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The Pathologist / Power List / 2024

The Power List 2024

A celebration of the inspirational figures behind innovation and achievement in pathology and laboratory medicine

Welcome to the 2024 edition of The Pathologist Power List – our annual feature dedicated to shining a spotlight on the highly valued work of pathologists and laboratory medicine professionals across the globe.

We asked you all to nominate individuals whose leadership, innovation, principles, or sheer drive inspire you. Our esteemed expert judging panel – composed primarily of past Power Listers – scoured the entries to select those who shone most brilliantly. Now, The Pathologist has the pleasure of presenting some of the opinions, hopes, and aspirations of the few, as a reflection of the accomplishments of many.

We hope this collection illustrates the value that people attribute to those who inspire them – in the lab and beyond.

This year, we present five categories that encompass the skills of a wide range of talented individuals:

  • Heroes of Pathology – problem-solvers for those in difficulty

  • Champions for Change – drivers of environmental, social, and governance initiatives

  • Idols of Innovation – researchers, inventors, and transformers

  • In the Wings – non-pathologist laboratory medicine professionals

  • Destined for Excellence – rising stars

Important note: The Pathologist Power List is not intended to denote powerful pathologists or laboratory professionals. Rather, to formulate the Power List, The Pathologist solicited nominations of pathologists and laboratory professionals in any stage of their careers, who have made accomplishments in the past year in one of the following categories: (i) Heroes of Pathology; (ii) Champions for Change; (iii) Idols of Innovation; (iv) In the Wings; and (v) Destined for Excellence. All decisions were made by The Pathologist. As the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) did not participate in the nomination or selection process, it does not formally endorse the list.

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Heroes of Pathology | Champions for Change | Idols of Innovation | In the Wings | Destined for Excellence |

Heroes of Pathology

Aadil Ahmed
Aadil Ahmed

Director of Dermatopathology at the Illinois Dermatology Institute, and Assistant Professor of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, USA

Ahmed Kalebi
Ahmed Kalebi

Principal Pathologist, Founder and Executive Chairman of Dr. Kalebi Labs (DKL) Limited

Amal Shukri
Amal Shukri

Attending Pathologist, University Pathology Diagnostics Clinical Services at Rush University Medical Center, USA

Barnali Das
Barnali Das

Lead Consultant at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, and Chair, Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine, India Section, India

Brittany Teeter
Brittany Teeter

Division of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Department of Health Sciences, UT Health San Antonio, TX, USA

Christina Zioga
Christina Zioga

Consultant Cytopathologist, George Papanicolaou General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece

Danny A. Milner
Danny A. Milner

Executive Director, Access to Oncology Medicines, Union for International Cancer Control, Geneva, Switzerland

Gamal Dawood
Gamal Dawood

Professor of Pathology, Al-Azhar Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt

Glenn McCluggage
Glenn McCluggage

Department of Pathology, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Kamran Mirza
Kamran Mirza

Godfrey Dorr Stobbe Professor of Pathology Education; Clinical Professor of Pathology (Hematopathology); Assistant Chair for Education; and Director, Division of Training Programs & Communication, University of Michigan, USA

Kelsey Hummel
Kelsey Hummel

Gynecologic Pathology Fellow, Department of Pathology, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, USA

Kinan Drak Alsibai
Kinan Drak Alsibai

Head of Department at the Department of Pathology and Center of Biological Resources (CRB Amazonie), and Medical Director of the French Guiana Cancer Registry (RCan Guyane) at the Department of Research and Innovation in Public Health, Cayenne Hospital Center, French Guiana, France

Lois E. Rockson
Lois E. Rockson

Program Director and Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Lab and Medical Imaging Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA 

Mark D. Pool
Mark D. Pool

Associate Professor of Pathology; Medical Director of Transfusion Service and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Laboratory; Associate Medical Director, Rush Medical Laboratories; and Laboratory Medical Director, Rush Oak Park Hospital, Rush University Medical Center, USA

Mustafa A. Barbhuiya
Mustafa A. Barbhuiya

Medical Director of Clinical Chemistry and Point of Care Testing, Department of Pathology, Baystate Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Pathology, Healthcare Delivery and Population Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School; Founder Director, Foundation for Advancement of Essential Diagnostics, USA and India

Nicole Aqui
Nicole Aqui

Vice Chair for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity; Director, Pathology Residency Program; Chief, Transfusion and Apheresis Services at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA

