Dear ADASP Members, Council, and Potential Members,

Welcome! The Association of Directors of Anatomic and Subspecialty Pathology (ADASP) is an incredible group of people who are interested in strengthening our labs. Our aim is to grow our workforce, improve patient care delivery, bolster education of lab leaders, and support research to lead us into the future. As a member of ADASP, you will have access to valuable resources and an expansive network of experts in the field. We need members like you to join us to make this happen! 

From the immediate-past president Joe Lennerz MD PhD

It has been a privilege to serve as ADASP President over the past two years. I’m deeply grateful to our members and council for their dedication, insight, and collaboration during a time of growth and renewed visibility for academic pathology. Together, we strengthened our educational programming, including impactful annual meetings and ASCP contributions, advanced our vision for a national fellowship match, and helped lead critical national conversations on remote diagnostics and regulatory reform. A particular highlight was the open letter to Congress advocating for continued flexibility in remote pathology work, published in Nature Medicine with over 70 ADASP members as co-authors; it may also set a new record for the combined highest H-index (>2,000) in a congressional letter. 

Perhaps most meaningfully, we reaffirmed our identity by updating our name to reflect the rich spectrum of subspecialties within anatomic pathology. I am proud of what we’ve accomplished together and confident that, under Dr. Anne Stowman's leadership, ADASP will continue to thrive. 

From the current, incoming president, Anne Stowman MD

I am extremely grateful to Dr. Joe Lennerz for his leadership of ADASP, and mentorship, as I transition into the role of president. I am also very fortunate to have an experienced and engaged ADASP Council with whom I will continue to work very closely. I share Joe’s passion for our profession and ADASP as a community of lab leaders, directors, facilitators, educators and researchers. It is my goal to connect us, as pathologists and leaders, in our shared vision for high-quality patient care, efficiency of lab operations, incorporation of evolving technologies, and innovative solutions. There is no doubt we share barriers to progress and challenges in our work, and I hope that we can capitalize on our collective knowledge and vast experiences to navigate our individual issues. Through sharing of ideas, successes and failures, we can all benefit. That is power of ADASP! 

Our mission is to grow this network of anatomic, surgical, cytopathy, autopsy, subspecialty directors and leaders – through membership, education, collaboration, research projects, and common values. 

Below are a few highlights from our past year: 

At our annual meeting in Boston, MA in March 2025 as a part of USCAP, we started the day with a tour to the MIT-IBM Watson AI laboratory with Senior Research Scientist, Hendrik Strobelt, PhD. Following this, our meeting began with an overview and update on the FDA Final Rule on LDT given by S. Joseph Sirintrapun, MD (Mass General Brigham/Harvard Medical School). On the theme of AI, Eric F. Glassy MD, FCAP (Affiliated Pathologists Medical Group) gave a very entertaining talk entitled “Pathobabble: The Convergence of Pathology and ChatGPT”. After lunch and business update by President Joe Lennerz, Dimitrios Korentzelos, MD (University of Pittsburgh) presented “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Genitourinary Pathology Fellowship Training: A Comparative Analysis of Prostate Needle Biopsy Case Diagnoses”. Emma E. Furth, MD (University of Pennsylvania) next walked us through “AI in Pathology- Ethical Considerations”. Then, Jennifer J. Findeis-Hosey, MD (University of Rochester) reviewed “Automation in the Surgical Pathology Lab”. 

ADASP annually recognizes excellent research presented at USCAP, in which a trainee has played a significant role. Briefly, ADASP co-sponsors two awards of $500 each to pathologists-in-training for the best posters on a morphology-based surgical pathology study and on autopsy material, respectively. These awards are presented as part of the Stowell-Orbison competition. During the 2025 USCAP meeting, the ADASP council pre-selected 15 abstracts and a poster jury selected two winners. Our 2025 winners for best surgical pathology and autopsy pathology posters were in the autopsy category: “Errors in Death Certification at a Large Metropolitan Academic Medical Center” by Dr. Christina Shreve with an honorable mention to “CAR T and Cellular Therapy-Related Toxicity as a Contributory Cause of Death: A Post-Mortem Case Series and Best Practices Recommendation” by Dr. Lee Richman. In the surgical pathology category: “Implementation and Impact of Digitally-Optimized Histology” by Dr. Matthew J. Zunitch with an honorable mention to “Single-Cell Spatial Resolution Transcriptomic Profiling of Glomerular and Peritubular Capillary Endothelium Distinguishes Antibody-Mediated Rejection Pheontypes” by Dr. Belinda Galeano. 

We are excited to be presenting at ASCP annual meeting in Atlanta, GA in November 2025. There, Dr. Christa Whitney-Miller, MD (University of Rochester) will be presenting “Integration and Consolidation”, reviewing the expansion of their medical center with now seven affiliated hospitals. She will be reviewing the finances, operational approach to integrating and consolidating path and lab medicine services across diverse hospital settings. 

We are also very excited to support Subspecialty-Based Coordination of Fellowship Recruitment through the AAPath Fellowship Directors Committee as a Sponsoring Society. What this means is that ADASP will “sponsor” fellowship programs requiring a Society affiliation. Dr. Paul Staats, ADASP past president and acting representative to, and Chair of, AAPath Fellowship Directors Committee, is currently leading this on behalf of ADASP and is excited to get others involved. Could this be you? 

Lastly, and most importantly, thank you for your interest in ADASP. We are a committed group of laboratory professionals dedicated to advancing the field through collaboration, education, and research and we hope you will join us in this exciting quest. 

I believe we have an important role as lab professionals and leaders in our field and in our institutions. We all face challenges, many/most of which are common among us – staffing, finances and available resources, technology and cybersecurity, multisite coverage and standardization, digital pathology and AI, regulations - and I believe this group can find innovative solutions and inspire the future of pathology. Let us be stronger together! 

I hope that I have helped you to understand a bit of what we do. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me reach out at: info@adasp.org. If you are new to ADASP, I would love to help you to get involved. If you are already a member, please spread the energy of ADASP and encourage your subspecialty team directors, division leads, and other laboratory directors to join us. As a member, you can also nominate a junior faculty member or trainee with leadership potential to the Associate Member category.

Sincerely, 

Anne Stowman MD
University of Vermont Health 
Burlington, Vermont