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2021 FALL MEMBER
NEWSLETTER
Empowering Our Future for
Pathologists and Patients
FROM THE PRESIDENT
The past year and a half has taught us We’ll be looking back at all we’ve
a lot about ourselves and our medical accomplished during a special event at
specialty. We’ve hit some roadblocks CAP21 on September 27 in Chicago, and
along the way and had to adjust our I urge you to join us and help celebrate. If
expectations, but I know that we continue you’re not able to make it, don’t fret, we’ll
to learn and have a clearer sense of be sharing more news concerning the
purpose and drive to deliver the best 10th anniversary including a remarkable
Carey Z. August, MD, FCAP
care possible to our patients. short film you won’t want to miss.
For all of us at the CAP Foundation, it’s While reflection is important, the
not only a time to reflect on the pandemic CAP Foundation is also looking
bright. And by looking over this year’s
and what tomorrow may bring, but to also ahead to secure another 10 years of
CAP Foundation award and grant
look at our organization and what we’ve groundbreaking programs. To accomplish
recipients, I know the future of the
accomplished with the help of dedicated this mission, we’ve undertaken the
specialty is already shining.
supporters, volunteers, and pathologists. Empowering Our Future fundraising
campaign, which has already raised The specialty of tomorrow rests in the
This year, we celebrate 10 years of the
over $1.7 million of our initial $2 million hands of committed medical students
CAP Foundation’s See, Test & Treat®
minimum goal. and early-career pathologists. Be
program. Ten years of pathologist-led free
sure to check out all the honorees
cervical and breast cancer screening. Ten With these funds, the CAP Foundation
in this newsletter and congratulate
years and hundreds of pathologist and can continue to focus on its core
them when you have a chance! Who
clinician volunteers. Ten years and 107 mission elements to ensure that
knows, you could meet them in your
See, Test & Treat events. Ten years and quality diagnostic testing is available to
laboratory down the road.
nearly 7,000 women who received free everyone, and to create a pipeline of well-
community health care. trained pathologist leaders for the future. My sincere congratulations to all
the recipients of this year’s CAP
It took a lot to get here, as we all know: Please visit foundation.cap.org/2021-
Foundation awards and my thanks
from the first See, Test & Treat event 20 campaign to watch a quick video from
to the supporters of the Empowering
years ago led by the late Gene Herbek, our leaders, learn more about our future
Our Future campaign. Stay well;
MD, FCAP, to the CAP Foundation taking vision and goals, spread the word, and
I hope to see all of you soon.
the helm in 2011, to providing essential support our mission. With your help,
preventative care during the worst health I know we can surpass our goal! Sincerely,
crisis in a century with eight See, Test & Judging by the success of our campaign, Carey Z. August, MD, FCAP
Treat events in 2020 and up to 14 in 2021. the future of the CAP Foundation is President, CAP Foundation
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2021 Global Pathology Education Award Winners
In an effort to improve global health by increasing the exchange of information and the science of pathology,
the CAP Foundation developed the Global Pathology Education Award to support attendance at CAP21 for
international pathologists practicing in medically under-resourced areas around the globe.
Ruth Abera Alemayehu, Sahar Ali Mohamed Mesfin Asefa Tola, MD Teresa Cherop Lotodo, Juan Pablo de Leon Fajardo,
MD Rozza, MD St Paul’s Hospital MBCHB MD
St. Peter’s Specialized Al Galaa Teaching Millennium Medical Moi University, Moi Roosevelt Hospital
Hospital Hospital College Teaching and Referral Guatemala
Ethiopia Egypt Ethiopia Hospital and AMPATH
Kenya
Helen Mary Robert, Caroline Ngimba, MD Truong Nguyen Phan Nisha Sharma, MD Manisha Shrestha, MD
MBBS Muhimbili National Xuan, MD Maharajgunj Medical Patan Academy of Health
College of Physicians & Hospital Cho Ray Hospital Campus, Institute of Sciences
Surgeons Pakistan Tanzania Viet Nam Medicine, Tribhuwan Nepal
Pakistan University Teaching
Hospital
Nepal
Empowering Our Future
The Empowering Our Future campaign is the most significant
fundraising effort in the Foundation’s history and will position the
CAP Foundation to better support people’s health and guide the
pathology profession into the future. To achieve this vision, the
campaign focuses on:
• Pursuing opportunities within three areas of focus – Humanitarian
Programs, Leadership Development, and Global Outreach
• Highlighting the important role of pathologists in health care
• Enabling the CAP Foundation to support people’s health and guide the
pathology profession into the future
Learn more and show your support: foundation.cap.org/2021-campaign
Bharati S. Jhaveri, MD, FCAP, chair of the Empowering
Our Future campaign, explains objectives and impact in a
special video, which can be found on the campaign web page.