Pierre Mainil-Varlet
Pierre Mainil-Varlet

Head of Pathology Innovation and Business Development at Unilabs Pathology Switzerland; Founder, President of the Board of Directors, AGINKO Foundation

Rex F. Famitangco
Rex F. Famitangco

Laboratory Administrative Director, Morrill County Community Hospital, Bridgeport, Nebraska, USA

Talat Zehra
Talat Zehra

Assistant Professor, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan

Umberto Malapelle
Umberto Malapelle

Chair of Predictive Molecular Pathology Laboratory; Editor in Chief of The Journal of Liquid Biopsy, and Scientific Secretary of the International Society of Liquid Biopsy Department of Public Health, University Federico II of Naples, Italy

Champions for Change

Andrea Deyrup
Andrea Deyrup

Professor at Duke University, USA

Andrés Restrepo
Andrés Restrepo

Pathologist at Christus Sinergia, Colombia, and Anatomic Pathology lecturer at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

Ashutosh Tewari
Ashutosh Tewari

Professor and System Chair, Department of Urology and Director of Urology Initiatives at the Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA

Brenna Rondeau
Brenna Rondeau

Pathologists' Assistant; Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, USA

Carla L. Ellis
Carla L. Ellis

Associate Professor of Pathology; Vice Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Medical Director, Renal Pathology Service, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Treasurer of the Society of Black Pathology

Dana Powell Baker
Dana Powell Baker

Manager, Academic Partnerships, The Association of Public Health Laboratories, USA; President, Society of Black Pathology

Darcy Kerr
Darcy Kerr

Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

David Wells
David Wells

Chief Executive, Institute of Biomedical Science, UK; Clinical Director for Pathology, NHS England (London region), UK

Eric Q. Konnick
Eric Q. Konnick

Associate Professor; Associate Director, Genetics and Solid Tumor Laboratory; Director, Genetics Pre-analytical Services, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, USA

Fatma Alzahraa A. Elkhamisy
Fatma Alzahraa A. Elkhamisy

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Egypt

Kalisha Hill
Kalisha Hill

Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Medical Director, Pathology and Laboratory Services Ascension Saint Mary Kankakee, Illinois, USA; Governor, Second Term, College of American Pathologist; Past-President, Illinois Society of Pathologists

Lija Joseph
Lija Joseph

Medical Director, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA; Adjunct Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Adjunct Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA

María del Rocío Martín López
María del Rocío Martín López

Head of Pathology Service, Complejo Asistencial de Avila, SACYL-Health Service, Castilla y León, Spain; President of Asociación Territorial SEAP-IAP (Spanish Society of Pathology-International Academy of Pathology) in Castilla y León, Spain; Member of the Spanish SEAP-IAP

Melody Boudreaux Nelson
Melody Boudreaux Nelson

Principal Clinical Laboratory Scientist, The University of Kansas Health System, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Nick Shillingford
Nick Shillingford

Staff Pediatric Pathologist and Program Director, Paediatric Pathology Fellowship, at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, California; Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, California, USA

Nicole Jackson
Nicole Jackson

Assistant Professor and Director of Autopsy and After Death Services, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, USA, Co-founder and Past President of the Society of Black Pathology

Nicole Riddle
Nicole Riddle

Shareholder Pathologist, Ruffolo, Hooper, and Associates; Associate Professor, USF Health, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, USA

Shahla Masood
Shahla Masood

Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, USA; Medical Director, UF Health Jacksonville Breast Center; Medical Director, UF Health Jacksonville Laboratories; Interim Director of UF Health Jacksonville Cancer Program

Syed T. Hoda
Syed T. Hoda

Director of Bone & Soft Tissue Pathology at NYU Langone Health; Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA

Tahir Pillay
Tahir Pillay

Professor & Chair, School of Pathology, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Idols of Innovation

Adam J. Cole
Adam J. Cole

Founder and CSO, TruCore Pathology Group; Co-founder PathNet; Commander, 446 AMDS JBLM Washington, USA

Andrew Janowczyk
Andrew Janowczyk

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Department of Oncology, Division of Precision Oncology, Department of Diagnostics, Division of Clinical Pathology, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland

Anna Sarah Erem
Anna Sarah Erem

Pathology Resident, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; incoming dermpath fellow at Columbia University, New York, USA

