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About the
Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, UNICAMP. This Department
was founded in early 1965 by Professor José Lopes de Faria, then
at the old
Charity Hospital in downtown Campinas.
An outstanding figure of Brazilian Pathology and well
known educator, Prof.
Lopes came from São Paulo at the beginnings of the Medical
Faculty of Campinas
to install a basic pathological laboratory performing post-mortem and
surgical
specimen examinations. He also lectured Anatomic Pathology for the
students of
the third medical year of the Faculty until his retirement in 1987. The Department moved to the newly built
University Hospital in the Campus at the district of Barão
Geraldo in 1985. Over 20
years of solid activity, Professor Lopes chose his assistants from
among his
pupils and residents, and encouraged each of them to pursue different
areas of
the specialty. He assembled a valuable
collection of macro- and microscopical teaching specimens, which formed
the
basis of two books on General and Special Pathology. Most
of this material is now available on
CD-ROM and at the Department’s teaching sites in the Internet at http://anatpat.unicamp.br/epathenglish.html
. The
Department now has twelve Professors teaching and doing research in the
various
fields of Pathology. A body of medical specialists helps to cope with
the
growing amount of material coming into the Pathology Laboratory from
the
University Hospital itself and associated units such as the
Hematological,
Gastrointestinal and Gynecological Hospitals situated nearby. The Department responds for the Pathology part
in the graduation courses kept by the Faculty of Medical Sciences of
Unicamp
(Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy), for various postgraduate disciplines
and for
a Residency program of three years’ duration which prepares three new
specialists every year. Besides the
basic histological methods, laboratory technicians dominate a vast
number of
special stains and auxiliary procedures such as immunohistochemistry,
immunofluorescence and electron microscopy, all of which are essential
of
improve the accuracy of diagnosis. The
Department is fully integrated with most other clinical and surgical
Departments of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, participates in case
discussion
sessions with hospital staff of most areas and is committed to the
furtherance
of knowledge and its free availability to the community through the
Internet for
the years to come. |