Job Prep Bootcamp

Shweta Agarwal, MD, FCAP, is a subspecialty trained pathologist with special interest in head and neck pathology and cytopathology. She is currently working as senior associate consultant at Mayo Clinic, Florida, where she signs out general surgical pathology and cytopathology cases and consults on head and neck pathology cases. Before joining Mayo Clinic, Dr. Agarwal was affiliated with the University of New Mexico, where she worked as a general surgical pathologist with expertise in head and neck and cytopathology, providing both intradepartmental as well as external consults on complicated head and neck and oral maxillofacial cases. She also served as the director of the surgical pathology fellowship program for three years, and was an active member in numerous intradepartmental committees. Originally from India, Dr. Agarwal moved to the United States in 2011 and completed an AP residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, followed by a subspecialty surgical pathology fellowship/instructorship in head and neck pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and a cytopathology fellowship at University of California Medical Center San Francisco. In addition to being a fellowship-trained head and neck pathologist, she is trained in performing USG-guided fine needle biopsies, a skill she is extremely passionate about teaching to trainees.

Israh Akhtar, MD, FCAP, is a professor of pathology and director of surgical pathology at Temple University Health System in Philadelphia. Board-certified in cytopathology, as well as anatomic and clinical pathology, she practices both cytopathology and surgical pathology and is lead of breast services at Temple. Dr. Akhtar did her residency at Nassau University Medical Center in New York and her cytopathology fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson, Mississippi. She has served as cytopathology fellowship program director both at UMMC and now at Temple. Dr. Akhtar has published numerous articles and book chapters and has lectured both nationally and internationally, with her most popular lectures being her board review series in cytopathology. She has received several awards for her excellence in teaching. She is a member of the American Society of Cytopathology’s scientific committee and editor of the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine pulmonary section.

Derek Allison, MD, FCAP, is an associate professor and vice chair for Research in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He received his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He then completed residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology, served as chief resident, and completed subspecialty fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In addition to his clinical work, he’s interested in clinical and translational cancer research, especially related to precision medicine. To date, he has published more than 65 peer‐reviewed manuscripts, authored several book chapters, and published two books. He currently serves as assistant director and quality officer of the Biospecimen Procurement & Translational Pathology Shared Resource Facility (BPTP SRF) at the Markey Cancer Center, which recently became a CAP-accredited biorepository.

Andrew M. Bellizzi, MD, FCAP is a clinical professor in the Department of Pathology, director of Immunohistochemistry and GI Pathology, and co-director of the GI Pathology Fellowship at the University of Iowa. Dr. Bellizzi received his medical degree from Northwestern University. Following combined training in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Virginia, he completed a fellowship in gastrointestinal and liver pathology at The Ohio State University. He is active in several societies, including serving as immediate past chair of the USCAP Stowell-Orbison Award and the CAP Immunohistochemistry Committees. He is secretary-treasurer of the International Society for Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology and is an Associate (Reviews), Section (Immunohistochemistry), and Assistant Editor (GI pathology) of Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and the American Journal of Clinical Pathology, respectively. He is on the Neuroendocrine Tumor Expert Panel for the 9th Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual.

Garrett Booth, MD, FCAP is professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He enjoys hiking and exploring national parks with his wife and daughter, and when not outside with his dog Ginny, he can be found in the VUMC apheresis clinic and cellular therapy processing laboratory where he serves as co-medical director. Dr. Booth has penned over 140 publications within laboratory medicine and served as a FACT inspector for 15+ years, but what he enjoys most about academic life is the opportunity to teach and learn among trainees and faculty across the educational spectrum.

Yasmeen Butt, MD, FCAP, is an associate professor and consultant at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. She is a thoracic pathologist and is part of a busy pulmonary pathology consultation service. She has published numerous articles in the field and has lectured both nationally and internationally on various topics in pulmonary pathology. She co-authored the textbook Atlas of Pulmonary Pathology: A Pattern-Based Approach. Dr. Butt is the current chair of the CAP’s New in Practice Committee.

Michael R. Clay, MD, FCAP, is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Colorado, Aurora and is board-certified in anatomic pathology and molecular and genetic pathology. Dr. Clay completed his pathology residency at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, then his fellowship training in bone and soft tissue pathology and molecular genetic pathology at Emory University Hospital. Dr. Clay is the director of the Bone & Soft Tissue Service at the University of Colorado, and the fellowship director for the Bone & Soft Tissue Pathology Fellowship Training Program. His research interests focus on difficult areas in diagnostic pathology and leveraging molecular techniques to aid in the diagnosis and classification of tumors, particularly soft tissue sarcomas.

