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Jens Jorgen Pindborg
Jens Jørgen Pindborg (1921–1995) was a Danish oral pathologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for establishing oral lichen planus and oral submucous fibrosis as premalignant conditions.
Joann G. Elmore
Joann G. Elmore is an American physician-scientist and UCLA professor whose research measures how accurately doctors interpret mammograms and tissue biopsies, including landmark false-positive studies.
John C. Long
John C. Long is a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the first there to focus solely on hematopathology, the diagnosis of blood and lymphoid diseases.
Joseph Janvier Woodward
Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833–1884) was a United States Army physician and brevet lieutenant colonel who pioneered photomicrography and helped compile the Civil War's medical record.
Joseph Misdraji
Joseph Misdraji is an American pathologist specializing in gastrointestinal and liver pathology, known for his classification of appendiceal mucinous neoplasms and pseudomyxoma peritonei, who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's GI Pathology Unit.
Karl Lennert
Karl Lennert (1921–2012) was a German pathologist at Kiel University who created the Kiel classification of non-Hodgkin lymphomas, the first built on immunological findings, and described Lennert lymphoma.
Kurt Benirschke
Kurt Benirschke (1924–2018) was a German American pathologist and geneticist at UC San Diego who founded placental pathology as a discipline and created the San Diego Zoo's Frozen Zoo.
Laurence de Leval
Laurence de Leval, born 1970, is a Belgian hematopathologist and professor at the University of Lausanne, known for identifying the follicular helper T-cell origin of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.
Lawrence M. Weiss
Lawrence M. Weiss, also published as Lawrence Weiss, is an American hematopathologist and Chairman of Pathology Emeritus at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California.
Lawrence Zukerberg
Lawrence R. Zukerberg (1959–2022) was an American pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital whose work established cyclin D1 as a diagnostic marker of mantle cell lymphoma.
Louis B. Thomas
Louis B. Thomas is an American pathologist who headed the Laboratory of Pathology at the National Cancer Institute and helped establish vinyl chloride as a cause of liver cancer.
Ludwig Aschoff
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942) was a German pathologist, regarded as the most important after Virchow, known for the Aschoff body, the Aschoff-Tawara node, and Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses.
Mai P. Hoang
Mai P. Hoang (Mai Hoang) is an American dermatopathologist, Director of Dermatopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, known for research on immunohistochemistry in rare skin tumors.
Marshall E. Kadin
Marshall E. Kadin is an American dermatopathologist and hematopathologist known for work on Hodgkin's disease, lymphomatoid papulosis, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and for describing erythrophagocytic Tγ lymphoma in 1981.
Martha B. Pitman
Martha B. Pitman, also known as Martha Bishop Pitman, is an American cytopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, principal author of the Papanicolaou Society system for reporting pancreatic cytology.
Max Askanazy
Max Askanazy (1865–1940) was a German-born pathologist who spent most of his career as professor of pathology at the University of Geneva and described the thyroid cells now called Askanazy cells.
Morris J. Karnovsky
Morris J. Karnovsky (1926–2018) was a South African-born American pathologist at Harvard Medical School who created the DAB tracer method and established the blood-brain barrier's endothelial nature.
Nancy L. Harris
Nancy Lee Harris is an American hematopathologist, emerita professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, who led the REAL lymphoma classification that became the WHO standard.
Otto von Schrön
Otto von Schrön (1837–1917) was a German pathologist who led the University of Naples' Institute of Anatomical Pathology for fifty-three years, training a generation of Italian medical scientists.
Paul Grawitz
Paul Albert Grawitz (1850–1932) was a German pathologist trained under Rudolf Virchow, known for the Grawitz tumour eponym and his disproven theory that kidney tumors arise from adrenal tissue.
Peter George Ingle Stovin
Peter George Ingle Stovin was a British pathologist, born in Jinan, China, who co-described Hughes–Stovin syndrome in 1959 and worked on cardiac transplant pathology at Royal Papworth Hospital.
Peter M. Sadow
Peter M. Sadow is an American anatomic pathologist, Director of Head and Neck Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard professor, known for research on thyroid carcinogenesis.
Pierre Eugène Ménétrier
Pierre Eugène Ménétrier (1859–1935) was a French pathologist, surgeon, oncologist, and medical historian at Paris whose 1888 description of seven autopsy cases founded Ménétrier's disease, a rare protein-losing stomach disorder.
Pierre Masson
Pierre Masson (1880–1959) was a French physician and pathologist who held pathology chairs at Strasbourg and the Université de Montréal and devised the trichrome stain for collagen.
Ramzi S. Cotran
Ramzi S. Cotran (1932–2000) was an American pathologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital who coined "endothelial activation" and led Robbins' pathology textbook.
Richard L. Naeye
Richard L. Naeye was an American perinatal pathologist and founding chair of pathology at Penn State College of Medicine, known for research on sudden infant death syndrome.
Richard Shepherd (pathologist)
Richard Shepherd is a British forensic pathologist who spent over 30 years on the Home Office register, performed more than 23,000 postmortems, and wrote the memoir Unnatural Causes.
Robert Rössle
Robert Rössle (1876–1956) was a German pathologist who held Rudolf Virchow's chair at the Berlin Charité, advanced inflammation theory with serous inflammation and Pathergie, and introduced quantitative measurement into pathology.
Roger A. Warnke
Roger A. Warnke, also published as Roger Warnke, is a Stanford hematopathologist, Ronald F. Dorfman Professor Emeritus, known for diagnosing lymphomas with immunologic markers and monoclonal antibodies.
Rosalynn M. Nazarian
Rosalynn M. Nazarian is an American dermatopathologist, formerly at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, now Professor of Dermatology and Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine.