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Leslie H. Sobin, M.D.
Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal Pathology Department of Hepatic and Gastrointestinal Pathology Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
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Dr. Sobin and his faculty at the AFIP provide expert pathology consultation on exotic and difficult cases referred from across the globe.
As they share their most fascinating case materials with us, the readers of VHJOE, will surely come to understand why Dr. Sobin and his faculty are an invaluable and irreplaceable intellectual treasure to the field of Medicine and Gastrointestinal Pathology.
Dr. Leslie H. Sobin was born in New York City, received his Bachelor of Science degree from Union College in 1955 and his medical degree from the State University of New York at N.Y.C. in 1959.
He did his residency in Anatomic Pathology at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center where he rose to Assistant Professor.
From 1965 to 1968 he served as WHO Professor of Pathology at the University of Kabul, Afghanistan after which he returned to Cornell as Associate Professor of Pathology.
He rejoined WHO in 1970 as Pathologist and was responsible for the WHO International Histological Classification of Tumors.
In 1981 he joined the staff of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC where he rose to Chief of Gastrointestinal Pathology, Co-chair of the Department of Hepatic and Gastrointestinal Pathology and Director of Scientific Publications.
He continued his work on the WHO tumor classification series as head of a WHO Collaborating Center at the AFIP.
He has been co-editor of the third and fourth series of the AFIP Atlas of Tumor Pathology.
As Chairman of the TNM Prognostic Factors Project of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) for over 20 years, he co-edited the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors in its 4th, 5th and 6th editions.
Dr. Sobin is author or coauthor of over 300 scientific articles, chapters, and books among which were the AFIP Atlas of Intestinal Tumors and the Atlas of Endoscopy and Endoscopic Biopsies of the Gastrointestinal Tract.
Among his publications are: articles on staging of cancer, classification of tumors, epidemiology of gastrointestinal cancer, and pathology of GISTs; chapters on the appendix, gastrointestinal polyps and tumors.
He published three books of verse on pathology: A Pathology Primer- in verse, Tales of the Ampulla of Vater, and The Prosector's Guide to the Autopsy.
He has been the Director of the AFIP's annual course on Endoscopic Biopsies of the Gastrointestinal Tract for over 15 years.
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Editor of Cases from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Dr. Sobin
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