Dr. Samuel K. Caughron ( APCP ) *

Samuel K. Caughron, MD

Dr. Samuel Caughron, a native of Kansas City, received his medical degree and training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He completed a fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Immediately out of training, in 2007, Dr. Caughron joined Yellowstone Pathology in Billings, Montana where for two years he practiced general inpatient and outpatient pathology while helping his group establish the region's first molecular genetic pathology laboratory.

In 2009, he returned to Kansas City and joined MAWD Pathology Group to again practice general inpatient / outpatient pathology and establish a molecular diagnostics lab. Since residency, Dr. Caughron has been actively involved with organized pathology at a national level by participating on numerous committees. Notably in 2006 Dr. Caughron served as Chair of the CAP's Residents Forum and as ex officio member of the CAP's Board of Governors. Dr. Caughron currently is Vice-Chair of the CAP's Personalized Healthcare Committee, and a member of the Transformation Program Office Steering Committee, the Economic Affairs Committee for AMP, and the Membership Committee of the American Pathology Foundation.