Juanita Evans, MD, FCAP, is a pathologist associated with three Ascension Providence Hospitals in the Detroit Metro area; she practices general pathology as well as hematopathology, and for two of the facilities she serves as medical director as well as Department Chair. She has served on the CAP's New in Practice Committee in the past, and currently serves on the Practice Management Committee.

Patrick E. Godbey, MD, FCAP, has been an active CAP member for more than 20 years and has led numerous committees and councils, including as chair and/or vice chair of the Council on Government and Professional Affairs, Council on Accreditation, Council on Membership and Professional Development, Investment Committee, and Finance Committee. He continues to serve as an inspector for the Laboratory Accreditation Program. Beginning in 2011, Dr. Godbey served on the CAP’s Board of Governors, culminating in his term as president from 2019–2021. Outside the CAP, Dr. Godbey is the founder, CEO, and laboratory director at Southeastern Pathology Associates in Brunswick, Georgia. He also serves as laboratory director at Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center and chairs the board of directors of Camden Healthcare Network, a 350-member multispecialty group, both in Brunswick. Additionally, he holds a clinical faculty position at the College of Coastal Georgia in Brunswick and at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Dr. Godbey received his doctorate in medicine from the Medical College of Georgia, where he also completed an internship and residency in obstetrics/gynecology and later trained in anatomic and clinical pathology.

Sarika P. Jain, MD, FCAP, is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. She is currently working at University of Mississippi Medical Center as a tenured associate professor and serves as chief of the Molecular Pathology Subdivision in the Department of Pathology. She is also the medical director of Flow Cytometry and the Molecular Laboratory. After completing medical school at India’s Miraj Medical College, she completed her pathology residency, followed by her fellowship training in hematopathology and molecular genetic pathology, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). She has built the leukemia and lymphoma panels in Mississippi’s only flow cytometry laboratory, as well as an extensive test menu in the Molecular Pathology Laboratory, including conventional tests and next-generation sequencing. Additionally, Dr. Jain has published several journal articles and abstracts in national meetings.

Brandon Larsen, MD, PhD, FCAP, is board certified in anatomic pathology and has completed advanced subspecialty training in both cardiovascular pathology and pulmonary pathology, with additional training emphasis in bone and soft tissue pathology. His clinical practice interests include cardiovascular, pulmonary, transplantation, and bone and soft tissue pathology, as well as general surgical and autopsy pathology. Dr. Larsen has lectured nationally and internationally on a broad range of clinical and basic research topics in both cardiovascular and pulmonary pathology, including surgical pathology of cardiovascular and pulmonary medical diseases, cardiac and pulmonary neoplasia, cardiovascular physiology, and endothelial biology. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters in these areas.

Elena Lucas, MD, FCAP, is an associate professor at UT Southwestern in Dallas, with expertise in cytopathology, gynecologic, and general pathology. Her research interests include immuno-oncology biomarkers; cervical, endometrial, and ovarian carcinoma; and endometrial precancers. She contributed to the book Diagnosing Non-Small Cell Carcinoma in Small Biopsy and Cytology and has published numerous academic articles related to her areas of expertise. Dr. Lucas is medical director of Surgical Pathology and Immunohistochemistry at Parkland Health Hospital, and is the rotation director of the surgical pathology bootcamp and hot-seat rotations within the UT Southwestern Pathology Residency Program. She has long been acknowledged as an excellent educator and has received the Vernie A. Stembridge Anatomic Pathology Teaching award multiple times.

Maximo Marin, MD, FCAP, is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Florida Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine and serves as the medical director of Shands Core Laboratory and section medical director of the UF Cancer Center Laboratory. He has numerous publications and was awarded the UF College of Medicine’s Exemplary Teacher Award in 2023.

Kelsey McHugh, MD, FCAP, is a senior associate consultant and assistant professor at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is subspecialty trained in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology and cytopathology. Dr. McHugh enjoys working as part of a multidisciplinary team in the care of a complex patient population at Mayo Clinic Arizona. She is the author of more than 30 peer-reviewed medical and scientific manuscript publications, as well as several book chapters.

