<sod>An [[academic]] pathologist, Ronald S. Weinstein M.D., coined the term “telepathology” in 1986.  In a [[medical journal]] [[editorial]], Weinstein outlined the actions that would be needed to create remote pathology diagnostic services.<ref>{{Citation | last =  Weinstein  | first = RS | title = Prospects for telepatholgy (Editorial) | journal = Hum Pathol | year = 1986 | volume = 17 | pages = 443–434}}</ref> He and his collaborators published the first scientific paper on robotic telepathology.<ref>{{Citation | last =  Weinstein | first = RS | last2 = Bloom | first2 = KJ | last3 = Rozek | first3 = LS | title = Telepathology and the networking of pathology diagnostic services | journal = Arch Pathol Lab Med | volume = 111 | issue = 7 | year = 1987 | pages = 646–652| pmid = 3606341 }}</ref> Weinstein was also granted the first [[U.S.]] [[patents]] for [[robotics|robotic]] telepathology systems and telepathology diagnostic networks.<ref>{{Citation | last = Kayser | first = K | last2 = Szymas | first2 = J | last3 = Weinstein | first3 = RS | title = Telepathology: Telecommunications, Electronic Education and Publication in Pathology | year = 1999 | pages = 1–186 | journal = Springer, NY}}</ref> Dr. Weinstein is known to many as the "father of telepathology".<ref>http://www.union.edu/N/DS/s.php?s=8942</ref> In [[Norway]], Eide and Nordrum implemented the first sustainable clinical telepathology service in 1989;<ref>{{Citation | last = Nordrum | first = I | last2 = Engum | first2 = B | last3 = Rinde | first3 = E` | title = Remote frozen section service: A telepathology project to northern Norway. | journal = Hum Pathol | year = 1991 | pages = 514–518 | volume = 1991|display-authors=etal}}</ref> this is still in operation decades later. A number of clinical telepathology services have benefited many thousands of patients in [[North America]], [[Europe]], and [[Asia]].<eod>
<sod>An [[academic]] pathologist, Ronald S. Weinstein, M.D., coined the term “telepathology” in 1986.  In a [[medical journal]] [[editorial]], Weinstein outlined the actions that would be needed to create remote pathology diagnostic services.<ref>{{Citation | last =  Weinstein  | first = RS | title = Prospects for telepatholgy (Editorial) | journal = Hum Pathol | year = 1986 | volume = 17 | pages = 443–434}}</ref> He and his collaborators published the first scientific paper on robotic telepathology.<ref>{{Citation | last =  Weinstein | first = RS | last2 = Bloom | first2 = KJ | last3 = Rozek | first3 = LS | title = Telepathology and the networking of pathology diagnostic services | journal = Arch Pathol Lab Med | volume = 111 | issue = 7 | year = 1987 | pages = 646–652| pmid = 3606341 }}</ref> Weinstein was also granted the first [[U.S.]] [[patents]] for [[robotics|robotic]] telepathology systems and telepathology diagnostic networks.<ref>{{Citation | last = Kayser | first = K | last2 = Szymas | first2 = J | last3 = Weinstein | first3 = RS | title = Telepathology: Telecommunications, Electronic Education and Publication in Pathology | year = 1999 | pages = 1–186 | journal = Springer, NY}}</ref> Dr. Weinstein is known to many as the "father of telepathology".<ref>http://www.union.edu/N/DS/s.php?s=8942</ref> In [[Norway]], Eide and Nordrum implemented the first sustainable clinical telepathology service in 1989;<ref>{{Citation | last = Nordrum | first = I | last2 = Engum | first2 = B | last3 = Rinde | first3 = E` | title = Remote frozen section service: A telepathology project to northern Norway. | journal = Hum Pathol | year = 1991 | pages = 514–518 | volume = 1991|display-authors=etal}}</ref> this is still in operation decades later. A number of clinical telepathology services have benefited many thousands of patients in [[North America]], [[Europe]], and [[Asia]].<eod>