Dr. Iva Johansson is a senior consultant pathologist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg. She obtained MD from Lund University in 2000, and completed her specialist training in pathology in 2009, and PhD from the University of Gothenburg, Institute of Clinical Sciences , with a focus on biomarker discovery in malignant melanoma. She has extensive experience in diagnostic pathology, with subspecialization in dermatopathology at academic hospitals in Sweden. She holds a Diploma in Dermatopathology from the International Society of Dermatopathology (ISDP), obtained in 2017. Her research interests include tumor pathology, biomarker discovery, molecular and digital pathology, with a particular focus on malignant melanoma and alopecia diagnostics. She is a member of the Swedish Society of Pathology, Hudkvast (the national dermatopathology expert group within the Swedish Society of Pathology), the National Guidelines for Malignant Melanoma group, the Steering Group of the Swedish National Melanoma Registry (SweMR), and the International Melanoma Pathology Study Group (IMPSG).