Ronald A. DeLellis President USCAP 2001-2002 Biographic Profile Born - Providence, Rhode Island Academic Degrees - BA: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1962; MD: Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 1966 Training - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; National Institutes of Health; National Cancer Institute Military Service - 1967 - 1971 Commissioned Officer in Public Health Service Academic Appointments - 1966 - 1967 Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; 1971 - 1973 Assistant Professor of Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; 1973 - 1998 Assistant Professor then Associate Professor (1975) and Professor (1985) of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; 1998 - 2001 Professor of Pathology, Cornell University Medical College, New York City, NY; 2001 - current Professor of Pathology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Selected Career Highlights Collaboration with Dr. Hubert J. Wolfe at Tufts (for 27 years). International reputation in endocrine pathology and immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. Author of Diagnostic Immunopathology, the "go to" resource in immunopathology for many years. Received the Distinguished Professor Award from his medical school alma mater. President of the Endocrine Society (1999-2000); Vice President of the Society for Applied Immunohistochemistry (1999-present). Editorial Advisory Board of the AFIP/ARP Tumor Fascicle series and co-author of the fascicle on Tumors of the Adrenal Gland, Thyroid Gland, and Parathyroid Glands. Co-Editor (with Drs. R.Lloyd, P. Heitz, and C.Eng) of the WHO Classification of Endocrine Tumors. Member, Editorial Board of 10 major journals including: The American Journal of Surgical Pathology Laboratory Investigation Human Pathology Ultrastructural Pathology Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry Histochemical Journal Modern Pathology Co-Editor of Diagnostic Molecular Pathology. Co-Editor of the recent textbook Principles and Practice of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology. Author of over 230 papers, 9 books and 50 book chapters. Recipient of the prestigious Fred W. Stewart Award presented by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (1999). Director/Co-Director of 4 different USCAP Short Courses, and Co-Director of the Long Course on Thyroid and Parathyroid (with Dr. V. LiVolsi). The USCAP Representative to the American Registry of Pathology, and member of all the various USCAP Committees. Lover of opera and the New York Metropolitan Opera.