Professorship honors Cotran’s legacy- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professorship honors Cotran’s legacy- BWH Bulletin - For and about the People of Brigham and Women's Hospital
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October 6, 2000
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Professorship honors Cotran’s legacy
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It has long been the custom for BWH and Harvard Medical School (HMS) to honor distinguished department chairmen by establishing professorships in their names. But few can recall a celebration quite like the one held on September 28 for BWH Chairman of Pathology Ramzi S. Cotran, MD, at which the Cotran Professorship in Pathology at HMS was announced. More than 500 people came to BWH from as far away as Amsterdam to salute Cotran, a giant in pathology who has served as department chairman at BWH for 27 years and mentored scores of the field's leading lights. A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as lead author of the pathology text Pathologic Basis of Disease, Cotran has exerted enormous impact in vascular biology and nephrology research while building the hospital's department into a world leader in academic pathology. Before a capacity crowd in the Bornstein Amphitheater, Cotran heard BWH leaders, colleagues, friends, former trainees and daughter Nina Cotran, MD, BWH Department of Medicine, pay testimony to his achievements as well as his warmth, friendship and love of mentoring. The remarks were broadcast to an even larger throng in the Cabot Atrium. Cotran's wife, Kerstin, then helped present a portrait of her husband that will be hung in the Bornstein alongside those of other BWH luminaries.