Professor of Pathology wins Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology Award

Dr. Jerry Waisman, Professor of Pathology, was chosen as this year's winner of the annual Yolanda Oertel Interventional Cytopathology Award given by the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Meeting in Boston. The award acknowledges the contribution of a pathologist to the promotion of a fine needle aspiration service and to the training of individuals in the fine needle aspiration technique. Dr. Waisman founded the fine needle aspiration service at NYU in the 1980s after a sabbatical in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, were he studied the technique of fine needle aspiration. He has since trained numerous residents and students in the technique.