William D Travis

MD, FCCP

Dr. Travis is the Director of Thoracic Pathology and the Thoracic Pathology Training Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York. He graduated from Haverford College and the University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville. He completed an Anatomic Pathology residency at Harvard Medical School, Boston at the New England Deaconess Hospital, as well as a Clinical Pathology residency and surgical pathology fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Dr. Travis is an Honorary Pulmonary Fellow from the Mayo Clinic Departments of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery and received the Mary J. Matthews Award for Excellence in Research of Lung Cancer Pathology from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. He served as Chair of the 1999 WHO Classification of Lung and Pleural Tumors, as well aslead editor of the 2004 and 2015 WHO Classifications: Pathology and Genetics of Tumors of the Lung, Pleura, Thymus and Heart and will serve as an expert member of the WHO Blue Books 5th Edition Editorial Board for the upcoming Thoracic Tumors volume. Dr. Travis served as co-chair of the 2002 American Thoracic Society (ATS) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Multidisciplinary Consensus Classification of Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias (IIPs), co-chair of the 2008 ATS Workshop on Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia. He helped co-chair the 2011 IASLC/ATS/ERS International Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma, and co-chair of the2013 ATS/ERS Update of the International Multidisciplinary Consensus Classification of IIPs.  He has been the director of a Thoracic Pathology Fellowship training program for 29 years.