Dwight K. Oxley, MD

Dr Oxley received his MD degree from the University of Kansas and took his Anatomic Pathology residency at that institution; his Clinical Pathology residency was at the U.S. Naval Hospital, St Albans, New York. He took a fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is the Medical Director of Pathology at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas, a position which he has held since 1988. Prior to 1988 he was a community pathologist in Kansas City, Missouri (St Joseph Hospital) and, before that in Rancho Mirage, California (Eisenhower Medical Center).

Dr Oxley is a Trustee of the American Board of Pathology and served as President of the Board in 1999. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Board of Medical Specialties. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology, the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Clinica Chimica Acta. While practicing in Kansas City he was active in the teaching of the sophomore pathology course at the University of Kansas, and he has an appointment as a Clinical Professor of Pathology at that institution.

He is a community pathologist with a major interest in clinical pathology, particularly the clinical relevance of laboratory test results. He is a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. He is a member of the American Pathology Foundation, the American Association for the History of Medicine, the Kansas Society of Pathologists, the American Medical Association, the Kansas Medical Society, and the Medical Society of Sedgwick County.