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Ramzi S. Cotran, MD

"Ramzi Suliman Cotran was born in Haifa, Palestine, and graduated from the American University of Beirut, where in 1956 he also received his medical degree. He came to the United States for postgraduate training in pathology and nephrology at Boston City Hospital, at its Mallory Institute of Pathology in Boston and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

He joined the Harvard faculty in 1960 and in 1974 was named pathologist in chief at what was then Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Under his supervision the clinic maintained its reputation for patient care as it transformed itself into a recognized academic department of Brigham and Women's. In 1990, he assumed the chairmanship at Children's Hospital as well.

In 1979, he became the senior author of Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease, a standard text dating from 1974 that is now used the world over.Harvard established a professorship in his honor at the medical school and gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award in Mentoring and the Dean's Award for Support and Advancement of Women Faculty."

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/27/us/dr-ramzi-s-cotran-67-of-harvard-long-a-leading-pathologist.html