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Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease

Volume 7, 2012

Instantiating a Vision: Creating the New Pathology Department at Stanford Medical School

Abstract

This review represents my best effort to recreate and memorialize events that occurred 44 years ago, when I was invited to join the Stanford University faculty to create, essentially de novo, what rapidly became and remains today one of the very best and most admired departments of pathology in the world. That I was able to accomplish this challenging task I attribute to my holding fast to a somewhat inchoate vision of where the science and practice of pathology would go in future decades, a little bit to my gut instincts and innate ability to spot up-and-coming talent, but a lot to circumstances and good fortune in leading me to a small nucleus of wonderful young professionals of outstanding promise who were willing to join me in “betting the house” that, working together, we could pull off this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—and we did.

Keyword(s): Autobiography, creating, recruiting, Stanford Blood Center, Stanford Department of Pathology
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