J Aidan Carney (born 1934 in

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, Ireland), is a

pathologist Pathology is the study of the causal, causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when us ...

associated with the

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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

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in 1959, and

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in St. Vincent's. After further work in

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he moved to the

in 1962, becoming consultant there in 1966. His doctorate in pathology at the

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in 1969 was on the ''Morphology of Myosin and Thick Filament Diameter in Experimental Cardiac Hypertrophy.''

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Living people Irish pathologists Alumni of University College Dublin 1934 births University of Minnesota Medical School alumni {{US-med-bio-stub