Harshwardhan Thaker, MBBS, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair, Digital and Integrative Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch

Harsh Thaker is Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX where he serves as Vice Chair for Digital & Integrative Pathology, and Director of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. He previously held leadership positions at other institutions, including the Mount Sinai Health System in New York. Under Dr. Thaker's  leadership the pathology department at UTMB was one of the earliest adopters of digital pathology, having implemented and validated digital for primary diagnosis in 2021, and totally digital sign-out of all surgical pathology cases by 2023. Dr. Thaker is board-certified in Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Informatics. He has a medical degree from India and a PhD in Biology from Yale University. A practicing surgical pathologist, he is waiting for the day when he is 'replaced' by AI so he can go on to pursue his many other interests.