---
title: 'Episode 73: Dr Melissa Upton - Education, Opportunity, Empathy, and Inclusion'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/episode-73-dr-melissa-upton-education-opportunity-empathy-and-inclusion'
show: 'People of Pathology Podcast'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/people-of-pathology-podcast'
published: '2021-08-16'
audio: 'https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7r4uf9/Dr_Melissa_Upton_-_8_15_21_739_PM6d0ne.mp3'
---

# Episode 73: Dr Melissa Upton - Education, Opportunity, Empathy, and Inclusion

Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Melissa Upton What we discuss with Dr Upton: How her parents instilled in her the importance of access to education How she was inspired to become a doctor, and how she chose pathology Her experience in Tokyo as a researc...

## Summary

Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Melissa Upton

What we discuss with Dr Upton:

- How her parents instilled in her the importance of access to education

- How she was inspired to become a doctor, and how she chose pathology

- Her experience in Tokyo as a research fellow

- How she became involved with ASCP and her term as president

- Some of her initiatives with ASCP in the area of diversity

- Her involvement in the editorial Reversing Historical Trends

- The importance of wellness, and what this means to her

- Her opinion on if pathology is making progress in diversity and inclusion

Links for this episode:

[Health Podcast Network](https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

[ LabVine Learning](http://bit.ly/labvine)

[The ConfLab from LabVine](https://www.labvinelearning.com/TheConflab)

[Dress A Med scrubs](https://dressamed.com/?rfsn=5044297.cb03eb&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=5044297.cb03eb)

Dr Upton on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/melissaupton7)

[ASCP](https://www.ascp.org/content)

[Reversing Historical Trends: The Crisis, the Challenge, and the Opportunity](https://academic.oup.com/ajcp/article/155/1/1/5940742)

People of Pathology Podcast:

[Website](https://peopleofpathology.com/)

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/peopleofpath)