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Dr. Stanley Robbins, senior pathologist in the Department of Pathology at BWH and Visiting Professor of Pathology at the Harvard Medical School has passed away.
Robbins’ unsurpassed influence on the discipline of Pathology over five decades included a strong record of academic leadership in Pathology at the Mallory Institute and Boston University School of Medicine, and important contributions to the clinical and pathophysiological understanding of a variety of diseases.
However, Robbins’ most important and enduring contribution is having conceived and authored the most widely used and influential text in pathology, Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease, now in its 6th edition and translated into more than 15 languages. Robbins captured the imagination of countless students and faculty over several generations by emphasizing mechanisms of disease, correlations between structural and functional changes, and the inclusion of enough clinical details to make morphology meaningful and exciting, all in a magnificently readable writing style.