The director of anatomic pathology and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in Oklahoma City, Dr. Hassell has also served as a visiting consultant to colleagues in Vietnam where he has facilitated humanitarian and medical development projects for 20 years. His research interests include process improvements, laboratory management, pathology education, cytopathology, and quality improvements, as well as development of pathology in resource-poor environments.

Former president and board member of the Texas Society of Pathologists, with demonstrated leadership across the profession, Dr. Hearn is a practicing pathologist in Wichita Falls, Texas. In addition, she participated in Medical Mission to Africa through Pathologists Overseas at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) Kumasi, Ghana in 2009 and served as a mentor in the CAP Mentor Pilot Program. She is past chairman of the CAP Public Affairs Committee and Public and Patient Relations Committee, a member of the College’s House of Delegates, Council on Membership and Professional Development, CAP Leadership Group, and co-chairman of the Membership and Public Communications committee.

Board member Marvin Kogan, Lincolnshire, Illinois, is president of Media Directions, Inc., a marketing communications agency. Mr. Kogan has been an instrumental professional resource for Foundation business planning, fundraising, and promotional materials.

 

A practicing attorney for more than 20 years in Kansas City, Missouri, Alison K. Blessing brings diverse talent to the CAP Foundation board of directors. Her strong analytical skills, honed through private practice in family law, are augmented by previous board and volunteer experience. Ms. Blessing was appointed by the Supreme Court of Missouri to serve on the state’s legal disciplinary committee, which oversees attorney conduct and ensures professionalism. Previously, she also was appointed to serve on the Kansas City Board of Zoning. Throughout her experience, Ms. Blessing remains committed to considering all sides of issues and ideas before reaching decisions. A dedicated professional, she provides fresh, objective perspectives that strengthen the CAP Foundation’s leadership capacity.

As portfolio manager of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Rose Park Advisors in Boston, Matthew Q. Christensen adds value to the perspectives of the CAP Foundation board of directors.

With his firm’s strategic focus on “disruptive innovation,” Mr. Christensen identifies the ideas, technologies, issues, and trends that unpredictably impact a market—potential opportunities to capitalize on, or threats likely to affect established incumbents.

Earlier, as a senior associate at Innosight, LLC, in Watertown, Massachusetts, Mr. Christensen led engagements in the biotechnology, enterprise software, and financial services industries, among others. Mr. Christensen also worked at the Boston Consulting Group, where his projects served various industries, including specialty chemicals, telecommunications, technology, and industrial goods.

Mr. Christensen holds two degrees from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he also won a national basketball championship, Mr. Christensen also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Once a college fundraising professional and later a CAP Foundation Board resident-member representative, pathologist Steven Drury, MD, rejoins the CAP Foundation board of directors backed by recent experience in the medical industry. Prior to his current post as medical affairs director for Covidien GI Solutions in Sunnyvale, California, Dr. Drury served Pathology Specialists of New England as a pathologist for Elliot Hospital and Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. Earlier he completed fellowship training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to his laboratory medicine industry perspective, Dr. Drury brings a strong understanding of fundraising strategy and a proven track record initiating innovative fundraising tactics.

Having directed laboratories throughout California, Dr. Glassy currently shares his time between Pathology Inc., an independent reference laboratory and Affiliated Pathologists Medical Group, a 37-physician pathology group, both in Southern California. His professional activities include medical textbook and software development related to pathology reporting, outreach, and practice management.

An active CAP and pathology professional leader, Dr. Hanson distinguished his career as pathology service chair for Mercy Hospital and the Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, where he continues as a clinical professor of pathology.

 

Dr. Harrer, from Haddonfield, New Jersey, is the corporate laboratory medical director for the Lourdes Health System in Camden, New Jersey, and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County in Willingboro, New Jersey. He is also a professor of pathology, anatomy, and cell biology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and clinical professor of pathology at both University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey and Camden County College.

Assistant professor of pathology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Dr. Laudadio is a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia. She completed her residency at Medical University of South Carolina and a Fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology at Oregon Health and Science University. Dr. Laudadio serves as membership advisor to the Kappa Delta Chapter Advisory Board. She also chairs the CAP’s Patient Simulation Task Force.

 

Director of hematopathology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science, Dr. Lorsbach’s earlier academic and medical appointments include such noted institutions as Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and Research Center. His research and work focuses on growing the knowledge base and clinical utility in blood cancer signaling.

 

Director and senior manager at Orion Advisory LLC, Richmond, Vermont-based Mr. Priganc is an expert at developing and implementing performance management strategies and practices that transform complex enterprises. Bringing over a decade of strategic planning and performance management expertise to the Foundation, Mr. Priganc has worked with leadership teams in North America, Europe and Asia to better enable them to manage the performance of their organizations.

 

Responsible for the College’s strategic and daily operations, Mr. Roussel has extensive experience leading transformational change. He has served previously as the director of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and earlier as a managing partner for global consultancy Accenture. As an executive level advisor to pharmaceutical and high technology companies, he has helped organizations envision and realize change.

 

As a manager of financial counseling and revenue cycle management for the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, Ms. Strok delivers expertise in community outreach to aid the uninsured and underinsured. Similar to the CAP Foundation’s humanitarian See, Test & Treat^® initiative, the programs that Ms. Strok manages help screen and educate patients in need of charity care. Her work with patients who live outside of the United States demonstrates an ability to connect with diverse patient populations and constituencies. Seasoned in understanding the financial challenges health care providers face, Ms. Strok also brings a proven ability to work within budgetary constraints, connect with key government and executive organizations, and help build lasting program value.

A practicing pathologist with the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Dr. Thompson is also a Captain, Medical Corps, at the Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital in California, where he is an active Navy reservist. He is the recipient of numerous awards, medals, and honors for his military service. He has worked for many years with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center; in addition, Dr. Thompson served as blood drive manager for the American Red Cross for eleven years.

Dr. Zarka consults in laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic Arizona, where he serves as director of cytopathology. A member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Control, Dr. Zarka is an active advocate for humanitarian pathology programs in the developing world. He is an executive board member of the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology, has taught local pathologists in Tanzania, and has served as medical director of Grounds for Health, a nonprofit organization promoting cervical cancer screening in rural Mexico and Central America.

Recently having served as the secretary of the CAP’s Residents Forum Executive Committee, Christine E. Jabcuga, MD, of Burlington, Vermont, serves now as the CAP Foundation’s resident member representative.

Already she has forged strong relationships across the College, most notably in the Residents Forum and the CAP House of Delegates. With her personal commitment to community service to raise awareness of healthy living and disease prevention, Dr. Jabcuga intends to focus her CAP Foundation service on growing the involvement of CAP resident members.

Dr. Jabcuga earned her MD from the University of Texas Science Center, in San Antonio, and joined the University of Vermont’s Fletcher Allen Healthcare Residency Program after completing two years of pathology training at the University of Texas, Houston Medical Center.

The John La Porte Given Professor and professor of pathology at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover in New Hampshire, Dr. Hickey previously served as the medical school’s senior associate dean, as well as chairman of its pathology department. He is the attending anatomic pathologist for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, as well as the Center’s chief of neuropathology.

 

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