Committees
Executive Committee
Acts for the Board and may exercise the authority, powers and rights of the Board in the interim between regular and special Board meetings, except for amendment of Bylaws, filling of vacancies in any office, regulation of compensation of any officer, or hiring/firing the EVP.
John A. Hart, MD
President
University of Chicago
Dr. Hart did his pathology residency at UCLA Medical Center, followed by a Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology fellowship at the same institution. In 1991 he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Department of Pathology as an assistant professor and rose to the rank of full professor in 2004. In 1998 he started a fellowship program in Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology and has served as the director of the program since that time. The fellowship has graduated more than a dozen GI pathologists who are now working in academic pathology departments throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Hart has published more than 180 articles in the fields of gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology and has also authored numerous book chapters. He has lectured throughout the United States and in Europe, South America and Asia. He has been the director of a liver pathology course for the past 13 years and has participated in numerous additional educational courses in GI and hepatic pathology.
Dr. Hart has attended the USCAP annual meeting for the past 25+ years. He has been an abstract reviewer, platform session moderator, companion society and evening specialty session speaker and moderator, a member of the education committees of the USCAP and of the Rodger Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. He has also been a primary speaker at USCAP’s Diagnostic Pathology Update and Tutorials on Pathology of the GI Tract, Pancreas and Liver. He now serves as President of USCAP.
Adeboye O. Osunkoya, MD
President Elect
Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Osunkoya is a Professor of Pathology and Urology at Emory University School of Medicine, where he directs the Urologic Pathology Service and the Surgical Pathology Fellowship Program. He is also a Staff Pathologist at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is originally from Nigeria and graduated from the College of Medicine University of Ibadan in 1998. Following his Internship, National Service year and two years of Pathology training in Nigeria, he emigrated to the United States and did his Pathology Residency training at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center where he served as Chief Resident from 2004-2006. He then proceeded to The Johns Hopkins Hospital for his Urologic Pathology Fellowship. He joined the distinguished Faculty of the Department of Pathology at Emory University in 2007 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Professor of Pathology and Urology in 2016.
Dr. Osunkoya has served in several leadership roles in National and International organizations and is currently Chair of the Prize and Award Committee of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society and also served as a Member-At-Large, Board of Trustees. He previously served as an elected member of the Board of Directors of USCAP (2017-2020), Director of Urologic Pathology at the USCAP Interactive Microscopy Center (2018-2020), Chair of the Excellence in Urological Pathology Resident/Fellow Research Award Committee of the International Society of Urological Pathology (2013-2018), Chair of the Stephen Vogel Award Committee of USCAP (2014-2016), Member of the Education Committee of USCAP (2012-2016), Member of the Stowell-Orbison Award Committee, Member of the Abstract Review Committee, and USCAP Ambassador. He serves on the Editorial Board of well-known Journals. He has presented several lectures, conferences, and seminars in the United States and abroad, including the European Congress of Pathology/European Society of Pathology, International Academy of Pathology, and Asia Pacific International Academy of Pathology meetings. In addition, he has directed and presented at several Interactive Microscopy Courses in Palm Springs and has directed Short Courses and Interactive Microscopy Courses at the USCAP annual meetings. He has also been an invited speaker at the USCAP Long Course and Practical Pathology Seminars. Dr. Osunkoya has been involved in several major research grants over the years, and has published over 180 manuscripts, 20 book chapters, and has won numerous awards including the very prestigious Benjamin Castleman Award (2010) and the highly coveted Arthur Purdy Stout Prize (2015). He is currently President-Elect of the USCAP and Member of the Executive Committee.
On a personal note, Dr. Osunkoya is very happily married to his Medical School sweetheart Ojoru Osunkoya, MD (Pediatrician) and they are blessed with two wonderful children, Siji (Son) and Seyi (Daughter). He considers them to be his greatest achievement in life.
Steven D. Billings, MD
Vice President
Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine
Dr. Billings completed his pathology residency at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Following residency, he completed fellowships in soft tissue pathology with Dr. Sharon Weiss at Emory University and dermatopathology with Dr. Antoinette Hood at Indiana University. Upon completion of his post-graduate studies, he joined the faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine, where he practiced for several years. In 2007 he joined the faculty at the Cleveland Clinic where he serves as a Professor of Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and as co-director of the dermatopathology section. He also staffs the soft tissue pathology service.
His research interests are in dermatopathology and soft tissue pathology, with a special emphasis on cutaneous soft tissue tumors. He has authored over 180 articles, 81 book chapters, and co-authored/edited 7 books.
He has a strong interest in education and gives numerous invited lectures and CME courses. He is on the editorial board of several journals, a peer reviewer for many more, and served on the Consensus Committee for the WHO Classification of Skin Tumours.
