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The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, abbreviated USCAP, is the largest North American organization of pathologists. USCAP has been the most prestigious provider of continuing medical education (CME) for pathologists globally for more than a century, superbly integrating CME into the process for improving professional practice and patient outcomes by reducing the gap between evidence-based practices and adoption of those practices into clinical care. Although many pathologists do not see patients directly, they unquestionably provide effective patient care. Therefore, while USCAP is not a health care delivery institution, it provides scalpel-edge educational information and the new results of translational research literally as they happen, as well as information and educational activities addressing best practice standards for pathology.

All medical specialties, including pathology, face a common barrier to change: information overload. It is this barrier that USCAP is poised to remove or overcome by its style of educational delivery, directed primarily to pathologists, with secondary influence on clinicians but a direct positive effect on patients. As a member organization (10,000), it is driven to be a prominent solution provider and practice changer in support of members and pathology trainees.

In order to overcome the challenge of information overload, USCAP organizes information in a wide variety of packets or modules that can be assimilated in learning episodes in order to manage contemporary information and “breaking news” in research. For example, over 3,000 abstracts are submitted on diverse pathology topics annually. These are carefully vetted and selected to provide poster sessions or succinct 10-15 minute platform sessions to give learners access to the newest information in aliquots they can digest (usually 1,500 abstracts are selected and divided as posters/platform presentations). In addition, this information is also available online, so that participants can review information or continue to gain new information at home following the Annual Meeting. Furthermore, because the acceptance of an abstract is prestigious and the presentations are excellent opportunities to network, pathologists whose abstracts are accepted are among the most compliant and pliable to change. They develop reverence for USCAP as their career paths are enhanced.

CME is delivered through a variety of mechanisms including posters, platform plenary sessions, short courses, a long course, interactive microscopy courses, stand-alone courses, and online digital assets for delivery on a variety of mobile devices.

USCAP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to grant CME credits and by the American Board of Pathology to provide SAMs credits.

Interactive Center

USCAP is dedicated to pursuing the development of modern digital assets that will further condense important information into manageable modules delivered electronically, at the convenience of the participant. The development of the USCAP Interactive Center in Palm Springs, California, a digital environment for mentoring by interactive microscopy and teaching ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy, will be expanded with a broadcast studio and conference theater where new digital assets can be created and distributed, particularly to low-resource countries.

eLearning

USCAP is poised to manage information overload customized to accommodate to your schedule with its powerful eLearning Center and mobile digital assets. USCAP organizes information in a variety of modules and packaged assets that can be assimilated in learning episodes, from reprised short courses to educational materials from various presentations at Annual Meetings, Diagnostic Cytopathology, Diagnostic Pathology Update and Practical Pathology Seminars.

The USCAP Foundation

Funds raised by the Foundation are used for diverse initiatives from supporting pathology education in underserved countries to advancing diagnostic interpretative excellence by applying technology and contemporary learning modalities.

Annual Meeting

The USCAP holds their Annual Meeting in a North American city in March. It is the World's largest pathology meeting with an international audience attending over 100 courses, meetings, conferences, as well as an exhibition hall.^[1]

Presidents

• 
  Christopher D.M. Fletcher (2017-18 )


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  N. Volkan Adsay (2016-17 )


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  John R. Goldblum (2015-16 )


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  Celeste N. Powers (2014-15 )


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  Jeffrey L. Myers (2013-14 )


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  Linda D. Ferrell (2012-13 )


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  Gregory N. Fuller (2011-12 )


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  Stuart J. Schnitt (2010-11 )


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  Richard J. Zarbo (2009-10 )


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  Victor R. Reuter (2008-09 )


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  Christopher P. Crum (2007-08 )


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  Henry D. Appelman (2006-07 )


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  Sylvia L. Asa (2005-06 )


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  Ricardo V. Lloyd (2004-05 )


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  Virginia A. LiVolsi (2003-04 )


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  Louis P. Dehner (2002-03 )


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  Ronald DeLellis (2001-02 )


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  Deborah Powell (2000-01 )


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  Harvey Goldman (1999-00 )


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  Elaine S. Jaffe (1998-99 )


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  Sharon Weiss (1997-98 )


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  Richard Kempson (1996-97 )


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  William Gardner (1995-96 )


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  Hector Battifora (1994-95 )


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  Ramzi S. Cotran (1993-94 )


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  Peter A. Ward (1992-93 )


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  Costan W. Berard (1991-92 )


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  David F. Hardwick (1990-91 )


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  Cecilia Fenoglio-Preiser (1989-90 )


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  Ronald S. Weinstein (1988-89 )


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  Robert Leader (1987-88 )


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  John Yardley (1986-87 )


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  Robert McCluskey (1985-86 )


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  David M. Robertson (1984-85 )


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  F. Stephen Vogel (1983-84 )


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  Bernard M. Wagner (1982-83 )


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  Leland D. Stoddard (1981-82 )


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  Kenneth M. Earle (1980-81 )


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  William Hartmann (1979-80 )


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  Jack P. Strong (1978-79 )


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  Benjamin F. Trump (1977-78 )


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  Jack M. Layton (1976-77 )


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  Murray R. Abell (1975-76 )


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  Richard E. Palmer (1974-75 )


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  Nathan Kaufman (1973-74 )


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  F. K. Mostofi (1972-73 )


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  William Christopherson (1971-72 )


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  T. C. Jones (1970-71 )


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  Edward A. Gall (1969-70 )


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  Joshua L. Edwards (1968-69 )


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  Robert H. More (1967-68 )


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  A. James French (1966-67 )


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  Henry D. Moon (1965-66 )


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  David E. Smith (1964-65 )


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  J. Lowell Orbison (1963-64 )


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  John B. Hazard (1962-63 )


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  Benjamin Castleman (1961-62 )


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  F. W. Wiglesworth (1960-61 )


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  Robert E. Stowell (1959-60 )


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  Chapman H. Binford (1958-59 )


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  William O. Russell, Jr. (1957-58 )


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  Edward B. Smith (1956-57 )


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  Jesse E. Edwards (1955-56 )


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  Harold Stewart (1954-55 )


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  Averill A. Liebow (1953-54 )


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  James B. McNaught (1952-53 )


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  Granville A. Bennett (1951-52 )


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  G. Lyman Duff (1950-51 )


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  James E. Ash (1949-50 )


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  Everett L. Bishop (1948-49 )


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  Ralph D. Lillie (1947-48 )


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  Samuel R. Haythorn (1942-47 )


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  William H. Feldman (1941-42 )


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  Tracy B. Mallory (1940-41 )


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  William H. Feldman (1941-42 )


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  Tracy B. Mallory (1940-41 )


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  James E. Ash (1939-40 )


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  Carl V. Weller (1938-39 )


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  V. H. Cornell (1936-38 )


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  William Boyd (1934-36 )


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  Victor Jacobsen (1933-34 )


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  George R. Callender (1932-33 )


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  H. E. Robertson (1929-32 )


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  James F. Coupal (1924-29 )


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  F. B. Mallory (1922-24 )


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  James Ewing (1921-22 )


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  W. M. L. Coplin (1920-21)


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  O. Klotz (1918-19 )


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  A. S. Warthin (1916-18 )


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  Karl Aschoff (1914-16 )


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  R. M. Pearce (1912-13 )


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  A. S. Warthin (1910-11 )


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  W. G. MacCallum (1908-09 )


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  James Carroll (1907)

See also

• American Medical Association


• Canadian Medical Association

Journals

USCAP is the publisher to two major pathology journals, Laboratory Investigation and Modern Pathology.

References