Founders of Pediatric Pathology: Ward Thomas Burdick (1878-1928).

Abstract

Abstract Ward Burdick is a name most pathologists who have attended an American Society for meeting recognize because of his annual named lecture established in 1929. However few pathologists, including many recipients of the Ward Burdick Award for Distinguished Service to Pathology, know the details of his life or understand his accomplishments. Ward Burdick, who practiced as a pediatric pathologist at the Children's Hospital of Denver, was one of the two primary organizers of the American Society of Pathologists in 1921-22, which was formed to raise the standards of practice in Pathology. The term Clinical Pathology had a different meaning in the early decades of the 20th Century. was a new specialty that encompassed both Anatomic and what we today call Pathology. Prior to this, pathology was an academic subject based primarily in medical schools and pathologists were not normally involved in hospital work or patient care; howe...