Gene P. Siegal, M.D., Ph.D. is the Robert W. Mowry Endowed Professor of Pathology and Director of the Division of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also serves as the Executive Vice-Chair of Pathology – UAB Medicine (Health System) and as a Senior Scientist in the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center & the Center for Metabolic Bone Disease. He is a graduate of Adelphi University, the University of Louisville and the University of Minnesota. Professor Siegal is an experimental and diagnostic musculoskeletal pathologist whose research interest for more than three decades has been focused in Cancer Biology. His work is extramurally funded by the NIH and private philanthropic agencies and foundations. Dr. Siegal's clinical research interests have focused on studies of bone tumors and related conditions, a field in which he is a recognized world authority. Dr. Siegal is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London as well as Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars along with multiple other honor societies including A.O.A. His recognized expertise has resulted in service on Scientific Review Boards of the National Institutes of Health including the National Cancer Institute, the DOD, the Komen Founation & the Food & Drug Administration. With in excess of 700 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, abstracts and other professional writings, it’s no surprise that Dr. Siegal serves on 20 editorial boards, is the former Senior Associate Editor of The American Journal of Pathology, is the current Editor-in-Chief of Laboratory Investigation and is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Cytology & Histology.