Dr Shadi Pirasteh completed the RCPA 5-year training program in anatomical pathology in WA rotating between Fiona Stanley Hospital, Royal Perth Hospital-Neuropathology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Western Diagnostic Pathology and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Obtaining Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in the discipline of Anatomical Pathology in August 2018, Dr Shadi Pirasteh went on to spend three months as a Visiting Fellow at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Dermatopathology and Soft tissue Pathology Service in Cleveland USA, under the supervision of Drs Steven Billings and John Goldblum. Dr Pirasteh joined WDP in March 2019.