Our Stories

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation approximately 360,000 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024. While pathologists may not directly conduct mammograms, the CAP Foundation helps over 600 medically underserved patients a year access diagnostic medicine to screen for both breast and cervical cancer via...

Before her four-week training at Eli Lilly and Company’s Clinical Diagnostics Laboratory in Indianapolis, Couger Jimenez Jaramillo, MD, said her experience in various subspecialties could be more well-rounded. Having spent most of her previous research time in anatomical pathology Dr. Jaramillo said, “I think that this gap in my experience comes at the expense of...

As my time on the CAP Foundation Board of Directors comes to an end, I’d encourage any CAP Junior Member who wants to learn more about nonprofit work, make lasting connections in the field, or simply help the specialty to apply for this position before the October 31, 2024, deadline. Serving on the CAP Foundation...

The CAP Foundation Leadership Development Award introduces pathology residents to the specialty’s issues and leadership opportunities at the institutional, local, state, and national levels. The award enhances each recipient's education and experience on issues challenging the practice of pathology. In partnership with CAP Advocacy, four future pathology advocates attended the Pathologists Leadership Summit (PLS) in...

We’re halfway through 2024 and the CAP Foundation has plenty to celebrate and look forward to thanks to the support of donors, volunteers, supporters, and staff. So far this year, four See, Test & Treat programs have served over 200 patients in Mississippi, New York, West Virgina, and Texas. At least two patients have received...

The CAP Foundation has many supporters and friends that make up the membership and leadership of the College of American Pathologists. And throughout the Foundation’s history, the organization has had the privilege to work with many involved leaders and CAP presidents. That list now includes Donald S. Karcher, MD, FCAP, who was inaugurated as the...

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...