Board of Directors

Dr. Aadil Ahmed is the Director of the Dermatopathology Section at the Illinois Dermatology Institute in Chicago, IL. He earned his medical degree from Dow University of Health Sciences in Karachi, Pakistan, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He then underwent residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, followed by advanced fellowships in hematopathology at Yale University and dermatopathology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Dr. Ahmed has been recognized with several national honors, including the 2018 College of American Pathologists (CAP) Foundation Leadership Development Award and the 2019 CAP Resident of the Year Award. With a strong publication record and a passion for inspiring the next generation of pathologists, he has held leadership roles such as serving on the CAP Hematology and Microscopy Committee, the CAP Foundation Grants Committee, and as Chair of the Young Physicians Committee for the American Society of Dermatopathology, among others.

Outside of his professional work, Dr. Ahmed enjoys CrossFit and traveling, always seeking new challenges and experiences.

Dr. Carey August has recently retired from her position as Chairman of Pathology at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. During her career at the hospital, she also served as Medical Staff President and held teaching positions, most recently Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology at Rosalind Franklin University. As an active member of the CAP, Dr. August serves as Advisor on the Professional and Community Engagement Committee, which she chaired for four years. She has served in the Engaged Leaders Network and the Council on Membership and Professional Development. To promote the “voice” of pathologists, Dr. August serves as faculty of the annual Engaged Leadership Academy, has answered numerous calls for interviews and video participation, and received the Outstanding Communicator Award at CAP16.

After serving as President of the CAP Foundation Board, Dr. August remains on the Board as Immediate Past President. A native of Connecticut transplanted to Chicago, Dr. August received her BS in Biology from Yale University, followed by her MD from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She completed her AP/CP training at Northwestern as well, where, upon completion of her residency, she served as Attending Pathologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology before joining the medical staff of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Dr. August is currently President of YaleWomen Chicago.

Dr. Baker holds a bachelor of science in chemistry from Morehouse College, a master of science in cancer biology, prevention, and control from the University of the District of Columbia, and a doctor of philosophy in tumor biology from Georgetown University.

Dr. Baker began his career at Roche in 2017 as a scientific affairs manager on the Tissue Diagnostics Team as a part of US Medical Affairs. Prior to joining Roche, he served as a research scientist and molecular science liaison for Caris Life Sciences. He is passionate about dissolving health disparities and searches for innovative ways to provide health care for those in need. Outside of his role at Roche, Dr. Baker previously served as the board chair of Community of Hope, a non-profit organization which strives to end homelessness and provide equitable health care to struggling families in the Washington, DC, area.

Dr. Baker currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife, DaJoie, and twin boys, Croslan and Ellis. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, perfecting barbecuing techniques, exercising, and discussing the disruptive effects of blockchain technology on health care.

Dr. Baskota was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal. She is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Department of Pathology and Cell Biology in New York.

Dr. Baskota is board certified in anatomic pathology with sub-specialty board certification in cytopathology. She completed her anatomic pathology residency and cytopathology fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2021. Prior to her training in the United States, she attended medical school at Kathmandu University and completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency training at the National Academy of Medical Sciences in Kathmandu. She practiced anatomic and clinical pathology in her home country for two years.

Dr. Baskota was honored by the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) with the 2020 Dr. Bernard Naylor Excellence in Cytomorphology Award. She also serves as a member of both the ASC eJournal committee and of the editorial board for The ASC Bulletin.

Within the CAP, Dr. Baskota currently serves as a House of Delegates alternate delegate for the state of New York. Previously, she served as a delegate on the Residents Forum and as a member of the Residents Forum-House of Delegates Action Group. She also served as a junior member on the Cytopathology Committee from 2019–2020. She is currently a member of both the Engaged Leadership Academy and the Engaged Leadership Network and was a panelist in a CAP21 webinar regarding pathology residency application.

Dr. Baskota’s prior involvement with the CAP Foundation includes mentoring a recipient of the 2019 Medical Student Travel Award.

Sara Herbek is a legal operations consultant and corporate immigration attorney focused on providing strategic immigration advice regarding the movement of professionals throughout the world with almost 20 years of industry experience.

She received her undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and her juris doctor degree at Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago. Ms. Herbek is licensed to practice in Illinois and has been admitted to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Ninth Circuits as well as the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Ms. Herbek is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and routinely provides training and supplemental education through webinars and presentations to human resources and talent acquisition teams. Outside of work, Ms. Herbek enjoys playing with her puppy, Poppy, doing pilates, walking, reading, and spending time with friends and family.

Dr. Megha Joshi has been a practicing community hospital pathologist in Massachusetts for the past 25 years. She currently serves as senior staff pathologist at Beth Israel Lahey Health in Winchester and also as a medical director at one of the hospital’s outreach laboratories.