Priyadharsini Nagarajan, MD, FCAP, is a physician-scientist and practicing dermatopathology associate at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, with research interests in keratinocyte homeostasis, high-risk squamous cell carcinomas, and mucosal melanomas, among others. She has been in practice for 10 years. Having started practicing full time straight out of fellowship to, she understands the needs of early-career pathologists.

Lakshmi Ramachandran Nair, MD, FCAP, is a leading pediatric neuropathologist at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, and an assistant professor in pathology at George Washington School of Medicine. She completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, and a fellowship in neuropathology at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to her clinical work, she has authored 25 peer-reviewed publications in leading medical journals. She also wrote a comprehensive book to guide aspiring neuropathologists through their training and early careers. She is actively involved in research on tumorigenesis of brain neoplasms, including medulloblastoma and retinoblastoma. She is also dedicated to education and frequently lectures for medical students, residents and fellows, inspiring the next generation of neuropathologists.

Liza M. Quintana, MD, FCAP, is director of the Breast Pathology Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She completed a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology and fellowships in breast pathology and cytopathology. She is a member of the CAP Curriculum Committee and is the CAP representative to the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.

Opal Reddy, MD, FCAP, is co-director of Transfusion Medicine at the Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California (USC) and associate medical director of Transfusion Medicine at the Los Angeles General Medical Center. She is also core teaching faculty for the USC/LA General Pathology Residency Program. She is a member of the CAP Transfusion, Apheresis, and Cellular Therapy Committee, as well as the chair of the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB) Hemovigilance Committee.

Rosemary She, MD, FCAP, is professor of pathology and director of Medical Microbiology at City of Hope. She completed her residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology and her fellowship training in medical microbiology at the University of Utah/ARUP Laboratories. Dr. She has previously served on the CAP Microbiology Committee and is actively involved in the American Society of Microbiology, as well as the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. She has been an enthusiastic mentor of undergraduates, medical students, residents, and fellows with interest in microbiology and clinical pathology. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and given lectures nationally and internationally on clinical microbiology practices.

Karim E. Sirgi, MD, MBA, FCAP, owns Sirgi Consulting LLC and offers expertise to medical groups in various aspects of practice management and leadership. Dr. Sirgi is board-certified in anatomic, clinical, and cytopathology with additional surgical pathology fellowship training. He also holds an MBA and has over 30 years of practice and leadership experience in private, academic, and hospital-based pathology and medical staff settings. Among his previously-held positions, Dr. Sirgi served as president of the largest multi-specialty pathology group in the Rocky Mountain region, and chair of the regional medical staff council for the largest hospital organization in the US. Dr. Sirgi is the immediate past president of the American Pathology Foundation, the chair of the CAP Practice Management Committee, and the chief science officer of Breath Tech.

Neha Varshney, MD, FCAP, FASCP, who recently finished her gastrointestinal and hepato-pancreatobiliary pathology fellowship at the University of Arizona, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of pathology and section lead (GI and HPB pathology). After finishing medical school at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Dr. Varshney finished her anatomic and clinical pathology residency training at the University of Toledo Medical Center. Subsequently, she did her surgical pathology fellowship at the University of Iowa, and a gastrointestinal and hepato-pancreatobiliary pathology fellowship at the University of Arizona. An author and gifted speaker, Dr. Varshney is also the recipient of several research awards and serves as a reviewer or on the editorial boards of 15 scientific journals. She is an active member of several professional societies.

Ramya Krishna Velagapudi, MD, FCAP, is an assistant professor in the department of pathology and section director of electron microscopy at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She received her medical degree from MNR Medical College in India and completed combined training in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, followed by subspecialty training in renal and electron microscopy at Vanderbilt University. She has worked to revive the only clinical electron microscopy laboratory in the state of Mississippi, which also provides research support to different departments at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Velagapudi values working as a part of the multidisciplinary transplant team and provides well-regarded services as the only pathologist trained in renal pathology at the University of Mississippi. Additionally, she has published several abstracts in various national meetings.

No. This course is not intended to be a board review course, or to replace residency or subspecialty training.

No, the Job Prep Bootcamp does not provide CME credit.

Not to worry! While we strongly encourage live participation, courses and panel discussions will be recorded and available to attendees to view for three months following the close of the program; the seven pre-recorded sessions will also be available on demand.

Access to this exclusive online community will be available to program registrants on or around December 1, 2024.

Course recordings, downloadable material, and bonus content will be available for three months after the program ends (until March 15, 2025). Downloadable material will include sample sign-out language (below).