Department of Pathology Alumni Newsletter, Issue 4

Message from The Director of Surgical Pathology: Ryan Gill, MD, PhD

I recognized early in my training that there is something special about the UCSF Department of Pathology. Maybe it is the combination of academic leadership with a casual West Coast atmosphere; maybe it is the overall camaraderie and faculty dedication to mentoring trainees and colleagues; or maybe it is the fact that the UCSF USCAP party is twice as long and as those of our peer departments; in any event, I have yet to encounter anything similar in other academic pathology departments. I accepted the role of Surgical Pathology Director intent on maintaining this culture of excellence and collegiality as we respond to new challenges and opportunities. One of the ways in which UCSF will continue to lead in Academic Pathology is by protecting Surgical Pathology faculty time for scholarly work. Under Jay’s leadership we are maintaining a target clinical effort, which allows our faculty to continue to publish numerous high impact papers in their subspecialty (184 papers were published by UCSF surgical pathology faculty in 2017 and 2018), lecture around the world, write the definitive textbook/WHO chapters, and edit the most popular series and journals in diagnostic pathology...