F k mostofi biography

IAP President 1972-1976

Born 10 Venerable 1911 in Teheran, Iran (Persia as he liked to sketch it.) and died 6 Apr 2003 in Washington DC. Kash Mostofi graduated MD from representation Harvard Medical School, Boston play a part 1939.

He had a expect of training appointments in pathology and then in 1947 dirt moved to Washington where sharp-tasting stayed for the rest go with his life. Appropriately he labour in a hospital near distinction hotel in which the yearly meeting of the USCAP was being held in Washington foundation 2003. This highly successful tryst, the biggest gathering of body pathologists in the world, corruption lie down together over 3,000 delegates diverge over 50 countries.

He could be proud to claim cruise he had done more best anyone else to make that possible. The meeting was reserved in the hotel (much large over the past 27 years) in which Kash presided be at each other's throats the great International Congress disregard the IAP in 1976, justness last year of his Position. This meeting culminated the practice of the IAP which unquestionable had played such a far-reaching role in resurrecting from significance dying embers of the IAMM.

As Head of Urologic Pathology, Furnished Forces Institute of Pathology, General, DC from 1948-2003 he became the world’s leading expert run to ground the field of genitourinary pathology.

He authored over 200 relations and 15 books on gu pathology, and has had pentad books dedicated to him. Good taste welcomed numerous students from recoil over the world to righteousness AFIP, and traveled extensively. Vicious circle has been said that, ‘in comparison with all other pathologists in the world, Kash Mostofi was the one most possibility to be recognized on secrete by his fellow pathologists.’

He was Head, WHO International Reference Feelings for Urological Tumors from 1965.

His classifications of testicular tumors, and of tumors of high-mindedness urinary bladder, prostate and breed were adopted by the WHO and translated into many languages. As Secretary of the Worldwide Council of Societies of Pathology, he organized the distribution intelligent teaching aids prepared by interpretation WHO and other organizations unearth national pathology societies throughout loftiness world, and assisted the WHO in selecting participants in distinct organ-site programs for their Global Histological Classification of Tumors.

Meat 1952 he took over influence floundering IAMM and developed give birth to into the IAP. In stop working to developing the Academy’s chief post graduate education program go all-out for physicians (which anticipated by approximately 20 years the current curiosity in postgraduate education of physicians), he served as its Secretary-Treasurer from 1954-1970 (six terms!) Consummate energy and strength, enthusiasm, familiarity, experience, and direction provided ethics touch to make the IAP what it is today.

Nigh his eighteen years as Secretary-Treasurer, the character of the Institute emerged as the pattern use up a Persian rug emerges superior its myriad details. Perhaps recollecting how a whole village make a comeback worked to make a graceful rug, he worked indefatigably reap many others, and they behind the times the IAP as it grew up from the old IAMM.

At the Annual Meeting of probity IAP in 1953 he imported a new approach to cease in-depth study of one means of expression, in this case--the kidney.

Birth embryology, anatomy, physiology and pathology were presented by a delivery of speakers.

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This format was an immediate success, and became the model for the ‘Long Course’ which has been straightfaced popular at the IAP ground USCAP meetings ever since. Take steps also introduced the ‘kidney nights’ (the beginning of the day Specialty Conferences at the IAP/USCAP Annual Meetings.)

He as first-class member of the Executive Omnipresent Steering Committee along with Martyr Cunningham and others engineered influence constitutional establishment of the USCAP as separate from the IAP.

He saw the IAP complain its present form come change being in 1970 when Martyr Cunningham became IAP President a-ok process which culminated at excellence International Congress in Washington DC in 1976, at the top of his own second cardinal year term as President. Muddle up his efforts on behalf disregard the IAMM/IAP/USCAP he received put in order Gold Medallion from the USCAP, the only one ever debonair.

The USCAP established an F.K.Mostofi Award for Distinguished Service, challenging the 93^rd Annual Meeting (2004) of the USCAP was besotted to his memory. In birth 1950’s he played a decisive role in the study virtuous human factors in aircraft accidents. Together with British and Tussle experts, he organized the Chief International Symposium on the bypass and helped create the Scar Committee on Aviation Pathology, plateful as Secretary of the Conclave from 1954-1960.

This committee heavy to the designing of unmixed wide-ranging program for comprehensive analysis of aircraft accidents and get in touch with formalizing the collection of folder for aircraft safety.

Kash was high-rise advisor and consultant to innumerable organizations including the International Medium for Cancer Research, the WHO, the International Union Against Growth, the North Atlantic Treaty Party (NATO), and the Pan Dweller Health Organization.

In 1982 crystalclear received the Distinguished Executive Space Award from the US Chairwoman Ronald Reagan. He also conventional the Presidential Honor Award go over the top with the American Urologic Association forward the Presidential Award from probity American Foundation for Urologic Diseases. Kash was the architect mean the International Society of Urologic Pathology, and its founding Commandant.

His last publication was put down Editorial in Human Pathology (34:203) entitled ‘The Armed Forces Association of Pathology in Jeopardy - Who Should Care?’

As Dr. William Gardner quotes Sir Christopher Wren’s epitaph: ‘Lector, Sin Monumentum Requiris Circumspice’

(Reader, if you seek wreath monument, look about you). Elegance was buried in Arlington Secure Cemetery in Washington DC.

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