Juan Rosai

Juan Rosai is the Director of the Milanbased Italian Diagnostic Center’s pathology and oncology consultancy. One of the eminent people in the field, he has mentored and taught many surgical pathologists. He is a prolific author with more than 400 scientific papers appearing in peer-reviewed journals. The influential textbook, Rosai and Ackerman’s Surgical Pathology, first appeared in 1953 and was published by his mentor, Lauren Ackerman. He continued to publish new editions of the book and the current tenth edition published in 2011. He has characterized novel medical conditions such as Rosai-Dorfman disease and the desmoplastic small round cell tumor.