For USCAP, he has given numerous lectures, served on the Education Committee, the Board of Directors, and is currently on the Executive Committee as Treasurer. He was also instrumental in developing Interactive Microscopy at the Annual Meeting as well as the Palm Springs Interactive Center in his role as the first Chair of Interactive Microscopy for the Academy. For these and other achievements, he was awarded the 2021 F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award.
Laura W. Lamps, MD
Past President
University of Michigan
Dr. Lamps is the Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor and Director of Gastrointestinal Pathology at the University of Michigan, where she has been on the faculty since 2017. Dr. Lamps, originally from Auburn, Alabama, received her BS degree from Davidson College, followed by her MD from Vanderbilt University in 1992. She also completed her residency and surgical pathology fellowship training at Vanderbilt. She joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in 1998, where she held a number of positions including Director of Surgical Pathology, Director of Anatomic Pathology, Director of Clinical Laboratories, and Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs. Dr. Lamps is a renowned academic pathologist and educator, and a leader in the fields of gastrointestinal, hepatic, and infectious disease pathology. She has been invited as a visiting professor or course faculty at over 60 institutions throughout the country and the world. She has authored numerous papers and abstracts, particularly in her primary area of interest, the study of infectious diseases of the liver and GI tract. She is the co-author or author of several major pathology textbooks including Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections; Diagnostic Pathology: Normal Histology; and Diagnostic Pathology: GI Endoscopic Correlation. She has also contributed numerous book chapters to texts including Odze and Goldblum’s Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas, which is regarded as the most widely used GI textbook in the world. She is also one of four editors of the most recent edition of Rosai and Ackerman’s Surgical Pathology. Dr. Lamps has served USCAP in many capacities. She has been a member of the Vogel Award Committee, the Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award Committee, and was co-chair of the Residency Advisory SubCommittee. She was a member of the USCAP Council (now Board) from 2009-2012, and most recently served as the chair of the Education Committee. During her tenure as chair of the Education Committee, she worked on several important initiatives including an overhaul of the evaluation system and creation of a procedure manual that documents all of the policies and procedures of the committee. She is recipient of the 2017 President’s Award and the 2019 F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Lamps lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband, Paul Ward, and their corgi, June. She is active in animal welfare efforts, and served on the board and as the past President of the Central Arkansas Rescue Effort for Animals. She is an avid knitter, cook, and substitute yoga instructor.
Marisa R. Nucci, MD
Secretary
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Nucci is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, Vice Chair and Director of the Division Women’s and Perinatal Pathology, and Associate Director of the Pathology Residency Training Program in the Department of Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, USA. She also serves as a Consultant Pathologist for the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center where she is an Associate Member of the Gynecologic Cancer and Sarcoma Programs. Dr. Nucci was born in Newark, NJ. She did her undergraduate training at Haverford College and medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, and completed an AP residency as well as the Women’s and Perinatal Pathology Fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has been on staff at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital since 1996. She is past president of the New England Society of Pathologists and serves on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology, Human Pathology, and Advances in Anatomic Pathology. She is an active member of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, where she served on the Education Committee (2011-2017), was Chair of the Subcommittee for Unique Live Course Offerings (2012-2017) and is a member of the Board of Directors (2016-). She is also Past-President of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society. She is the co-editor of three widely read major gynecologic pathology textbooks: Diagnostic Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology edited by Drs. Crum, Nucci and Lee; Gynecologic Pathology. A Volume in the Series Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology edited by Drs. Nucci and Oliva; and Diagnostic Pathology Gynecological edited by Drs. Nucci and Oliva.
Ilan Weinreb, MD, FRCPC
Treasurer
University Health Network, Toronto
Dr. Weinreb graduated from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine in 2001 and after a short stint in General Surgery residency made a switch to Pathology where he graduated in 2006. After a head and neck fellowship in Toronto he began his academic position in 2007 at the University Health Network. He works in an exclusive head and neck subspecialty service, is the director of the head and neck Pathology fellowship program and the director of surgical pathology. He is the current lead author for head and neck pathology at the cancer committee for the College of American Pathologists. Dr. Weinreb has presented at numerous national and international meetings both as an invited speaker and in short courses in the College of American Pathologists, Canadian Association of Pathologists and the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). This includes multiple companion meeting presentations at USCAP, platform presentations, and stand-alone USCAP courses, including Practical Pathology Seminars, Diagnostic Pathology Update and Interactive Microscopy courses at the Interactive Center in Palm Springs. He has been involved in numerous USCAP committees including the Education Committee (EC) and the subcommittee for unique live course offerings (SULCO). He is currently in his second stint on the EC and is the current chair of the SULCO committee. He is a member of the USCAP Canada Foundation as well. He has published over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts, multiple book chapters and is an author in the WHO classification of head and neck tumors and the American Registry of Pathology’s upcoming salivary gland fascicle, fifth series. His research is focused on head and neck mucosal disease, sinonasal neoplasms, and in particular salivary gland pathology. In the salivary gland he has contributed to the discovery of numerous tumor specific translocations and mutations and has a specific interest in salivary gland tumor classification.