Impressed by the cutting-edge medicine practiced in the US and knowing the situation in India first-hand, Dr. Joshi wished to bridge the gap. In 1995, a year out of residency and in her first job, she founded the Association of Indian Pathologists in North America (AIPNA), a non-profit pathology organization, to interact with pathology services outside the US. For her dedication to this organization, she was awarded the Lorraine Duggan Genzyme Award and the AIPNA silver medal. Dr. Joshi continues to serve as an executive vice president of AIPNA, an organization that supports pathology education around the world.

Beyond AIPNA, Dr. Joshi is involved in several other global pathology initiatives. As founder and executive committee member of the Molecular Pathology Association of India, she suggests speakers, attends meetings, and actively participates in and promotes molecular pathology in India. A visiting professor to Rural Medical School, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences in Karad, India, she has taught residents in a case-based, hands-on format via annual teaching assignments since 2004.

Dr. Joshi is an active member of the College of American Pathologists and has served on several CAP committees, including the Member Engagement Committee, HOD Steering Committee, and the Quality and Clinical Data Affairs Registry.

Dr. Knight is currently senior advisor for PathGroup Laboratories in Nashville, where she was previously medical director of cytopathology and women’s health. Board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and cytopathology, Dr. Knight received her medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and did her residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Emory University. She subsequently completed a surgical pathology fellowship at University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas. She practiced first in Dallas and then for an extended time in Dalton, Georgia, where she was laboratory medical director at Hamilton Medical Center and president of associates in laboratory medicine.

Dr. Knight has been actively involved with the College of American Pathologists for two decades. In October of 2022 she completed two terms as speaker of the House of Delegates and eight years as an ex officio member of the CAP Board of Governors. She has been honored to serve on numerous CAP councils and committees and has had a deep commitment to CAP advocacy. Currently Dr. Knight is a member of the Council on Government and Professional Affairs, the Council on Membership and Professional Development, the PathPAC Board of Directors, chair of the State Pathology Society Member Workgroup. She is particularly delighted to have been recently elected to the Foundation Board of Directors.

Her role as mother to a rising broadcast journalist is perhaps her favorite, but Dr. Knight has also been involved with numerous local organizations and nonprofit/philanthropic boards involving health care, the arts, and the community.

Working with Indiana University’s National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, Dr. Rohr-Kirchgraber leads efforts to improve the health of Indiana women via an outreach program and statewide collaborations, as well as by influencing policy decisions. A professor of clinical medicine and pediatrics at Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine, Dr. Rohr-Kirchgraber has served in a number of leadership positions at health care and medical organizations. She was the first Hispanic woman to serve as president of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA), from 2015 to 2016, and was vice-chair of the American Medical Association (AMA) Women’s Physician Section. She is an Inaugural Fellow of AMWA and is recognized for outstanding achievements in science, medicine, and academia.

Dr. Rohr-Kirchgraber has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the IUPUI Outstanding Woman Leader Award, the AMA Innovations in Medicine Award, the AMWA “Exceptional Mentor” Award, and the IU Trustee Teaching Award. She has been named one of Indianapolis Monthly’s “Top Doctors” and in 2017 the Indianapolis Business Journal named her a “Woman of Influence.”

An internist, Dr. Rohr-Kirchgraber’s clinical expertise is caring for adults and adolescents with eating disorders. She primarily cares for those with chronic conditions, including childhood cancer survivors. Her emphasis is on wellness and the prevention of disease. Prior to 2007, she was on the faculty at the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Emory School of Medicine. She graduated from Weill Cornell Medicine and completed her residency in internal medicine at University Hospital of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University.

With over 30 years of leadership and management experience, Karen Mudd is a nonprofit sector professional specializing in resource development. She has held positions in national, state, and community-based organizations with budgets ranging from $100,000 to $80 million, advancing a wide spectrum of missions from health care and human services to social justice, higher education, and the arts. Since 2010, she has operated as an independent fundraising consultant in the Seattle area, accepting long-term interim development executive staffing assignments and helping to facilitate smooth organizational transitions.

Originally from small town southern Illinois, Karen earned a bachelor’s degree from Webster University and a master’s degree from George Washington University. She lived and worked in Philadelphia for 20 years, where she met her wife, M.E. “Doc” De Baca, MD, FCAP, then a pathology resident and already involved with the CAP. Over the years, Karen has interacted frequently with CAP and CAP Foundation members and staff and has gained respect and admiration for the service they provide. She is grateful to consider them part of the family and eager to give back in appreciation of how they’ve enriched her life.

Dr. Hafsa Nebbache is a fourth-year resident in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Kentucky. She earned her medical degree from the Algiers Faculty of Medicine in Algeria. In the 2025-2026 academic year, Dr. Nebbache will complete a cytopathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, followed by a breast pathology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Nebbache is currently the Junior Member of the New in Practice Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and serves as the liaison for the AMA Resident and Fellow Section. She is also the Chief Resident in the University of Kentucky department of pathology residency program, and is actively involved in the Graduate Medical Education Committee at the University of Kentucky.

