STEPHEN A GELLER

Activist, Atheist, Doctor, Educator/Teacher, Jewish, Parent, Photographer, Scientist, Writer/Editor

Born in Brooklyn, New York. Educated in New York public school system, including Stuyvesant High School. B.A., Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, 1959. M.D., College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1964. Intern, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, 1964-65. Resident, and Chief Resident, Department of Pathology, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, 1965-69. Chief, Laboratory Services, Naval Hospital, Beaufort, S.C., 1969-71. Assistant Professor to Professor and Acting Chairman, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, 1971-84. Chairman, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, 1984-2006. Emeritus Chairman, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, 2006-present. Professor of Pathology, UCLA, 1984-present. Author of 135+ scientific papers, 20+ chapters and monographs and two books (Grundmann E, Geller SA: Histopathology; Geller SA, Petrovic LM: Biopsy Interpretation of the Liver). Multiple teaching awards. Co-founder and Secretary/Treasure, Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society. Past President, Los Angeles Society of Pathologists and California Society of Pathologists.

Family. Music, especially Beethoven. Fiction reading and writing. Medical history. Continuing value of autopsy in modern practice of medicine.

History repeats. Education is priceless. People are basically good. We should all contribute to the world in some way.

Autopsy pathology, Liver pathology

Introduced TED by my son, David Geller, President and CEO of WhatCounts, Inc. and of Eyejot, Inc., who was at TED2006 and raved about the experience Educated, thrilled and inspired at TED2007. Subsequently I prepared and gave a presentation about TED2007 to our pathology residents and faculty, trying to share the excitement and pass on the inspiration and, particularly, the over-riding message that we should all make the world a little better.

Stories.