About ME
Thank you for visiting this site. My name is Joel Moncur and I am an anatomic, clinical and molecular and genetic pathologist from Silver Spring, MD. I serve as the Deputy Director and Chief Medical Officer for The Joint Pathology Center (formerly known as the AFIP). I am also an Associate Professor of Pathology at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
In 2024, I retired from the US Army after 24 years. While on active duty, I served 5 years as the Director of the Joint Pathology Center and 5 years as the Chief of Pathology at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
As a member of the CAP, I serve on the Council on Scientific Affairs and as a delegate of the CAP House of Delegates. I previously served for 15 years on the CAP Molecular Oncology Committee, including terms as chair, vice chair, and advisor.
I would be honored to serve on the CAP Board of Governors
My PRIORITIES
- Support the growth and development of proficiency testing programs to:
- Support high quality pathology services
- Generate data about laboratory performance
- Use proficiency testing data to communicate the value of what we do to:
- Support fair payment for pathology services
- Inform debates about regulations
- Grow the pipeline of future pathologists
- Support pathology’s leadership in artificial intelligence
- Ensure CAP committees and councils are reflective of CAP members
- Adapt to serve the needs of the CAP members and our patients
CAP Experience
15 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE WITH CAP SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS
- Member, Council on Scientific Affairs
- Delegate, CAP House of Delegates
- Chair, Vice Chair, and Advisor, CAP Molecular Oncology Committee
- Proposed CAP Center evidence-based guideline on HPV testing in head and neck carcinomas and served on Expert Panel for both the original guideline (2017) and renewal (2024)
- Led methods-based grading for CAP next-generation sequencing proficiency testing programs
- 21 publications on CAP proficiency testing program data
other professional experience
- Board of Directors/Market Executive Board, Military Health System, National Capital Region (2018-2023)
- Member, John P Murtha Cancer Center Council (2013-2023)
- Director, The Joint Pathology Center (2018-2023).
- Initiated the digital transformation of the world’s largest repository of slides and paraffin embedded tissues.
- Member, White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force for Artificial Intelligence in Oncology (2023-Pres)
- Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Center for Prostate Disease Research (2021-2023)
- Co-investigator with the National Cancer Institute to develop a machine learning algorithm to detect, grade, and predict the prognosis of prostate cancer (2024)
- Co-investigator with the National Institutes of Health to investigate the mechanisms of neurological injury in patients who died of COVID-19 (2020)
- Featured on 60 minutes (11 April 2021), Military programs aiming to end pandemics forever,
- Speaker at SXSW Festival (16 March 2021), 55M Human Tissue Samples + AI = Better Medicine