files. By 1962, the number of registries had grown to 27 and the number of cases in the files to more than 200,000.
The American Registry is an important arm of the Institute in its research and education functions. Several of the sponsoring medical specialty societies provide fellowships at the Institute for study in such fields as radiology, urology, dermatology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and veterinary pathology, while other fellowships are supported by private funds, foundations, or institutions. In addition to these sponsored fellowships, physicians of the military services, including those of the Reserve components and civilian doctors, avail themselves of the facilities of the Registry, particularly in lines of investigation requiring followup activity.
The Registry continues to act as sales agent for the fascicles of the "Atlas of Tumor Pathology," with sales running up to as many as 40,000 copies in a year. Of these sales, approximately one-fourth are made outside the United States, going directly to physicians in 55 countries.
Dr. Hugh G. Grady, who had served as Scientific Director of the American Registry of Pathology since 1949, resigned in mid-1957 to become the first professor and organizer of the Department of Pathology in the newly founded Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry at Jersey City, N.J. He was succeeded by Dr. Fathollah K. Mostofi. After 2 years of service, Dr. Mostofi resigned this administrative post but continued to serve as registrar of the Genitourinary Pathology Registry.
He was succeeded as Scientific Director for the Registry by Colonel Blumberg, who combined the duties of this post with those of Deputy Director of the Institute. As Scientific Director of the Registry, he turned his particular attention to the increase in financial support from sources outside the Institute, so that the educational and research potentialities of the Registry, with its intimate association with civilian medicine, might be more fully realized. 19[1]
The Medical Illustration Service
The aim of the Medical Illustration Service is, as its name implies, to serve the medical departments of the Armed Forces through the application of the graphic arts of pencil and brush, of photography and print, and of three-dimensional modeling. The field of service is, therefore, broader than that of pathology, and involves an exchange of information and an area of cooperation with the education and training divisions of the offices of the several surgeons general.
- ↑ 19 Annual Reports, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1957, p. 37; 1959, p. 71.