Board of Directors
Zubair Baloch, MD, PhD (2025)
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Dr. Baloch received his medical degree from Liaquat Medical University in Hyderabad, Sind, Pakistan. After receiving his PhD in 1991 he joined the pathology residency at Hahnemann University Hospital. This was followed by fellowships in surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and cytopathology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia under the mentorship of late Dr. Prabodh K. Gupta. Dr. Baloch is currently a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine there. He has authored more than 200 peer reviewed publications in leading pathology journals on the subjects of endocrine and head and neck pathology, as well as book chapters and monographs. Dr. Baloch has delivered numerous lectures, workshops, and short courses at national and international meetings including USCAP, ASC, ASCP, CAP, ECC and IAP. He has co-authored 3 books and has served as co-editor of the most recent “Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology”. Dr. Baloch has also served as the chair of the terminology and morphologic criteria committee of the 2007 NCI sponsored thyroid FNA initiative which led to the development of “Bethesda Thyroid FNA Classification Scheme”. Dr. Baloch also served on the international panel which recommended the renaming of encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma to non-invasive follicular tumor with papillary like nuclear features (NIFTP). Dr. Baloch is Editor-in-Chief of Diagnostic Cytopathology and member of the editorial board of Cancer Cytopathology, Cytojournal, Endocrine Pathology and Journal of American Society of Cytopathology. He has served on USCAP’s Education Committee, as chair of ASCP’s annual meeting program committee (2014-2018), a member of Papanicolaou Society’s scientific program committee, ASC’s Executive Board, as chair of ASC’s scientific program committee, and ASCP’s committee for continuing professional development. He has served on the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology’s thyroid nodule guideline task force, American Thyroid Association’s laboratory test committee and well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma management guidelines committee and currently is one of the editors of the WHO Classification of Tumors of Neuroendocrine Organs. Dr. Baloch has received many awards from University of Pennsylvania, Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology, Philadelphia Pathology Society, and American Society for Clinical Pathology.
Edi Brogi, MD, PhD (2023)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Edi Brogi is an Attending Pathologist and the Director of Breast Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She is also Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City. Dr. Brogi is a graduate of the University of Florence Medical School, in Florence, Italy and holds a Ph.D. degree by the Italian Ministry of Research. She trained in Anatomic Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she also served as Chief Resident/ Graduate Assistant and completed a Cytopathology fellowship. In July 2000 she joined the staff of the Department of Pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and has been practicing there since.
Dr. Brogi’s professional and research activities focus on the diagnosis, study and treatment of breast diseases. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed and review articles on breast diseases and their clinical implications. Her expertise in breast pathology is recognized worldwide and she is invited to lecture on related topics nationally and internationally.
Dr. Brogi was an Officer of the International Society of Breast Pathology (ISBP) (2012-16) and the ISBP President in 2017-19. She is an Associate Editor of Rosen’s Breast Pathology textbook, 4th ed. (2014) and upcoming 5th ed., and Rosen’s Breast Pathology – Diagnosis by needle core biopsy textbook, 4th ed. (2017). She is an expert board member of the WHO Book on the Classification of Breast Tumors (5th ed.)
Throughout her career Dr. Brogi has been actively involved in education and teaching. She has trained over 40 breast pathology fellows and mentored junior breast pathologists. She is a Mentor of the USCAP Mentorship Academy since its inception (2017-present).
Dr. Brogi joined the USCAP in 1994 and has been an active supporter since. She was a member of the USCAP Education Committee (2012-16) and has taught USCAP short courses and interactive microscopy sessions. She is Co-Director of the Long Course in Breast Pathology scheduled at the USCAP annual meeting in March 2020.
Ashley Cimino-Mathews, MD (2023)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Cimino-Mathews received her Bachelor of Science from Emory University, where she studied breast cancer tumor vaccine development, followed by her Medical Degree from Weill Cornell Medical College. She completed her residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she subspecialized in surgical and breast pathology. She is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology and Oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of the Breast Pathology Program, and Director of the Breast Pathology Consultation Service. Dr. Cimino-Mathews served as a member of the USCAP Education Committee and course director of the USCAP special course, Tumor Immunology: Implications for Diagnostic Pathology and Therapeutics. She is also an active educator and teaching award recipient, with yearly teaching at several levels within the Department of Pathology and School of Medicine, and she was named one of the, “Top 40 Under Forty,” by the American Society of Clinical Pathology in 2017. Dr. Cimino-Mathews has published more than 75 articles in the fields of surgical pathology, diagnostic breast pathology, and the tumor immune microenvironment; co-authored two books on diagnostic pathology; and authored multiple book chapters related to breast pathology. She is an ad hoc reviewer for over ten journals and is on the editorial board of Modern Pathology.
