orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . september 2012 american pathology partners inc. type private industry healthcare founded 2008 founder thanasis papaioanu edward dooling martin rash headquarters nashville tennessee u.s. key people martin rash chairman robert mignatti coo services clinical laboratory number of employees 280 website www.ap2.com american pathology partners inc. otherwise referred to as app or ap2 is a privately held medical laboratory company 1 headquartered in nashville tennessee . the company operates a nationwide network of pathology laboratories focused on local and regional healthcare . app serves physician offices hospitals and surgery centers with sub specialized anatomic and molecular pathology services including surgical pathology cytopathology dermatopathology hematopathology urologic pathology gastrointestinal and liver pathology renal pathology and pediatric and perinatal pathology . app currently operates laboratory facilities in denver colorado ; wilson north carolina ; and west palm beach florida doing business as unipath eastern carolina pathology and palm beach pathology in their respective geographies . history edit app was founded in 2007 and incorporated in february 2008 by laboratory professionals edward dooling and thanasis papaioanu along with hospital executive martin rash . edward dooling was formerly a senior executive with ameripath now part of quest diagnostics and dianon systems inc. now part of labcorp . thanasis papaioanu was formerly an investment banker with suntrust equitable now suntrust robinson humphrey and ftn financial part of first tennessee national corporation where he helped launch new york based laboratory cblpath inc. now part of sonic healthcare . martin rash is founder and chairman ceo of regionalcare hospital partners ; he was formerly founder and chairman ceo of publicly traded province healthcare company that was acquired by lifepoint hospitals inc. nasdaq lpnt in 2005 . in april 2008 app secured a 75 million equity commitment 2 from new enterprise associates nea a large private equity investment firm based in menlo park california and baltimore maryland . on december 31 2008 app completed the acquisition of unipath llc in denver colorado . 3 4 5 6 app operates the technical operation while unipath p.c. the affiliated 25 pathologist medical practice stays independent and continues to be owned and managed by the pathologists . on march 12 2009 the firm completed the acquisition of eastern carolina pathology inc. in wilson north carolina . app operates the technical operation while eastern carolina pathology p.a. the affiliated four pathologist medical practice stays independent and continues to be owned and managed by the pathologists . on january 17 2011 the firm completed the acquisition of the technical operation of palm beach pathology p.a. in west palm beach florida . 7 app operates the technical operation while palm beach pathology p.a. the affiliated six pathologist medical practice stays independent and continues to be owned and managed by the pathologists . references edit american pathology partners inc. private company information . bloomberg businessweek . american pathology partners launches with 75 million in financing . washington g2 reports laboratory industry report . october 2008 . archived from the original on 2011 10 05 . american pathology partners buys unipath pdf . laboratory economics . january 2009 . archived from the original pdf on 2011 07 07 . denver s unipath sells its histo labs to app pdf . the dark report . february 2 2009 . archived from the original pdf on 2011 07 07 . american pathology partners signals launch with unipath acquisition . washington g2 reports laboratory industry report . february 2009 . pathology supergroup is acquired by a new national pathology company . dark daily the dark report . february 9 2009 . american pathology partners announces acquisition of laboratory assets of palm beach pathology . dark daily the dark report . january 19 2011 . external links edit american pathology partners website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title american pathology partners & oldid 743813171 categories companies based in tennesseehidden categories orphaned articles from september 2012all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 11 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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