Dr. Rhonda Yantiss received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas and graduated from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency in anatomic pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by fellowship training in gastrointestinal and liver pathology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She served as Chief of Gastrointestinal Pathology and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College for 17 years, then joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine where she holds the position of Director of Surgical Pathology. Dr. Yantiss has chaired the Nominations and Education Committees of the Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society and served as President of that society. She is the current President of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists and Chair of the Education Committee of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. Dr. Yantiss lectures widely in the United States and abroad. She has received several teaching and professional awards, including the F. K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Pathology Annual Prize, and the Jack Yardley Investigator Award of the Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. Dr. Yantiss has published more than 150 original articles as well as numerous books and book chapters related to gastrointestinal pathology. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for more than fifteen journals and is a member of the editorial boards of Human Pathology, Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology, and The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. She is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Senior Associate Editor of Modern Pathology.
