Nationality Indian American Role Pathologist Doctoral advisor - Dr M G Deo | Doctoral students - Name Vinay Kumar | |
Alma mater University of Poona, Punjab University Medical College, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Known for Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease and discovery of natural killer cells Education All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Panjab University, Chandigarh People also search for Ramzi S. Cotran, Stanley L Robbins, Edward Klatt Books Robbins and Cotran Review of, Pocket Companion to Robbin, Robbins Review of Pathology, Robbins and Cotran Pathologi, Robbins Pathologic Basis of | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
Dr vinay kumar discusses pathology trends and his robbins pathology books
Professor Vinay Kumar is the Alice Hogge & Arthur Baer Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, where he is the Chair of the Department of Pathology
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Born in India in 1944, Dr. Kumar graduated with honors, at the age of 17, from University of Poona. He earned his MBBS in 1967, at the age of 22, from Punjab University Medical College, in Amritsar, where he was named "Best Medical Graduate" for that year, winning the Pfizer Award and the Gold Medal for highest achievement as a medical student. He completed both his PhD in experimental pathology and his residency in anatomic pathology and hematology in 1972 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he was awarded the Khanolkar Prize for outstanding research in pathology.
He is also the senior editor of the pathology reference book Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease co-edited with Dr Abul K Abbas.