Ronald S. Weinstein

{{Short description|American pathologist (1938–2021)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Ronald S. Weinstein

| image = 201105033 Ronald Weinstein 5x7 DSC5436.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1938|11|20}}

| birth_place = Schenectady, New York

| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|12|03|1938|11|20}}

| workplaces = University of Arizona College of Medicine
Rush Medical College

| alma_mater = Union College (BS)
Tufts Medical School (MD)

| known_for = Telepathology, Urinary Bladder Cancer, Science Education

| field = Cancer biology, Multi-drug resistance

}}

Ronald S. Weinstein (November 20, 1938 – December 3, 2021) was an American pathologist. He was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson. Weinstein served for 32 years as an academic pathology department chair, in Chicago, Illinois and then Tucson, Arizona, while also serving as a serial entrepreneur engaged in university technology transfer.

He is past president of six medical organizations, including the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology and the International Society for Urological Pathology, which he co-founded. He is a cancer researcher, an educator, and an inventor.

Early life and education

Weinstein was born on November 20, 1938, in Schenectady, New York.{{cite news|last1=Erikson|first1=Jane|title=Biomedical visionary|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/222470548/?terms=ronald%2Bweinstein|work=Arizona Daily Star|date=July 10, 2005}} He completed his undergraduate studies at Union College in Schenectady. In college, he was a Ford Foundation-funded Congressional Intern in Washington, D.C., in the office of US Representative Samuel S. Stratton, and studied governmental affairs. His primary focus remained medical science research. After graduation from Union College, Weinstein spent three summers working as a chemist at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Weinstein obtained his M.D. degree from Tufts Medical School in Boston in 1965. In medical school, he had been a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) post-sophomore research fellow and had done research on high-resolution freeze-fracture electron microscopy with Stanley Bullivant, PhD, a biophysicist and Harvard faculty member. As an MGH pathology resident, he co-authored research papers on intercellular junctions, cancer cell, and red cell membranes.{{Cite journal|last1=McNutt|first1=N. Scott|last2=Weinstein|first2=Ronald S.|date=1970-12-01|title=THE ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE NEXUS: A Correlated Thin-Section and Freeze-Cleave Study|journal=The Journal of Cell Biology|language=en|volume=47|issue=3|pages=666–688|doi=10.1083/jcb.47.3.666|issn=0021-9525|pmid=5531667|pmc=2108148}}{{Cite journal|last1=McNutt|first1=N. Scott|last2=Weinstein|first2=Ronald S.|date=1969-08-08|title=Carcinoma of the Cervix: Deficiency of Nexus Intercellular Junctions|journal=Science|language=en|volume=165|issue=3893|pages=597–598|doi=10.1126/science.165.3893.597|issn=0036-8075|pmid=5815840|bibcode=1969Sci...165..597M|s2cid=19900574}}{{Cite journal|last=Weinstein|first=Ronald S.|date=1969-07-10|title=The Structure of Cell Membranes|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=281|issue=2|pages=86–89|doi=10.1056/nejm196907102810206|issn=0028-4793|pmid=4891366}}{{Cite journal|last1=Steck|first1=Theodore L.|last2=Weinstein|first2=Ronald S.|last3=Straus|first3=John H.|last4=Wallach|first4=Donald F. H.|date=1970-04-10|title=Inside-Out Red Cell Membrane Vesicles: Preparation and Puirification|journal=Science|language=en|volume=168|issue=3928|pages=255–257|doi=10.1126/science.168.3928.255|issn=0036-8075|pmid=5418644|bibcode=1970Sci...168..255S|s2cid=35056880}}

