ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Aims and scope of journal

Modern Pathology is an international journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). Modern Pathology concentrates on all aspects of diagnostic human pathology, contemporary issues pertinent to diagnostic accuracy, reviews, illustrative cases, Academy news and clinical medicine directly related to pathology practice.

Modern Pathology provides a forum for the understanding of the pathologic processes and evaluation of new and existing diagnostic applications of scientific advances and clinical pathologic correlations; fostering the acquisition and maintenance of up-to-date information to ensure high standards of practice; and, encouraging the publication of new information.

The journal features the following types of papers:

• Original Articles
• Review Articles
• Methods in Pathology
• Long Course Articles
• Special Articles
• Case Reports

Impact Factor

Impact Factor: 4.286*

Rank:
6/66 in Pathology

*2007 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2008)

Abstracted/indexed in

Index Medicus
Current Contents (Clinical Medicine, Life Sciences, Science Citation Index, SciSearch and Research Alert)
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Modern Pathology is 0893-3952 and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1530-0285.

Editors

Editor-in-Chief

John N. Eble MD, MBA is the Nordschow Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine.

Professor Eble received a BS from Indiana University in 1973, and an MD from Indiana University in 1976. He trained in pathology at Indiana University Medical Center and joined the IU faculty in 1980. From 1981 to 2000, he was Chief of Pathology at the Roudebush VA Medical Center. In 1990, he was granted an MBA by Indiana University. He was appointed Chairman of the School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in 1999. At that time, he also was appointed Chief Pathologist of Clarian Health Partners (Methodist - IU - Riley). In 2000, he became the Nordschow Professor of Laboratory Medicine.

He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Urologic Pathology, official journal of the International Society of Urologic Pathology, from 1997 to 2000. Dr. Eble has served three terms as Treasurer and is presently President of the International Society of Urologic Pathology. In 2001, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.

Senior Associate Editor

Harvey M. Cramer, MD, received his MD from the University of Manitoba in 1980. Following a rotating internship, he trained in Anatomic Pathology at McGill University and the University of Toronto. Following residency training, Dr. Cramer completed fellowships in cytopathology at UCLA and at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. In 1991, following four years at the University of Western Ontario, he joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. His practice is confined to diagnostic cytopathology and his major area of interest is fine needle aspiration cytology.

Associate Editors

Peter M. Banks, MD is Director of Hematologic Pathology and of the Fellowship training program at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina and Clinical Professor of Pathology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. After medical school at Harvard he trained in Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, and in pathology at NIH, Duke and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Banks is a founding member of the Society for Hematopathology, the Association for Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology and the International Lymphoma Study Group. Author of more than 150 orginal peer-reviewed publications, he carries on a large consultative practice in hematopathology and was recently elected to Council of the USCAP.

David F. Hardwick, MD, FRCPC is Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia. He graduated from UBC in 1957, and pursued studies in Montreal PQ, Charlotte NC and Los Angeles CA and Vancouver in Pediatrics, Developmental Electrophysiology, Pediatric Pathology and General Pathology. Dr. Hardwick is certified in AP/CP in both Canada and USA. He has received many national and international awards and has published numerous research and book publications. Dr. Hardwick has special expertise as an acknowledged expert in laboratory direction and management.

Richard L. Kempson, MD is Professor Emeritus of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his MD (1955) and anatomic pathology training (1959-1962) both from Tulane University School of Medicine and was a surgical pathology fellow and then Assistant Professor of Pathology and Surgical Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine. He later moved to Stanford University Medical Center and most recently served as Professor of Pathology and the Co-Director of Surgical Pathology. Dr. Kempson’s research endeavors have mainly involved gynecologic, soft tissue, and breast pathology. He has served as the President of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology, the Arthur Purdy Stout Society, and currently is president of the California Society of Pathologists.

James Linder, MD is Professor of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, and Chief Medical Officer of Cytyc Corporation, Boxborough MA. He earned his MD from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and trained in pathology at Duke University and the University of Nebraska, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. He has authored over 150 publications and five textbooks. In addition to editorial duties he has held leadership positions, including President of the American Society of Clinical Pathology, the Residency Review Committee for Pathology, the American Registry of Pathology and is currently a member of the Council of the United States/Canadian Academy of Pathology. His research interest is the application of new technologies to diagnostic pathology.

Fred G. Silva, MD is the ninth Secretary-Treasurer and Executive Director of the United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology, and Adjunct Professor of Pathology at Emory University and The Medical College of Georgia.

Dr. Silva received his BS and MD from the University of Oklahoma. He trained at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City where he also served as Assistant Professor in Surgical and Renal Pathology. He then became Associate Professor and Director of Surgical Pathology at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas for nine years. Dr. Silva then became the Lloyd Rader Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Oklahoma from 1989-1999. In 1999, he became the ninth Secretary-Treasurer of the USCAP.Dr. Silva has published extensively in general surgical pathology and renal pathology and is Co-Editor/Author of four major textbooks/atlases in renal pathology.

