Valerie Fitzhugh

About Valerie Fitzhugh

Valerie is Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She has been a leading voice in highlighting COVID-19 health care disparities and the lab’s role during the pandemic. “Pathologists and laboratory professionals can lead the charge by speaking up against these injustices so that we do not continue to see situations like we did with the COVID-19 pandemic, where people of color were much more likely to not only contract the disease, but die from it.”