Category Eponym

Julius Hallervorden

Biography Born October 21, 1882 Died May 29, 1965 Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Biography Archiv fur Psychiatrie und Zeitscrift fu¨r Neurologie 1965;207:165–67 Hughes JT. Neuropathology in Germany during World War II: Julius Hallervorden (1882-1965) and…

Tsuya (née Sakurai) Kitagawa (1911 – 1995) 340

Tsuya Sakurai

Tsuya (née Sakurai) Kitagawa (1911 - 1995) was a Japanese ophthalmologist. Sakurai-Lisch nodules (1935)

Nadia Awni Sakati Syrian-Saudi pediatrician 340

Nadia Sakati

Nadia Awni Sakati, Syrian-Saudi pediatrician. Eponymously affiliated with 3 rare genetic syndromes: Sakati-Nyhan-Tisdale syndrome (1971); Woodhouse–Sakati syndrome (1983); and Sanjad-Sakati syndrome (1991)

Friedrich Trendelenburg

Biography Born May 24, 1844 in Berlin, Germany the son of the famous German philosopher Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802-1872) 1861 – his father thought him not yet ready to enter university, and sent him to Edinburgh to teach German to…

Thomas Spens

Thomas Spens (1763-1842) was a Scottish physician. One of the first to provide a written report on what is now termed Stokes-Adams syndrome or cardiovascular syncope