Driven by a passion for patient advocacy and pathology, Dr. Nebbache mentors’ medical students, particularly those interested in the pathology field. She served as a mentor through the Pathology Medical Student Interest Group at the University of Kentucky and as a mentor through the CAP Foundation’s Medical Student Awardee Program.

Dr. Deb Perry is a practicing pathologist at Nebraska Methodist and Women’s hospitals and Children’s Nebraska Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. She served as laboratory medical director of Children’s laboratory for 22 years and as laboratory director of Methodist and Women’s laboratories for 7 years. She has served as medical staff president at Children’s Nebraska, serves on medical staff committees at Children’s, Methodist and Women’s hospitals and is a member of the Methodist Hospital Board of Directors.

Dr. Perry attended medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), residency at the University of Iowa and a hematopathology fellowship at UNMC. She has anatomic and clinical pathology board certification and hematology and pediatric pathology subspecialty boards. As part of a 15 member pathology group she focuses predominantly on hematopathology and pediatric pathology.

With years as an active member of the CAP, Dr. Perry has been chair of the POCT committee, served on the Hematology resource, Publications, Nominating and Accreditation committees and is currently on the Council of Accreditation. She has been on many CAP inspections, both nationally and internationally. In conjunction with two other pathologists, Dr. Perry received the CAP Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013 for leading the Laboratory Medical Directorship course for many years. In 2024 she was given the CAP Distinguished Service Award. She is looking forward to working with the CAP Foundation Board to continue positively impacting patients.

Terrence Shirley, MPH, is an experienced health care administration leader. Prior to his appointment as CEO of the Community Health Center Association of Mississippi, Mr. Shirley worked for eight years as administrator of the Cancer Institute at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and has been active in the health care industry since 1980. In addition to working at UMMC in various leadership roles since the late 1990s, Mr. Shirley has extensive experience as a director of federally supported community health centers and state-level public health services in the southeast. A few of the operational leadership positions he has held include: Region 4 health officer for Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in Tampa; president/CEO of the Tampa Community Health Centers Inc.; interim-president/CEO, Tampa General Healthcare; and administrator for clinical support services, ambulatory operations, radiation oncology, and the Cancer Institute at UMMC.

In addition to operational leadership positions, he has served in governance leadership positions that include local, state, regional, and national task forces, coalitions, and boards and currently serves on the Jackson Preparatory School board of directors.

Mr. Shirley calls his appointment as CEO to the association a homecoming. In the early days of the Community Health Center Association of Mississippi’s establishment in the mid-1980s, Mr. Shirley assisted the director in coordinating activities to meet the various educational, programmatic, and political needs of Mississippi’s community health centers.

Mr. Shirley has a master of public health from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and earned his bachelor of science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Dr. Eva M. Wojcik is the chair of the Department of Pathology and an endowed professor of pathology and urology at Loyola University Medical Center. She is a renowned pathologist who has a special interest in genito-urinary cytopathology. Dr. Wojcik is certified in anatomic pathology and clinical pathology as well as cytopathology by the American Board of Pathology.

A past president of the American Society of Cytopathology, Dr. Wojcik is currently an associate editor of the society’s journal. She also serves on editorial boards for Diagnostic Cytopathology and the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Dr. Wojcik has been a frequent invited speaker at numerous international, national, and regional forums. She led international efforts to standardize reporting of urinary cytology that culminated with the publication of The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology.

An active member of the CAP, Dr. Wojcik has organized multiple See, Test & Treat programs at Loyola University Medical Center.

Dr. Yuil-Valdes was born and raised in Panama. She is currently an Associate Professor and Medical Director of the Cytopathology Division at the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

She is board-certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Cytopathology, and Hematopathology. She completed her Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency at Northwell Health in New York. Then, she pursued fellowships in Cytopathology at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut and Surgical Pathology and Hematopathology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

She is actively involved in education and is a member of several resident-centric education committees at UNMC. Dr. Yuil-Valdes has been honored with the “Excellence in Resident Education Award.”

She is an enthusiastic member of the CAP Foundation, dedicated to advocating for the pathology profession. Since 2017, she has volunteered for the See, Test, and Treat Program in Omaha, Nebraska. Additionally, she serves on the CAP Foundation’s See, Test & Treat Committee and chairs the See, Test & Treat Communities of Practice. In recognition of her contributions, she received the Gene and Jean Herbek Humanitarian Award at CAP24.

Dr. Yuil-Valdes is passionate about educating patients on cervical and breast cancer screenings and emphasizes the importance of pathologists interacting with patients.