You deserve to know who is asking for your vote and what that person has actually done. Here is my record.
In practice
- Actively sign out cases, specializing in breast pathology and cytopathology, and committed to continue for at least the next 10 years to stay in touch with what matters most to practicing pathologists
- Vice-Chair for Anatomic Pathology and Informatics, Department of Pathology, and Director of Surgical Pathology, Duke University Health System
- Head of the anatomic pathology practice, leading a team of 56 pathologists
- Medical Director for Laboratory Information Systems and Director for Laboratory Informatics Strategy for Duke Health
- Work hand in hand with the community practice groups at Duke Regional, Duke Raleigh, and Duke Health Lake Norman
- Board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology, cytopathology, and clinical informatics
Business and financial stewardship
- Help the laboratory leadership team manage a $215 million laboratory budget for our health system
- Member of the CAP Finance Committee, Compensation Committee, and Executive Committee
- Established an overtime compensation model and a faculty effort survey, combined with volume data, to revalue service credit in Duke’s anatomic pathology practice
- Led the physician side of an enterprise-wide laboratory information system implementation across the health system
CAP leadership
- Member, Board of Governors (2017–2020 and 2025–present)
- Chair, Council on Education; Chair, Information Technology Leadership Committee; Vice Chair, Council on Informatics and Pathology Innovation
- Chair, Artificial Intelligence Committee (2021–2024); Chair, Informatics Committee (2011–2017)
- Vice Chair, Council on Scientific Affairs (2017–2020); Board Liaison, CAP Foundation Board (2019–2020)
- Vice Chair, Annual Meeting Strategy Execution Steering Committee
- CAP member since 1995, beginning in the Residents Forum, which I later chaired
- Long-time and current supporter of PathPAC and the CAP Foundation
What I have already done
- Led the physician side of laboratory system go-lives at Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke Regional Hospital, and Duke Hospital (2014)
- Led the laboratory IT build for COVID-19 testing across multiple platforms (2020–2021)
- Helped manage the rapid release of laboratory and pathology results to patients under the 21st Century Cures Act (2020–2021)
- Lead author of the IHE guideline for digital pathology interoperability (2021)
- Directed the CDC and CAP SNOMED CT specimen mapping project (2022)
- CAP’s representative on the SHIELD laboratory data harmonization steering committee (2023–present)
Standards and national voice
- Planning Co-Chair, IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine domain (2013–present)
- Member, HITAC Interoperability Standards Workgroup on USCDI versions 4, 5, and 6 (2023–2025)
- Member, Office of the National Coordinator Health IT Standards Committee (2016–2017) and WHO ICD-11 Technical Advisory Group on Neoplasms (2010–2014)
Recognition
- Distinguished Service Award, College of American Pathologists (2021)
- Pathology Advancement Award (2015) and President’s Honors Award (2003, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2020), College of American Pathologists