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- PathPAC Raises $51,000 During HOD Competition
The 2024 Pathologists Leadership Summit kicked off on April 13 with the Spring House of Delegates (HOD) meeting with hundreds of pathologists from around the country participating in-person.
The meeting started with HOD Speaker Sang Wu, MD, FCAP by opening the Spring session which was followed by a discussion on workload and staffing shortage challenges.
The Board of Governors candidate forum posed questions to the CAP members running for the four open Governor positions in this summer’s election.
Then Dr. Saad provided an overview of the current political landscape, the CAP’s advocacy agenda, private-sector advocacy, and Hill Day asks for participants including late-breaking topics.
At the close of the HOD session, Dr. Wu announced the two winning teams from the Back the PAC HOD competition. The Coastal Team won in the category of dollars raised, raising a total of $11,165 from Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, US Navy, and Virginia Delegates. The Frontier Team, made up of Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, US Army won for the highest participation rate, with 25% of the team supporting the PAC during the competition. Overall, the HOD raised a record-breaking $51,021 for PathPAC. The goal of the competition was to garner more support for the CAP’s political action committee (PAC) and further raise awareness for PathPAC’s role to advance the CAP’s legislative objectives. PathPAC is nonpartisan and the only PAC representing pathologists at the federal level.
The audience sharpened their leadership skills, learned about the importance of cultural competency and how to improve diagnostic excellence through patient pathology reports during the second day of the Pathologists Leadership Summit on April 14.