Prof William D. Travis

Dr. Travis is an attending thoracic pathologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He served as Chair of the 1999 WHO Classification of Lung and Pleural Tumors; lead editor of the 2004 WHO Classification: Pathology and Genetics of Tumors of the Lung, Pleura, Thymus and Heart; co-chair of the 2002 American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Consensus Classification of Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias; co-chair of the ATS Workshop on Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia; co-chair of the Pathology/Radiology Panel of the 2004 ASCO/IASLC Adenocarcinoma/Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma Workshop and co-chair of the upcoming 2010 IASLC/ATS/ERS International Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma. He was the reference pathologist for the Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) Registry of the NHLBI and has published many papers on the pathology of LAM. He is also interested in the pathology of pulmonary infectious disease and wrote all of the pulmonary infection sections of the 2002 Fascicle on Non-neoplastic Disorders of the Lower Respiratory Tract.