology (LAPAC) in Teresina, Brazil. Dr. Geronimo actively participates in social media contributing to education in surgical pathology.

Thomas Brenn – MD, Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, where he also serves as Head of Dermatopathology and Director of the Dermatopathology fellowship program. He graduated magna cum laude (MD/PhD) from the University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany). After postdoctoral fellowships in the Departments of Genetics and Pathology at Stanford University and residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he pursued subspecialty fellowships in Dermatopathology, Soft Tissue Tumor Pathology and Surgical Pathology with Drs Phillip McKee and Christopher Fletcher.

In 2003, Dr Brenn joined the faculty of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and was a consultant in Pathology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. From 2007 to 2018, he was Head of Dermatopathology and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland). Dr Brenn is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology (Anatomic Pathology) and Dermatology (Dermatopathology). He is Associate Editor for Histopathology and was a member of the consensus working group for the 4^th edition of the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Skin. He was the Chair of the Skin Working Group of the European Society of Pathology (ESP), Chief Examiner for the RCPath Diploma in Dermatopathology and member of the steering committee of the National Specialist EQA scheme in Dermatopathology and the executive committee of the British Society for Dermatopathology.  He has contributed to major textbooks in Dermatology and Dermtopathology and is a co-editor of the 4^th and 5^th editions of McKee’s Pathology of the Skin.

Pembe Oltulu, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Faculty of Medicine in Konya/TURKEY. Dr. Oltulu graduated from Selcuk University, Medical Faculty in 2000. She has been successfuly completed residency in surgical pathology at Selcuk University, Medical Faculty in 2004. She worked as an asistant professor from 2013 to 2018 at the Necmettin Erbakan University, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Surgical Pathology Department. 

She is particularly interested in dermatopathology, hematopathology, Ophtalmopathology, Interstitial lung disease, and the professional usage of some social media tools for pathologists and medical education. Her works in social media and education area has been recognized by some awards, including being one of the finalists of the pathologists, powerlist 2018 and 2019.

She has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Oltulu is a Honorary member of North American Society of Head and Neck Pathology (NASHNP) and member of Federation of Turkish Pathology Societies. She is a Social Media Editor of Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and İnteractive Meducation Editor in Head and Neck Pathology Journal and Editor in Selcuk Medical Journal. She is working as a Judge of the Educational Pathology Tweet Award (#PathTweetAward on twitter) committee. She is Manager or moderator of some Facebook Pathology Education groups and especially active participating on Twitter contributing to education in surgical pathology.

Dr. Aung Phyo achieved M.B;B.S. degree from university of Medicine, Mandelay and M.Med.Sc (Pathology) degree from University of Medecine 2, Yangon, Myanmar. During his resource limited practice in Mawlamyne General Hospital, he tried his utmost to attain expert opinions on difficult cases by optimizing smartphone photomicrography and static telepathology practice, i.e., reaching for helping hands across the world. He is also activity sharing cases on social media to contribute pathology.