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In memoriam: Harold E. Bowman, MD (1925–2019)

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April 2019—Harold E. Bowman, MD, a member of the CAP Board of Governors from 1979 to 1985, died on Feb. 1 at age 93.

Dr. Bowman retired in 1994 as director of laboratories at St. Lawrence Hospital, now Sparrow Hospital, in Lansing, Mich., and as associate chair, Department of Pathology, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.

Dr. Bowman was a member of the CAP Foundation Board of Directors and treasurer and president of the CAP Foundation from 1980 to 1990. He was also chair of the Council on Education and of the Commission on Anatomic Pathology.

Dr. Bowman

“He was a very nice gentleman who was committed to the foundation,” says Paul Bachner, MD, who joined the CAP Foundation Board of Directors when Dr. Bowman was president. “He was key in developing some of their programs.”

“I remember that he went out of his way to acclimate me to the foundation board, despite the fact that we didn’t always agree on certain things,” says Dr. Bachner, a professor and immediate past chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kentucky, where he served as director of laboratories from 1993 to 2015. “He was always very collegial.”

Joseph Leverone, MD, who also served with Dr. Bowman on the CAP Foundation Board of Directors, remembers him as someone who “had a ready smile and was very concerned about the future of the CAP, especially in terms of the younger pathologists.” Dr. Leverone is medical director of laboratory services, HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn., and president of Central Regional Pathology Laboratories, Maplewood, Minn.

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