William Bradlyn Laskin, MD

After graduation from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1973, Dr. Laskin served two years on the destroyer, USS Corry (DD-817) as Gunnery Officer. He then earned his MD in 1979 from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia through the Navy Medical/Osteopathic Scholarship Program. Dr. Laskin completed his Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency at Bethesda Naval Hospital (now known as Walter Reed National Military Medical Center) and was board certified in 1984. His Navy Medical Corps career included clinical leadership positions at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the National Naval Medical Center, and Naval Hospital Japan, as well as faculty positions at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences from 1990-1996. After retiring from the military, he joined the pathology faculty at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago from 1996 to 2015, serving as director of the autopsy service 1997-2002, and as head of surgical pathology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital 2008-2012. Dr. Laskin joined the Pathology Department at Yale School of Medicine / YNHH in 2015 as an Associate Professor, directing the bone and soft tissue division from 2018-2024. He was appointed as Full Professor in 2022, directing the general surgical pathology Fellowship 2022-2024. He retired from full-time clinical practice in 2025 but has remained active in a consultative role as voluntary faculty as an expert in the field of bone and soft tissue pathology.