Listen: CAP Foundation Chat—Pathology Grants and Awards

The CAP Foundation aims to develop tomorrow’s pathology leaders through awards for advanced training, research, and education, as well as to mobilize pathologists to expand health equity in medically underserved communities within the US and globally.

To give potential applicants and supporters a behind-the-scenes look at these awards and their impact, the CAP Foundation hosted a special episode of the CAPcast series that features a panel discussion among three recipients of Foundation grants and awards.

Listen to the full episode and meet the panelists below:

Amanda Herrmann, MD, PhD: 2021 Leadership Development Award, immediate past chair of the Residents Forum Executive Committee, and currently a transfusion fellow at Houston Methodist Hospital.

“I do not think I would have been as involved with the CAP or gotten to the level of my involvement with the CAP without the Foundation, the Engaged Leadership Academy, and the Leadership Development Award,” Dr. Herrmann said. “Not only did it provide the skills to be very vocal and excited and get others excited about pathology, but it also immersed me in a community of other pathologists who are also very excited about being leaders.”

Kelsey Hummel, DO: 2023 Global Pathology Development Grant, cytopathology fellow at MD Anerson Cancer Center.

“One of the issues I found in my residency is that it was very difficult to find funding to actually do projects in other countries …” Dr. Hummel said. “I was very excited when I heard that we’d won [the Foundation Grant] because this was no longer just a talk that we would have, thinking about all these different projects that we could do. It actually was becoming a reality.”

Matthew Luo, MD: 2021 Informatics Award, digital strategy liaison of the Residents Forum Executive Committee, and fourth year AP/CP resident at the University of Utah/ARUP Laboratories.

“I first learned about the CAP Foundation through the Residents Forum and it seemed like a wonderful organization that helps foster trainees’ love for the field of pathology,” Dr. Luo said. “It changed my career trajectory one thousand percent.”

Learn more and apply for grants and awards offered by the CAP Foundation.

Special thanks to Masa Peric, MD, Junior Member of the CAP Foundation Board of Directors, for serving as moderator of this discussion.