Speaker & Presentation Information

Winter 2008 Quarterly Pathology / Immunohistochemistry Conference
Featuring Dr. Lawrence Weiss

Dr. Lawrence Weiss, of City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA, presented “What’s New in WHO in Lymphoma” at the Quarterly Pathology/Immunohistochemistry Conference on Thursday, February 7, 2008.

Dr. Weiss is currently the Chairman of the Division of Pathology at the City of Hope National Medical Center and President of City of Hope Medical Group. He received his B.S. summa cum laude and his M.D. summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He subsequently completed his residency in Anatomic Pathology at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and a Surgical Pathology Fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center.

Dr. Weiss’s research interests encompass surgical pathology, hematopathology, and immunohistochemistry. He has authored over 400 papers and book chapters, as well as seven books, including a recently published text on lymph nodes. His laboratory discovered the first molecular evidence linking the Epstein-Barr virus with Hodgkin’s disease. Among his numerous awards, Dr. Weiss is the recipient of the Benjamin Castleman Award, Arthur Purdy Stout Award, and the Young Investigator Award from the United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology, and has been listed in the book The Best Doctors in America since 1994. A distinguished speaker, Dr. Weiss has delivered over 150 national and international talks in pathology. Dr. Weiss is on the editorial board of eleven scientific journals.


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