THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DERMATOPATHOLOGY

Dr Asok Biswas started his Pathology training at the Manipal University, India where he is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pathology. He continued his Histopathology training in the West Midlands region during which he also held an Honorary Clinical Lecturer post at the Keele University Medical School. He pursued a Dermatopathology fellowship at Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, USA before taking up his current position as a Consultant Dermatopathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh in 2010.

He is currently the President of the British Society for Dermatopathology and has served in Secretary and Executive Committee member positions in the past. He is the Chair of the Examiners’ Panel in Dermatopathology at the RCPath. He enjoys teaching dermatopathology and is particularly interested in the use of clinicopathological correlation tools in refining the diagnosis of both inflammatory and neoplastic skin disorders. He has authored a textbook titled “Pearls and pitfalls in inflammatory dermatopathology” which was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2017.