Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit: Wellness

Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit: Wellness 

Dr. Vanda Torous, Chair of the ASC Cytopathology Program Directors Committee, interviews Dr. Kim Ely and Dr. Rema Rao on their experiences with promoting wellness in their training programs in this episode of our series Cytopathology Program Director Toolkit.  

Dr. Ely is an Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt Medical Center where she serves as Medical Director of Cytopathology and Director of the Cytopathology Fellowship Program. She is also a surgical pathologist with an emphasis in head and neck. She has been a member of the Cytopathology Program Directors Committee of the ASC since 2019. She is also a member of her pathology department’s wellness committee. 

Dr. Rema Rao is a staff pathologist at the Montefiore Medical Center and associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She has worked closely with trainees and in trainee wellness in particular as an associate residency program director at Cornell and most recently as the fellowship director at the Montefiore Medical Center. She is also a member of the ASC program director committee. 

Sponsored by the ASC Cytopathology Program Directors Committee.