Meera A. Hameed, MD (2025)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Dr. Hameed is Chief of Surgical Pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and Professor of Pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Training included Medical School (Madras University), Residency (Hahnemann University) and Fellowship in oncologic surgical pathology (MSKCC). Her academic career began at Montefiore/Albert-Einstein to Rutgers-NJMS, prior to MSKCC. She is also a molecular pathologist with leadership positions in this field at both Rutgers-NJMS and MSKCC (Program Director). As Chief of Surgical Pathology, Dr. Hameed’s vision is to incorporate the use of digital technology into diagnostic pathology. She is actively involved in the digitization, integration of workflow and consultative access, and the use of digital platforms for interfacing with other disciplines. She is also Co-Director of the Warren Alpert Center for Digital and Computational Pathology with over 4 million scanned images, has developed an infrastructure for deep learning and computational pathology at MSKCC. The Center also is paving the way towards utilizing new imaging modalities. Dr. Hameed is known for her expertise in bone and soft tissue pathology and has presented at national and international conferences. She served as a member of the Education Committee and Nominating Committees of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and the Meritorious Award Committee of the American Society of Investigative Pathology. She is the Treasurer of the International Society of Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology. She is a member of the International Skeletal Society and has served as Executive Council Member of that society. She serves on the Molecular Oncology Committee of the College of American Pathologists and has served on the Clinical Practice Committee of the Association of Molecular Pathology. She has authored over 160 publications as well as many book chapters and review articles. She has Co-Directed several short courses for USCAP. She serves as an Associate Editor of American Journal of Pathology and is an Editorial Board Member of Modern Pathology. In all these roles, she has focused on the continuing evolution of pathology in the age of personalized medicine. Her expertise in multiple aspects of modern pathology provides her with a unique perspective.
Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD (2024)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Dr. Hornick received a BA from Amherst College and an MD/PhD from the University of Southern California. He trained as a resident in Anatomic Pathology and pursued subspecialty fellowships in soft tissue pathology and gastrointestinal pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is the Director of Surgical Pathology and Immunohistochemistry. Dr. Hornick is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a consultant at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the 5th series of the AFIP fascicles. Dr. Hornick previously chaired the USCAP Education Committee, the USCAP Abstract Review Board and Assignment Committee, and the CAP Immunohistochemistry Committee and is currently on the USCAP Board of Directors. He has served on the USCAP Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award Committee and the Harvey Goldman Teaching Award Committee. Dr. Hornick has also served as Co-Director of the Diagnostic Pathology Update course; Coordinator for Soft Tissue Pathology Interactive Microscopy courses; and Moderator of the Bone and Soft Tissue Specialty Conference, the Surgical Pathology Specialty Conference, and Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology and Gastrointestinal Pathology platform sessions for the USCAP.
Dr. Hornick was a member of the expert editorial board for the 4th (2013) and 5th (2020) editions of the WHO Classification of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone. He serves on the Anatomic Pathology Test Development and Advisory Committee for the American Board of Pathology. Dr. Hornick was a member of the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Expert Panel for the AJCC and the Sarcoma Analysis Working Group for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). He is President-Elect of the Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists.
Dr. Hornick serves on 14 editorial boards, including the American Journal of Surgical Pathology and Modern Pathology. He is an Associate Editor for Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, a Regional Editor for Histopathology, an Associate Editor for Advances in Anatomic Pathology and Virchows Archives, and the Consulting Editor for Surgical Pathology Clinics.
Dr. Hornick has published over 500 original papers, review articles, and book chapters and edits the textbook Practical Soft Tissue Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach, which is in its 2nd edition. He received the 2012 Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists Annual Prize and the 2014 Jack Yardley Investigator Award from the Gastrointestinal Pathology Society. Dr. Hornick sings and plays keyboards for a rock band.
Teri A. Longacre, MD (2024)
Stanford University
Dr. Longacre received a BA from St. John’s College, a BS from the University of New Mexico, and an MD from the University of New Mexico. She trained as a resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of New Mexico and pursued subspecialty fellowships in hematopathology, gastrointestinal pathology and general surgical pathology at Stanford Medicine, where she is now Director of Gynecologic Pathology and Gastrointestinal Pathology. She is the Richard L. Kempson Endowed Professor of Surgical Pathology at Stanford and directs the Gynecologic Pathology and Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship programs.
Dr. Longacre was a member of the 2013 and 2019 consensus and editorial working group for the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Female Genital Tract. She is a former President of the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology and served on the Test Development and Advisory Committee for Anatomic Pathology for the American Board of Pathology for over 10 years.
