Years active 47 (since 1969) Place of birth Madrid | Website official page | |
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Miguel A. Sanchez, MD, is a board-certified pathologist who specializes in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology and cytopathology. Sanchez is chief of pathology and medical director of The Leslie Simon Breast Care and Cytodiagnosis Center at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey. He is best known for his contribution in setting the standards of diagnosis and treatment of breast and thyroid disease praised by the United States Congress in 1994.
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Education
Sanchez received his medical degree from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1969. Following a short period of practice in internal medicine and cardiology, he emigrated to the USA to complete a training in pathology at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. Then, he received training in fine-needle aspiration biopsy at the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden in the 1980s.
Medical career
Sanchez has practiced at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center since 1975, as its chief of pathology since 1991, and a member of its board of trusteesfrom 1985 to 2014. Sanchez holds professorial appointments at both Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (1990–Present) and New York University. He lectured on the intersection of medicine with the humanities such as music, opera and egyptology. As a result, he has been a member of the Paleopathology Club of the International Academy of Pathology and the Paleopathology Society. He has given national and international lectures and talks on breast cancer and the role of the humanities in learning medicine and ancient Egyptian medicine He is a member of the University of Memphis team excavating Thebes Tomb 16 (TT16) in Luxor, Egypt .
Professional affiliations
Sanchez is a Fellow, member or honorary member of the following organizations:
Publications
Over the last 20 years, Sanchez has contributed to research and published notable academic articles in his field of research. A selection of these publications is as follows:
Awards and honors
Sanchez has received several national and international awards and distinctions during his career. The most notable of his distinctions are the first Yolanda Oertel Interventional Pathologist of the Year in 2003; the gold medal of the Chinese Academy of Medical Science for his contributions in the first course on AIDS in Beijing. The President of Nicaragua granted him the Medal of Medical Merit and the College of American Pathologists honored him with the 2010 Excellence in Education Award.