Pathology of the Pancreas (Encyclopedia of Pathology)

About the Author

Irene Esposito is Full Professor of Pathology and since 2015 Head of the Institute of Pathology at the University Hospital of Duesseldorf, Germany. She obtained her MD in 1997 at the University of Pisa, Italy, where she also completed her training in Pathology. After moving to Germany in 2003, she worked as consultant at the Institute of Pathology of the University of Heidelberg (2003-2007), where she became Assistant Professor in 2007. After that, she moved to Munich, where she became Head of the Mouse Pathology Unit at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Neuherberg (2008-2010) performing mouse phenotyping at the German Mouse Clinic. In 2010 she was appointed as Associate Professor of Tumor Pathology at the Institute of Pathology of the Technische Universitaet of Munich and in 2011 she became Vice-Director of the Institute. After a short period as Director of the Institute of Pathology of the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, she was appointed at the Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf and moved back to Germany, where she now lives with her family and her two daughters. Prof. Esposito is an expert in hepato-pancreatico-biliary, gastrointestinal and neuroendocrine pathology. Her scientific interests focus on pancreatico-biliary carcinogenesis and on experimental, comparative and surgical pathology of pancreatico-biliary neoplasms. Eva Diamantis-Karamitopoulou is associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. After obtaining her MD degree from the University of Patras, Greece in 1989 she moved to Switzerland where she completed her training in Pathology at the Institute of Pathology, University of Basel. She worked as a consultant at the Universities of Basel and Bern and after a short period as assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Athens, she joined the Institute of Pathology, University of Bern in 2011 where she did her habilitation in 2013 and became associate Professor of Pathology in 2016. She is an expert in pancreatobiliary, liver and gastrointestinal pathology and her research focus is the tumor microenvironment of pancreatic cancer. She lives with her family in Bern.