Chien-Kuang Cornelia Ding, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of Pathology and Urology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Ding earned her doctor of medicine from National Yang Ming University, Taiwan, and her doctorate in Genetics and Genomics from Duke University, followed by anatomic pathology residency and surgical pathology fellowship at UCSF, and Uropathology fellowship with Dr. Jonathan I. Epstein. She signs out genitourinary (GU) pathology and studies prostate cancer and bladder cancer from various aspects including cancer genomics, molecular diagnostics, artificial intelligence in digital pathology, and health equity.

Dr. Ding has received multiple honors including the Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Research Award from the American Society of Cytopathology. As a passionate educator and mentor, Dr. Ding actively contributes to the education committee of Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS) and has mentored many residents and researchers as associate director of the GU pathology fellowship at UCSF. Outside of work, she is a mother and an avid choral singer.