Lydia Pleotis Howell (2009 - 2024)
Lydia Pleotis Howell, M.D., Distinguished Professor Emerita and Chair Emerita of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is well-known as an advocate for women’s careers in biomedical science and for new protocols, practices, and technology that enhance the minimally invasive cytologic method of diagnosis. A past-president of both the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) and the Association for Academic Pathology (AAPath, formerly the Association of Pathology Chairs), Howell has served on many federal and state advisory committees on women’s health, conducted federally funded research on women’s careers in biomedical science, and founded leadership programs for UC Davis Health and AAPath. Honored for contributions to her profession, Howell is the recipient of the ASC’s Papanicolaou Award and AAPath’s Distinguished Service Award. She is AAPath’s founding Deputy Director and enjoys being a wife, mother, and grandmother.
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2016
- Is Our Workplace Culture as Special as the Silicon Valley’s?
- Do You Know the Real ‘Job to Be Done’ in Your Job?
- It’s Thanksgiving – What Are You Grateful For?
- A New Year, A New President, A New Future: What Does This Means for Academic Pathology, Lab Medicine, and Healthcare?
2017
- Performance Reviews and Career-Planning: Stressful, Exhausting, or Inspiring and Transforming?
- Life is a Beach -- Or the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
- Is this the Age of Unreasonableness in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine?
- The Gift of Conflict
2018
- Feeling Safe at Work: Lice, Guns, and More
- Do You Feel Trusted?
- How Curious Are You?
- Artificial Intelligence, Pathology, and Driverless Cars: Who’s Behind the Wheel?
2019
- Hospital or Hospitality – Which Industry Do We Work In?
- Is It Really the Start of Year 10?
- Sometimes We All Feel Like An Imposter
- Reflections on Being a Patient
2020
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