Dr. Carolyn Compton is an academic pathologist specializing in gastrointestinal disease and is board certified in both anatomic and clinical pathology. She is a professor of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at the Mayo Clinic. She is also an adjunct professor of pathology at both the University of Arizona and Johns Hopkins University. She is the Chief Medical Officer of the National Biomarkers Development Alliance, a member of the Biodesign Institute at ASU, and the Chief Medical Officer of the Complex Adaptive Systems Institute. She is a former professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, chief of Gastrointestinal Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and pathologist-in-chief of the Boston Shriners Children’s Hospital. More recently she has served as the CEO and president of the Critical Path Institute (2012), the director of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research and the Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies program at the National Cancer Institute (2005-2011), and the Strathcona Professor and chair of the Department of Pathology at McGill University and pathologist-in-chief of the McGill University Health Center (2000-2005). She is a past chair of the Cancer Committee of the College of American Pathologists and the immediate past chair of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC). Currently, she is the chair of the Precision Medicine Core of the AJCC and chair of the Pre-analytics for Precision Medicine Project Team at the College of American Pathologists. She has authored more than 500 scientific manuscripts, review articles, books and chapters.
extracellular vesicles, preanalytics, colon cancer, medical prediction, cancer staging, biomarker development
Multiplexed in-solution serological test for SARS-CoV-2, human coronaviruses and other respiratory pathogens
Self-actualized Biopsy Integrity Management System Ensuring Pathological Accuracy
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Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
HON 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 302 | Cancer-Mother of All Diseases |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 302 | Cancer-Mother of All Diseases |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
HON 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 302 | Cancer-Mother of All Diseases |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
HON 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 302 | Cancer-Mother of All Diseases |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 494 | Special Topics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 302 | Cancer-Mother of All Diseases |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 498 | Pro-Seminar |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 302 | Cancer-Mother of All Diseases |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 302 | Cancer-Mother of All Diseases |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 302 | Cancer-Mother of All Diseases |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 591 | Seminar |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 302 | Cancer-Mother of All Diseases |
Aesulapian Society – Harvard Medical School 1972
President’s Award – College of American Pathologist 2000
Frank W. Harman Award – College of American Pathologists 2003
Award of Merit – NIH (Group award for the Biorepository Coordinating Committee – chaired by Dr. Compton) 2006
Award of Merit – NIH (Group award for the Biorepository and Biospecimen Research – directed by Dr. Compton) 2006
America’s Top Physicians – Consumers’ Research Council of Americ 2007
America’s Top Pathologists – Consumers’ Research Council of America 2007
America’s Top Pathologists – Consumers’ Research Council of America 2008
America’s Top Pathologists – Consumers’ Research Council of America 2009
NIH Director’s Award - NIH Group Award for the NCI Community Cancer Centers Program 2009
America’s Top Pathologists – Consumers’ Research Council of America 2010
NIH Director’s Award - NIH Group Award for the NCI Community Cancer Centers Program 2011
NIH 2011 Gold Plain Language/Clear Communication Award - NIH 2011
Honorary Director Tissue Bank Consortium of Asia - Tissue Bank Consortium of Asia 2011
ISBER Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biobanking 2011
Women of Influence - Tucson, AZ
Pathology Power List – Top 100 pathologists of 30,000 worldwide
AACR Team Science Award
CFA Culling Memorial Lecture Award, National Society for Histopathology
ASU SUN (Serving University Needs) Award 2012, 2015 and 2016, 2020
Outstanding Medical Educator of the Year – University of Massachusetts Medical School
Outstanding Medical Educator of the Year – University of Massachusetts Medical School
Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching – Harvard Medical School
Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching – Harvard Medical School
Biopreservation and Biobanking Editorial Board
Journal of Molecular Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Editorial Board
Immunome Research Journal Editorial Board
Gastrointestinal Cancer: Research and Therapy Editorial Board
Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine Editorial Board
Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids Editorial Board
American Joint Committee on Cancer, Executive Committee
College of American Pathologists, Chair, Preanalytics for Precision Medicine Project Team
American Association of Cacer Research, Pathology Committee
Blood Profilig Atlas in Cancer (BloodPAC), CAP representative
At ASU:
Chair, ASU PhD Thesis Committee: Eric Woolf
Faculty Advisor: ASU Chapter, American Women’s Medical Association
Faculty Advisor: ASU Chapter, Feed My Starving Children
Faculty Advisor: ASU Chapter, Stand Up To Cancer
PhD Thesis Committee – James Abraham
Faculty Director: The Making of a COVID Lab
Multidisciplinary Team Barrett Honors Project
Documentary Video: https://youtu.be/QKoko2QZIMM
PBS: https://azpbs.org/horizon/2021/06/asu-lab-stepped-up-to-help-az-through-the-pandemic/
Book
Assistant Professor of Pathology – University of Massachusetts Medical School
Staff Pathologist and Acting Chief – Hospital Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Director – Surgical Pathology, Autopsy Pathology, Residency Program, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine – University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worchester, MA
Assistant Pathologist – Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Assistant Professor of Pathology – Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Chief of Gastrointestinal Pathology – Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Assistant Histochemist – Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Assistant Pathologist – Department of Pathology, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, MA
Associate Histochemist – Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Associate Pathologist – Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Associate Pathologist - Department of Pathology, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, MA
Associate Professor of Pathology – Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Pathologist – Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Pathologist – Department of Pathology, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, MA
Histochemist – Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Pathologist-in Chief, Director of Laboratories – Department of Pathology, Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, MA
Consultant in Gastrointestinal Pathology – National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Professor of Pathology – Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Member/Pathologist – Dana Farber – Harvard Cancer Center
Professor of Oncology – Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Strathcona Professor and Chairman – Department of Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pathologist-in-Chief – McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Director of Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research - National Cancer Institute, Office of the Director
Pathologist – Department of Pathology, National Cancer Institute Clinical Center
Acting Director – Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Executive Director – The Cancer Human Biobank, (caHUB®), National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
CEO and President – Critical Path Institute
CMO - National Biomarker Development Alliance
CMO – Complex Adaptive Systems Institute, ASU
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Affiliated Scholar – ASU Center for Health Care Delivery and Policy
Honorary Professional Fellow, Queen Mary University London - Barts Hopsital