Abul K. Abbas ( ur, ابو ال کے عباس) is an

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where he is Distinguished

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and former chair of its Department of Pathology. He is senior editor of the pathology reference book ''Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease'' along with

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, as well as ''Basic Immunology'', and ''Cellular & Molecular Immunology''. He was editor for ''

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'' from 1993 to 1996, and continues to serve as a member of the editorial board. He was one of the inaugural co-editors of the '' Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease'' for issues from 2006 to 2020. He has published nearly 200 scientific papers.

Selected books

* Kumar V, Abbas A, Aster J, editors. Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. 10th Ed. Elsevier 2020. * Kumar V, Abbas A, Aster J, editors. Robbins Essential Pathology. 1st Ed. Elsevier 2020.

Awards and honors

* 2021: ASIP Gold-Headed Cane Award,

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(ASIP) * 2010: ASIP Robbins Distinguished Educator Award, ASIP

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian emigrants to the United States American pathologists Members of the National Academy of Medicine All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi alumni University of California, San Francisco faculty Harvard Medical School people Annual Reviews (publisher) editors {{US-physician-stub