President's Message

Well then.
It’s time to make a confession. For a pathologist, who would ordinarily use reason and logic to construct a pathogenesis, I’m a remarkably superstitious person. I freely admit this, because otherwise my beloved will state it for me and I’m all about carefully chosen self-declarations. My guilty conscious forces me to acknowledge my role in what has been the most unusual year for all of us. All of the changes in this year…the lack of our Annual Meeting, cancellation of graduation, postponement of the White Coat Ceremony, disruption of meat processing, months of curbside check-in, uncertainty of how to restart school, and now an unprecedented inland hurricane that destroyed crops, trees, home and dislocated clinical services for a week or more…it was because of me. I didn’t mean to, but…it was me. How? Because I brought this upon us all by being sworn in as President on Friday, Sept. 13th last year. I nervously laughed it off then—what medical professional really puts that much stock in superstition?  More...