Dr. Christopher Fletcher of Boston, Massachusetts, has sadly passed away. His death occurred on the July 28. This has left so many hearts greatly bereaved and broken. Several people and organization he worked with. His influence has rippled from his family to his community at large. His patients and students have also taken their time to express their deepest pain regarding his death and the effect it will have on them and the society. Although, Christopher was loved by family, it was no doubt that countless number of people loved him for his midas touch in their lives. He will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him for who he was.
Dr. Christopher Fletcher, who was he?
Dr. Christopher Fletcher was a British pathologist who chaired the World Health Organization’s Working Group on the Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of Soft Tissue and Bone. She has authored over 500 peer-reviewed articles. 1991 saw him earn his medical degree from St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London and his M.D. from the University of London. He later started working as a postdoc at the Royal College of Pathologists, where he received his degree in 1988. His training was at St. Thomas’ Hospital. From 2003 to 2006, he served as president of the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology.
In addition to serving as a surgical pathologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he was also president of the International Society of Bone & Soft Tissue Pathology and an Arthur Purdy Stout Society professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School. As chief of onco-pathology, he was employed at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts.
His legacy and Awards
Several honors were bestowed upon Professor Fletcher: The 1990 Oswald Van Der Veken Prize was given by the European Community for his studies on musculoskeletal cancers.
United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology Young Investigator Award (1997). Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, Henry L. Jaffe Award (1998). College of American Pathologists: Honorary Fellow (2003). Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Fred W. Stewart Medal (2005). United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology’s Maude Abbott Lecturer (2008). The United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology presented the Distinguished Pathologist Award in 2017. The Distinguished Service Award given by F.K. Mostofi (2020)
Summary
The funeral arrangements and obituary of Dr. Christopher Fletcher will be announced appropriately by his family at their own time. Please, you are encouraged to send your flowers to his family and also have them in loving thoughts and sincere prayers as they go through this phase of trying time.