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Leopold Koss
Born
Leopold Kon
October 2, 1920
Died September 11, 2012 (age 91)
Nationality American Occupation pathologist Known for cytopathology research
Leopold George Koss (born Leopold Kon ; October 2, 1920 – September 11, 2012) was an American physician, pathologist, and professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine .[1] He has been called "one of the founding fathers for the field of cytopathology ".[2]
Biography [ edit ]
Koss was born in Langfuhr , Poland . He escaped Nazi persecution in 1942 by entering Switzerland , where he was eventually allowed to continue studying medicine.[3] He received his M.D. degree from the University of Bern , Switzerland in 1946. His parents and sisters were murdered in the Holocaust.
He arrived in the United States in 1947, and did a residency in pathology at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn , New York. From 1952 to 1970, minus a stint in the Korean War , he was on staff at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center . In 1973, he was named Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine .[2]
Koss received the Papanicolaou, Goldblatt, and Masubuchi Awards, the Sloan Award in Cancer Research, and the Gold-headed Cane Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology .[2] He was a distinguished member of the American Society of Cytopathology .[4]
His textbook Koss' Diagnostic Cytology and its Histopathologic Bases, in its fifth edition as of 2005,[5] is considered a classic in the field of cytopathology.[6]
Diagnostic Cytology and Its Histopathologic Bases, 5th rev. edition 2006
Tumors of the Urinary Bladder, 1975, Supplement, 1984[7]
Aspiration Biopsy: Cytologic Interpretation and Histologic Bases, 2d rev. edition 1992[8]
Introduction to Gynecologic Cytology, 1999[9]
References [ edit ]
^ Koss, Leopold G. Eternally Grateful , Frontline (U.S. TV series) (1997) (1997 report including Koss's story of how he escaped the Nazis and was allowed entrance to Switzerland)
^ "Leopold Koss, Obituary" . legacy.com . 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2012-11-02 .
^ Koss, Leopold G. ; Melamed, Myron R. (2005). Koss' Diagnostic Cytology And Its Histopathologic Bases . Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. ISBN 978-0781719285 .
^ Koss' Diagnostic Cytology and Its Histopathologic Bases (1968, and subsequent editions)
^ Tumors of the Urinary Bladder
^ Aspiration Biopsy
^ Introduction to Gynecologic Cytology
9 Sanchez M. A personal Memory of Leo Koss Cancer Cytopathology
Volume 120, Issue 6, pages 419–420, 25 December 2012
Further reading [ edit ]
Cilia-Vincenti, Albert (July 29, 2007). "Cervical screening" . Times of Malta . Retrieved 14 October 2012 .
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