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The Power List 2025

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

Leading Voices Edition

Leading Voices inspire action, challenge ideas, and advocate for reform. And this year’s Power List gives those voices an opportunity to be heard. The fifty individuals below, selected by an expert panel of judges, represent the biggest ideas and boldest actions in pathology. 

We asked this year’s Power List to exemplify how they are addressing specific challenges via leadership, awareness building, innovation, patient care, and mentoring. Their entries were judged “blind” so that each person was selected on the merit of what they are doing for the profession.

In a world defined by rapid change, unprecedented challenges, and incredible new scientific advances, these trailblazers don’t just adapt – they lead through their principles to ignite innovation, inspire action, and push boundaries. Welcome to the 2025 Power List: a celebration of the voices moving medicine forward.

Why should pathology be repositioned as the leader of modern medicine, and what have you done to raise the profile of the speciality?

Alae Kawam
Alae Kawam

Fellow in Genitourinary Pathology, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City, USA
Andy Beck
Andy Beck

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, PathAI, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Barnali Das
Barnali Das

Lead Consultant, Laboratory Medicine, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, India; Chair, Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine, Indian Section; Consultant, Committee on Kidney Diseases, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine
Blessing Oyeleye
Blessing Oyeleye

Founder and Executive Director, Pathology Awareness Foundation, Nigeria
Deeksha Sikri
Deeksha Sikri

Pathology Discipline Director, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Iris Barshack
Iris Barshack

Head of Institute of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center; Chair of The Israeli Association of Pathologists; Dean, Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Israel
Malak Althgafi
Malak Althgafi

Chair & Physician-in-Chief, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tufts Medical Center; Professor of Pathology and Neurosurgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh

Director of Dermatopathology and Digital Pathology, Summit Health, New Jersey, USA; Co-founder of PathPresenter
Saswati Das
Saswati Das

Associate Professor & Senior Specialist, Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Swikrity Baskota
Swikrity Baskota

Assistant Professor of Cytopathology, Lung and Breast Pathology; Cytopathology Fellowship Director, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, California, USA
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What gaps in technology/training/processes concern you most, and how are you addressing them via innovation?

Ahmed Kalebi
Ahmed Kalebi

Principal Pathologist & Executive Chairman, Dr. Kalebi Labs (DKL) Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya
Bamidele Farinre
Bamidele Farinre

Chartered Biomedical Scientist; Agile Project Manager; Multi-Award-Winning Author; Speaker & Educator; Founder, BAMS Space; Host, In Conversation with Bami, UK
Cullen Lilley
Cullen Lilley

Pathology Resident (PGY3), Chief Resident (ombuds), University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Health Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, California, USA
Fatma Alzahraa A. Elkhamisy
Fatma Alzahraa A. Elkhamisy

Associate Professor of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University; King Salman International University, Egypt; IFI FAIMER Fellow, USA; AMEE Associate Fellow, UK; IAMSE Ambassador, USA
Matthew Goldberg
Matthew Goldberg

FAAD, board-certified dermatologist and dermatopathologist; Senior Vice President, Medical, Castle Biosciences; and Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Olaleke Folaranmi
Olaleke Folaranmi

Consultant Pathologist, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Rama Gullapalli
Rama Gullapalli

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Soufiane Z. Azdad
Soufiane Z. Azdad

Pathologist, CEO and Co-founder of Algoscope, France
Talat Zehra
Talat Zehra

Associate Professor, Liaquat National Hospital Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan
Xiaorong Sun
Xiaorong Sun

Founder and Chair of Landing Med (Wuhan Landing Intelligence Medical Co., Ltd.)
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What needs to change in order to maximize pathology’s impact on patient care, and how has your work advanced patient impact?

Aadil Ahmed
Aadil Ahmed

Director of Dermatopathology, Illinois Dermatology Institute, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA; Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA
Amit Gokhale
Amit Gokhale

Hemotherapy & Blood Bank Director, HCA Houston Medical Center, Associate Professor, Tilman J Fertitta Family College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Elaine Cloutman-Green
Elaine Cloutman-Green

Consultant Clinical Scientist, Deputy Director of Infection Prevention and Control, Joint Trust Lead Healthcare Scientist, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Honorary Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, UK
João Martins da Gama
João Martins da Gama

Surgical Pathologist, Department of Surgical Pathology, Unidade Local de Saúde de Coimbra; PhD in Molecular Pathology and Genetics at Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Kamran Mirza
Kamran Mirza

Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Kayode Balogun
Kayode Balogun

Director of Clinical Chemistry and Immunology Laboratories, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Lisa-Jean Clifford
Lisa-Jean Clifford

President, Gestalt Diagnostics; President of the Association for Pathology Informatics
Michele Mitchell
Michele Mitchell

American Society for Clinical Pathology Patient Champion, Patient Advocate Volunteer, Digital Pathology Association Patient Advocate
Sophia Bertse Bellegarde
Sophia Bertse Bellegarde

Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Resident, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Varsha Manucha
Varsha Manucha

Professor, Department of Pathology, Section Director, Division of Cytopathology, Section Chief, Genitourinary and Head & Neck Pathology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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What are the key lessons you have learned during your career, and how are you using those learnings to mentor others?

Andres Restrepo
Andres Restrepo

Pathologist and Associate Professor, Ross University School of Medicine, Bridgetown, Barbados; Pathologist Consultant, Christus Health Colombia

Gamal Dawood
Gamal Dawood

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

Clinical Director, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
María del Rocío Martín López
María del Rocío Martín López

Head of Pathology Service, Avila Medical Center; President of the SEAP-IAP Territorial Association in Castile and Leon, Spain
Melissa Duong
Melissa Duong

Associate Director of Anatomic Pathology, Penn Medicine, Chester County Hospital, Pennsylvania, USA
Neha Seth
Neha Seth

Resident Physician, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Northwell Health, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health, New York, USA
Nicole R. Jackson
Nicole R. Jackson

Director of Autopsy & After Death Services and the Dorothy Ward Stansbury Endowed Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Shelly Cummings
Shelly Cummings

Vice President of Medical Affairs, Oncology at Myriad Genetics, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Taryn Waraksa-Deutsch
Taryn Waraksa-Deutsch

Cytopathology Supervisor at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Woo Cheal Cho
Woo Cheal Cho

Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomical Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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