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History of Frozen Section. Anesthesia was a critical step. 1st successful demonstration of a surgery under anesthesia occurred in 1846 at Mass General - William Horton, dentist, used ether - Surgeon John Warren removed a neck mass.

Dear trainees, if you are interested in the History of Pathology and attend the USCAP annual meeting, our Society sponsors the Henry Azar Award. An abstract can be submitted through the USCAP submission process or directly on our website.

We are kicking off the Mayo Clinic Thoracic Pathology Workshop in Budapest Hungary hosted by the illustrious Dr. Andras Khoor, Professor of Pathology at Mayo Clinic Florida!

This summer we welcomed a handful of talented physicians into our Pathology Residency Program; diverse experiences and skill sets make them prototypical change agents in the digital era. Caroline Culver, Adilson DaCosta, Elsha Eggink, James Fleming, Sam Wu, Vy Huynh

Save the date Friday October 18th at 3pm CT US for our 2nd mid-Fall online meeting of our Society. You are welcome to join and listen to our Azar Awardee of 2024, Dr Ramirez and our guest speaker, Dr Pizzi. mchealth.zoom.us/j/92517938968?… Meeting ID: 925 1793 8968 Passcode: 269197

Johannes Müller (1801-58), Virchow’s teacher, applied science and exact methods to biology. He broke away from the theory of humors and was credited as the first to study the cellular composition of tumors using a microscope. His work on cancer was published in 1838

Congratulations to our 2025 Azar Award winner, Dr Jeremy Minkowitz, fellow at UPMC S Jeremy Minkowitz, DO and colleagues UPMC Pathology for their work History of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Nuclei: How Clinical, Pathologic, and Molecular Details Uncovered Two Main Nuclear Morphologies

Anatomy of the brain from 'De humani corporis fabrica' by Andreas Vesalius, published in 1543 #histmed #historyofmedicine #anatomy #pastmedicalhistory

The inventor of the stethoscope, René Laennec, examines a patient in front of his students. Painting by Théobald Chartran c.1816. #histmed #historyofmedicine #stethoscope #pastmedicalhistory

Joseph Lister, pioneer of antiseptic surgery, spraying phenol over a patient. #histmed #histsurg #historyofmedicine #historyofsurgery #pastmedicalhistory

Although first described in Antiquity, the disease became known as Behcet disease after Hulusi Behcet, Turkish dermatologist, reported the classic triad of oral, genital ulcers and eye lesion in 1937. He and his colleague pathologist, Dr Oberndorfer, searched for a virus in vain.

A new year, a new program for our Companion meeting at USCAP 2025 annual meeting in Boston "Serendipity: Unplanned Lucky Discoveries in Medical Sciences" with 4 great speakers. Please join us Sunday March 23rd.

Dr. Averill Liebow, father of modern pulmonary pathology, created plastic casts of the bronchi and vessels that changed surgeries, his passion was pulmonary hypertension and his contributions vast to both non and neoplastic lung. His memoir from Hiroshima worth a read!

William Osler, the "greatest diagnostician ever to wield a stethoscope", one of the "Big Four" founders of Johns Hopkins, was an enthusiast of the microscope "It is of equal importance with the stethoscope". He introduced a practical histology course to students at McGill in 1876

John Azzopardi is best known for his book on breast pathology and of course his "phenomenon" of DNA incrustation of vessels in small cell carcinoma. "Fatherly teacher, generous friend" who provided expert consultations all over the world at no charge.

Wilms tumor named after Carl Marx Wilms (1867-1918), who published his monograph on this tumor in 1899 as a pathologist in Giessen. He would end his career as a successful surgeon and Chair of Surgery at Heidelberg in 1910.

Crohn disease named after Burrill Bernard Crohn following a 1932 article in JAMA "Regional ileitis, a pathological and clinical entity". But description of the disease can be found in the 1st C by Aretaeus. Louis XIII and Prince Albert would have also suffered from the disease.

Robbin Warren, Australian pathologist, first recognized curved bacteria, in stomach ulcers of patients in 1979. His observation was met with scorn, until Barry Marshall teamed up with him. They went on to win a Nobel Prize for their discovery of H. Pylori and its clinical impact

Lauren Ackerman (1905-1993), champion of Surgical Pathology as a specialty and author of the seminal textbook Surgical Pathology, first published in 1953. His mentee, Juan Rosai would continue its publication until 2004.