Dr. He is currently a professor, section head and fellowship director of pediatric pathology, in the Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA with research interest in digital pathology, artificial intelligence, pediatric tumor markers, placental and perinatal pathology. Dr. He attended former Shanghai Medical University (now Fudan University Medical Center, Shanghai, China, 1988-1993), and finished his PhD training in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ, now Rutgers University, Graduate School of Biomedical Scince, Newark, NJ, USA; 2001). Dr. He finished his Anatomic & Clinical Pathology residency in the same department (2002-2006), Pediatric Pathology fellowship in SUNY Downstate Medical Center (2006-7), and Molecular & Genetic Pathology fellowship in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA (2007-8). Dr. He then joined in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University as an assistant professor and an attending physician in the Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. In 2016, Dr. He joined the Washington University in St. Louis in 2016 and became the Pathologist-in-chief, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and the Editor-in-chief, Fetal & Pediatric Pathology in 2024. Dr. He identified the EGFR Exon 19 insertion as a new family of EGFR mutation sensitive to tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) and has pioneered in the study of immune checkpoint markers in pediatric tumors. Dr. He received the Gilbert-Barness Award in 2015 from the Society for Pediatric Pathology (SPP) for his study of placental pathology in pregnancy complicated with maternal diabetes mellitus.
