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Visibility Matters: Bringing Pathology Into Focus

Sitting Down With…Jim Zhai, CAP president, as he reflects on his journey, the pressures facing the field, and why pathology’s role is only becoming more central to patient care

By Mouj Hjazi 05/05/2026 Interview 5 min read

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Visibility Matters: Bringing Pathology Into Focus

Visibility Matters: Bringing Pathology Into Focus

Tamara Lotan, M.D.

Urologic pathology
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Johns Hopkins Medicine

Digital pathology is revolutionizing the way that pathologists assess prostate tumors, and making it possible to use histopathology-based AI algorithms to improve pathologic diagnosis and grading.

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Ralph Hruban, M.D.

Anatomic pathology
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Johns Hopkins Medicine

It’s this inflection point that is exciting, this revolution that’s occurring.

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Matthew Hanna, M.D.

Anatomic pathology; digital pathology
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Because we have this enormous repository of digitized slides — probably one of the largest and complex in the world — we can train computers using a truly unparalleled dataset.

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Thomas Montine, M.D., Ph.D.

Pathology
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Stanford University School of Medicine

As we face a growing shortage of pathologists, AI tools that work in tandem with doctors have the potential to speed up some of the more tedious, time-consuming parts of our job.

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Elaine Jaffe, M.D.

Hematopathology
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National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

To me, the power of the visual microscopic image is as great as a gene-expression microarray reporting on the activity of thousands of genes.

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Mouj Hjazi

Assistant Editor with a background in Journalism.

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