Lotte Strauss

Biography

• Born 15 April 1913 Nuremberg, Germany
• 1930 – Commenced medical studies in Germany and completed in Sienna, Italy in 1937
• 1938 – Emigrated to America. Research assistant in bacteriology at the Beth Israel Hospital, New York
• 1940 – Studied with Sydney Farber (1903-1973) a well-known pediatric pathologist, at Children’s Hospital in Boston
• 1941 – Pathologist, The Mount Sinai Hospital under Dr. Paul Klemperer
• 1953 – First pediatric pathologist, The Mount Sinai Hospital
• 1966 – Professor of pathology, The Mount Sinai Hospital and one of the founding faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• 1971 – Special Consultant in Perinatal Pathology to the National Institute of Health.
• 1983 – Jacobi Medallion, Mount Sinai Alumni
• Died 4 July 1985

Medical Eponyms

• Churg–Strauss syndrome (1951) – now known as Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). EGPA is eosinophil-rich, necrotizing granulomatous inflammation often involving the respiratory tract; with necrotizing vasculitis predominantly affecting small to medium vessels; and associated with asthma and eosinophilia
• Lotte Strauss Prize (1986 – ) recognizes the meritorious work by an individual 40 years of age or younger in a subject germane to pediatric pathology

Major Publications

• Churg J, Strauss L. Allergic Granulomatosis, Allergic Angiitis, and Periarteritis Nodosa. Am J Pathol. 1951 Apr; 27(2):277–301. [PMC1937314]
• Strauss L, Churg J, Zak FG. Cutaneous lesions of allergic granulomatosis: a histopathologic study. J Invest Dermatol. 1951 Dec ;17(6):349-359. [PMID 14908172]

References

• de Campos FPF, Geller SA. Churg-Strauss Syndrome: a syndrome described on clinical observation and autopsy findings. Autopsy and Case Reports 2013;3(2):1-4