Cord Langner, MD graduated from the University of Bonn, Germany and completed a pathology residency program at Klinikum Kassel, Germany. He has worked as a board-certified pathologist at the Medical University of Graz, Austria since 2000.

Dr Langner has published over 250 well-cited original peer-reviewed papers, with a Hirsch Index of 52 (ISI Web of Knowledge) and has presented some 400 invited lectures at both national and international meetings.

He has served as board member on the Austrian, German and European Societies of Pathology and chaired the Working Group of Digestive Disease of the European Society of Pathology (ESP). He is also currently the Director of the Advanced Training Center of Gastrointestinal Pathology of the ESP.

Dr Langner has served as Associate Editor for Virchows Archiv and Histopathology. Additionally, he is the founder of the European Network of Gastrointestinal Pathology (ENGIP) and the Pannonian Working Group of Pathology, which includes six European countries.