Dr. Longacre has established a clinical research program that is focused on gynecologic and gastrointestinal pathology with an emphasis on diagnosis and screening of hereditary gynecologic and gastrointestinal cancer syndromes. She has published extensively in national and international journals and has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters in gynecologic and gastrointestinal pathology. She co-authored a textbook on the Uterine Corpus and Cervix. She serves on many editorial boards, including the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, and International Journal of Gynecologic Pathology. She is the Editor for Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology. She has extensive national and international teaching experience in gynecologic and gastrointestinal pathology and currently coordinates the Annual Dr. Richard L. Kempson Diagnostic Pathology Course for Scientific Symposiums International. She and her husband, a private practice pathologist, have three grown children and three grandchildren, who never fail to surprise and fascinate.
Anil Parwani, MD, PhD, MBA (2023)
The Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center
Dr. Parwani is a Professor of Pathology and Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University. He also serves as the Vice Chair of Anatomical Pathology and Director of Division of Pathology Informatics and Digital Pathology. Dr. Parwani completed his residency and fellowship training in Urological Pathology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Parwani is a world leader in digital pathology, artificial intelligence and pathology informatics and has led the way in the implementation of these technologies in several key clinical areas including the implementation of these technologies at the first hospital in the United States. Dr. Parwani also has expertise in the area of Anatomical Pathology Informatics including designing quality assurance tools, bio banking informatics, clinical and research data integration, applications of whole slide imaging, digital imaging, telepathology, image analysis, artificial intelligence and lab automation. He has expertise in prostate and bladder cancer and has trained several fellows in urological pathology. Dr. Parwani has authored over 300 peer-reviewed articles in major scientific journals and several books and book chapters. He is on the editorial board of several informatics and surgical pathology journals and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Diagnostic Pathology and as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pathology Informatics.
Dr. Parwani has served on many national and international professional societies including USCAP, Digital Pathology Association, ISUP, GUPS, Association of Pathology Informatics and Digital Pathology Committee of the CAP. He also serves as part of the test committee for the American Board of Pathology. He is passionate about teaching and has trained several medical students, urology and pathology residents and fellows over the last 20 years in the areas of surgical pathology, pathology informatics and urological pathology. He has won numerous teaching awards and service awards during his career. For USCAP, Dr. Parwani has been a long-time attendee, served several years on Abstract Review Committee, volunteered multiple times as a platform moderator, served on the Education Committee and the Informatics Subcommittee.
Lakshmi Priya Kunju, MD (2025)
University of Michigan
Dr. Kunju is Professor of Pathology, Director of Surgical Pathology and Urologic Pathology, and Medical Director of the Molecular Testing Laboratory of Michigan Center of Translational Pathology (MCTP) at the University of Michigan. She received her medical degree from the Seth G.S. Medical College & King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bombay, India in 1996. Her research interests are genitourinary neoplasms including morphologic and molecular underpinnings of prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancers, and breast cancers with emphasis on morphology and molecular markers that predict breast cancer development. She holds numerous grants, has lectured widely, has accrued over 100 peer-reviewed publications, contributed three book chapters and is involved in more than 120 abstracts. She serves on the CME Subcommittee of USCAP.
Ming Zhou, MD, PhD (2024)
Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
Dr. Ming Zhou is the Pathologist-in-Chief and Chair of the Tufts Medical Center Department of Pathology, and the Chair of the Department of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He graduated summa cum laude from Fudan University Medical School in Shanghai, China. He completed his pathology residency training at the University of Michigan and a fellowship in the Urological and Kidney Diseases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He previously held faculty positions at Cleveland Clinic and New York University, and was the Dr. Charles T. Ashworth Endowed Professor of Pathology and the Director of Anatomic Pathology in the Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Dr. Zhou has devoted his clinical and research effort to diagnostic urological pathology, and discovery and validation of tumor markers for urological malignancy. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and numerous book chapters, and he is the editor of 5 textbooks of urological and prostate pathology. He frequently lectures at national and international meetings on urological pathology. He was the co-course director of the prostate cancer long course at the 2018 USCAP Annual Meeting. He was a faculty of three USCAP short courses and four IM courses. He is currently the IM GU course coordinator. He served on the Cancer Committee of the College of American Pathologists from 2011 to 2017 and is one of the primary authors of the genitourinary cancer protocols, the guidelines for practicing pathologists on diagnosis and reporting genitourinary cancers. He also serves on the editorial board of several pathology journals, including the International Advisory Board of the Pathology International.