Eric Daley
Eric Daley

Senior Clinical Product Manager, College of American Pathologists, USA

Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma

Vice-Chair, Clinical Pathology; Division Head, Regional Laboratory; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Hooman Rashidi
Hooman Rashidi

Associate Dean of AI in Medicine, Professor & Endowed Chair of Lombardi-Shinozuka Experimental Pathology Research at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Executive Director of CPACE (Computational Pathology & AI Center of Excellence; a UPitt/UPMC joint effort); Executive Vice Chair of Computational Pathology Division at UPMC; and Adjunct Professor of Engineering, Carnegie Melon University, USA

James Payne
James Payne

Medical Laboratory Assisting and Phlebotomy Instructor, Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES (WEMOCO Career and Technical Education Center), USA

Jeffrey Myers
Jeffrey Myers

A. James French Professor of Diagnostic Pathology and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Quality, Department of Pathology, Michigan Medicine (University of Michigan), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Jeremy Li
Jeremy Li

CEO and Cofounder, Cision Vision

Karen Villar Zarra
Karen Villar Zarra

Lead Interventional Pathologist, Hospital Universitario del Henares, Madrid, Spain

Liron Pantanowitz
Liron Pantanowitz

Chair and Professor of Pathology, UPMC/University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Magdalena Czader
Magdalena Czader

Virgil Moon Professor of Pathology, Director, Indiana University Health Pathology Laboratories; Vice Chair, Clinical Pathology, Director, Division of Hematopathology Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, USA

Margaret (Maggie) Flanagan
Margaret (Maggie) Flanagan

Associate Professor of Pathology, Nun Study Director, South Texas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Neuropathology Core Leader, Bigg’s Institute Brain Bank Director, Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio’s Endowed Chair, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, USA

Michelle Campbell
Michelle Campbell

Senior Developer, Translational Research, Innovation, and Test Development Office, Mayo Clinic; Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Laboratory Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Mingyao Li
Mingyao Li

Professor of Biostatistics and Digital Pathology, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Nana Odom
Nana Odom

Head of Service – Clinical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic London, UK; Member Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, Biomedical Engineering Division – IMechE; Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS)

Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh

Director of Dermatopathology and Digital Pathology, Summit Health/Village MD, New Jersey, USA; Founder, PathPresenter

Richard A. Scolyer
Richard A. Scolyer

Co-Medical Director, Melanoma Institute Australia; Senior Staff Specialist, Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital & NSW Health Pathology; Conjoint Professor, Central Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia

Sanam Loghavi
Sanam Loghavi

Associate Professor, Department of Hematopathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Saswati Das
Saswati Das

Associate Professor & Senior Specialist, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences, Guru Govid Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India

Severino Rey Nodar
Severino Rey Nodar

Pathologist, Oviedo Hospital, Asturias, Spain; President, Foresc-Febip Foundation; Editor-in-Chief, Archivos de Patología

Sylvia Asa
Sylvia Asa

Consultant in Endocrine Pathology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, USA, and University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Professor, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

In the Wings

Aaron Odegard
Aaron Odegard

Laboratory Quality Coordinator at Baptist Health, Jacksonville, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA

Anna Marie White
Anna Marie White

Blood Bank Supervisor, University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital, USA

Ashley Illingworth
Ashley Illingworth

Assistant Professor, Pathologists’ Assistant, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA

Becky Stankowski
Becky Stankowski

Lead Pathologists' Assistant, Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories, USA

Beth Felicelli
Beth Felicelli

Pathologists' Assistant at Western Michigan Pathology Associates, Holland Hospital, Holland, Michigan, USA; Editor-in-Chief for the AAPA journal, The Cutting Edge; Member of the AAPA peer review team, and the Education, Marketing & Communications, and Diversity, Inclusion & Equity (DEI) Committees

Christina Narakorn
Christina Narakorn

Manager of Laboratory Staff Education and Development, Mayo Clinic Florida, USA

Courtney Lawrence
Courtney Lawrence

Forensic Pathology Fellowship Program Coordinator and Coordinator of Educational Programs, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Medical Examiner’s Office, Georgia, USA

Debbie Gonzalez
Debbie Gonzalez

Customer Service Manager, Belay Diagnostics, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Emily Nangano
Emily Nangano

Research Pathologists' Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Janelle Fabian
Janelle Fabian

