Gene P. Siegal University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Dr. Siegal is the Robert W. Mowry Endowed Professor of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and since the beginning of this year has served as Interim Chair of the Department of Genetics at UAB. Previously he served as the Interim Chair of its Department of Pathology. In the quarter of century prior to that he was the Director of its Division of Anatomic Pathology in the UAB Health System. He is an experimental and diagnostic musculoskeletal pathologist whose research interest for over three decades has been focused in Cancer Biology. Dr. Siegal's clinical research interests have centered on studies of bone tumors and related conditions, a field in which he is a recognized world authority. He also holds the rank of Senior Scientist in the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and multiple other Centers on campus. Prior to coming to UAB he was a faculty member at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gene completed his undergraduate work at Adelphi University in New York, in addition to his Louisville M.D. has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and holds a Certificate from the UNC Flagler School of Business Administration. He completed post-graduate studies at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, the National Cancer Institute, N.I.H. and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Siegal is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London as well as Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars and the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society along with multiple other honors. He has published in excess of 700 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, abstracts and other professional writings along with multiple books.