Ramzi S. Cotran (1932-2000) was a pathologist and former president of the

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, abbreviated USCAP, is the largest North American organization of pathologists. It is the publisher to two major pathology journals, ''Laboratory Investigation'' and ''Modern Pathology The Unit ...

(USCAP). He was chair of pathology at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Medical Center, as well as the Frank B. Mallory Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine. The Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award is presented each year by USCAP to a pathologist in recognition of a body of investigative work which has contributed significantly to the diagnosis and understanding of human disease. Cotran was born in

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

(then in Palestine) and studied at the

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

before moving to the U.S.

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ASIP biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cotran, Ramzi 1932 births 2000 deaths American pathologists Mandatory Palestine emigrants to the United States People from Haifa American University of Beirut alumni Palestinian pathologists Members of the National Academy of Medicine