ASCP Board Vice President John E. Tomaszewski, MD, FASCP, has been appointed interim chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. Tomaszewski received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1977 with subsequent post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Penn system. He has risen through the ranks at Penn and was appointed as Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in 1996.

Dr. Tomaszewski was Director of Surgical Pathology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 1995-2005 and is currently Vice-Chair for Anatomic Pathology-Hospital Services. Dr. Tomaszewski is a regionally and nationally recognized expert in diagnostic genitourinary pathology being named multiple times as a “Top Doctor” in regional and national surveys.

In addition to his service on the Board, Dr. Tomaszewski has held several positions within the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) including Chair of the Commission on Education and Chair of the Annual Meeting Committee.

Dr. Tomaszewski’s research has had a strong focus on high resolution MRI of prostate and breast cancer, computer assisted diagnosis, and high dimensionality data fusion in the creation of a new diagnostic testing paradigm. This model of fusing high dimensionality in vivo and ex vivo image and molecular data is the current focus of his collaborative research group, which includes Penn Radiology and image scientists at both Penn and Rutgers University.

Dr. Tomaszewski has won numerous awards for his commitment to teaching, including the Peter Nowell Teaching Award and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Basic Science Teaching. He has also been recognized with ASCP’s George Stevenson Distinguished Service Award and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Practice Program Office Award.