Olca Basturk

Olca Basturk, MD, is a world-renowned pathologist in the field of pancreas and biliary tract pathology. She currently serves as an attending pathologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY as well as Chair of the Tissue Utilization Committee, David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research in New York, NY. Dr. Basturk earned her MD from the Ege University School of Medicine in Izmir, Turkey. She then completed two pathology residencies (one in anatomic pathology at Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey and another in anatomic and clinical pathology at New York University, New York, NY). Dr. Basturk also completed two clinical fellowships (oncologic surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY and gastrointestinal pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell University, New York, NY). Dr. Basturk joined the faculty of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Medical College, Cornell University in 2012. Since then, she has conducted numerous scientific studies on pancreas, gallbladder and biliary cancers and published more than 160 Pubmed-indexed manuscripts as well as more than 45 book chapters, including chapters in the WHO Classification of Tumours Books. She is on the editorial boards of leading pathology journals, including the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine as a section editor for Gastrointestinal Pathology and Modern Pathology. Each year she gives multiple presentations at national and international congress, courses and meetings. Dr. Basturk is also a founding member of Pancreatobiliary Pathology Society and served as the Chair of the Society’s Education Committee and the Vice President. She is currently the President of the Society.