Council on Membership and Professional Development

To ascertain and practically address members' needs to:

• Enhance and promote the engagement of pathologists in the College, recognizing the power of the College comes from its board-certified pathologists.
• Assist pathologists as physicians in advancing patient care.
• Advance pathologists’ leadership and practice management skills.
• Assist in securing the professional and economic future of the specialty.
• Support pathologists’ ability to demonstrate value through self-advocacy within their practices, institutions, communities, and at the state and national levels.
• Advance effective knowledge exchange among pathologists, with their patients, professional colleagues, and others.
• Recruit, engage, and retain members.
• Recognize members who demonstrate commitments that advance the specialty.
• Address professional and ethical issues affecting the practice of pathology.

This committee reports to the Board of Governors. View a list of the Current Council Members.

Chair

Timothy Craig Allen, MD, JD, FCAP

Staff

Maryrose T. Murphy Barbara J Barrett

Contact

Maryrose T. Murphy
325 Waukegan Road
Northfield, Illinois 60093
E-mail: mmurphy@cap.org

The following committees report to the Council on Membership and Professional Development:

• Digital Content Committee
• Member Engagement Committee
• New in Practice Committee
• Practice Management Committee
• Professional and Community Engagement Committee
• Residents Forum Executive Committee