Dr. Bishop is Associate Professor of Pathology and Director of Surgical Pathology and Head and Neck Pathology at UT Southwestern. A native Texan, Dr. Bishop grew up in Arlington, TX and received his undergraduate and medical degrees at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He went on to complete his pathology residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Bishop stayed on as faculty at Johns Hopkins , where he reached the rank of associate professor and was the Director of the Immunohistochemistry laboratory and associate director of the head and neck pathology consult practice.

Dr. Bishop is an expert in the surgical pathology diagnosis of head and neck and endocrine diseases. He has published more than 200 journal articles, 20 book chapters, and 5 books, and lectured extensively both nationally and internationally. Dr. Bishop contributed 15 chapters to the most recent WHO Classification of Head and Neck Tumors, and will be the lead author of the upcoming AFIP Fascicle of Salivary Gland Tumors. He is an associate editor for Histopathology and JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and a member of the editorial boards of American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Human Pathology, International Journal of Surgical Pathology, Oral Oncology, and Annals of Otology and Rhinology, & Laryngology.