Dr. Gordon is a professor of pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and works as a pathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees at SUNY at Stony Brook. He has been studying lung and vascular disease for over 45 years and is one of the world's experts in electron microscopy of biologic, human and diseased tissues. He is also an expert in the analysis of minerals and human tissues for identifying asbestos associated with human tissue diseases, such as mesotheliomas, lung tumors, fibrosis and ovarian cancers. Dr. Gordon has completed over 220 peer-reviewed publications and 15 book chapters on lung and vascular diseases.