An Elsevier Author, Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath was born in India in 1944. He earned his medical degree in 1967 from Punjab University Medical College in Amritsar. He completed his PhD in experimental pathology and his residency in anatomic pathology and hematology in 1972 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he was awarded the Khanolkar Prize for outstanding research in pathology. Dr. Kumar came to the United States in 1972 to join the faculty at Boston City Hospital and Boston University, and subsequently moved on to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1983, where he served as the Vernie A. Stembridge Professor of Pathology, Associate Dean for Medical Education, and Vice Chairman for Educational Affairs. In 2000 he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, where he currently serves as the Executive Vice-Dean of Biological Sciences and the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology.The author or co-author of five pathology textbooks and teaching aids - the best-known of which is Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease - Dr. Kumar has published more than 100 original articles in scientific journals, a dozen book chapters, and nearly 20 review articles. He has lectured throughout the U.S. and Europe, has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Immunology, and recently completed his term as president of the American Society of Investigative Pathology.