Dr. Banks grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard Medical School. He completed internship training at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Banks completed residency training in pathology at the National Institutes of Health, Duke University and the University of Minnesota. Following this training, he joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic. In 1989, Dr. Banks became Professor of Pathology and Director of anatomic pathology and hematopathology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Banks has served as Clinical Professor of Pathology at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1996 and maintains a busy consultative practice for Carolinas Pathology Group and Celligent Diagnostics. A founding member of the Society for Hematopathology, the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology, and the International Lymphoma Study Group, Dr. Banks also serves on the Education Course committee of the American Society of Clinical Pathology. He is a member of the Council of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology and is the Associate Editor of Modern Pathology. He is a frequent speaker at CME events, including the annual George Washington University Board Review course for Hematology/Oncology and is director of a new ASCP course entitled "Contemporary Hematolymphoid Diagnosis." Dr. Banks maintains a website dedicated to hematopathology: www.drpeterbanks.com