Introductrion برای بزرگنمایی عکسها کلیک را روی ان نگه دارید..... Dr.Lauren Ackerman was born in Auburn, New York in 1905. After completing studies at Hamilton College in 1927 and a year of work as an engineer, he entered medical school at the University of Rochester where he received his degree in 1932. At the recommenda- tion of his medical school mentor, Dr. George Whipple, he traveled to the West Coast and completed training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (a decision that certainly had great influence on his approach to surgical pathology). After working as an Assistant Professor of Medicine focusing on pulmonary disease and autopsy correlation, Dr. Ackerman decided to pursue pathology. From 1936 to 1939 he was a pathology resident at Pondville Hospital in Wrentham, MA, where he studied under the legendary Dr. Shields Warren and developed his lifelong interest in tumor pathology In 1940, Dr. Ackerman became the Director of Laboratories at Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital in Columbia, MO. With the combination of his clinical background in internal medicine, his growing experience with tumor histology, and a commitment for nothing short of excellence, he helped to shape a model cancer hospital. During this time, he wrote his groundbreaking oncology textbook, with co-author Dr. Juan del Regato, Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment, which served as the premier reference for a generation of oncologists through multiple editions. It was also during his time in Columbia that he described verrucous carcinoma, based on correlation with the unexpected local clinical aggressiveness of the tumor that seemed incongruous with the bland histologic features In 1948, Dr. Ackerman was recruited to Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis as pathologist-in-chief at Barnes Hospital where he spent the next 25 years. During this phase of his career, his influence on other pathologists was enormous. He played a major role in the evolution of surgical pathology into a field that was focused on the clinical implications of histologic findings with regard to prognosis and therapy. Dr. Juan Rosai reminisced on his first experience with an Ackerman case conference; he thought he had entered the wrong room because of the thorough discussion of clinical history and imaging studies that was taking place. Dr. Ackerman codified his approach to the practice of surgical pathology in 1953 with publication of the first edition of this book, Surgical Pathology, which greatly increased the worldwide reach of his teaching and has had long- lasting impact on the evolution and current strength of our discipline. In 1973, Dr. Ackerman moved to the Department of Pathology of SUNY at Stony Brook, where he continued to practice pathology for 20 more years until his death at the age of 88 .Dr.Juan Rosai was born in Poppi, Italy (a small town in Tuscany) i 1940 and emigrated to Argentina with his parents at the age of eight. He attended the School of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires where he met his first mentor in pathology, Dr. Eduardo Lascano. At the time of his graduation, the Hospital Regional Mar del Plata had just opened with the first formal residency programs in Argentina. Dr. Rosai became their only pathology resident, and he handled every surgical case and autopsy under the tutelage of Dr. Lascano, who had also moved to the new facility. At the time that a complex political situation ended the existence of the teaching hospital, Dr. Rosai met Dr. Lauren Ackerman, who was giving a talk at a medical conference in Buenos Aires. That meeting led to an acceptance of a residency with Dr. Ackerman at the Washington University in St. Louis, where Dr. Rosai completed training and remained as faculty until 1974. Dr. Rosai subsequently led several departments of pathology in the United States, first as: Director of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Minnesota (1974-1985), Director of Anatomic Pathology at Yale University (1985-1991), and Chairman of Pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering (1991-1999). After a 35- year career in the United States, Dr. Rosai returned to Italy to serve as Chair of Pathology at the Cancer Institute of Milan Throughout his career, Dr. Rosai has made enumerable contribu- tions to the field of pathology. His landmark descriptions of distinct entities include Rosai-Dorfman disease (sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy), desmoplastic small round cell tumor, sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation of the spleen, and spindle epithelial tumor with thymus- like differentiation of the thyroid (SETTLE). To date, he has published over 400 articles, as well as 52 books, book chapters, and monographs Of course, one of Dr. Rosai's most renowned contributions has been the authorship of Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology, which he took over for Dr. Ackerman in 1981. Handling this task as a single author will probably stand as one of the monumental accomplishments of modern surgical pathology education and is a feat that we are quite sure will never be duplicated
