Ronald S. Weinstein

Dr. Weinstein is an international leader in telemedicine. He is a Massachusetts General Hospital-trained pathologist who participated, as a resident, in historic telemedicine cases involving the world's first multi-specialty telemedicine practice, linking the MGH and the Logan International Airport, in 1968. In 1986, Dr. Weinstein invented, patented, and commercialized telepathology, and introduced the word telepathology into the English language.

Today, there are active telepathology programs in 32 countries. He is known to many as the Father of Telepathology. Dr. Weinstein co-founded the national award-winning Arizona Telemedicine Program in 1996. The ATP links 70 cities and 160 sites in the Southwest and has provided teleconsultation for 1.4 million cases, in 61 subspecialties. Dr. Weinstein served as president of five professional organizations, including the American Telemedicine Association, for which he is Past-President, President Emeritus, and Senior Fellow. A noted scholar, Dr. Weinstein has over 600 professional publications which have been cited over 10,000 times in the literature. He has had continuous federal grant support, since 1966, for the past 50 years.

Dr. Weinstein received many honors and awards including the Lifetime Teaching Award of the University of Arizonas College of Medicine; the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Pathology Informatics; the Distinguished Service Award of the Association of Pathology Chairs; and has been inducted into the United States Distance Learning Associations Hall-of-Fame. Dr. Weinstein co-founded five companies, including an early educational software company for PC computers, OWLCAT, Inc., which was acquired, in 1984, by Digital Research, Inc., and the first robotic telepathology company, Corabi International Telemetrics, Inc. an early supplier of telepathology equipment for the US Department of Veterans Affairs. He co-founded DMetrix, Inc., and co-invented and patented their DMetrix-40 slide scanner which established the digital slide throughput standard for the digital pathology industry and received multiple Bioindustry Start-Up Company-of-the-Year Awards. DMetrix, Inc., was runner-up to General Electric in the International Wall Street Journal Innovation competition.