28 given awards for notable and longtime service

Lifetime Achievement award, to Lawrence J. Jennings, MD, PhD, for his service to the Molecular Oncology Committee, which he joined as a junior member when it was the Molecular Pathology Committee and continued to serve as member, vice chair, and chair. His roles on that committee provided other opportunities, including as outbound liaison to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the CDC Genetic Testing Reference Materials Coordination Program.

Dr. Jennings serves as director of the HLA and molecular diagnostic laboratory of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Lifetime Achievement award, to Debra G.B. Leonard, MD, PhD, for her broad and positive impact on the pathology profession through contributions to the CAP in numerous areas. She has been a member of the Molecular Pathology Committee, Council on Government and Professional Affairs, and Personalized Medicine Work Group, and she has served as co-chair and chair of the Personalized Health Care Committee.

Dr. Leonard is chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, and serves on the board of directors of the UVM Medical Group. She continues to practice molecular pathology at UVM Medical Center.

Lifetime Achievement award, to Ronald B. Lepoff, MD, for his broad and positive impact on pathology through numerous contributions to the CAP. He has served as secretary-treasurer, as a governor, as chair of the Accreditation Committee, as vice chair of the Council on Scientific Affairs, as chair and vice chair of the Laboratory Fiscal Management Committee, as chair and deputy regional commissioner of the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation, and as a member of numerous committees spanning the entire CAP structure, most recently the Personalized Health Care and Election Oversight committees.

Dr. Lepoff is a professor and executive vice chair of pathology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and director of clinical laboratories at the University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora.

Lifetime Achievement award, to Mary Kay Washington, MD, PhD, for her leadership and numerous contributions to the CAP. She is a member of the Center Committee and has been vice chair and chair of and advisor to the Cancer Committee.
Dr. Washington is a tenured professor of pathology and director of gastrointestinal and hepatic pathology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Lifetime Achievement award, posthumously to Thomas M. Williams, MD, for his service to the CAP and his contributions to pathology. He served as chair of the CAP’s Pharmacogenomics Working Group, where he spearheaded the development of the online pharmacogenomics education program. He also served on the CAP’s Histocompatibility and Identity Testing Resource Committee and the CAP/ACMG Biochemical and Molecular Genetics Resource Committee.

Dr. Williams was executive vice dean, chair of pathology, and professor of pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Lik Hang Lee, MD, for his enthusiasm to engage in issues that affect pathology and patient care at local, national, and international levels. Dr. Lee will attend the CAP Residents Forum meeting or 2016 CAP Policy Meeting, or both. In addition to getting involved with policy at the international level, Dr. Lee would like to use the knowledge he gains from attending the meeting to influence practice at the local level.

Dr. Lee recently completed his anatomic pathology residency at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He is completing a gastrointestinal and liver pathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Andres Moon, MD, in honor of his goal to incorporate active discussion and learning of current policies and issues surrounding pathology practice into residency training. Dr. Moon hopes to attend the Residents Forum meeting and 2016 CAP Policy Meeting to bring back relevant ideas to share with other residents. His plan is to use the award’s financial support to gain insight into the policies and issues shaping pathology practice outside the confines of the laboratory.

He is a third-year resident at Emory University Hospital.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Julia A. Ross, MD, PhD, to support her goal to continue being involved in the CAP Residents Forum to make positive changes in resident education. The award will enable her to help create and promote opportunities for professional, educational, and leadership advancement.

Dr. Ross is a fourth-year anatomic and clinical pathology resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Amelia B. Sybenga, DO, for her commitment to advocating on behalf of her patients and her profession. Her aim is to learn how the political institution functions, how to encourage involvement, how to form relationships and teams to bring change, and to communicate what she has learned across the residency program through a lecture series.

Dr. Sybenga is chief resident in the third year of her residency in Temple, Tex., at Scott & White Memorial Hospital, which is a part of Texas A&M Health Science Center.

Laboratory Improvement Programs Service award, to Gary L. Horowitz, MD, for his numerous contributions to the CAP’s proficiency testing, learning, and accreditation programs. He serves on the Council on Scientific Affairs and as chair of the Chemistry Resource Committee.

Dr. Horowitz is associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and medical director of clinical chemistry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Laboratory Accreditation Program Service award, to Francis E. Sharkey, MD, for his commitment and service to the CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program. Dr. Sharkey has served as a regional commissioner on the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation, as chair and education commissioner of its Accreditation Education Committee, and as a member and chair of its Complaints and Investigations Committee. He now serves as a member of the Accreditation Committee.

He is director of autopsy service for University Health Systems in San Antonio and a professor of pathology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Excellence in Teaching award, to Kevin O. Leslie, MD, for his contributions as a three-time faculty member at CAP annual meetings and for consistently earning high ratings for overall course value and faculty effectiveness.

Dr. Leslie is a professor of pathology at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., and a consultant in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale.

Excellence in Teaching award, to Bobbi S. Pritt, MD, for her contributions as an eight-time faculty member at CAP annual meetings, where she consistently earned high marks for course value and teaching effectiveness.

Dr. Pritt is an associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology, director of the clinical parasitology and initial processing laboratory in the Division of Clinical Microbiology, and vice chair of education for the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

Excellence in Education award, to James L. Connolly, MD, for his leadership and expertise in breast pathology education, especially for his dedication to the Multidisciplinary Breast Pathology Advanced Practical Pathology Program, or MBP AP3. Dr. Connolly and his colleagues were instrumental in developing and implementing the program’s curriculum.

As a former CAP Cancer Committee member, he is a coauthor of the original protocols for reporting breast cancer, and his committee in 2000 developed a CD-ROM featuring those protocols.

Dr. Connolly is a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and a senior pathologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he recently served as director of the pathology residency training program and director of selective pathology fellowships (in breast, GI, and surgical pathology) training program. He is chair of the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.