Career

During the Vietnam War, he served as a United States Air Force Major at the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio, where he was involved in toxicology research, and participated in computer science courses in computer programming and system design at the Air Force Institute of Technology on the same campus. He researched the potential sources of toxic chronic chemical injury, from trace amounts of rocket propellants and oxidizers, to airmen working in Titan missile silo environments.{{Cite journal|last=WEINSTEIN|first=R|title=Effects of continuous inhalation of dichloromethane in the mouse: Morphologic and functional observations*1|journal=Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology|volume=23|issue=4|pages=660–679|doi=10.1016/0041-008x(72)90107-x|pmid=4118878|year=1972}}{{Cite journal|last1=Weinstein|first1=Ronald S.|last2=George|first2=Marilyn E.|last3=Steingart|first3=Richard H.|title=Contribution of Heinz bodies to alterations in red cell deformability|journal=Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology|volume=32|issue=3|pages=545–558|doi=10.1016/0041-008x(75)90119-2|pmid=1154414|year=1975}} From 1972 to 1975, he was Professor of Pathology at Tufts University School of Medicine. He continued his research on normal cell membranes and cancer cell membranes and initiated research on animal models for urinary bladder cancer.{{Cite journal|last1=Scott McNutt|first1=N.|last2=Weinstein|first2=Ronald S.|title=Membrane ultrastructure at mammalian intercellular junctions|journal=Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology|volume=26|pages=45–101|doi=10.1016/0079-6107(73)90017-5|pmid=4122630|year=1973|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Weinstein|first=Ronald S.|date=1976-07-01|title=Changes in Plasma Membrane Structure Associated with Malignant Transformation in Human Urinary Bladder Epithelium|url=http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/36/7_Part_2/2518|journal=Cancer Research|language=en|volume=36|issue=7 Part 2|pages=2518–2524|issn=0008-5472|pmid=1277160}}{{Cite book|title=The Structure and Function of Intercellular Junctions in Cancer|volume = 23|last1=Weinstein|first1=Ronald S.|last2=Merk|first2=Frederick B.|last3=Alroy|first3=Joseph|pages=23–89|doi=10.1016/s0065-230x(08)60543-6|pmid = 179291|series = Advances in Cancer Research|year = 1976|isbn = 9780120066230}} In 1975, Weinstein was named the Harriet Blair Borland Professor and chairman of pathology at Rush Medical College in Chicago. Weinstein participated in National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded cancer clinical trials as director of the National Bladder Cancer Group's Central Pathology Laboratory (1982–1990), which qualified patients for inclusion in urinary bladder cancer clinical trials.{{Cite journal|last1=Heney|first1=NM|last2=Koontz|first2=WW|last3=Barton|first3=B|last4=Soloway|first4=M|last5=Trump|first5=DL|last6=Hazra|first6=T|last7=Weinstein|first7=RS|date=December 1988|title=Intravesical thiotepa versus mitomycin C in patients with Ta, T1 and TIS transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: a phase III prospective randomized study.|journal=The Journal of Urology|language=en|volume=140|issue=6|pages=1390–1393|doi=10.1016/S0022-5347(17)42052-0|pmid=3143016|issn=0022-5347}} In addition, he was Founding Director of the NCI-funded National Urinary Bladder Flow Cytometry Network which established clinical flow cytometry laboratory procedures and standards (1985–1990).{{Cite journal|last1=Aamodt|first1=R. L.|last2=Coon|first2=J. S.|last3=Deitch|first3=A.|last4=White|first4=R. W. deVere|last5=Koss|first5=L. G.|last6=Melamed|first6=M. R.|last7=Weinstein|first7=R. S.|last8=Wheeless|first8=L. L.|date=1992-02-01|title=Flow cytometric evaluation of bladder cancer: recommendations of the NCI flow cytometry network for bladder cancer|journal=World Journal of Urology|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=63–67|doi=10.1007/BF00186094|s2cid=23883977|issn=0724-4983}} In 1990, Weinstein was named Professor and Chair of Pathology at The University of Arizona's College of Medicine. He studied cancer multi-drug resistance at the Arizona Cancer Center.{{Cite journal|last1=Weinstein|first1=Ronald S.|last2=Jakate|first2=Shriram M.|last3=Dominguez|first3=Jose M.|last4=Lebovitz|first4=Miriam D.|last5=Koukoulis|first5=George K.|last6=Kuszak|first6=Jerome R.|last7=Klusens|first7=Larry F.|last8=Grogan|first8=Thomas M.|last9=Saclarides|first9=Theodore J.|date=1991-05-15|title=Relationship of the Expression of the Multidrug Resistance Gene Product (P-Glycoprotein) in Human Colon Carcinoma to Local Tumor Aggressiveness and Lymph Node Metastasis|url=http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/51/10/2720|journal=Cancer Research|language=en|volume=51|issue=10|pages=2720–2726|issn=0008-5472|pmid=1673639}}{{Cite journal|last1=Grogan|first1=T. M.|last2=Spier|first2=C. M.|last3=Salmon|first3=S. E.|last4=Matzner|first4=M.|last5=Rybski|first5=J.|last6=Weinstein|first6=R. S.|last7=Scheper|first7=R. J.|last8=Dalton|first8=W. S.|date=1993-01-15|title=P-glycoprotein expression in human plasma cell myeloma: correlation with prior chemotherapy|journal=Blood|language=en|volume=81|issue=2|pages=490–495|issn=0006-4971|pmid=8093668|doi=10.1182/blood.V81.2.490.490|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Bellamy|first1=W. T.|last2=Mendibles|first2=Pamela|last3=Bontje|first3=Petra|last4=Thompson|first4=Floyd|last5=Richter|first5=Lynne|last6=Weinstein|first6=Ronald S.|last7=Grogan|first7=Thomas M.|last8=Gorgan|first8=T. M.|date=1996-01-01|title=Development of an orthotopic SCID mouse-human tumor xenograft model displaying the multidrug-resistant phenotype|journal=Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology|language=en|volume=37|issue=4|pages=305–316|doi=10.1007/s002800050390|pmid=8548875|s2cid=21001345|issn=0344-5704}} He also holds academic appointments in the university's College of Pharmacy and its Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

