Dr. Steven A. Gustafson is board certified in Clinical Pathology and Hematopathology.

In 1996, Dr. Gustafson earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He then went on to complete his residency in Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology at University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine, followed by a numerous fellowships in Hematopathology, Surgical Pathology, Chemical Pathology, and Pediatric Pathology.  He has lectures and conducted research on national and international levels, as well as authored and co-authored multiple peer-review publications.  He is a reviewer for the Journal of Histotechnology.  He currently serves on the faculty of Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine.  In his spare time, he volunteers for USA boxing as a ringside physician.

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Dr. Randall K McGivney DO, MBA is a 1980 graduate of Oklahoma State University with BS degree in Physiology.  He received his DO degree in 1983 from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery (the last of the 3-year medical programs).  Dr. McGivney did a transitional internship in 1983 at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso Texas followed by a residency in an Anatomic and Clinical Pathology from 1984 – 1988. 

Dr. McGivney served in the US Army as teaching chief at WBAMC and worked at Medical Arts Lab in Oklahoma City before joining Mac Neal Hospital in the fall of 1991. He helped build Genesis Clinical Laboratory which Tenet Health sold to Lab Corp in 2015. 

In 2011 he created Illinois Pathology Associates in which currently employs 8 pathologists and serves 3 suburban hospitals in Chicago.  Dr. McGivney is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology from the American Board of Pathology and holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.  Dr. McGivney serves as Chair of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Sciences for West Suburban Medical Center.  Dr. McGivney has served as an adjunct professor at Midwestern University in the Department of Pathology and he does private autopsies for Chicago Area Autopsy Services. 

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John Kasimos, DO is board-certified in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology and family medicine. He completed his residency training in all areas at Midwestern University – Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He received his BS in Biology at Loyola University of Chicago and his MS in Biology with specialization in Microbiology from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is primarily based at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields. Dr. Kasimos currently serves as Chair and Professor of the Department of Pathology, Midwestern University where he is extensively involved in the education and training of osteopathic medical students and is a SOMA Foundation’s Northup Educator of the Year Award Recipient.

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Dr. Prasad hails from Bangalore, India where she completed her medical school. She then went on to complete her pathology residency at OHSU, Portland Oregon and a 2-year fellowship in Ob/Gyn pathology at Harvard Medical School. At Harvard she was the recipient of several American Cancer Society and NIH research awards. In 1995, she went onto receive the prestigious National Physician Scientist award from NIH, an award that is given to few select physicians a year. She then continued to work at Kaiser Permanente for over 2 decades where she wore many administrative hats. Dr. Prasad joined Western University in 2016, where she is an associate professor and chair of the Clinical Sciences Dept.

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Dr. Laura Michael is currently Medical Director of Vizia Diagnostics, formerly Boston Scientific Pathology since November 2022. She has been an AOCP board member since 2004, and past president 2008-2010, and 2014-2015, 2020-2021. She presents at many AOCP conferences, speaking on GI Pathology. She is a GI Pathologists who trained at the University of Florida and the first fellow of Dr. Gregory Lauwers, who is now at Moffitt Cancer Centre, after many years at Massachusetts General and Harvard University.

After residency, Dr. Michael spent over five years at Citrus Memorial Hospital as a staff pathologists before accepting the Medical Directorship of Gastrocor, Florida position at Bostwick Laboratories. Ten years later, she moved to Alpharetta Georgia to a GI Pathology laboratory, Endochoice, which became Boston Scientific a few years later. She is a fellow of the College of American Pathologists, Gastrointestinal Pathology Society member and Board certified American Osteopathic Board of Pathology and American Board of Pathology