ISSN: 2578-6512
Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
United States of America
Dr. Thomas J Lawton is currently Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA. He is a board-certified surgical pathologist with 20 years of post-fellowship experience in academia and the private sector. A graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Lawton completed his residency and fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University. He has served on the medical school faculties at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington. Dr. Lawton has co-authored numerous journal articles and textbook chapters on breast pathology including being the principle author and editor of 'Cambridge University Press', "Breast (Illustrated Surgical Pathology Series)" and is co-author of the textbook "Breast Imaging and Pathologic Correlations: A Pattern-Based Approach" with his Radiology colleague from Harvard Medical School. He has lectured nationally and internationally on breast pathology and has been Co-Director of two Short Courses on breast pathology at the USCAP. He recently served as Presiding Officer for the Radiology/Pathology Intervention Program at the 100th Annual meeting of RSNA where he was a keynote speaker on high risk lesions of the breast. Dr. Lawton's main research interests involve the diagnosis and management of high risk lesions of the breast (with a particular emphasis on lobular neoplasia), fibroepithelial lesions of the breast, and correlative studies with breast imaging.