In 1988–89, Weinstein was president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.[https://www.uscap.org/about/history/past-presidents/ronald-s-weinstein Past Presidents: Ronald S. Weinstein]. United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. Retrieved November 18, 2017. In 1995–1996, he was president of the International Society for Urological Pathology.{{Cite web|url=https://isupweb.org/isup/about-isup/history/|title=History {{!}} ISUP|website=isupweb.org|language=en|access-date=2018-01-16}} In 2003–04, he was president of the American Telemedicine Association.[http://www.americantelemed.org/about/past-presidents Past Presidents]. American Telemedicine Association. Retrieved November 18, 2017. In 2010–2011, he was president of the Association for Pathology Informatics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pathologyinformatics.org/api_governing_council.php|title=API Governing Council - Association for Pathology Informatics|website=www.pathologyinformatics.org|language=en|access-date=2018-01-16}}

Development of telepathology and telemedicine

While a department chair at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Weinstein carried out the first public demonstration of satellite-enabled robotic telepathology, between El Paso, TX. and Washington, DC, in 1986.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1986/08/27/the-next-best-thing-to-being/a75848be-4790-447e-b0eb-dafa0b8714e9/|title=The Next Best Thing To Being|last=Colburn|first=Don|date=1986-08-27|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2017-12-20|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}} In 1993, Weinstein patented telepathology systems and telepathology diagnostic networks.{{Cite journal|last1=Cucoranu|first1=IoanC.|last2=Pantanowitz|first2=Liron|last3=Parwani|first3=AnilV.|last4=Vepa|first4=Suryanarayana|last5=Weinstein|first5=RonaldS.|date=2014-01-01|title=Digital pathology: A systematic evaluation of the patent landscape|journal=Journal of Pathology Informatics|language=en|volume=5|issue=1|pages=16|doi=10.4103/2153-3539.133112|pmid=25057430|pmc=4060404 |doi-access=free }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EY7wCgAAQBAJ&q=9781482236590&pg=PA581|title=Telemedicine and Electronic Medicine|last1=Eren|first1=Halit|last2=Webster|first2=John G.|date=2015-12-01|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781482236590|pages=581–596|language=en}} He established an international telepathology service network linking the United States, Mexico and China.{{Cite journal|last1=Weinstein|first1=RS|last2=Bhattacharyya|first2=A|last3=Yu|first3=YP|last4=Davis|first4=JR|last5=Byers|first5=JM|last6=Graham|first6=AR|last7=Martinez|first7=R|date=1995|title=Pathology consultation services via the Arizona-International Telemedicine Network.|journal=Archives d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques|language=en|volume=43|issue=4|pages=219–26|issn=0395-501X|pmid=8526556}}{{Cite journal|last1=Halliday|first1=Bradford E|last2=Bhattacharyya|first2=A.K|last3=Graham|first3=Anna R|last4=Davis|first4=John R|last5=Leavitt|first5=S.Anne|last6=Nagle|first6=Ray B|last7=Mclaughlin|first7=Wendy J|last8=Rivas|first8=Ricardo A|last9=Martinez|first9=Ralph|title=Diagnostic accuracy of an international static-imaging telepathology consultation service|journal=Human Pathology|volume=28|issue=1|pages=17–21|doi=10.1016/s0046-8177(97)90273-2|pmid=9013826|year=1997}} Weinstein has been referred to as the “father of telepathology” in a 2011 journal article written by a student and a faculty member from an Indian medical school.{{cite journal | last1 = Sankaye | first1 = Smita | last2 = Kachewar | first2 = Sushil | year = 2011 | title = Telepathology for effective healthcare in developing nations | journal = The Australasian Medical Journal | volume = 4 | issue = 11| pages = 592–595 | pmc = 3562914 | pmid = 23386872 | doi = 10.4066/AMJ.2011.855 }} Weinstein received the Association of Pathology Informatics’ Lifetime Achievement Award.[https://www.pathologyinformatics.org/api_lifetime_achievement_award.php API Lifetime Achievement Award]. Association of Pathology Informatics. Retrieved November 18, 2017.

