ABSTRACT
AMIR HOSSEIN MEHREGAN was born on June 12, 1931 in Tehran, Iran. After graduating from the University of Tehran School of Medicine he sought training in dermatology in the United States. He began his training in dermatology at the Skin and Cancer Hospital of Philadelphia. After two years in Philadelphia he sought additional training at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine Hospital in Madison under Sture Johnson. During this time he was introduced to Frederic E. Mohs who provided many surgical dermatopathology specimens for Mehregan to review. During an O’Leary Meeting at the Mayo Clinic he met Hermann Pinkus and arranged for a dermatopathology fellowship in Detroit, Michigan from July, 1959 through August, 1961. After he completed training he accepted a position in Shiraz, Iran; however, in 1962 he returned to Detroit to join Pinkus at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. In 1964 he left to join the University of Alberta School of Medicine in Edmonton, Alberta, but returned to Detroit a year later. At that time, Mehregan joined Pinkus in his dermatopathology practice in Monroe, Michigan. Over the next 35 years he transformed this small part-time venture from a laboratory preparing 10 to 20 specimens a day to a regional dermatopathology laboratory reviewing 300 to 400 specimens daily.
