Yohe appointed Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology & Strategy and Director of Clinical Laboratories

LMP professor Sophia Yohe has been appointed as Vice Chair for Clinical Pathology & Strategy and Director of Clinical Laboratories effective March 2. 

Among Yohe's new responsibilities will be to lead LMP's Division of Clinical Pathology and serve as a laboratory leader and director in partnership with M Health Fairview. 

A native of Fargo, North Dakota, Yohe joined LMP as an assistant professor in 2009. She has served as medical director for both the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory and the Flow Cytometry Laboratory. She has also led the Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship program. Last year, Yohe was named Vice Chair for Clinical Strategy. 

The College of American Pathologists honored her with the 2022 CAP Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her many years of service to the CAP as chair and vice chair of the Personalized Health Care Committee (PHC), chair of the cross-council Molecular Work Group, and chair of the Molecular Pathology and Genomics Cluster.

The Medical School highlighted Yohe’s career in its 2020 "Impact Medicine" story "Sophia Yohe’s, MD, Passion for Pathology Supplies Minnesota with Critical COVID-19 Testing."