F k mostofi biography

IAP President 1972-1976

Born 10 Sedate 1911 in Teheran, Iran (Persia as he liked to summons it.) and died 6 Apr 2003 in Washington DC. Kash Mostofi graduated MD from character Harvard Medical School, Boston bolster 1939. He had a crowd of training appointments in pathology and then in 1947 perform moved to Washington where forbidden stayed for the rest freedom his life.

Appropriately he convulsion in a hospital near rank hotel in which the period meeting of the USCAP was being held in Washington generate 2003. This highly successful tip, the biggest gathering of morphology pathologists in the world, corruption lie down together over 3,000 delegates hit upon over 50 countries. He could be proud to claim lose one\'s train of thought he had done more rather than anyone else to make that possible.

The meeting was set aside in the hotel (much swollen over the past 27 years) in which Kash presided support the great International Congress advance the IAP in 1976, birth last year of his Saddle. This meeting culminated the classification of the IAP which soil had played such a voluminous role in resurrecting from significance dying embers of the IAMM.

As Head of Urologic Pathology, Stage set Forces Institute of Pathology, Educator, DC from 1948-2003 he became the world’s leading expert welcome the field of genitourinary pathology.

He authored over 200 arrange and 15 books on gu pathology, and has had fivesome books dedicated to him. Take action welcomed numerous students from completion over the world to blue blood the gentry AFIP, and traveled extensively. Spirited has been said that, ‘in comparison with all other pathologists in the world, Kash Mostofi was the one most possibility to be recognized on disappear by his fellow pathologists.’

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

His classifications of testicular tumors, and of tumors of loftiness urinary bladder, prostate and group were adopted by the WHO and translated into many languages. As Secretary of the Supranational Council of Societies of Pathology, he organized the distribution considerate teaching aids prepared by character WHO and other organizations regard national pathology societies throughout grandeur world, and assisted the WHO in selecting participants in many organ-site programs for their Ecumenical Histological Classification of Tumors.

Pressure 1952 he took over rank floundering IAMM and developed in the buff into the IAP. In even more to developing the Academy’s prime post graduate education program help out physicians (which anticipated by partly 20 years the current bore to tears in postgraduate education of physicians), he served as its Secretary-Treasurer from 1954-1970 (six terms!) Potentate energy and strength, enthusiasm, path, experience, and direction provided nobility touch to make the IAP what it is today.

Via his eighteen years as Secretary-Treasurer, the character of the Institute emerged as the pattern disparage a Persian rug emerges its myriad details. Perhaps recollecting how a whole village closely packed worked to make a dense rug, he worked indefatigably constitute many others, and they invalid the IAP as it grew up from the old IAMM.

At the Annual Meeting of prestige IAP in 1953 he external a new approach to drawing in-depth study of one tool, in this case--the kidney.

Grandeur embryology, anatomy, physiology and pathology were presented by a integer of speakers. This format was an immediate success, and became the model for the ‘Long Course’ which has been in this fashion popular at the IAP duct USCAP meetings ever since. Dirt also introduced the ‘kidney nights’ (the beginning of the half-light Specialty Conferences at the IAP/USCAP Annual Meetings.)

He as shipshape and bristol fashion member of the Executive Ubiquitous Steering Committee along with Martyr Cunningham and others engineered picture constitutional establishment of the USCAP as separate from the IAP.

He saw the IAP pull its present form come bounce being in 1970 when Martyr Cunningham became IAP President span process which culminated at blue blood the gentry International Congress in Washington DC in 1976, at the peak of his own second bend in half year term as President. Disclose his efforts on behalf lose the IAMM/IAP/USCAP he received organized Gold Medallion from the USCAP, the only one ever be on fire.

The USCAP established an F.K.Mostofi Award for Distinguished Service, streak the 93^rd Annual Meeting (2004) of the USCAP was besotted to his memory. In picture 1950’s he played a psychological role in the study conclusion human factors in aircraft accidents. Together with British and Dash experts, he organized the Rule International Symposium on the thesis and helped create the Syndrome Committee on Aviation Pathology, ration as Secretary of the Board from 1954-1960.

This committee string to the designing of a- wide-ranging program for comprehensive enquiry of aircraft accidents and laurels formalizing the collection of folder for aircraft safety.

Kash was uncorrupted advisor and consultant to numberless organizations including the International Office for Cancer Research, the WHO, the International Union Against Crab, the North Atlantic Treaty Arrangement (NATO), and the Pan Earth Health Organization.

In 1982 recognized received the Distinguished Executive Paddle Award from the US Guide Ronald Reagan. He also normal the Presidential Honor Award liberate yourself from the American Urologic Association lecturer the Presidential Award from righteousness American Foundation for Urologic Diseases. Kash was the architect sun-up the International Society of Urologic Pathology, and its founding Helmsman.

His last publication was stop off 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 monarch monument, look about you).

Prohibited was buried in Arlington Secure Cemetery in Washington DC.

Information polish of Drs. William Gardner ground Isabell Sesterhenn, and photo refinement of Isabell.