Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions of Bone (PDF)

University of Pelotas, Brazil, and got his certificate in Pathology after Medical Residency in Brasilia, Brazil, 1972, from the Brazilian Society of Pathology.

Several great mentors have contributed to his specialization in orthopedic pathology, fellowships and stages in a traveling fellowship during the year of 1974 - in Britain, H. Sissons at the RNOH, London, C.H. Godfrey-Price, Bristol, Mary Catto, Glasgow; in the USA, Crawford J. Campbell, Albany, NY, William F. Enneking, Gainesville, FLA. In 1994 - Krishnan K. Unni, Rochester, MN, USA.

He acted as head of the Pathology Laboratories of the Sarah Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals in Brazil, from 1974 to 2013, a full-time job of 40 years, where many young pathologists were instructed in orthopedic pathology. In the same institution, he served during some time in the last years, as member of the ethical committee and as medical director.

He was a member of the WHO working group that established the Classification of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone in 2002 and also of the group that revised it in 2013, having authored two chapters in each edition.

He is now consultant in orthopedic pathology at the Laboratory of Orthopedic Pathology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Department of Pathology of the A.C.Camargo Cancer Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

He is a member of the International Skeletal Society since 2003, where he served as member of the executive committee for two years, and of the International Academy of Pathology since 1974.

FRANCO BERTONI, MD

Franco Bertoni has been Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy, Senior Consultant of the Surgical Pathology Department, Istituto Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy and is currently Consultant of Surgical Pathology, Villa Erbosa Hospital, Bologna Italy.

He gained his medical degree from the University of Bologna, Italy in 1967 and has spent one month every year in the Surgical Pathology Department of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, working in the field of bone tumors, beginning in 1977 with Dave Dahlin, then with KK. Unni and until now with Dr. Carrie Inwards. He worked in Gainesville Florida for one academic year as visiting professor working with Prof. William Enneking on the field of bone tumors (1983-1984) and published nine articles in that period. He was a member of the WHO working group for the Classification of Tumors of Soft Tissue and bone in 2002.

He was invited speaker in many meetings in several countries including USA, Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala, Europe, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and others, and has published 465 papers.

YONG-KOO PARK, MD, PhD

Yong-Koo Park was born in Seoul, Korea and he finished his medical school in Seoul. After he finished his PhD degree in Kyung Hee Graduate School he went to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. At Mayo Clinic, he studied bone and soft tissue pathology under the great mentor Dr. Unni KK. He became a member of International Skeletal Society in 1996.

He has published more than 250 papers in peer reviewed journals and he also served two years as an editor in Skeletal Radiology. Now he is an editor of Human Pathology journal. He also presented many cases and research papers in international conferences, such as International Skeletal Society, International Academy of Pathology, and US-Canadian Anatomic Pathology meeting.



He wrote three chapters in WHO Classification of Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone, and Practical Orthopedic Pathology.