Teri A Longacre

Dr. Teri Longacre received a B.A. from St. John’s College, a B.S. from the University of New Mexico, and an M.D. from the University of New Mexico. She trained as a resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of New Mexico and pursued subspecialty fellowships in hematopathology, gastrointestinal pathology and general surgical pathology at Stanford Medicine, where she is now Director of Gynecologic Pathology and Gastrointestinal Pathology. She is a Professor of Pathology at Stanford and directs the Gynecologic Pathology and Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship programs. Dr. Longacre is also the Director of the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Institute Tissue Procurement Facility.

Dr. Longacre was a member of the 2013 consensus and editorial working group for the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Female Genital Tract. She is the current President of the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology and the Chair of the Endometrial Cancer Biomarker Reporting Panel for the College of American Pathologists. She also serves on the Test Development and Advisory Committee for Anatomic Pathology for the American Board of Pathology

She has established a clinical research program that is focused on gynecologic and gastrointestinal pathology with an emphasis on diagnosis and screening of hereditary gynecologic and gastrointestinal cancer syndromes. She has published extensively in national and international journals, and has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters in gynecologic and gastrointestinal pathology. She co-authored a textbook on the Uterine Corpus and Cervix. She serves on many editorial boards, including the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Modern Pathology, and International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology. She is an Associate Editor for Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology. Dr. Longacre has extensive national and international teaching experience in gynecologic and gastrointestinal pathology and currently coordinates the Annual Dr. Richard L. Kempson Diagnostic Pathology Course for Scientific Symposiums International.