Our Stories

Last year, we celebrated how your support links us together. Like a friendship bracelet, each gift forming a chain of impact. This year, we’re going a step deeper: highlighting the people, the threads, who make those connections possible. Meet Joanna Cermak, the Imagination Thread. As the Foundation’s Communications and Donor Relations Manager, Joanna helps bring...

The 2025 CAP Foundation Keitges Grant for Medical Ethics supported Paula Danika A. Binsol, MD, in bringing together pathology professionals and trainees in Manila, Philippines, to explore the role of ethics in laboratory medicine. Read her experience and the impact of creating meaningful conversations across borders. When I first imagined this project, I knew the...

Last year, we celebrated how your support links us together, like a friendship bracelet, each gift forming a chain of impact. This year, we're going a step deeper by highlighting the people, the threads, who make those connections possible. Meet Ranjana Paintal, Program Manager for See, Test & Treat®. Through her work leading the Foundation's...

Audrey didn’t start her capstone project thinking she was going to end up with a book, or that it would somehow connect her work to real-world cancer screening and early detection efforts. She just knew she wanted to build something meaningful while exploring ideas for her high school capstone. Through that process, she was connected...

Medical school functions like a high-speed, 4-year commuter train with rigid, mandatory stops (exams/rotations) and little room for unscheduled delays. One stop that is lacking is the pathology station. Long-time CAP Member, Dr. Ronald Spark, recognized this gap and shared his interest with the CAP Foundation in getting more medical students involved in pathology. While...

Last year, we celebrated how your support links us together. Like a friendship bracelet, each gift forming a chain of impact. This year, we’re going a step deeper: highlighting the people, the threads, who make those connections possible. Meet Julia, Senior Manager, Program and Fund Administration. Through her work, she helps bring clarity, structure, and...

There is a moment in every patient's story that no one talks about. It happens before the treatment plan. Before the surgery. Before the conversation in the doctor's office where everything changes. It happens in a laboratory, under a microscope, in the hands of a pathologist or laboratory professional whose name the patient will never...

Last year, we celebrated how your support links us together. Like a friendship bracelet, each gift forming a chain of impact. This year, we’re going a step deeper: highlighting the people, the threads, who make those connections possible. Meet Konnie, Manager of Grant Development. Through her work, she helps turn ideas into action bringing energy,...

Last year, we celebrated how your support links us together. Like a friendship bracelet, each gift forming a chain of impact. This year, we’re going deeper by highlighting the people, the threads, who make it all possible. Meet Ranya Gabb, our Operations Manager. She’s the one who keeps the day-to-day moving smoothly, connecting people, ideas,...

There is a woman in nearly every story we tell. She is the physician leaning over a microscope long after her shift has ended. She is the medical student studying late into the night. She is the mother who has postponed her own checkup one too many times. She is the grandmother holding together three...