I am pleased to announce that Andrea Deyrup, MD PhD has been promoted to the rank of Professor of Pathology.
Dr. Deyrup received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 1991 before joining the University of Chicago for her PhD (Pathology, 1997), MD (2000) and residency (Anatomic Pathology, 2000-2003). She completed her formal training in soft tissue pathology at Emory and joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2004. She has published extensively in the field of soft tissue and bone pathology, including several chapters for the World Health Organization Classification of Tumours, Pathology and Genetics: Tumours of Soft Tissue and Bone and co-editing Practical Orthopedic Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach.
Since 2015, Dr. Deyrup’s career has focused on medical education. At that time, she joined the faculty of the Duke Pathology Department as Course Director of the first-year medical school pathology course; in January of 2019, she was named the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for the Pathology Department. She also serves on the Undergraduate Medical Education Council for the Association of Pathology Chairs, participated in the 2020-21 Duke Teaching for Equity Fellows Program and was a member of the Duke School of Medicine Health Professions Anti-Racism Task Force.
Dr. Deyrup is one of the co-editors of the new Robbins Pathology textbook, Essential Pathology and of the upcoming 11th edition of Robbins Basic Pathology. She has served on the Editorial Board of Human Pathology since 2007, as the Treasurer for the International Society of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology from 2008 to 2013 and Associate Editor for Case Studies for Human Pathology from 2017-19.
Dr. Deyrup is actively committed to antiracism efforts and to improving discussion of health disparities in medical education.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Deyrup for her promotion.
Jiaoti Huang, MD PhD
Chair