Thomas J. Cummings, MD, Professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology, and Residency Program Director, was elected Member-At-Large (2021-2023, 1st Term) to the Association of Pathology Chairs Residency Program Directors Section Council.

Haley Davis MD, PGY-3, won the first place poster prize in the Virtual Poster Competition at the North Carolina Society of Pathologists 2021 Meeting in April. 

Jeff Everitt, DVM was appointed to a three-year term to the 13 member Standing Committee for the Care and Use of Animals in Research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Thomas J. Cummings, MD, Professor of Pathology and Ophthalmology, and Residency Program Director, is pleased to announce a 10-year agreement has been reached with Foundation Medicine for residents to do a molecular pathology rotation at the Research Triangle Park laboratory campus beginning July 1, 2021.

The Todd Brady and Andrea Darling Scholarship for 2021/22 has been awarded to Asjah Wallace, an incoming PhD student starting in the fall of 2021.

I am pleased to announce that Andrea Deyrup, MD PhD has been promoted to the rank of Professor of Pathology.

We are very pleased to announce that Danielle Elliott Range, MD has been promoted the rank of Associate Professor of Pathology.

I am pleased to announce that Pamela Harris has been promoted to Director of Administrative Operations and will have oversight of Operations, Faculty Affairs and Human Resources for the Department of Pathology effective April 1st, 2021.  

Jung Wook Park, PhD, holder of the endowed Rollie Assistant Professorship in Correlative Pathology, has received an Idea Development Award from the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) for his research proposal titled “Transcriptional Reprogramming of Lethal Small Cell Prostate Cancer.”

During this unprecedented 2020-2021 academic year, our Duke Pathology Faculty, Fellows and Residents managed to show their leadership strength and presence at the 110th United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) Annual Meeting, held on March 13-18, 2021, which went completely virtual for the first time in history.