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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...

For the CAP Foundation, spring means See, Test & Treat. Each year, the Foundation helps prepare partner institutions to open their doors to patients for free cervical and breast cancer screenings with same-day results. The program, now in its 12th year with the CAP Foundation, is a pathologist-led program that not only provides free cancer...

Before Amanda Herrmann, MD, PhD, served as chair of the CAP Residents Forum in 2023, she was introduced to the CAP and its many opportunities through a CAP Foundation Leadership Development Award in 2021. In this video, you’ll learn more from Dr. Herrmann about how that experience has helped shape her career and about other...

Thanks to supporters like you, the CAP Foundation finished 2023 with a lot to be proud of: we distributed the most awards and grants in a single year while continuing to deliver pathologist-led, free health care through See, Test & Treat. In our continued effort to improve health care equity in the United States and...

Alvin M. Ring, MD, FCAP, has helped lead several initiatives as a board member of the CAP Foundation and in 2020 gave a significant donation to establish the Future Leaders Fund. Throughout his 50-year career as a pathologist, professor, and mentor, Dr. Ring has understood the importance of cultivating the future leaders of the specialty...

Like many supporters of the CAP Foundation, my involvement began with a simple donation after I heard of its unique See, Test & Treat program, founded by my friend Gene Herbek, MD, FCAP. I simply had to support a Foundation that not only made a direct impact on patients but on my profession and its…

Over six years ago, my colleague John Baker, MD, FCAP, asked me to volunteer for an upcoming See, Test, and Treat program at Charles Drew Health Center in Omaha. I had heard about the program and respected its goal to deliver free cancer screenings to uninsured and medically underserved patients. However, it wasn’t until the…

As the lazy days of summer come to a close, the CAP Foundation has been busier than ever as we are on track to provide the highest number of awards and grants in a single year for 2023. As part of the Foundation’s global initiatives, 60 Global Pathology Education Awards will be honored in addition…

This is the second part of a two-part series covering the impact of the John H. Rippey Grant for Expedited Research on pathologists and their research. Read part one to learn how the grant was repositioned to address COVID-19 and how it provided unique opportunities for pathology residents. In the spring of 2020, medical laboratories…

In the spring of 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic upended health care and put laboratories under strain, the CAP Foundation pivoted to support new research and studies on COVID-19 topics surrounding test accuracy, timeliness, and result communication. The John H. Rippey Grant for Expedited Research was repositioned to help investigate and support laboratory initiatives related…