John Aidan Carney (January 31, 1934 – February 16, 2024) was an Irish-born American

pathologist Pathology is the study of disease. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in the context of modern medical treatme ...

associated with the

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.Janice L. Pasieka, James A, et al. "Surgical Endocrinopathies: Clinical Management and the Founding Figures", page 228 He is best known for describing what became known as Carney syndrome, the separate condition of Carney triad, and

Carney–Stratakis syndrome Carney triad (CT) is characterized by the coexistence of three types of neoplasms, mainly in young women,OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Carney Triad (OMIM 604287/ref> including gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor, pulmonary chond ...

Life and career

John Aidan Carney was born

County Roscommon County Roscommon () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is part of the province of Connacht and the Northern and Western Region. It is the List of Irish counties by area, 11th largest Irish county by area and Li ...

, Ireland on January 31, 1934. He graduated in medicine from

University College Dublin University College Dublin (), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest ...

in 1959, and

interned Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without Criminal charge, charges or Indictment, intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects ...

at St. Vincent's University Hospital. After further work in

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

he moved to the

in 1962, becoming a consultant in surgical pathology there in 1966. His Ph.D. thesis in pathology at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

in 1969 was on the ''Morphology of Myosin and Thick Filament Diameter in Experimental Cardiac Hypertrophy.'' Carney was married twice, but had no children. He died of congestive heart failure in

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, on February 16, 2024, at the age of 90.

References

1934 births 2024 deaths Irish pathologists Alumni of University College Dublin University of Minnesota Medical School alumni 20th-century Irish medical doctors Medical doctors from County Roscommon Irish emigrants to the United States {{US-med-bio-stub