CAP16: All-star team presented with CAP and Foundation awards

Lifetime Achievement award, to Joan E. Etzell, MD, for her service to the CAP. She has made many contributions through her work on the Hematology/Clinical Microscopy Resource Committee, of which she is the former chair and vice chair and is now the committee’s advisor. Dr. Etzell is part of the Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center workgroup on acute leukemia, a contributor to the new edition of the Color Atlas of Hematology now in development, and an instructor in CAP meeting workshops and other educational activities.

She is vice president and medical director for Sutter Health Shared Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.

Lifetime Achievement award, to Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, for his contributions to medical education and his seminal research contributions that have advanced the specialty. The focus of his research has been the cellular and molecular biology of natural killer cells. His laboratory discovered in 1999 that mutations in the human perforin gene give rise to familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, which led to the development of a clinical test for the disease.

Dr. Kumar was a pathology course director at Boston University and UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He is the senior editor/author of Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease and Robbins Basic Pathology. He is involved now in developing new curricular models that employ technology for education.

Dr. Kumar is the Alice Hogge and Arthur A. Baer distinguished service professor and chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago.

Lifetime Achievement award, to Kailash B. Sharma, MD, for his service to the CAP. He has served in the House of Delegates, on the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation, and as chair of the Inspection Process Committee. He was the Gulf regional commissioner for five years. He is now a member of the International Venture Steering Committee and the Council on Accreditation and is the deputy international commissioner for Europe. Dr. Sharma helped bring laboratory best practices to India through the accreditation process.

He is the laboratory director for University Hospital in Augusta, Ga., and part of the clinical faculty at the Medical College of Georgia. He is also a medical examiner in Richmond County.

Laboratory Improvement Programs Service award, to William J. Castellani, MD, for his contributions to the programs. He is the interregional commissioner for the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation, chair of the Standards Committee, and a member of the Council on Accreditation. He serves on work groups for quality management in the clinical laboratory and is a former chair, vice chair, and advisor to the CAP 15189 Committee.

Dr. Castellani is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine.

Laboratory Accreditation Program Service award, to Stephen J. Sarewitz, MD, for his contributions and extensive service to the CAP’s accreditation program. He served on the Council on Accreditation as vice chair and on the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation as vice chair, chair of its Checklists Committee, checklist commissioner, special commissioner for complaint investigations, northwest regional commissioner, and Washington state commissioner, among other positions. Dr. Sarewitz is a past member of the CAP Board of Governors.

He is a member of the honorary medical staff at Valley Medical Center in Renton, Wash.

Excellence in Teaching award, to Richard M. Scanlan, MD, for his contributions in developing and presenting CAP inspector training and laboratory management education. He serves as an instructor for the Laboratory Medical Direction Advanced Practical Pathology Program (AP3) course and has been responsible for its compliance and accreditation modules since 2013.

Dr. Scanlan is chair of the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation.

He is a professor of pathology at Oregon Health and Science University.

Excellence in Education award, to Walter H. Henricks, MD, for his leadership, expertise, and influence in informatics education, especially in his support and advocacy of the CAP CME and GME programs.

Dr. Henricks has been instrumental in helping to define a strategy for clinical informatics that included direction for informatics education, priorities for CME education, and alignment with CAP strategic initiatives related to advancing the specialty. He led informatics-related education, including integrating informatics concepts into scientific courses at the CAP annual meeting as the education and accreditation subcommittee chair of the Informatics Committee. Dr. Henricks is also co-leader for collaboration among the Association of Pathology Chairs, the Association for Pathology Informatics, and the CAP in defining, developing, and implementing an informatics curriculum for residents.

He is a member of the Clinical Informatics Steering Committee and the Council on Accreditation and is vice chair of the Informatics Committee.

