UVA professor, physician takes helm of international society

CHICAGO – Nov. 17, 2009 – Mark H. Stoler, MD, FASCP, began his tenure as the president of the American Society for Clinical Pathology during the association’s annual business meeting in October. With 130,000 members, ASCP is the world’s largest association dedicated to pathologists and laboratory professionals.

Stoler’s decorated pathology career includes several academic, administrative and hospital appointments including attending pathologist and assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center and staff pathologist and director of the Histology and Anatomic Molecular Pathology Laboratories at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is currently, attending pathologist, professor of pathology and clinical gynecology and associate director of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Va.

“I am pleased and excited to take on the tasks of president of ASCP, an organization that does so much for the field of pathology and laboratory medicine,” Stoler said. “The field is in transition and I am proud to help guide the way as we look for solutions to workforce shortage issues, advocate for patient rights and provide excellent education and training to laboratory team members on a national and global level.”

He received his BA in biology from the University of Rochester and his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Since the beginning of his career, he has supported numerous research projects focusing on not only infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, but primarily the pathogenesis of human papillomavirus-related neoplasia, HPV gene expression, the treatment and prevention of HPV related diseases, and the use of molecular diagnostics in anatomic pathology. He serves on several editorial boards, including the American Journal of Clinical Pathology and American Journal of Surgical Pathology. He is the editor-in-chief of Diagnostic Molecular Pathology and the International Journal Gynecological Pathology.

Stoler has been a member of the ASCP Board of Directors since 2000. In 2003 he was awarded the ASCP George F. Stevenson Distinguished Service Award. He also serves as an ASCP spokesperson.

Stoler is a member of several other medical associations including the American Society of Cytopathology, Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists, International Society of Gynecological Pathologists and the College of American Pathologists.

For more information, please contact ASCP Office of Communications, 312-541-4754.

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