Dr. Markku Miettinen is chairman of Soft Tissue and Orthopedic Pathology in AFIP since 1996. From 1988-1996 he was with Jefferson Medical College Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, as an attending pathologist and a professor of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology. He is originally from Helsinki, Finland where he also got his medical degree and completed his residency in pathology, and also served as an attending pathologist until 1988. He has approximately 300 scientific publications, over 30 on GISTs. He has published a book “Diagnostic Soft Tissue Pathology” in 2003.