Dr. Henricks is vice chair of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute and medical director for the Center for Pathology Informatics, both at the Cleveland Clinic.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Jordan E. Baum, MD, for her interest in health care policy reform and her goal to educate herself at the CAP Policy Meeting. She is a junior member and Residents Forum delegate and chief resident in her fourth year of her anatomic and clinical pathology residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital at Weill Cornell Medicine.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to David A. Cohen, MD, for his interest in educating himself on becoming an advocate for pathology. He will attend the 2017 CAP Policy Meeting. Dr. Cohen is a junior member of the CAP Graduate Medical Education and Residents Forum Executive committees. He is in an anatomic pathology/clinical pathology residency at Houston Methodist Hospital.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Benjamin Cook, MD, for his plans to share with his peers in the Residents Forum the lessons and skills he has learned in his military pathology career and to learn from others in the Forum about leadership challenges and opportunities in pathology. He will begin teaching in his military leadership program. Dr. Cook, who has achieved the rank of captain, is a pathology resident at Madigan Army Medical Center in Fort Lewis, Wash.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Daniel S. Herman, MD, PhD, for his desire to further his understanding of the policies and regulations affecting pathology. He is the junior member on the Council on Government and Professional Affairs. At the time of the 2016 CAP Policy Meeting, which he attended, Dr. Herman was a third-year resident in clinical pathology at the University of Washington. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Andrea Pervine-Zaman Ho, MD, for her desire to improve resident training by collaborating with her peers in the Residents Forum. She is a third-year resident at Truman Medical Center of the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Sarmad Hassan Jassim, MD, for his desire to develop his interpersonal and leadership skills and to educate his department on topics covered at the CAP Policy Meeting. He is a resident at MetroHealth Medical Center at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Rebecca C. Obeng, MD, PhD, MPH, for her commitment to learning and expanding on her leadership and advocacy skills at the CAP Policy and Residents Forum meetings. She is a resident at Emory University Hospital.

CAP Foundation Leadership Development award, to Amy Thommasen, MD, for her dedication to learning new ways to improve patient care and to bringing more focus on laboratory specialties in medical education. She attended the Residents Forum meeting in Las Vegas. She is a fourth-year and chief resident at the University of Calgary in Canada.
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The following CAP staff and members received President’s Honors on Sept. 26:

Natasha H. Brinker, for making the CAP’s transition from FedEx to UPS a smooth one for international customers.

Scott Brinker, for his technical skill in managing the CAP’s security applications.

Rajesh C. Dash, MD, for his passion for “normalizing” and “mainstreaming” the CAP’s IT infrastructure.

Charles Fiegl, for his advocacy work.

Carrie A. Glas, for her work on the transition to use of UPS.

Jaimie M. Halley, for playing a central role in the delivery to market of next-generation sequencing programs as part of the CAP Surveys.

Shannon W. Hoekstra, for his technical infrastructure leadership and skill.

Richard E. Horowitz, MD, for his commitment to the CAP and the specialty.

Andrew E. Horvath, MD, for his perspective, enthusiasm, input, and role in what the CAP has become.

Katherine Jedlicka, for her market analysis and its part in the success of the CAP’s Laboratory Improvement Programs.

Yuan Liu, for her work in keeping the CAP up to date on international requirements and the changing landscape.

Raouf E. Nakhleh, MD, for leading the charge to instill in anatomic pathologists the belief and reliance on QC and QA.

David A. Novis, MD, for his passion for QA and for improving and defining the role of the House of Delegates.

James Orheim, for raising the status of the CAP’s marketing programs and establishing an integrated marketing capability.

Vahe H. Ovassapian, for his dedication during a time of much change in the CAP’s customer contact center.

John D. Pfeifer, MD, PhD, for his leadership in the evolution and deployment of next-generation sequencing at the CAP and Washington University.

Jane M. Shlaes, for 2015 Leader Lab, a professional staff leadership development experience.

Karim E. Sirgi, MD, MBA, for his commitment to advancing pathology.

Paul N. Valenstein, MD, for his valued service to the CAP.

Patricia Vasalos, for her leadership role in SPOT/Dx.

Elizabeth A. Wagar, MD, for her decades-long contributions to the CAP.

David A. Willis, for his leadership in connection with a malware incident and his role in managing Oracle software licensing arrangements.