Episode 73: Dr Melissa Upton - Education, Opportunity, Empathy, and Inclusion

Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Melissa Upton

What we discuss with Dr Upton:

• How her parents instilled in her the importance of access to education
• How she was inspired to become a doctor, and how she chose pathology
• Her experience in Tokyo as a research fellow
• How she became involved with ASCP and her term as president
• Some of her initiatives with ASCP in the area of diversity
• Her involvement in the editorial Reversing Historical Trends
• The importance of wellness, and what this means to her
• Her opinion on if pathology is making progress in diversity and inclusion

Links for this episode:

Health Podcast Network

 LabVine Learning

The ConfLab from LabVine

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Dr Upton on Twitter

ASCP

Reversing Historical Trends: The Crisis, the Challenge, and the Opportunity

 

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