Arie Perry, MD is a Professor of Pathology and Neurological Surgery at the University of California in San Francisco, where he serves as the Director of Neuropathology and the Neuropathology Fellowship program.  He received his MD and residency training at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, followed by surgical pathology, neuropathology, and molecular cytogenetics research fellowships at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where he worked closely with his mentor, the late Dr. Bernd Scheithauer.  His interests have focused mostly on classification, grading, and molecular characterization of both adult and pediatric brain tumors.  He has authored over 650 publications and participated as an editor for the WHO 2016 and 2021 (5^th ed.) CNS tumor classification updates, as well as an author in 10 of the 5^th edition WHO blue books.  He has also previously served as a chief editor for Brain Pathology (official journal of the International Society of Neuropathology), the Practical Surgical Neuropathology textbook (2 editions), and Greenfield’s Neuropathology (2 editions).  Dr. Perry maintains an active consult service and is a frequently invited lecturer.  He also enjoys creative modes of teaching making use of his longstanding passion for music.  In this respect, he has been featured in several media stories for using "neuropathology songs" in medical education, including CD recordings and YouTube videos.