UF pathology chairman contributes to landmark pathology text

A University of Florida pathology expert has helped write and edit a landmark textbook that provides a needed one-stop information source on digestive tract pathology.

James Crawford, M.D., Ph.D., a UF professor and chairman of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine, was a senior editor of “Surgical Pathology of the GI Tract, Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas,” published in November by Elsevier. The 1,100-page book was three years in the making. Crawford was editor of the “Liver and Biliary Tract” section and wrote or contributed to five of the book’s 42 chapters. Robert Odze, M.D., of Harvard Medical School was the lead editor; John Goldblum, M.D., of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation also was a senior editor.

“The book fulfills a major need for the practice of gastrointestinal pathology,” Crawford said. “There’s never been one place where the practicing surgical pathologist or the student of pathology can go to learn to diagnose and handle disease material from this rather complex series of alimentary tract organs.”