Dr Kerry Crotty is both a pathologist and dermatologist. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and a Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists, one of few persons to hold both Fellowships in Australia. She is also a member of the International Academy of Pathology. She studied Medicine at the University of New South Wales and undertook her Pathology training at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney. She has previously been a Senior Lecturer in the University of Sydney Pathology Department, a Clinical Academic in the Department of Anatomical Pathology Department at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and a Dermatopathologist at the Skin and Cancer Foundation. She has a undertaken a Pathology Research Fellowship in the Dermatopathology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She undertook her Dermatology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Newcastle and John Hunter Hospitals, Westmead Hospital, the Childrens’ Hospital at Westmead, Skin and Cancer Foundation and St Vincent’s Hospital. She is a past President, and the current Secretary of the Australasian Dermatopathology Society and has been a Convenor for three of their Annual meetings. She has published widely in the field of skin pathology and the diagnosis of melanoma and other skin cancers. She is a co-author of “Dermoscopy: An Atlas” (Menzies, Crotty, Ingvar, McCarthy), the textbook widely used by both Australian and overseas doctors in the diagnosis of melanoma and other skin tumours. This text is now in its third edition. She has lectured both in Australia and overseas including as an invited speaker at the American Society of Dermatopathology Annual Meeting. She teaches registrars in dermatology and pathology.