In 1996, he became Founding Director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP), which he co-founded with Arizona State Representative Robert "Bob" Burns.{{cite web|last1=Del Grande|first1=David J.|title=UA telehealth pioneer sees program thriving|url=https://azjewishpost.com/2017/ua-telehealth-pioneer-sees-program-thriving/|website=Arizona Jewish Post|access-date=November 18, 2017|date=September 22, 2017}} The ATP links 160 sites in 70 communities by broadband telecommunications and has provided telemedicine services for 1.4 million cases in 61 subspecialties of medicine. He became executive director of the Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute), a Phoenix division of the ATP, in 2004.

The ATP includes: the Tucson-based Warren Street Clinic, a dual-purpose clinical education facility which provides real-time tele-medicine specialty services across the network and hands-on training for participants in the ATP's regularly scheduled full day telemedicine courses;{{Cite web|url=http://telemedicine.arizona.edu/training|title=Training {{!}} telemedicine.arizona.edu|website=telemedicine.arizona.edu|access-date=2018-01-16}} the T-Health Amphitheater, a video conferencing center located at the T-Health Institute on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus is in downtown Phoenix;{{Cite web|url=http://telemedicine.arizona.edu/thealth|title=T-Health Institute {{!}} telemedicine.arizona.edu|website=telemedicine.arizona.edu|access-date=2018-01-16}} and the federally-funded Southwest Telehealth Resource Center, which provides technical support and staff training for telehealth programs in the southwestern United States.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/rural-monitor/sw-telehealth-resource-center/|title=Southwest Telehealth Resource Center Helps Rural Providers Connect - The Rural Monitor|date=2017-08-23|work=The Rural Monitor|access-date=2018-01-16|language=en-US}}

