Through a year and a half of pandemic hardships, the medical community has by and large risen to meet the moment. Below are 75 of the most outstanding and inspirational pathology and laboratory medicine professionals of 2021, according to The Pathologist.
They are divided into six categories: Behind the Scenes, In the Wings, Leading Roles, In the Spotlight, Showstoppers, and Front(line) and Center.
Behind the Scenes
- Michelle Campbell, senior developer, department of laboratory medicine and pathology, Mayo Clinic; adjunct instructor, division of clinical laboratory science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Linda Soledad Carrión Delgado, manager of Cyto Labs, Quito, Ecuador
- Brian Chow, senior pathologists’ assistant, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
- Ian Davies, healthcare science course leader, Staffordshire University, UK
- Lindsey B.C. Estetter, microbiologist contractor, CDC
- Sarah Garner, program director, Pathologists’ Assistant Program; director, gross anatomy, Tulane University, New Orleans
- Saghar Missagian-Cully, managing director, North West London Pathology
- Cory Nash, pathologists’ assistant, University of Chicago Medicine
- Aaron Odegard, medical technologist, infectious diagnostics lab, Baptist Health System, Jacksonville, Fla.; chair, ASCP Council of Lab Professionals
- Maria del Mar Olmo Fernández, senior technician and head of pathology lab, interventional cytotechnologist, Hospital Universitario del Henares, Madrid, Spain
- Dennis Strenk, pathologists’ assistant, Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories; creator and host, "People of Pathology" podcast
- Erica Price, pathologists’ assistant, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Ill.; deputy medical examiner, Kenosha County (Ill.) Medical Examiner’s Office; instructor in forensic pathology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago; forensic pathology module director, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans
In the Wings
- Amy Calovini, pathologists’ assistant, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
- Anthony B. Cardillo, resident physician, Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center
- Matthew Clarke, diagnostic neuropathology specialty registrar, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospital; chair of RCPath trainees’ advisory committee; deputy meetings secretary of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology; editor and ACP trainee communications officer, American College of Physicians
- John Paul Graff, assistant professor, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of California Davis Health
- Brooke Howitt, associate professor of pathology, Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine
- Pranav P. Patwardhan, resident physician, department of pathology, UPMC
- Kurt Schaberg, assistant professor, University of California Davis
- Nupur Sharma, PGY-4 resident, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.; author, Ace the Boards: Neoplastic Hematopathology
- Snehal Sonawane, staff pathologist, South Bend (Ind.) Medical Foundation; laboratory director, Logansport (Ind.) Memorial Hospital
- Sara E. Wobker, assistant professor, associate director of surgical pathology, and director of genitourinary pathology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; author, Atlas of Genitourinary Pathology: A Pattern-Based Approach
- M. Lisa Zhang, graduate assistant in gastrointestinal pathology and clinical fellow in cytopathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; co-author, Atlas of Cytopathology: A Pattern-Based Approach; co-author, The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology, 2nd edition; co-author, WHO/IARC-IAC International System for Reporting Pancreaticobiliary Cytopathology
- Christina Zioga, consultant cytopathologist, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Leading Roles
- Bharti Bhusnurmath, co-chair and professor of pathology, St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada
- Shivayogi Bhusnurmath, co-chair, department of pathology and dean of academic affairs, St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada
- Jerad Gardner, dermatopathologist, section head of bone/soft tissue pathology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pa.
- Lara R. Harik, assistant professor of pathology, director of genitourinary rotation, co-director of the Partnership of Emory and Africa for Cancer and Education at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta
- Elaine Jaffe, head of hematopathology section, National Cancer Institute
- Michael Laposata, professor and chair of pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
- Sanam Loghavi, assistant professor of hematopathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Austin
- Anne Mills, associate professor of pathology, University of Virginia
- Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, director of pulmonary pathology, Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic
- Michael F. Murphy, professor of blood transfusion medicine, University of Oxford; consultant haematologist, National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Dana Powell Baker, assistant professor of clinical laboratory sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City
- Constance M. Thorpe, associate professor, Saint Louis (Kan.) University; director of professional development, American Association of Pathologists’ Assistants
In the Spotlight
- Christina Arnold, associate professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center; host, "Your Path in Focus" podcast
- Adam Booth, assistant professor of pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, Ill.