Education Committee
Creates the scientific program, exclusively governs educational content for all educational assets of the Academy, performs program evaluations, and safeguards educational content from commercial bias through a complex disclosure mechanism. Several subcommittees assume delegated responsibilities for program design and evaluation.
| Committee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Rhonda K. Yantiss, MD, Chair | 2025 |
| Karen J. Fritchie, MD | 2023 |
| Rajiv M. Patel, MD | 2023 |
| Lynette M. Sholl, MD | 2023 |
| Levon Katsakhyan, MD (Pathologist-in-Training) | 2023 |
| Julia R. Naso, MD, PhD (Pathologist-in-Training) | 2023 |
| Jennifer B. Gordetsky, MD | 2024 |
| Melinda J. Lerwill, MD | 2024 |
| Terri Mason, MD (Pathologist-in-Training) | 2024 |
| Liron Pantanowitz, MD | 2024 |
| Charles “Matt” Quick, MD | 2024 |
| Olga K. Weinberg, MD | 2024 |
| Maria Westerhoff, MD | 2024 |
| Adebowale J. Adeniran, MD | 2025 |
| Kimberly H. Allison, MD | 2025 |
| Maria Beatriz S. Lopes, MD, PhD | 2025 |
| David F. Schaeffer, MD, FRCPC | 2025 |
| Justin A. Bishop, MD | 2026 |
| Sarah E. Gibson, MD | 2026 |
| Tamara L. Lotan, MD | 2026 |
| Nicole C. Panarelli, MD | 2026 |
| Claire Kilfoyle, Director of Education |
Education Subcommittee Chairs
| Subcommittee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Carla L. Ellis, MD, MS, DEI Subcommittee | 2024 |
| Ilan Weinreb, MD, FRCPC, Subcommittee for Unique Live Course Offerings | 2024 |
| Kristin C. Jensen, MD, CME Subcommittee | 2024 |
| Laura C. Collins, MD, Interactive Microscopy AM | 2024 |
| Yuri Fedoriw, MD, Short Course Coordinator | 2025 |
| Carlos Parra-Herran, MD, Chair, Abstract Review Board and Assignment Committee | 2026 |
Abstract Assignment Committee
| Subcommittee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Anthony J. Gill, MD, FRCPA | 2023 |
| Stanley J. Radio, MD | 2023 |
| Benjamin Adam, MD, FRCPC | 2024 |
| Joanna SY Chan, MD | 2024 |
| Elizabeth G. Demicco, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Anand Dighe, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Michelle R. Downes, MD, FRCPC | 2024 |
| Michael Feely, DO | 2024 |
| Purva Gopal, MD, MS | 2024 |
| Aaron R. Huber, DO | 2024 |
| Anne M. Mills, MD | 2024 |
| Gabriel Sica, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Kalliopi P. Siziopikou, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Sara Szabo, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Shaofeng N. Yan, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Catalina Amador, MD | 2025 |
| Barbara A. Centeno, MD | 2025 |
| Jennifer A. Cotter, MD | 2025 |
| Katie Dennis, MD | 2025 |
| Suntrea TG Hammer, MD | 2025 |
| Christian A. Kunder, MD, PhD | 2025 |
| Lesley C. Lomo, MD | 2025 |
| Michiya Nishino, MD, PhD | 2025 |
| Jordan P. Reynolds, MD | 2025 |
| Rhonda K. Yantiss, MD | 2025 |
| Carlos Parra-Herran, MD, Chair, Abstract Review Board and Assignment Committee | 2026 |
CME Subcommittee
| Subcommittee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Kristin C. Jensen, MD, Chair | 2024 |
| Lakshmi (Priya) Kunju, MD | 2023 |
| Jonathan Lavezo, MD | 2023 |
| Roshan S. Patel, MD | 2023 |
| Manju Aron, MBBS, MD | 2024 |
| Emma E. Furth, MD | 2024 |
| Claire Kilfoyle (Director of Education) |
Subcommittee for Unique Live Course Offerings
| Subcommittee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Ilan Weinreb, MD, Chair | 2024 |
| Sinchita Roy Chowdhuri, MD, PhD | 2023 |
| Carlos Parra-Herran, MD | 2023 |
| Marilyn M. Bui, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Sarah M. Dry, MD | 2025 |
| William C. Faquin, MD, PhD | 2025 |
| Anna Marie Mulligan, MBBCh, FRCPath | 2025 |
Interactive Microscopy Coordinators
| Term Ending | |
|---|---|
| Laura C. Collins, MD – Breast | 2024 |
| Thomas Brenn, MD, PhD, FRCPath – Dermatopathology | 2024 |
| Monica Garcia-Buitrago, MD – Potpourri | 2026 |
| Ming Zhou, MD, PhD – Genitourinary | 2024 |
| Oluwole Fadare, MD – Gynecologic | 2024 |
| Justin A. Bishop, MD – Head and Neck Pathology | 2024 |
| Daniel A. Arber, MD – Hematopathology | 2024 |
| Scott R. Owens MD – Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology | 2024 |
| Elizabeth G. Demicco, MD, PhD – Bone & Soft Tissue | 2024 |
| Michelle D. Reid, MD, MSc – Cytopathology | 2024 |
Course Directors
The Education Committee assigns course-directors to organize individual educational offerings at the Annual Meeting and for Diagnostic Cytopathology Update, Diagnostic Pathology Update, Practical Pathology Seminars and Interactive Microscopy.
