J Aidan Carney (born 1934 in
County Roscommon
"Steadfast Irish heart"
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, Ireland), is a
pathologist
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associated with the
Mayo Clinic
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.
[Janice L. Pasieka, James A, et al. "Surgical Endocrinopathies: Clinical Management and the Founding Figures", page 228] He is best known for describing what became known as
Carney syndrome, the separate phenomenon of
Carney's triad
Carney triad (CT) is characterized by the coexistence of three types of neoplasms, mainly in young women,OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Carney Triad (OMIM 604287/ref> including gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor, pulmonary chondr ...
, and
Carney-Stratakis syndrome.
He graduated in medicine from
University College Dublin
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in 1959, and
interned
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in
St. Vincent's. After further work in
Dublin
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he moved to the
Mayo Clinic
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in 1962, becoming consultant there in 1966. His doctorate in pathology at the
University of Minnesota
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in 1969 was on the ''Morphology of Myosin and Thick Filament Diameter in Experimental Cardiac Hypertrophy.''
References
Living people
Irish pathologists
Alumni of University College Dublin
1934 births
University of Minnesota Medical School alumni
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