- Elaine Cloutman-Green, consultant clinical scientist in infection prevention and control/lead healthcare scientist, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
- Anthony Manuel De Souza, practice educator of healthcare sciences, Great Ormond Street Hospital; senior clinical lecturer at London South Bank University
- Carla L. Ellis, associate professor of pathology and director of wellness, diversity and inclusion, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, Ill.
- Caddie Laberiano Fernández, research investigator, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
- Patrick Godbey, CEO of Southeastern Pathology Associates; president, College of American Pathologists
- Marianne Hamel, forensic pathologist, Jersey Shore Forensics, Atlantic City, N.J.
- Cullen M. Lilley, MD/MA candidate at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
- Kamran Mirza, associate professor of pathology, medical education and applied health sciences, and vice-chair of education for the department of pathology and laboratory medicine, Loyola University Health System, Chicago
- Jeffrey L. Myers, A. James French Professor of Diagnostic Pathology, vice chair for clinical affairs and quality, and director of Michigan Medicine Laboratories
- Nicole D. Riddle, senior pathologist at Ruffolo, Hooper, and Associates; associate professor and associate residency program director, department of pathology and cell biology, University of South Florida Health, Tampa
Showstoppers
- Malak Abedalthagafi, molecular geneticist and pathologist scientist, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia
- Neil Anderson, consultant clinical biochemist and clinical director of clinical diagnostic services, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, UK
- Sarah Coupland, George Holt Chair of Pathology, University of Liverpool, UK; consultant histopathologist, Liverpool Clinical Laboratories; lead of the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Research Group
- Anthony J. Gill, professor of surgical pathology, University of Sydney, Australia; senior staff specialist, department of anatomical pathology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
- Ondřej Hes, professor of pathology, Charles University Hospital Plzeň, Prague, Czech Republic
- Ahmed Yakub Kalebi, independent consultant pathologist, Ahmed Kalebi Consultancy Limited; founder and former CEO of Lancet Group of Laboratories in East Africa
- Anant Madabhushi, professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
- Faisal Mahmood, assistant professor of pathology, Harvard Medical School
- Guy Orchard, consultant biomedical scientist, head of tissue sciences education and training, St. John’s Histopathology, Viapath Analytics, an NHS Partnership with Synlab, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London
- Aishwarya Ravindran, hematopathology fellow, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, N.Y.
- Rajendra Singh, professor of pathology and dermatology; director of dermatopathology; associate chair of digital pathology, Northwell Health, New York City
- Willie Stewart, consultant neuropathologist, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; honorary professor, University of Glasgow and University of Pennsylvania
Front(line) and Center
- Karissa Culbreath, medical director of infectious disease, TriCore Reference Laboratory, Albuquerque, N.M.
- Rex F. Famitangco, laboratory administrative director, Morrill County Community Hospital, Bridgeport, Neb.
- Valerie Fitzhugh, associate professor and interim chair, department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, New Brunswick
- Jack Hager, medical laboratory scientist and specialist in blood bank, San Antonio
- Syed T. Hoda, clinical associate professor and director of bone and soft tissue pathology, New York University Langone Health; director of surgical pathology, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital
- Sixto Leal, director of clinical microbiology, fungal reference laboratory; assistant professor of pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Rachael Liesman, director of clinical microbiology laboratory and director of molecular microbiology laboratory, University of Kansas Health System, Kansas City
- Jane Mills, head of pathology transformation, NHS England
- Catherine Moore, consultant clinical scientist, Wales Specialist Virology Centre, Public Health Wales Microbiology Cardiff
- Martin Myers, consultant clinical biochemist, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, UK
- Gary W. Procop, medical director, Molecular Microbiology, Mycology, Parasitology & Virology Laboratories; Belinda Yen-Lieberman, PhD & James M. Lieberman, MD endowed chair of clinical microbiology; vice chair of education, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute; program director, medical microbiology fellowship program; professor of pathology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
- Joshua S. Stallard, chief of the molecular diagnostics laboratory at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss.
- Nam Tran, associate clinical professor, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, UC Davis
- Karen Villar Zarra, pathologist with College of American Pathologists certification in ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration
- David Wells, CEO, Institute of Biomedical Science and former head of pathology, NHS England