Biography : Dr. Vinod B. Shidham is a certified Anatomic, Clinical and Cytopathologist at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He is founding director of Cytopathology fellowship training program, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1998) and also Founding director for Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) cytology service, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1998). He ponieered intraoperative immunocytochemical evaluation of sentinel lymph nodes for melanoma metastases as a clinical test in concert with various departments as interdisciplinary exercise and a Novel method to teach FNAB technique to M2 in wet lab, using fresh cattle liver stuffed in latex glove. Vinod also represented Wisconsin Society of pathologists for CME accreditation, he also Pioneering proponent and member of Task force for Progressive Evaluation of Competency (PEC) (In-service Examination for Cytopathology Fellow Competency Evaluation) by the American Society of Cytopathology, Wilmington. He is also executive editor and co-editor in chief for CytoJournal which is an open-access, peer-reviewed, PubMed indexed, one of the five scholarly Cytopathology journals.

Biography : Dr. Liron Pantanowitz received his medical degree in South Africa. He completed his anatomical and clinical pathology residency training at Harvard in Boston (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). He is board certified in AP/CP/Cytopathology/Clinical Informatics. Dr. Pantanowitz is currently a Professor of Pathology and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the Vice Chair for Pathology Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). He is also the Director of Cytopathology at UPMC. He is moving to the University of Michigan in June as the head of AP. He is widely published in the field of pathology informatics and cytopathology. His research interests include non-GYN cytopathology, digital pathology and artificial intelligence.

Biography : Dr. Layfield received his MD degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1979. He completed his pathology residency at UCLA in 1983 focusing on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNA). In 1985, he joined the UCLA faculty and headed the FNA service. In 1992, he relocated to Duke University as Head of FNA and Director of Surgical Pathology becoming full professor in 1996. In 1997, he moved to University of Utah as Head of Surgical Pathology and Director of Fine Needle Aspiration. He has presented workshops for the ASC, ASCP and USCAP on aspects of FNA. Dr. Layfield has worked with a number of professional organizations to develop guidelines and recommendations relating to the practice of fine needle aspiration cytopathology including the development of the NCI/Bethesda guidelines for thyroid cytopathology. He has led the development of guidelines for Pancreaticobiliary and Respiratory cytopathology by the Papanicolaou Society. Dr. Layfield was the recipient of the 2011 Ward Burdick Award for Distinguished Service to Pathology. Dr. Layfield is a past President of the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology and is currently on the P.S.C. executive board. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Diagnostic Cytopathology. He has published over 390 peer-reviewed manuscripts, four books and 15 book chapters. These focus on FNA of the head and neck, musculoskeletal system and pancreaticobiliary system. He is currently Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences at the University of Missouri.