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Leopold George Koss (born Leopold Kon; October 2, 1920 – September 11, 2012) was an American physician, pathologist, and professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has been called "one of the founding fathers for the field of cytopathology"."Giant in Cytology, Dr. Leopold Koss, Passes Away."
September 13, 2012. American Society for Clinical Pathology. Accessed November 2012.


Biography

Koss was born in
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, Poland. He escaped Nazi persecution in 1942 by entering
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, where he was eventually allowed to continue studying medicine.Koss, Leopold G
Eternally Grateful
'' Frontline (U.S. TV series)'' (1997) (1997 report including Koss's story of how he escaped the Nazis and was allowed entrance to Switzerland)
He received his M.D. degree from the University of Bern,
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in 1946. His parents and sisters were murdered in the Holocaust. He arrived in the United States in 1947, and did a residency in pathology at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. From 1952 to 1970, minus a stint in the Korean War, he was on staff at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center. In 1973, he was named Chairman of the Department of Pathology at
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and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.


Awards

Koss received the Papanicolaou, Goldblatt, and Masubuchi Awards, the Sloan Award in Cancer Research, and the Gold-headed Cane Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology. He was a distinguished member of the American Society of Cytopathology.


Works

His textbook ''Koss' Diagnostic Cytology and its Histopathologic Bases,'' in its fifth edition as of 2005, is considered a classic in the field of cytopathology.Koss' Diagnostic Cytology and Its Histopathologic Bases
(1968, and subsequent editions)
*Diagnostic Cytology and Its Histopathologic Bases, 5th rev. edition 2006 *Tumors of the Urinary Bladder, 1975, Supplement, 1984 *Aspiration Biopsy: Cytologic Interpretation and Histologic Bases, 2d rev. edition 1992 *Introduction to Gynecologic Cytology, 1999Introduction to Gynecologic Cytology
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References

9 Sanchez M. A personal Memory of Leo Koss Cancer Cytopathology Volume 120, Issue 6, pages 419–420, 25 December 2012


Further reading

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koss, Leopold 1920 births 2012 deaths American pathologists Cytopathologists Albert Einstein College of Medicine faculty University of Bern alumni Polish expatriates in Switzerland Polish emigrants to the United States