Dr. David J. Papke is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Pathologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA. His clinical expertise and research interests are in Soft Tissue and Gastrointestinal Pathology. Dr. Papke graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a B.S. in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (2007), Ph.D. in Neuroscience (2013), and M.D. (2016). He matriculated into the Anatomic Pathology Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he served as Chief Resident in 2018. Upon graduation, he undertook subspecialty training in Gastrointestinal Pathology (2020) and Soft Tissue Pathology (2021) under the mentorship of Dr. Christopher D.M. Fletcher.

Dr. Papke has been on Faculty at Harvard Medical School since 2021. He has described several new tumor types (plexiform myofibroblastoma, pseudoendocrine sarcoma, nested glomoid neoplasm, infantile sinonasal myxoma, and myxoid inflammatory myofibroblastic sarcoma) and has implemented novel diagnostic markers for clinical practice (PDGFRA, GLI1, and CYP1A1 immunohistochemistry). He has also co-authored over 60 primary research articles and book chapters, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Oncology, PNAS, the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, and Modern Pathology, and he has been actively teaching and mentoring trainees, for which he recently was awarded the Pier F. Paci Memorial Award for excellence in teaching.