Gerald A. Phipps, BS, BHS, PA (ASCP)
Associate in Pathology

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Mr. Phipps is a staff Pathologist's Assistant in Surgical Pathology at the UF Diagnostic Referral Laboratory. His duties include providing gross descriptions and dissections of surgical pathology specimens, submitting samples for microscopic evaluation, photographing specimens, performing frozen sections, and submission of samples for special studies. He also participates in teaching and training Pathology Residents and medical students to perform these functions.

On the national level, Mr. Phipps is a charter member of the American Association of Pathologists' Assistants (AAPA) where he has served as an officer, committee chair, and a member of the Board of Trustees for more than 20 years. During this tenure, Mr. Phipps played leading roles in both the establishment of an accreditation process for PA training programs through the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) and the establishment of a certification process for individual Pathologist's Assistants through the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP). Mr. Phipps currently serves as the Chairman of the Affiliated Professions Review Committee (APRC) of NAACLS which reviews PA training programs for accreditation. He also sits on the Quality Assurance Committee and the Site Visit Process Committee of NAACLS. He has recently been elected as the AAPA representative to the NAACLS Board of Directors .