| Diagnostic Pathology Update – Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD, Co-Director | 2023 |
| Diagnostic Pathology Update – Cristina Magi-Galluzzi, MD, PhD, Co-Director | 2025 |
| Interactive Microscopy AM – Laura C. Collins, MD | 2024 |
Finance Committee
Reviews and advises the Board regarding budgets, audits, investment policies and major expenditures. This committee has liaison responsibilities between operations and governance.
| Committee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Eyas M. Hattab, MD, MBA, Chair | 2023 |
| Amir Behdad, MD, MBA | 2023 |
| Adeboye O. Osunkoya, MD | 2023 |
| Matthew J. Kuhar, MD | 2024 |
| Vijaya B. Reddy, MD, MBA | 2024 |
| Safia N. Salaria, MD | 2024 |
| Aziza Nassar, MD, MBA, MPH | 2025 |
| Jennifer Stall, MD | 2025 |
| Ilan Weinreb, MD, FRCPC, Treasurer | |
| John Hart, MD (Ex-officio) | |
| Melisso Russo (Chief Finance and Administration Officer) | |
| Bethany Phillips, MSA (Senior Staff Accountant) |
Membership Committee
M. Collaborates with the EVP and operations to develop strategic initiatives regarding member engagement and benefits, promoting members for life. Resident Advisory and Social Media Subcommittees facilitate membership outreach.
| Committee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Kristie White, MD, MAEd, Chair | 2023 |
| Thomas Brenn, MD, PhD, FRCPath | 2023 |
| Aastha Chauhan, MD | 2023 |
| Oluwole Fadare, MD | 2023 |
| Kwun Wah Wen, MD, PhD | 2023 |
| Cynthia A. Gasper, MD | 2024 |
| Ivan Gonzalez, MD | 2025 |
| Aashiyana F. Koreishi, MD | 2025 |
| Vikas Mehta, MD | 2025 |
| Gulisa Turashvili, MD, PhD | 2025 |
| Teresa Powers (Membership Services Coordinator) |
Resident Advisory Subcommittee Members
| Subcommittee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Matthew Kuhar, MD, Chair | 2025 |
| Zongming (Eric) Chen, MD, PhD | 2023 |
| Siraj M. El Jamal, MD | 2023 |
| Zarrin Hossein-Zadeh, MD | 2023 |
| Amy S. Joehlin-Price, MD, MS | 2023 |
| Kimberly M. Johnson, MD | 2023 |
| Terrell (Terri) E. Jones, MD | 2023 |
| Mitul B. Modi, MBBS, MD | 2023 |
| Matthew J. Cecchini, MD, PhD | 2025 |
| David B. Chapel, MD | 2025 |
| Madelyn Lew, MD | 2025 |
| Patrick Memari, DO | 2025 |
| Anne M. Mills, MD | 2025 |
| Heather Stevenson-Lerner, MD, PhD | 2025 |
Publications Committee
Advises the Board/EVP regarding editorial policies, quality standards, marketing strategies, and editorial personnel for the Academy’s journals, and annually interfaces with representatives from operations and Elsevier to assess the status and strategic options of the journals.
| Committee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Alexander J. Lazar, MD, PhD, Chair | 2023 |
| Kiril Trpkov, MD, FRCPC | 2023 |
| Kojo S. J. Elenitoba-Johnson, MD | 2024 |
| Jeffrey Goldsmith, MD | 2024 |
| Waihay J. Wong, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Elizabeth Demicco, MD, PhD | 2025 |
| Samson W. Fine, MD | 2025 |
| Brooke Howitt, MD | 2025 |
| Muhammad Idrees, MD | 2025 |
Journal Editors – Laboratory Investigation
| Term Ending | |
|---|---|
| David M Berman, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief | 2027 |
| Robert A Anders, MD, PhD, Senior Associate Editor | 2027 |
| Sylvia L Asa, MD, PhD, Senior Associate Editor | 2027 |
| Marc Halushka, MD, PhD, Senior Associate Editor | 2027 |
| Neil Renwick, MD, PhD, Senior Associate Editor | 2027 |
| Lanjing Zhang, MD, Senior Associate Editor | 2027 |
| Catherine M. Ketcham, PhD, Managing Editor | |
Journal Editors – Modern Pathology
| Term Ending | |
|---|---|
| George J. Netto, MD, Editor-in-Chief | 2024 |
| Pedram Argani, MD, Senior Associate Editor | 2024 |
| Larissa V. Furtado, MD, Senior Associate Editor | 2024 |
| Rhonda K. Yantiss, MD, Senior Associate Editor | 2024 |
| Catherine M. Ketcham, PhD, Managing Editor |
Foundation Committee
| Committee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Henry Tazelaar, MD, Chair | 2025 |
| Rondell P. Graham, MBBS | 2023 |
| Alyssa M. Krasinskas, MD | 2023 |
| Edward J. Gutmann, MD | 2024 |
| Priti Lal, MBBS | 2025 |
| Brandon Larsen, MD, PhD | 2025 |
| Zahra Maleki, MD | 2025 |
| Melissa Murray, DO | 2025 |
| Pallavi Patil, MD, MBBS | 2025 |
| John Hart, MD (Ex-officio) President | |
| Ilan Weinreb, MD, FRCPC (Ex-officio) Treasurer | |
| Daniela Gomez (Staff Member) |
Nominating Committee
Formulates a slate of names for Board approval for elected positions.
