The USCAP is pleased to honor Harvey Goldman with the Distinguished Pathologist Award in 2006. Dr. Goldman is a native of Philadelphia, where he received his medical degree at Temple University, followed by a clinical internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital. He came to Boston for his residency and research fellowship in pathology and, after a tour of naval duty in Great Lakes, Harvey returned to Boston for the rest of his career at the Beth Israel Hospital, the New England Deaconess Hospital and, most recently, at the merged Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His early mentors were David Freiman, who introduced him to the realm of education, and Si Chun Ming who fostered and supported his interest in gastrointestinal pathology, the two areas that continue to occupy Harvey's activities to the present time.

Over the past forty years, Dr. Goldman has had an illustrious career with ever expanding activities related to patient care, teaching and research. He served as Senior Pathologist at the original Beth Israel Hospital, as Chairman of the Departments of Pathology at the Deaconess and Baptist Hospitals, and is currently the Vice Chairman at the Beth Israel Deaconess; has been president of the New England Society of Pathologists, the Gastrointestinal Pathology Society and the USCAP; and has also served on numerous editorial boards and participated in many visiting professorships and courses on a national and international level.

Dr. Goldman has had an extraordinarily productive and creative career in the field of education. He was involved in the development, organization and delivery of several curricula at Harvard Medical School, helping to frame their overall structure and providing leadership and instruction in courses related to general pathology and to gastrointestinal and other components of pathophysiology. Harvey was the initial director of the general pathology course in the innovative Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and of the systemic pathology course in the core-curriculum at Harvard Medical School. As the Faculty Dean for Medical Education and chair of the curriculum committee, he was instrumental in expanding the pilot program of problem-based learning to the entire class, and this is now a highly heralded form of medical education. He has also served as the medical student clerkship coordinator, residency program director and leader of the gastrointestinal pathology fellowship at the hospitals. Many of his students and resident/fellow trainees are now leaders in academic medicine. Dr. Goldman currently continues as Professor of Pathology and Distinguished Scholar in the Academy at Harvard Medical School.

His educational activities at the USCAP are also noteworthy. Harvey was a presenter and moderator of the evening specialty conference on gastrointestinal pathology, a co-director of the long course in GI pathology, and a faculty member in numerous short courses and in the Diagnostic Pathology Update Course from 1978 to 2003. In recognition of the popularity and overall success of these courses, the attendance was still over 100 at the last presentation of his short course related to mucosal biopsies. Dr. Goldman has also been a leader in the on-going governance of the USCAP, as Chair of the Education Committee, as Councillor, Vice President and President, and as a participant in long-term planning committees. His activities have extended to the parent International Academy of Pathology where he has been one of the North American Vice Presidents for the past decade.

He has received numerous teaching awards, including the first one ever presented by the Harvard medical students in the early 1970s and has continued to be recognized by the current classes. Other awards have been achieved from the residents and fellows in anatomic pathology, from the hospital for his overall educational activities, and at the USCAP where he was the recipient of the F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Goldman's research career has dominantly centered on the area of gastrointestinal pathology. He has participated in numerous projects and publications dealing with a variety of inflammatory conditions and their complications affecting the esophagus, stomach and intestines. He was one of the first to publicize the enormous utility of mucosal biopsies of the gut with two sentinel papers in the early 1980s, related to the upper and lower portions. In addition, he was part of the team that developed the criteria and classification of colonic dysplasia that complicates inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Goldman continued to present numerous courses dealing with biopsies, and this expertise culminated in his solo authorship of the book, Gastrointestinal Mucosal Biopsy, published in 1996. He also co-edited with Dr. Ming and wrote many of the chapters in his larger textbook, Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract.