Dr. Charles Timmons, Professor of Pathology and Director of the Department of Pathology’s Resident and Fellow Education, recently received national education recognition from the College of American Pathologists (CAP), the world’s largest association of board-certified pathologists.

Dr. Timmons received the Resident Advocate Award for his contribution to pathologists’ education. For more than 15 years, Dr. Timmons has led the Pathology Department’s Resident and Fellow Education Program, where “he advocates for pathology residents to help improve training and fully develop their careers while taking significant interest in the experience of each one of his residents, allowing him to provide advice for continuous improvement,” according to the CAP citation.

Dr. Timmons joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 1988 in Pediatric Pathology, based at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, where he is involved in surgical pathology, hematopathology, and autopsy services. He has received three small-group teaching awards for pathology from UT Southwestern medical students.

Dr. Timmons completed the M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his doctoral work was in the Division of Human Genetics and Metabolism. He trained in anatomic and clinical pathology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago before completing a two-year fellowship in anatomic and clinical pediatric pathology at The Children’s Hospital in Denver. Dr. Timmons is the Immediate Past Chair of the Program Directors Section of the Association of Pathology Chairs and serves on the Pathology Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.