Martin George Netsky: teacher in medical school

Abstract

Martin George Netsky, a teacher in the Medical School, was interested in neurology and pathology especially neuropathology and medical education. He helped to develop medical education at Chiang Mai Medical School, and neuropathology and immunohistochemistry at Chulalongkorn Medical School. For this, Dr Netsky arranged for Thai neuropathologists and an immunohistochemist to be trained in the United States. These persons, upon their return, established satisfactory services, teaching and research in neuropathology and immunohistochemistry. The immunohistochemistry was first utilized in neuropathology only but later was put to service in anatomic pathology by the Department of Pathology. Today, immunohistochemical laboratories have been set up in several places in Thailand.