| Laura Lamps, MD (Chair for 2022-2023) | 2025 |
| Joel K. Greenson, MD | 2023 |
| Julia A. Bridge, MD | 2024 |
| Oluwole Fadare, MD (Member-at-Large) | 2023 |
| Daniel Brat, MD, PhD (Member-at-Large) | 2024 |
Awards Committees
Young Investigator Awards Committee
| Ashley Cimino-Mathews, MD, Chair | 2024 |
| Anthony J. Gill, MD, FRCPA | 2023 |
| Cristina Antonescu, MD | 2024 |
| Zubair Baloch, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Adeboye Osunkoya, MD | 2024 |
Castleman Awards Committee
| Peter M. Sadow, MD, PhD, Chair | 2023 |
| Vikram Deshpande, MBBS | 2023 |
| Russell Ryan, MD | 2023 |
| Michael Tetzlaff, MD, PhD | 2025 |
| David N. Louis, MD (Ex-officio) | |
| John A. Hart, MD (Ex-officio) | 2023 |
The Harvey Goldman Teaching Award Committee
| Laura C. Collins, MD, Chair | |
| Jeffrey E. Saffitz, MD, PhD | |
| Laura W. Lamps, MD | |
| Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD | |
| Rhonda K. Yantiss, MD |
Stowell-Orbison Awards Committee
| Philipp Raess, MD, PhD, Chair | 2026 |
| Charles Matthew Quick, MD | 2023 |
| Erika F. Rodriguez, MD, PhD | 2024 |
| Namrata Setia, MD | 2025 |
| Debra L. Zynger, MD | 2025 |
Vogel Awards Committee
| Phyu P. Aung, MD, PhD, Chair | 2025 |
| Kristin C. Shaw, MD | 2023 |
| Kathleen Montone, MD | 2025 |
| Rajiv Patel, MD | 2025 |
| George J. Netto, MD, (Ex-officio) | |
| Gene P. Siegal, MD, PhD, (Ex-officio) |
Stout Awards Committee
| Alex K. Williamson, MD, Chair | 2025 |
| Sara E. Monaco, MD | 2023 |
| Shyam Sampath Raghavan, MD | 2023 |
| Mary Ann Sens, MD | 2025 |
Representation
American Medical Association
| Committee | Term Ending |
|---|---|
| Nicole D. Riddle, MD, Delegate (HOD) | 2024 |
| Daniel C. Zedek, MD, Delegate (HOD) | 2024 |
| Keagan H. Lee, MD (Alternate) | 2024 |
| Nirali M. Patel, MD (Alternate & YPS) | 2024 |
| Dennis P. O’Malley, MD (CPT Advisor) | 2025 |
| Ericka J. Olgaard, MD (Alternate) | 2025 |
| Elizabeth U. Parker, MD (YPS) | 2024 |
American Registry of Pathology
| Ronald A. DeLellis, MD |
Biological Stain Commission
| Paul E. Swanson, MD |
Intersociety Council on Pathology Information (ICPI)
| Raghavendra Pillappa, MBBS, MD (Board Delegate) | 2025 |
| Gregory N. Fuller, MD, PhD (Ex-officio delegate for reporting) | |
| Laura W. Lamps, MD (Ex-officio) |
Program Directors Section of Association of Pathology Chairs (PRODS)
| Suzanne Z. Powell, MD |
Continuing Certification Advisory Committee, American Board of Pathology
| Jordi J. Rowe, MD |
TRIG Working Group
| Neal I. Lindeman, MD |
TRIPS Working Group
| Suzanne Dintzis, MD, PhD |
UTRIG Working Group
| Jean R. Lopategui, MD |