Dr. Downes graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland medical school and undertook training in surgery followed by a research fellowship in prostate cancer. She did her AP residency in Dublin, Ireland followed by a clinical fellowship in GU pathology at the University Health Network, Toronto. She is Director of GU pathology, Division Head of Anatomic Pathology and Research Director for the Precision Diagnostics and Therapeutics Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Associate Professor in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. Dr Downes is Secretary of the International Society of Urological Pathology, dataset author for the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting Urothelial datasets and member of the Board of Directors for the CAP-ACP. She is actively engaged in teaching at the national and international level. Her research interests are in prognostic and predictive biomarkers in prostate and bladder cancer.

I am the Program Director for the University of Calgary Pathologists' Assistant program and the instructor of record for many courses within the program. I have been a PA for over two decades in Calgary, Alberta and I am passionate about the PA profession and the education of PAs.

Dr. Ko is a dual-degree pathologist. He received his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the University of British Columbia and his medical degree from Columbia University. He then went on to complete a residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at New-York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, a residency in Anatomic Pathology at Stanford University, and a fellowship in Dermatopathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He holds active dental and medical licenses in the United States and British Columbia. Dr. Ko is board-certified in anatomic pathology, dermatopathology, and oral and maxillofacial pathology. He is currently a full-time consultant pathologist at Vancouver General Hospital. His interest is in the classification and study of disorders related to the oral cavity and holds a special interest in inflammatory and neoplastic conditions of the skin and head and neck.

Dr Merrimen completed her Anatomical Pathology residency in 2007 at Dalhousie University and completed a Urologic Pathology fellowship with at McMaster University with Dr John Srigley. She is an Associate professor in the Depts of Pathology and Urology at Dalhousie University and practices cytopathology and surgical pathology at the QE2 Sciences Medical Centre in Halifax, NS.

Elizabeth Montgomery, MD trained at Walter Army Medical Center in Pathology. She is currently Professor of Pathology and Vice Chair, Academic Development, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

She has published numerous articles and books on gastrointestinal and soft tissue pathology and has trained numerous fellows in these disciplines. Dr. Montgomery was formerly a Professor of Pathology, Oncology, and Orthopedic Surgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and Division Director of Gastrointestinal Pathology. She is the Editor in Chief of Innovative Science Press.

She continues to be a highly sought speaker worldwide.

Dr. Stephanie Reid completed medical school and Anatomical Pathology training at Memorial University in Newfoundland. She subsequently completed a gastrointestinal pathology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital (University of Toronto) and Master of Science in Health Science Education (McMaster University). Dr. Reid works at the Health Sciences Centre in St. Johns, NL and as an Assistant Professor at Memorial University. She is heavily involved in curriculum planning and assessment in the medical school and holds multiple educational leadership roles. Her medical education research interests include interdisciplinary medical education, assessment validation, and multimedia curriculum development. Dr. Reid is involved in research on hereditary gastrointestinal cancers prevalent in Newfoundland and Labrador. She is currently a member at large of the Gastrointestinal (GI) Pathology Section of the CAP-ACP.

Dr. Schaeffer is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at University of British Columbia and the Head of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), where he practices as a gastrointestinal pathologist. Dr. Schaeffer obtained his medical degree from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. After a residency program in Anatomical Pathology in Vancouver he completed his gastrointestinal pathology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Dr. Schaeffer is the co-director of Pancreas Centre BC and the Pancreatic Cancer Research Chair at Vancouver General Hospital. He has an active research program focusing predominately on translational research in colonic and pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Wang is a distinguished surgical pathologist specializing in genitourinary pathology. He earned his MD from Tongji Medical University and completed his Ph.D. and Anatomic Pathology residency at UBC. Following a fellowship in GU Pathology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Wang commenced his role as a consultant pathologist at BC Cancer in 2017. Currently, he serves as a Clinical Associate Professor at UBC, heads the Department of BC Cancer Pathology, and leads as the principal pathologist of BC Cancer GU BioBank.

Recognized as a prominent clinician-scientist and academic pathologist, Dr. Wang boasts an impressive publication record, with over 60 peer-reviewed original articles featured in esteemed journals such as Nature Communications and the American Journal of Surgical Pathology. Additionally, he has contributed to two book chapters, been invited as a speaker for various conferences, and received numerous awards from UBC Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Pathology department.

Jason Wasserman is a Pathologist at the Ottawa Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He completed both medical school and residency in Anatomical Pathology at the University of Ottawa followed by a fellowship in Head and Neck Pathology at the University of Toronto under the mentorship of Dr. Ilan Weinreb. In 2018, Dr. Wasserman created the educational website MyPathologyReport.ca to help patients read and understand their pathology reports. He lives in Ottawa with his wife Anne-Marie and their three boys Jonathan, Nicolas, and Alexandre.