Research and development

Technology innovations, classifications, and validations

Weinstein has had a career-long interest in the development of medical science research technologies including: freeze-fracture electron microscopy;Weinstein RS, McNutt NS: Heat etching with a Bullivant Type II simple freeze cleave device. Proc Electron Micros Soc Am 1970; 28:106 107{{Cite journal|last1=Branton|first1=Daniel|last2=Bullivant|first2=Stanley|last3=Gilula|first3=Norton B.|last4=Karnovsky|first4=Morris J.|last5=Moor|first5=H.|last6=Mühlethaler|first6=K.|last7=Northcote|first7=D. H.|last8=Packer|first8=Lester|last9=Satir|first9=Birgit|s2cid=11846420|date=1975|title=Freeze-Etching Nomenclature|jstor=1740879|journal=Science|volume=190|issue=4209|pages=54–56|doi=10.1126/science.1166299|pmid=1166299|bibcode=1975Sci...190...54B}} urinary bladder flow cytometry;Coon JS, Weinstein RS, (ed): Diagnostic Flow Cytometry. Williams and Wilkens, Co., Baltimore, pp. 1-199, 1991 image analysis;{{Cite journal|last1=Bacus|first1=JW|last2=Wiley|first2=EL|last3=Galbraith|first3=W|last4=Marshall|first4=PN|last5=Wilbanks|first5=GD|last6=Weinstein|first6=RS|date=June 1984|title=Malignant cell detection and cervical cancer screening.|journal=Analytical and Quantitative Cytology|language=en|volume=6|issue=2|pages=121–30|issn=0190-0471|pmid=6465697}} holographic microscopy;{{Cite book|title=X-Ray Microscopy II|last1=Haddad|first1=W. S.|last2=Cullen|first2=D.|last3=Boyer|first3=K.|last4=Rhodes|first4=C. K.|last5=Solem|first5=J. C.|last6=Weinstein|first6=R. S.|chapter=Design for a Fourier-Transform Holographic Microscope |date=1988|publisher=Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg|isbn=9783662144909|series=Springer Series in Optical Sciences|volume=56 |pages=284–287|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-39246-0_49}} robotic telepathology;{{Cite journal|last1=Weinstein|first1=RS|last2=Bloom|first2=KJ|last3=Rozek|first3=LS|date=July 1987|title=Telepathology and the networking of pathology diagnostic services.|journal=Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine|language=en|volume=111|issue=7|pages=646–52|issn=0003-9985|pmid=3606341}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EY7wCgAAQBAJ&q=Weinstein+RS,+%E2%80%9CTelepathology+system+development+and+implementation%E2%80%9D&pg=PP1|title=Telemedicine and Electronic Medicine|last1=Eren|first1=Halit|last2=Webster|first2=John G.|date=2015-12-01|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781482236590|pages=577–591|language=en}} quantitative immunohistochemistry;{{Cite journal|last1=Beck|first1=William T.|last2=Grogan|first2=Thomas M.|last3=Willman|first3=Cheryl L.|last4=Cordon-Cardo|first4=Carlos|last5=Parham|first5=David M.|last6=Kuttesch|first6=John F.|last7=Andreeff|first7=Michael|last8=Bates|first8=Susan E.|last9=Berard|first9=Costan W.|date=1996-07-01|title=Methods to Detect P-Glycoprotein-associated Multidrug Resistance in Patients' Tumors: Consensus Recommendations|url=http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/56/13/3010|journal=Cancer Research|language=en|volume=56|issue=13|pages=3010–3020|issn=0008-5472|pmid=8674056}} array light microscopy;{{Cite journal|last1=Weinstein|first1=Ronald S.|last2=Descour|first2=Michael R.|last3=Liang|first3=Chen|last4=Barker|first4=Gail|last5=Scott|first5=Katherine M.|last6=Richter|first6=Lynne|last7=Krupinski|first7=Elizabeth A.|last8=Bhattacharyya|first8=Achyut K.|last9=Davis|first9=John R.|title=An array microscope for ultrarapid virtual slide processing and telepathology. Design, fabrication, and validation study|journal=Human Pathology|volume=35|issue=11|pages=1303–1314|doi=10.1016/j.humpath.2004.09.002|pmid=15668886|year=2004}} and digital pathology.Kayser K, Molnar B, Weinstein RS. Digital Pathology Virtual Slide Technology in Tissue-based Diagnosis, Research and Education. VSV Interdisciplinary Medical Publishing, Berlin, 2006, pp.1-193

Cancer research

Weinstein studied mechanisms of carcinogenesis, pre-cancer development, and cancer invasion and metastasis. He studied cell membrane properties in normal epithelium, pre-cancers and cancers.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pigVIclI3hQC&q=Weinstein+RS,+Pauli+BU:++Cell+junctions+and+the+biological+behavior+of+cancer.++In:+Stoker+M,+Bock+G,+Clark+S,+eds.,+Junctional+Complexes+in+Epithelial+Cells.++(Ciba+Foundation+Symposium+125.)++John+Wiley+&pg=PA240|title=Junctional Complexes of Epithelial Cells|last1=Bock|first1=Gregory R.|last2=Clark|first2=Sarah|date=2008-04-30|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9780470513415|pages=240–260|language=en}}

Medical science education reform

To encourage the democratization of medical science knowledge, Weinstein developed a series of class-room courses on “mechanisms of diseases” that have been utilized in middle schools, high schools, and universities.{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1177/2374289517718872|title = Second Flexner Century: The Democratization of Medical Knowledge|year = 2017|last1 = Weinstein|first1 = Ronald S.|last2 = Waer|first2 = Amy L.|last3 = Weinstein|first3 = John B.|last4 = Briehl|first4 = Margaret M.|last5 = Holcomb|first5 = Michael J.|last6 = Erps|first6 = Kristine A.|last7 = Holtrust|first7 = Angelette L.|last8 = Tomkins|first8 = Julie M.|last9 = Barker|first9 = Gail P.|last10 = Krupinski|first10 = Elizabeth A.|journal = Academic Pathology|volume = 4|pmid = 28782004|pmc = 5521343}}

