Kiril Trpkov

Biography

Dr. Kiril Trpkov is a Professor of Pathology at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is an academic pathologist and a Genitourinary Pathology Group Leader at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cuming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is also a consultant for the Southern Alberta Institute of Urology and the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Anatomical Pathology) and he is certified with the American Board of Pathology.

Dr. Trpkov has established the Anatomical Pathology Laboratory at the Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary, Alberta as one of the largest centralized Uropathology Centres in Canada and North America. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters, and other scholarly contributions. Dr. Trpkov has given lectures, courses, slide seminars, and workshops in Uropathology on all continents. 

Dr. Trpkov has been involved with several national and international organizations, such as the United States Canadian Society of Pathology (USCAP), International Academy of Pathology (IAP), as well as several international expert panels and committees, including the World Health Organization (WHO), in establishing guidelines and practice standards in Uropathology. Most recently, he led an international genitourinary pathology expert group, assembled by the Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS), to provide an update on the novel and emerging renal entities, as well as on the existing renal entities. He was a founding member of the GUPS, established in 2018, as an international subspecialty organization that aims to advance the care of patients with urologic diseases by encouraging best practice, research, and education in urologic pathology. In 2019, he was elected the first President of the GUPS. GUPS currently has more than 600 members from over 60 countries.