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Armed Forces Institute of Pathology building at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, being renovated in 2020 Southern wing of the building in 2020. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) (1862 – September 15, 2011) was a U.S. government institution concerned with diagnostic consultation, education, and research in the medical specialty of pathology.
Rosai was also Editor-in-Chief of the 3rd Series of the Atlas of Tumor Pathology of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), and author of AFIP fascicles on Tumors of the Thymus [9] and Tumors of the Thyroid Gland, [10] and a book on the history of American surgical pathology called Guiding the Surgeon's Hand. [11]
The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Reporting name: AFIP) is the main Pakistani institution for defensive research into countermeasures against biological warfare.It is located in the vicinity of CMH Rawalpindi alongside the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi Cantt, Punjab, Pakistan.
With publication in 1952 of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) fascicle Tumors of the Lower Respiratory Tract, Liebow became widely recognized as an authority on surgical lesions of the lung. [7] In 1969, Liebow and Charles B. Carrington published the first histological classification of idiopathic interstitial lung diseases (IIPs). [8]
Frank B. Johnson (bottom right) with other staff members of the Histochemistry Branch of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in 1954 at the Army Medical Museum building in Washington, DC. (NMHM NCP 17338) Frank Bacchus Johnson (1919–2005) was an African American chemical pathologist of the 20th century.
Before AFIP closed in 2011 as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Act, the pathology division acted most of its time as a consultant, giving second opinions free of charge to the military and for a fee to civilian physicians. It handled tens of thousands of cases yearly on the understanding that it may keep a representative sample ...
In the medical field, in addition to about 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals of his medical speciality, he wrote two books: Extragonadal Teratomas, a text-atlas published under the auspices of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C., 1982.
He has authored more than 800 peer-reviewed manuscripts and eight books, including the standard textbook on pancreatic pathology (the AFIP Fascicle on Tumors of the Pancreas) and the World Health Organization “blue book” on tumors of the digestive tract. He is recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as a highly cited ...