Thomas C. Wright, Jr., MD Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Cell Biology Columbia University New York, NY Dr. Wright received his Medical Degree from Harvard Medical School; his pathology residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and his fellowship in OB/Gyn Pathology at Columbia University. Dr. Wright served as the Director of the Division of Gynecologic, Perinatal, and Cytologic Pathology at Columbia University Medical Center and also headed the colposcopy services at New York Presbyterian Hospital for over 15 years. He is a Past President of the American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and was the lead author of the 2001 and 2007 ASCCP Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Cytologic Abnormalities. He is now a Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University and is involved in a variety of clinical trials focusing primarily on the development of diagnostic and risk-assessment tests for cervical disease both in the U.S. and low resource settings. He was a lead investigator for the recently completed ATHENA and CERTAIN studies that were used to obtain FDA clearance for HPV primary screening and the use of p16 when evaluating cervical biopsies, respectively. He has published over 250 articles and chapters on HPV and cervical disease. In addition to clinical research, Dr. Wright is in active clinical practice as a gynecological pathologist at Enzo Clinical Laboratories.