The American Society for Clinical Pathology has honored Rodney Rohde, Ph.D., regents’ and university distinguished professor and chair of the Medical Laboratory Science Program at Texas State University, with the 2025 ASCP Mentorship Award.
The award, presented during the ASCP 2025 Annual Meeting held Nov. 17-20 in Atlanta, recognizes ASCP members who have demonstrated excellence in mentoring by providing support, encouragement and promoting the field of pathology to students and residents.
“I am deeply honored to be recognized by my peers,” Rohde said. “ASCP is my professional home. ASCP unites laboratory professionals and pathologists—all of whom play a pivotal role to diagnostic medicine and the patient care team—under one umbrella.”
Rohde serves as associate director for Translational Health Research Center at TXST. He is a global fellow, fellow of the Association of Clinical Scientists and an ASCP board-certified specialist in virology, microbiology and molecular biology. He served as a public health microbiologist and molecular epidemiologist with the Texas Department of State Bureau of Laboratories and Zoonosis Control prior to academia. His research interests include healthcare associated infections, antimicrobial resistance and clinical/public health microbiology. He is an associate adjunct professor of biology at Austin Community College where he teaches microbiology. He has published more than 150 research articles, abstracts, chapters and two books. His books focus on MRSA and clinical considerations in rabies. He hosts Contagion Live’s podcast “From Pathogen to Infectious Disease Diagnosis,” is an American Society for Microbiology contributing author and has his own column for Healthcare Hygiene magazine.