Lauren Ackerman
| Lauren Ackerman | |
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| Born |
March 12, 1905 Auburn, New York |
| Died | July 27, 1993 (aged 88) New York City |
| Residence | New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Medicine & Pathology |
| Institutions | University of California-San Francisco; Ellis Fischel Cancer Center; Washington University at St. Louis; State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| Alma mater | Hamilton College (B.S.) & University of Rochester (M.D.) |
| Notable students | Juan Rosai, Louis P. Dehner, Frederic Askin, Richard Reed, Robert Fechner, Ronald Dorfman, & Richard Kempson |
| Known for | Research in Surgical pathology |
| Influences | George Whipple; Evarts Ambrose Graham |
Lauren Vedder Ackerman (March 12, 1905 – July 27, 1993) was an American physician and pathologist, who championed the subspecialty of surgical pathology in the mid-20th century.
Ackerman was born in March 1905 in Auburn, New York, to Bertha (née Vedder) and John Ackerman. Both of his parents were college graduates. His father was a civil and mechanical engineer, who later became city manager of Watertown, New York. Despite growing up in a learned family environment, Lauren was an indifferent student with mediocre grades. After high school graduation in 1923 Ackerman began his college studies at St. Lawrence University (Canton, New York), later transferring to, and graduating from, Hamilton College (Clinton, New York) in 1927 with a B.S. degree in engineering. He worked for the next year in that profession, but then decided to pursue a medical career.
Lauren was accepted to the University of Rochester School of Medicine (Rochester, New York), then a new facility. Its faculty provided virtually individual attention to the students, a practice that Ackerman was to adopt himself in the future. After obtaining his M.D. in 1932, he served as an intern and resident in internal medicine at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) under the chairmanship of William Kerr. A year's sabbatical from training was necessary because Ackerman had contracted tuberculosis as a medical student. As a patient in a local sanitarium, he helped to pass the time by assisting at autopsies performed on less fortunate cohorts.
After completion of his medicine residency, Lauren pursued specialty training in pathology. He returned to the University of Rochester, where he worked under the direction of George Whipple. After a year, Ackerman moved to Boston, Massachusetts as a resident working principally at the Pondville State Cancer Hospital. He completed his studies there in 1938, and married Elizabeth Fitts the same year.
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