Peter Humphrey

Peter A. Humphrey obtained his BA in chemistry and biochemistry and his MD and PhD in biochemistry from The University of Kansas. He did his anatomic pathology residency at Duke University Medical Center and joined the faculty there for four years, followed by twenty-one years as a faculty member at Washington University School of Medicine. At Yale he served as professor of pathology at the School of Medicine from 2014 to 2025 and as director of genitourinary pathology at the School of Medicine and Smilow Cancer Hospital for eleven years. Dr. Humphrey is a practicing surgical and urologic pathologist, with a research focus on clinico-pathologic and molecular pathologic aspects of prostate cancer. He has been on the editorial boards of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology, The American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Modern Pathology, and Human Pathology. He has 386 publications; has authored the textbook Prostate Pathology; co-authored the textbook Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer,  the AFIP Fascicle on the Prostate, and the textbook Neoplastic Mimics in Genitourinary Pathology; and is co-editor of The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology, and of the 2016 World Health Organization book Classification of Tumors of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs. He is past president of the International Society of Urological Pathology and of The Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists. He has received resident teaching awards at Duke, Washington University, and Yale.  He has given lectures on six of the seven continents.