Editorial Board

Gerald D. Abrams, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Volkan Adsay, Detroit, MI, USA
Henry D. Appelman, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Daniel Arber, Stanford, CA, USA
Pedram Argani, Baltimore, MD, USA
Sylvia Asa, Ontario, Canada
Frederic B. Askin, Baltimore, MD, USA
Alberto G. Ayala, Houston, TX, USA
Peter M. Banks, Charlotte, NC, USA
Hector Battifora, Arcadia, CA, USA
Steve Billings, Cleveland, OH, USA
David Bostwick, Richmond, VA, USA
Julia Bridge, Omaha, NE, USA
John S. J. Brooks, Boothwyn, PA, USA
Darryl Carter, Timonium, MD, USA
Liang Cheng, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Andrew Churg, Vancouver, Canada
Cheryl Coffin, Nashville, TN, USA
Stanley Cohen, Newark, NJ, USA
James L. Connolly, Boston, MA, USA
John B. Cousar, Charlottesville, VA, USA
A.N. Crowson, Tulsa, OK, USA
Oscar Cummings, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Ivan Damjanov, Kansas City, KS, USA
Louis P. Dehner, St. Louis, MO, USA
Brett Delahunt, Wellington South, New Zealand
Ronald DeLellis, Providence, RI, USA
Robert Emerson, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Jonathan Epstein, Baltimore, MD, USA
John L. Farber, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Judith A. Ferry, Boston, MA, USA
Christopher D.M. Fletcher, Boston, MA, USA
Andrew Folpe, Atlanta, GA, USA
Kathy Foucar, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Henry Frierson, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Gregory Fuller, Houston, TX, USA
Stephen A. Geller, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Deborah J. Gersell, St. Louis, MO, USA
Harvey Goldman, Boston, MA, USA
Allen M. Gown, Seattle, WA, USA
David J. Grignon, Indianapolis, IN, USA
David F. Hardwick, Vancouver, British Columbia
Nancy Harris, Boston, MA, USA
Eyas Hattab, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Ralph H. Hruban, Baltimore, MD, USA
Peter A. Humphrey, St. Louis, MO, USA
Elaine S. Jaffe, Bethesda, MD, USA
Richard L. Kempson, Stanford, CA, USA
David Klimstra, New York, NY, USA
Gunter Kloppel, Kiel, Germany
Daniel M. Knowles, New York, NY, USA
Frederick Koerner, Boston, MA, USA
Leopold G. Koss, Bronx, NY, USA
Michael N. Koss, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Laura Lamps, Little Rock, AR, USA
Gregory Y. Lauwers, Boston, MA, USA
James Linder, Omaha, NE, USA
Jinsong Liu, Houston, TX, USA
Virginia A. LiVolsi, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ricardo Lloyd, Rochester, MN, USA
Shahla Masood, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Osamu Matsubara, Saitama, Japan
Barbara McKenna, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Robert W. McKenna, Dallas, TX, USA
L. Jeffrey Medeiros, Houston, TX, USA
Helen Michael, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Jean Michaud, Ontario, Canada
Stacey Mills, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Raymond Nagle, Tucson, AZ, USA
Shuji Ogino, Boston, MA, USA
Dennis O'Malley, Irvine, CA, USA
Attilio Orazi, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Robert Y. Osamura, Kanagawa, Japan
David Owen, Vancouver, Canada
David L. Page, Nashville, TN, USA
James W. Patterson, Charlottesville, VA, USA
John Pfeifer, St. Louis, MO, USA
M. Sambasiva Rao, Chicago, IL, USA
Victor Reuter, New York, NY, USA
Robert Riddell, Toronto, Canada
Victor Roggli, Durham, NC, USA
Juan Rosai, Durham, NC, USA
Paul Peter Rosen, New York, NY, USA
Jeffrey S. Ross, Albany, NY, USA
Raphael Rubin, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Romil Saxena, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Stuart J. Schnitt, Boston, MA, USA
Gene P. Siegal, Birmingham, AL, USA
Elvio G. Silva, Houston, TX, USA
Fred Silva, Augusta, GA, USA
Robert A. Soslow, New York, NY, USA
J. Thomas Stocker, Bethesda, MD, USA
Mark H. Stoler, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Puay Hoon Tan, Singapore, Singapore
William Travis, New York, NY, USA
Thomas M. Ulbright, Indianapolis, IN, USA
K. Krishnan Unni, Rochester, MN, USA
Gail Vance, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Renu Virmani, Washington, DC, USA
David H. Walker, Galveston, TX, USA
Roger A. Warnke, Stanford, CA, USA
Mary Kay Washington, Nashville, TN, USA
Noel Weidner, San Diego, CA, USA
Lawrence M. Weiss, Duarte, CA, USA
Sharon W. Weiss, Atlanta, GA, USA
Bruce Wenig, New York, NY, USA
Mark R. Wick, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Robert H. Young, Boston, MA, USA
Richard J. Zarbo, Detroit, MI, USA