Posts by Lisa Tomcko
Dr. Wojcik Reflects on the Foundation’s Successful 2022
In my first official president’s message for the CAP Foundation newsletter, I find myself returning to the wonderful time we all had at the CAP22 annual meeting in New Orleans this past October. I’ve been reliving the one-of-kind “Password Pathology” event through photos and videos that we’ll be sure to share. Thank you to all…
Read MoreGenentech Supports CAP Foundation Goals, Initiatives
In 2016, leaders at Genentech, a biotechnology corporation and member of the Roche group, recognized a potential partnership with the CAP Foundation in promoting and advancing pathology and laboratory medicine. The two organizations started by co-hosting webinars and, later, a roundtable discussion in 2020 to explore the role of pathologists in patient care and how…
Read MoreFoundation Welcomes New Leaders
On October 7, the CAP Foundation Board of Directors met in New Orleans before the CAP22 annual meeting to approve several new initiatives, grants, and awards that will keep the CAP Foundation on track toward achieving its goals going into 2023. The board also officially passed leadership on to a new president and vice president…
Read MoreSee, Test & Treat Through a Resident’s Eyes
Adeyinka Akinsanya leaned over a table, chatting with the teenager standing opposite him and explaining the slides he’d slipped under a microscope setup between them. Akinsanya, a second-year resident in the Department of Pathology at Indiana University School of Medicine, said he loves educational moments like this. Often people don’t fully comprehend the work that…
Read MoreFrom the President: Join the CAP Foundation at CAP22
If you’re anything like me and the rest of the CAP Foundation, we’re excited for autumn: the sweaters, the falling leaves, the pumpkin spice … and the CAP22 annual meeting! That’s right, the CAP Foundation will be in New Orleans October 8–11 for the biggest pathology event of the year. And this year is sure…
Read MoreSee, Test & Treat Gives Patient Crucial Diagnosis, Care
Claudia Orozco knew the risks of cervical cancer before she checked in for her appointment at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx during their See, Test & Treat program in May of 2021. The disease upended Claudia’s family when her mother died from cervical cancer at the age of 33. Even so, Claudia had not…
Read More“Get Involved Early,” Says Leadership Award Winner
You would not know it hearing her talk about her residency at the University of Chicago Medical Center and her future fellowship plans, but Jasmine Vickery, MD, tells the CAP Foundation she feels like she got a late start in pathology involvement outside of the day-to-day responsibilities and demands of her residency. “I wish I…
Read MoreFoundation Reports on $2.3 Million Fundraising Effort
A new report from the CAP Foundation covers everything you need to know about the Empowering Our Future campaign, which successfully raised over $2.358 million from six corporate and 64 individual donors in 2021 to support pathologists and their patients for years to come. The Empowering Our Future 2021 Campaign Report gets the inside scoop…
Read MoreFoundation Reflects on 2021 Achievements
In 2021, the world faced more surprises, ups and downs, and starts and restarts in a second, turbulent pandemic year. But thanks to our dedicated pathologists, supporters, and volunteers, 2021 was a historical year of support and impact for the CAP Foundation. Responding to the ongoing pandemic, the CAP Foundation continued to provide safe, essential…
Read MoreDr. Barbarajean Magnani Talks Novels, CAP Foundation
Barbarajean Magnani, MD, PhD, FCAP, has found success in both the medical laboratory and on the written page, connecting with patients and readers through her dual career as a pathologist and novelist. (Her authorial pursuits were previously spotlighted in a 2019 CAP Foundation Our Story.) The main character of her novels, Dr. Lily Robinson, is…
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