Technical Supervisor and Pathologists' Assistant at Fox Chase Cancer Center and Annual Conference Chair of the AAPA, USA

Katalin Gocze
Katalin Gocze

Chief Operating Officer at Pathology Innovation Incubator Ltd, Budapest, Hungary

Laura Severs
Laura Severs

Director of Clinical Operations, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, USA

Leonie Wheeldon
Leonie Wheeldon

Consultant Biomedical Scientist in Diagnostic Cytopathology, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

María del Mar Olmo Fernandez
María del Mar Olmo Fernandez

Technician in Anatomic Pathology and Cytotechnologists in Interventional Pathology and Laboratory Manager, Hospital Universitario del Henares, Coslada, Madrid, Spain

Monica D. Lockhart
Monica D. Lockhart

Manager of Pathology Laboratories, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, USA

Niki Boisso
Niki Boisso

Pathologists' Assistant, NYC Health and Bellevue Hospital Center, USA

Norman Zerbe
Norman Zerbe

President, European Society of Digital and Integrative Pathology, Vice-Chairman at EMPAIA International Association, Chair WG Digital Pathology at German Society of Pathology, Board Member at Asian Society of Digital Pathology, Senior Group Leader at University Clinic of RWTH Aachen, Germany, and Head Digital Pathology Research, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Pawan Kumar Kare
Pawan Kumar Kare

Demonstrator in the Department of Medical Biochemistry at Gandhi Medical College, and Assistant Nodal Officer in Multidisciplinary Research Unit at Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, India

Ryan Hardy
Ryan Hardy

Manager of Application Development and Programming, Washington University in Saint Louis Medical School, USA

Tiffany Telemaque
Tiffany Telemaque

Quality Systems Manager, Saint Joseph's Medical Center, Yonkers, New York, USA

Destined for Excellence

Akanksha Gupta
Akanksha Gupta

Pathologist and Medical Director at McLaren Central Michigan Laboratory, McLaren Bay Region Hospital, Bay City, Michigan, USA; Founder and CEO of Ace My Path

Akash Pramod Sali
Akash Pramod Sali

Senior Consultant of Anatomical Pathology, Karkinos Healthcare Pvt. Ltd, Navi Mumbai, India

Caddie Laberiano
Caddie Laberiano

Tissue Research Scientist, Precision for Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

Casey P Schukow
Casey P Schukow

Resident Pathologist, Department of Pathology, Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA

Cole Biehl
Cole Biehl

Pathology Resident, PGY-3 Brooke Army Medical Center, and United States Army Captain, USA

Corey Post
Corey Post

Hematopathology Fellow, Michigan Medicine, USA

Cullen Lilley
Cullen Lilley

Resident Physician, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, USA

Deeksha Sikri
Deeksha Sikri

Pathologist, Educator, and Creator of Pathodoodles

Doryan Redding
Doryan Redding

Clinical Laboratory Scientist, University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Eduardo Alcaraz
Eduardo Alcaraz

Surgical pathologist at Morales Meseguer University Hospital, Murcia, and adjunct professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, Spain

Giovanni Baviera
Giovanni Baviera

Veterinary Medicine Student at University of Padova, Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health, MAPS, and Chair of the IVSA Pathology Network, Italy

Hansini Laharwani
Hansini Laharwani

Staff Pathologist, Christian Hospital, St.Louis, Barnes Jewish Hospital, USA

Harry James Gaffney
Harry James Gaffney

Medical Doctor at the Concord Repatriation General Hospital and Associate Clinical Lecturer at The University of Sydney Concord Clinical School, Sydney, Australia

Heather Keir
Heather Keir

Consultant Paediatric and Perinatal Pathologist, and Clinical Lead for Paediatric Histopathology at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester Foundation Trust, UK

John Overton
John Overton

Medical Student, University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA

Meredith K. Herman
Meredith K. Herman

Pathology resident at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA

Stephanie Whitehead
Stephanie Whitehead

Executive Director, Pathology Services, University Health, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Swati Bhardwaj
Swati Bhardwaj

Genitourinary Pathology fellow, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Swikrity U. Baskota
Swikrity U. Baskota

Assistant Professor of cytopathology, breast and lung pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis Health System, USA

Woo Cheal Cho
Woo Cheal Cho

Assistant Professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA

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