Irena Koprowska (Grasberg)
Cytopathologist, researcher, educator
Born May 12, 1917, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S.. 1944; daughter of Henryk and Eugenia (Cwi); married Hilary Koprowski; children: Claude, Christopher.
Education: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), J. Pilsudski University School of Medicine, Warsaw, 1939; Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), New York State of Medical Examiners, Albany, 1947, and Pennsylvania State of Medical Examiners, Harrisburg, 1961.
Career: research fellow, Cornell University Medical College, New York City, 1949-54; assistant prof. (pathology), State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical College, Brooklyn, 1954-57; associate prof. (pathology), 1957-62, prof., 1962-70, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Philadelphia (PA); prof. (pathology), 1970-87, prof. emerita, 1987 -, Tempie University School of Medicine, Philadelphia; Retired.
Author: book chapter in Obstetrics and Gynecology; over 100 medical articles on cancer research and early diagnosis.
Member of: fellow, International Academy of Cytology, International Academy of Pathology, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, American Society of Experimental Pathology, American Society of Cytology, College of American Pathologists, College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Honors: consultant, World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland), 1962, 1968, 1969, Iran and Egypt, 1964, India, 1980; consultant, Panamerican Health Organization, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Peru, 1968; Woman Physician of the Year, Medicus - Polish American Medical Society, 1977; Papanicolaou Award, American Society of Cytology, 1985.
Languages: Polish, English, French, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian.
Hobbies: reading, writing.
Home: 334 Fairhill Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996