Bharti Bhusnurmath
The Power List 2021 – Leading Roles
Bharti, who is co-chair and Professor of Pathology at St. George’s University School of Medicine, loves her career in the lab – but has faced numerous challenges, including those related to practicing internationally (“adapting to different cultures, administrative practices, and geographic pathologies”) and those related to being a woman in medicine (“balancing the demands of a professional career with domestic responsibilities”). In her opinion, there are three ongoing threats to the future of pathology: pathologists’ resistance to new technologies, a lack of clinical pathology training (instead emphasizing surgical pathology), and a failure to teach medical students critical thinking skills.
