Paul Szanto
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Paul Szanto was a prominent Chicago area pathologist, who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1905. Due to discrimination against Jews, he traveled to Vienna to attend medical school, where he met his wife Amalia Szanto. Szanto completed his medical degree in 1929 and did his residency in both Berlin and Vienna. He fled Austria with his wife and small son, Philip, six weeks after the Nazi Anschluss. Dr. Szanto was the head of the Pathology Department at Cook County Hospital for 26 years. At the time it was the largest pathology department in the world. Paul Szanto was also a professor at the Chicago Medical School. Szanto authored more than 200 articles in medical journals. Dr. Szanto won numerous awards for his teaching and research. Szanto was one of the leading liver pathologists in the world and helped identify the mechanism that leads to hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) in alcoholics. Paul Szanto was also a major force behind the Chicago Medical School's growth and expansion. Paul Szanto's wife, Amalia, died in 1979.