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Global Pathology Award Expands Impact in 2021,
Winner Shares His Experience
free of charge to do his part in helping up-to-date education, professional
those without immediate access to resources, and more from the
care as hospitals filled and health specialty’s foremost experts. Dr.
care resources ran low—a practice he Alam said he especially appreciates
continues now. the many CME opportunities,
When he’s not volunteering to frequent webinars, and the latest
advise patients on COVID-19, he still news and cases from his CAP TODAY
maintains his duties as a pathologist subscription.
and professor, helping to pass on
his knowledge of diagnostic and
laboratory medicine to the next
“Thanks to the
generation of doctors in Nepal. Foundation’s donors,
Doctors who, he hopes, will help
prevent the next pandemic or health
and especially Gerald
care crisis. R. Hanson, MD, FCAP,
Fahad Alam, MD, IFCAP, winner of the 2020 As one of three winners of the CAP who founded the Global
Global Pathology Education Award. Foundation’s Global Pathology
Education Award in 2020, Dr. Alam Pathology Fund, we’re
As the US experienced a time of short- said he has a new cache of resources able to expand our
lived reprieve from the pandemic from which to draw for his teaching
in the spring of 2021, patients and and practice. Last year’s inaugural reach and support to
doctors in many countries faced award provided free attendance to pathologists all over
devastating waves of COVID-19 cases. CAP20 Virtual and the opportunity to
Fahad Alam, MD, IFCAP, stepped apply for a complimentary one-year the world.”
outside of his role as a lecturer in the CAP International Fellow membership,
pathology department at the National which Dr. Alam opted to do.
Medical College in Nepal to conduct “The knowledge that I gained from Gail Vance, MD, FCAP, chair of the
telemedicine consultations for CAP20 made me a better pathologist,” Global Pathology Committee, weighed
patients in quarantine or isolation. Dr. Alam said. “I use that knowledge in. “Thanks to the Foundation’s
“This wave of COVID-19 resulted and implement it in day-to-day donors, and especially Gerald R.
in tremendous loss of lives and reporting and academic activities.” Hanson, MD, FCAP, who founded the
destroyed many families,” Dr. Alam Being an International Fellow provides Global Pathology Fund, we’re able
said. He began offering his services year-round access to the most to expand our reach and support to
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pathologists all over the world,” Foundation recruited the help of “In 2020, we were able to quickly
Dr. Vance said. various organizations like Pathologists create a new program and provide
She continued, “We’re just beginning Overseas and Partners In Health, three awards,” Dr. Vance said. “ But
our efforts outside the US, but as well as the CAP’s international to be able to so quickly spread the
providing these resources to marketing representatives and word and provide these one-of-a-
pathologists everywhere helps pathology influencers with kind educational opportunities to
patients everywhere. That’s something a global reach. 10 pathologists in eight different
to get excited about.” While the CAP Foundation can countries is another big win for
currently bestow 10 Global pathology and the Foundation.”
