Anatomic and surgical pathology

Adriano Piris

Adriano Piris is a Boston-area dermatopathologist at DermDX New England, assistant professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, and co-director of the Mihm Cutaneous Pathology Consultative Service.

Aliyah R. Sohani

Aliyah R. Sohani is a hematopathologist who is Director of Surgical Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor, known for lymphoma classification research.

Andrew E. Rosenberg

Andrew E. Rosenberg is an American bone and soft tissue pathologist who spent 30 years at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard before joining the University of Miami in 2011.

Andrzej Meisels

Andrzej Meisels, published as Alexander Meisels, was a Polish-named cytopathologist at Laval University in Quebec whose 1976 paper postulated that koilocytes signal papillomavirus infection, cited by the 2008 Nobel Committee.

Anthony R. Russo

Anthony R. Russo is an American pathologist who completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2026 and works there as a signout pathology fellow.

Arnold Rice Rich

Arnold Rice Rich (1893–1968) was an American pathologist at Johns Hopkins who wrote the standard text The Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis and classified jaundice into retention and regurgitation types.

Austin L. Vickery

Austin L. Vickery (1919–2005) was an American pathologist who spent over fifty years at Massachusetts General Hospital, presented 169 MGH Case Records, and pioneered thyroid needle biopsy diagnosis.

Bariş Boyraz

Bariş Boyraz is a Turkish-trained physician-scientist and board-certified anatomic pathologist specializing in breast and gynecologic pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, known for research on telomere disease.

Benjamin H. Landing

Benjamin H. Landing (1920–2000) was an American pediatric pathologist, a founder of pediatric pathology, who led the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles laboratories from 1961.

Carl Sternberg

Carl Sternberg (1872–1935) was an Austrian pathologist and histologist who described the multinucleated giant cells of Hodgkin's disease in 1898, now known as Reed–Sternberg cells.

Chin‐Lee Wu

Chin-Lee Wu is a genitourinary pathologist, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and director of Genitourinary Pathology Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for developing the prostate cancer biomarker AMACR (P504S).

David C. Wilbur

David C. Wilbur is an American cytopathologist, Professor of Pathology, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who led clinical trials of the first FDA-approved automated cervical cytology screening systems.

Dennis H. Wright

Dennis H. Wright, full name Dennis Howard Wright, was a British pathologist and world expert in lymphoma diagnosis, Foundation Professor of Pathology at Southampton from 1972 to 1996.

Drucilla J. Roberts

Drucilla J. Roberts is an American perinatal pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for her research on placental pathology and stillbirth.

E. Zachary Nussbaum

E. Zachary Nussbaum, also known as Eliezer Zachary Nussbaum, is an American physician in Boston known for co-authoring 2023 New England Journal of Medicine case records.

Edith Louise Potter

Edith Louise Potter (1901–1993) was an American pathologist who founded perinatal pathology at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, performing over 10,000 perinatal autopsies and describing Potter sequence in 1946.

Emanuel Rubin

Emanuel Rubin (1928–2021) was an American pathologist and chairman emeritus at Thomas Jefferson University whose research proved alcohol itself, not malnutrition, causes liver disease; he founded the textbook Rubin's Pathology.

Esther Oliva

Esther Oliva is a Spanish-born gynecologic and genitourinary pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical School, known for her work on uterine mesenchymal tumors and the WHO classification.

Eugene Lindsay Opie

Eugene Lindsay Opie (1873–1971) was an American pathologist who first linked the pancreatic islets of Langerhans to diabetes and spent more than 70 years in research.

F. Daniel Foley

F. Daniel Foley (1933–2003) was an American pathologist at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, known for describing herpesvirus infection in burned patients in 1970.

Felix Jacob Marchand

Felix Jacob Marchand (1846–1928) was a German pathologist and professor of pathological anatomy in Leipzig, remembered for coining "atherosclerosis" in 1904 and showing that choriocarcinoma arises from fetal tissue.

Frederick G. Zak

Frederick G. Zak, born Friedrich Zak, was an Austrian-born American pathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, known for tumor pathology and the paraganglionic chemoreceptor system.

Friedrich Feyrter

Friedrich Feyrter (1895–1973) was an Austrian pathologist who proposed in 1938 that scattered hormone-producing cells form the diffuse endocrine system, and is called the Father of Neuroendocrinology.

G. Petur Nielsen

G. Petur Nielsen, also known as Gunnlaugur Petur Nielsen, is an Icelandic-born American pathologist specializing in bone and soft tissue pathology at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

G. Richard Dickersin

G. Richard Dickersin, born 1927, is an American pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who specialized in diagnostic electron microscopy of soft-tissue and gynecologic tumors.

George Kenneth Mallory

George Kenneth Mallory was an American pathologist, son of Frank Burr Mallory, who directed the Mallory Institute at Boston City Hospital and co-described the Mallory–Weiss bleeding syndrome in 1929.

Grover M. Hutchins

Grover M. Hutchins (1932–2010) was an American pathologist at Johns Hopkins for 61 years who directed Autopsy Services and published a landmark 1986 study linking the floppy mitral valve to annular disjunction.

Guido Majno

Guido Majno (1922–2010) was an Italian-born pathologist who explained how blood vessels leak during inflammation and co-discovered the myofibroblast, the contractile cell that closes wounds.

J. Bruce Beckwith

J. Bruce Beckwith (John Bruce Beckwith, 1933–2025) was an American pediatric pathologist who described Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome and served 30 years as reference pathologist for the National Wilms Tumor Study Group.