Lifetime Achievement Award

Mary Kay Washington, MD, PhD is a professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Washington received her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1979-1982). She completed her medical degree at UNC (1983-1986). She completed her pathology residency at Duke University Medical Center from 1987-1991 and was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Duke from 1991-1995. She joined the VU faculty in 1996 and serves as director of Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology.

Notable teaching and service awards include the President’s Honors Award, College of American Pathologists, 2010 and the Lifetime Achievement Award, College of American Pathologists, 2015.

She also serves as director for several research biorepositories and shared resources, including the Vanderbilt Digestive Diseases Research Center, the Vanderbilt SPORE in GI Cancer, and the Western Division of the Cooperative Human Tissue Network. She is on multiple committees and working groups for the National Cancer Institute (PathCHART project, co-chair of the Content workgroup), American Joint Committee on Cancer, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (Council and Education committee) and the College of American Pathologists (Cancer committee).

Congratulations to the 2023 recipients!

Linda Ferrell

(Some of) Dr. Ferrell’s academic achievements:

•Multiple teaching awards including: Mostofi Award 2015, Harvey Goldman Master Teacher Award 2016, Arthur Purdy Stout Society President’s Award 2017, Fred W. Stewart Memorial Sloan Kettering Award 20219, Distinguished Pathologist Award from USCAP 2020

•USCAP Education Committee and Executive Council

•Chaired 2 major educational courses for pathologists for multiple years including USCF (33 years!) and the California Society of Pathologists annual course (8 years).

Swan Thung

(Some of) Dr. Thung’s academic achievements:

•Co-authored 390 peer-reviewed papers

•Written 64 book chapters and 2 books

•Established Liver Pathology Division and Liver Pathology Fellowship Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in 1989

•Graduates of the Fellowship program often hold key positions in Academic Medical Centers in the US and abroad

•Trained scholars from abroad: Turkey, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Slovania, Belgium, Lebanon, Iran, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Chile, and Brazil

•Member of ELVES International Liver Pathology Group 

•Founding member of HPHS

•Member of the International LAENNEC Liver Study Group

•Member of the International Liver Cancer Association

•Member of the Alliance for Cancer Gene and Cell Therapy

•Member of Mount Sinai Liver Cancer Research Program

•Keeping close relationship with Liver Pathology trainees and scholars