Dr. Vance and the CAP Foundation
aren’t the only ones excited. The Global Pathology awards, the enthusiasm For a full list of the Global Pathology
Pathology Education Award continues from applicants, other physician Education Award winners, please see
for 2021 and received nearly 30 organizations, and past awardees is page 2 of this newsletter.
applications representing pathologists a sure sign the award is making an
from 11 countries. impact and fuels hopes to expand
the award in the future, according
To promote the new award to to Dr. Vance.
its intended audience, the CAP
2021 Foundation Award Winners
The CAP Foundation is proud to acknowledge the contributions of an outstanding group of award recipients
for their work in advancing pathology and promoting our shared values.
Gene and Jean Herbek Maria Cristina Magallanes Hoyos, MD Huihua Li, MD, PhD
Humanitarian Award Oregon Health and Science University University of Wisconsin Hospital
Laura P. Jimenez-Quintero, MD, FCAP Portland, OR and Clinics
Precise Pathology Associates, PLLC Andrii Puzyrenko, MD, PhD Madison, WI
The Woodlands, TX Medical College of Wisconsin Matthew Luo, MD
See, Test & Treat Outstanding Milwaukee, WI University of Utah Department
Partner Award Aayushma Regmi, MBBS of Pathology
Judy Huie-Kennedy Loyola University Medical Center Salt Lake City, UT
Montefiore Medical Center Maywood, IL Translational Diagnostics Advanced
Bronx, NY Training Grant
Jayalakshmi Venkateswaran, MD
Leadership Development Award Danbury Hospital Rebecca Rojansky, MD
Evi Abada, MD Danbury, CT Stanford University Hospital
Wayne State University/Detroit Stanford, CA
Medical Center Informatics Award
Kelly Olson, MD
Detroit, MI Alaaeddin Alrohaibani, MD
University of Wisconsin Hospitals
Oregon Health and Science University
Adesola Akinyemi, MD, MPH and Clinics
Portland, OR
University of Chicago/NorthShore Madison, WI
University HealthSystem Lin He, MD, PhD
Evanston, IL University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center
Kanika Arora, MD Dallas, TX
Henry Ford Health System
Detroit, MI Ashley Hein, MD
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Amanda Herrmann, MD, PhD Omaha, NE
McGovern Medical School at the For more information and photos
University of Texas Clarissa Jordan, MD of all 2021 awardees, visit:
Houston, TX Mayo Clinic https://foundation.cap.org/our-
Rochester, MN impact/2021-award-winners/
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2021 Foundation Award Winners
Medical Student Travel Award
The Medical Student Travel Award is intended to encourage and support medical students showing a strong
interest in the specialty of pathology as a career choice by providing funding to attend the CAP annual meeting
where awardees will gain valuable insight and critical knowledge from experts regarding the field of pathology
and its career pathways.
Andrew Biesemier Anna Bouck Christopher Dilli Shivam Kaushik Margarita Loxas
University of Mississippi Geisel School of Saint Louis University Rowan University Creighton University
Medical Center Medicine at Dartmouth St. Louis, MO School of School of Medicine
Jackson, MS Hanover, NH Osteopathic Medicine Omaha, NE
Stratford, NJ
Joseph Maniaci Lauren Miller Damien Roland Cooper Schwartz Brandon Taylor
University of Virginia Medical College of University of Mississippi Alpert Medical Baylor College of Medicine
School of Medicine Wisconsin Medical Center School at Brown Houston, TX
Charlottesville, VA Milwaukee, WI Jackson, MS University
Providence, RI
Rippey Grant
The CAP Foundation repositioned
the John H. Rippey Grant for
Expedited Research to help
investigate and support
laboratory issues related
to COVID-19.
Harsimar Kaur, MBBS Di Tian, MD, PhD, FCAP
Johns Hopkins Tulane University
University School School of Medicine
of Medicine New Orleans, LA
Baltimore, MD
Three Ways to Help the CAP Foundation Help Pathologists
• Serve as a grant reviewer
• Mentor a pathology resident
• Apply for a CAP Foundation grant or award
Learn more at foundation.cap.org or contact Julia Rankenburg, at jranken@cap.org or 1-847-832-7931.
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