The Association for Academic Pathology (AAPath) is a non-profit society that serves as the voice of academic departments of Pathology in the U.S. and Canada. AAPath exists to provide leadership and advocacy for the dynamic discipline of Pathology, and to enable academic departments to meet the demands of their three missions: medical education, research, and practice. Academic Pathology is the official open-access journal of the Association of Pathology Chairs, established to give voice to innovations in education, practice, and management from academic departments of pathology and laboratory medicine, with the potential for broad impact on medicine, medical research, and the delivery of care.