Robert A. Goulart, MD, MASCP, Installed as 2023-2024 President of the American Society for Clinical Pathology

Robert A. Goulart, MD, MASCP, was installed today as 2023-2024 President of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) during the Society’s Annual Meeting held Oct. 18–20, in Long Beach, CA.     

Dr. Goulart is the associate chief of anatomic pathology and the director of quality and patient safety at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health and a professor of pathology in the Department of Pathology at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, MA. Before that, he was president and director of cytopathology for many years at the New England Pathology Associates, P.C., a private subspecialty pathology group serving western and central Massachusetts.

A longtime member volunteer of ASCP, Dr. Goulart has most recently served as an ASCP Executive Board member and is a past chair of ASCP’s Commission on Continuing Professional Development, which oversees the Society’s full educational portfolio. Representing ASCP, he has also served as co-chair of the Cytopathology Education and Technology Consortium. Additionally, Dr. Goulart is a past chair of ASCP’s Gynecologic Cytopathology Committee and a past co-chair of the Curriculum, Educational Resource and Scientific Advisory Committee.

Dr. Goulart has also served as an ASCP representative to the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology-sponsored consensus review and update initiative for its 2019 Management Guidelines for Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests, and he continues to serve on the ongoing ASCCP Enduring Guidelines Committee. In addition, he is a member of the Laboratory Infrastructure and Education Workgroup of the American Cancer Society-sponsored Cervical Cancer Screening Initiative. 

Over the years, he has received numerous accolades for his service both to the pathology profession and to ASCP. These awards include the 2016 Israel Davidsohn Award for Distinguished Service and the 2017 Mastership. He is also a member of the Founders’ Society of the ASCP Foundation.

Dr. Goulart also holds leadership positions within the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC), where he is co-chair of its Foundation Board, an ex-officio member of the ASC Executive Board, and a past chair of the multi-society sponsored Cytotechnology Programs Review Committee (CPRC). He currently serves as the ASC Commissioner to the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs and was previously awarded the ASC President’s Award for outstanding service in the field of cytopathology.

He earned a Bachelor of Science with honors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and a medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester.  Dr. Goulart completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School, followed by a cytopathology fellowship at the same institution. After completing his training in Boston in 1996, he joined the pathology staff at Springfield's Baystate Medical Center where he directed the Cytopathology Division and the Cytopathology Fellowship Program as associate professor of pathology.