Global health

Weinstein was involved in the creation and evaluation of multi-national telemedicine and telepathology programs.{{Cite journal|last1=Vega|first1=Silvio|last2=Marciscano|first2=Ivette|last3=Holcomb|first3=Michael|last4=Erps|first4=Kristine A.|last5=Major|first5=Janet|last6=Lopez|first6=Ana Maria|last7=Barker|first7=Gail P.|last8=Weinstein|first8=Ronald S.|date=2013-08-09|title=Testing a Top-Down Strategy for Establishing a Sustainable Telemedicine Program in a Developing Country: The Arizona Telemedicine Program–U.S. Army–Republic of Panama Initiative|journal=Telemedicine and e-Health|volume=19|issue=10|pages=746–753|doi=10.1089/tmj.2013.0025|pmid=23931731|issn=1530-5627}} In 1981–1983, he was International Councilor of the International Academy of Pathology. In 1998–1999, he was president of the International Council of Societies of Pathology, a World Health Organization registered entity. Weinstein was an advisor on telemedicine for the Minister of Health in Mexico, China, and Panama. He was a frequent lecturer at international medical conferences.

Publications

Weinstein has published over 300 articles in peer reviewed scientific and pathology journals, 57 book chapters, and 11 books. These have been cited over 11,000 times in the science literature.{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ronald_Weinstein2|title=Ronald S Weinstein {{!}} The University of Arizona (UA) {{!}} ResearchGate|website=ResearchGate|language=en|access-date=2018-01-17}}

Honors and awards

Weinstein is president emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association. In 2013, he was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association "Hall-of-Fame".{{Cite web|url=https://www.usdla.org/awards/hall-of-fame/|title=Hall of Fame|website=www.usdla.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-19}} The T-Health Amphitheater, in Phoenix, AZ, a "Classroom-of-the-Future" co-designed by Weinstein, received the 21st Century Achievement Award, Education and Academia category, from the International Computer World Honors program.{{Cite web|url=http://cwhonors.org/archives/2008/index.htm|title=Computerworld Honors Program - 2008 Awards Ceremony|website=cwhonors.org|access-date=2017-12-19}}

Involvement in business

In 1982, Weinstein, and his sister and business partner, Beth Newburger, co-founded OWLCAT, Inc., an early entrant in the IBM computer-based, S.A.T. examination preparation course business. Two years later, OWLCAT, Inc. was acquired by Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). DRI successfully marketed the OWLCAT education software products.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pq3POofPsBEC&q=OWLCAT+Digital+Research+Inc&pg=PA321|title=PC Mag|date=1984-09-18|publisher=Ziff Davis, Inc.|pages=321|language=en}}

In 1985, Weinstein and Newburger co-founded Corabi International Telemetrics, Inc.{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/04/19/dry-spell-is-ending-for-high-tech-oasis/|title=Dry Spell Is Ending For High-tech Oasis|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|access-date=2018-01-17|language=en}} Corabi equipped several US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers with robotic telepathology systems. These were used for proof-of-concept studies validating telepathology for clinical use.{{Cite journal|last1=Dunn|first1=Bruce E|last2=Almagro|first2=Urias A|last3=Choi|first3=Hongyung|last4=Sheth|first4=Neela K|last5=Arnold|first5=James S|last6=Recla|first6=Daniel L|last7=Krupinski|first7=Elizabeth A|last8=Graham|first8=Anna R|last9=Weinstein|first9=Ronald S|title=Dynamic-robotic telepathology: Department of veterans affairs feasibility study|journal=Human Pathology|volume=28|issue=1|pages=8–12|doi=10.1016/s0046-8177(97)90271-9|pmid=9013824|year=1997}} In 2001, Weinstein co-founded DMetrix, Inc., a spin-out company of The University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences. DMetrix, Inc. was awarded 29 US Patents on its DX-40 ultra-rapid array microscope digital slide scanner.

For his work in university technology transfer, he received the University of Arizona's "2012 Technology Innovator-of-the-Year" Award.{{cite web|last1=Beal|first1=Tom|title=UA honors innovators for ideas to save lives|url=http://tucson.com/business/local/ua-honors-innovators-for-ideas-to-save-lives/article_c3047d4a-d392-54d9-84f2-09a91e13a949.html|website=Arizona Daily Star|date=March 7, 2012}}

Personal life

In 1964, Weinstein married the former Mary Corabi; they met while they were both working at Woods Hole. They have two grown children and two grandsons. Dr. Weinstein died in December 2021 of heart failure.

References

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