Dr. Asok Biswas

Biography

Asok Biswas started his Pathology training at Manipal University, India, and is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pathology. He completed his Histopathology training in the West Midlands and held an Honorary Clinical Lecturer post at Keele University Medical School. He pursued a Dermatopathology fellowship at the Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, USA, and took his current position as Consultant Dermatopathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, in 2010. Biswas has served as President of the British Society of Dermatopathology and has held various roles, including Secretary and Executive Committee member. He is also the Chair of the Examiners’ Panel for Dermatopathology at the Royal College of Pathologists. He enjoys teaching dermatopathology and is particularly interested in using clinicopathological correlation to refine the diagnosis of inflammatory and neoplastic skin disorders. He authored a textbook, “Pearls and Pitfalls of Inflammatory Dermatopathology,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. His main research interests in dermatopathology include inflammatory skin disorders and cutaneous adnexal neoplasms.

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