Yasunosuke Suzuki

Professor Yasunosuke Suzuki, M.D., Ph.D. of Scarsdale, died on August 9th, 2011 at Mt. Sinai Hospital, the institution where he had conducted research for more than 40 years. He was born in 1929 in the small Japanese seaside village of Shimoda.

He was educated in Tokyo at Keio University, and received his M.D. degree from the School of Medicine in 1953.

In 1959, he was awarded the Doctorate of Medical Sciences in the field of Pathology, his second doctorate. The following year he was

selected to be sent abroad as an International Post Doctal Research Fellow at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was

promoted to Professor of Pathology in 1989 and in 1991 to Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine.

He started to investigate pathology of asbestos related diseases and for the next 31 years, from 1975 to 2006, he devoted his time

solely to the investigating the pathology of asbestos related diseases. The results of this study led to a global re-examination of asbestos use, and to massive class action suits by workers who had died from cancer, and the results of this research still are with us today.

Suzuki has received several honors including in 1993 the Ramazzini Award and the Selikoff Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Suzuki is a member of the Fellow of Collegium Ramazzini, American Association of Pathologists, American College of Toxicology, Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology, American Association for Cancer Research, American Medical association, the

Harvey Society and New York Academy of Science.

He is survived by his wife Mieko, and his three children: Hiroko, Motoyuki, and Takaaki; and four grandchildren: Katherine Fumi Roche, Theo Akira Peck-Suzuki, Thomas Tadayasu Roche, and Miyo Marlene Peck-Suzuki.

The memorial service will be held on Saturday August 20th at 11:30 am at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church in Scarsdale.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Preventative Medicine

Scholarship Fund.