President’s Cancer Panel Invites ASCP to Workforce Meeting

ASCP Chief Medical Officer, Ali Brown, MD, FASCP was invited to a meeting of President Biden’s National Cancer Panel. The meeting on Developing and Retaining a Robust and Diverse Cancer Workforce was held on September 12th. The Panel, which is housed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is responsible for overseeing implementation of the National Cancer Plan. The National Cancer Plan - Everyone Has a Role provides a framework for collaboration to guide the nation’s efforts against cancer. It establishes eight goals that we must achieve to prevent cancer, reduce the cancer mortality rate, and maximize the quality of life for people living with cancer.

ASCP was proud to represent the field of pathology and laboratory medicine at this meeting, and to highlight our efforts to help end cancer. These efforts all center around initiatives that support our members in providing high-quality, equitable diagnostic laboratory services to our patients. At the meeting, Dr. Brown emphasized the importance of the pathology and laboratory medicine workforce and highlighted many of the efforts and challenges we face to retain a robust and diverse laboratory medicine workforce that serves our nation’s patients.

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