Barbara Ansell

Biography

• Born 30 August 1923 in Warwick, England
• 1946 – MB BS, Birmingham University medical school
• 1984 – Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
• 1997 – James Spence Medal – for outstanding contributions to the advancement or clarification of paediatric knowledge.
• Died 14 September 2001

Medical Eponyms

Ansell-Bywaters-Elderking syndrome (1975)

Familial arthropathy with rash, uveitis and mental retardation.

Major Publications

• Ansell BM. Population studies and genetics. 1969
• Ansell BM, Bywaters EG, Elderkin FM. Familial arthropathy with rash, uveitis and mental retardation. Proc R Soc Med. 1975;68(9):584-585.
• Ansell BM. Rheumatism and the psyche, VIIIth European Rheumatology Congress, Helsinki, 1975
• Ansell BM. Rheumatic disorders in childhood. 1976
• Ansell BM. Inflammatory disorders of muscle. 1976 [6 editions published between 1976 and 1984]
• Ansell BM, Arden GP. Surgical management of juvenile chronic polyarthritis. 1978
• Ansell BM. Uncommon radiological features of chronic arthritis in childhood: a review. J R Soc Med. 1981;74(12):904-908
• Ansell BM, Simkin PA. The Heart and rheumatic disease. 1984
• Prieur AM, Griscelli C, Lampert F, Ansell BM. A chronic, infantile, neurological, cutaneous and articular (CINCA) syndrome. A specific entity analysed in 30 patients. Scand J Rheumatol Suppl. 1987;66:57-68.
• Brueton LA, Sanderson IR, Jadresic L, Harper JI, Savage MO, Ansell BM. An infant with chronic articular and cutaneous manifestations: a new syndrome?. J R Soc Med. 1989;82(4):223-225.
• Ansell BM. Color atlas of pediatric rheumatology. 1992 [17 editions published between 1991 and 1995]

References

• James Spence Medallist 1997: Dr Barbara Mary Ansell. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1997; 77: 279–280
• Hull R, Venning H. Dr Barbara Mary Ansell, CBE, FRCP, FRCS, FRCPCH. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003; 88: 185.
• Woo P, Wulffraat NM, Tyndall A. Barbara Ansell: a person ahead of her time. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2019; 78: 725-728.
• Biography: Barbara Mary Ansell. Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Munk’s Roll: Volume XI: 23
• Biography: Ansell, Barbara Mary (1923 – 2001). Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows Online. Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Bibliography. Ansell, Barbara M.. WorldCat Identities