Wynne-Davies Ligamentous Laxity
Wynne-Davies Ligamentous Laxity Criteria (1970) by Edinburgh orthopedic surgeon Ruth Wynne-Davies (1926 - 2012)
Freida Young
Freida 'Yarmalinsky' Young (1910 - 2004) was an English physician and pathologist. Dyke-Young anaemia (1938)
De-eponymising anatomical terminology
To evaluate the hypothesis that 'There is ALWAYS an alternative to the dead man's name for body parts' and create a database to facilitate the de-eponymification of anatomic terminology
Mallampati Score
The Mallampati Score is a grading system based on the visualisation of the pharyngeal structures during laryngoscopy.
Seshagiri Rao Mallampati
Seshagiri Rao Mallampati (1941 – ) Indian born American anesthesiologist. Eponym: Mallampati Score used to predict the ease of endotracheal intubation
“We are all racist”: How we can make a difference
Dr Tamishta Hensman identifies 3 steps that clinicians in Australia can take to make a difference in the fight against racism.
Emotions and COVID-19
Dr Laura Rock describes how a simple emotion response tool, GIVE, can be used to help us connect, understand, and support one another. This is even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 – 1917) was an English physician. The first openly female recipient of a UK medical qualification (1865)
William E. Hunt
William Edward Hunt (1921 - 1999) was an American neurologist and neurosurgeon. He is eponymous with the ophthalmologic entity Tolosa-Hunt syndrome, and the Hunt-Hess classification for intracranial haemorrhages.
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hodgkin (1798 – 1866) was an English physician and pathologist. Eponym: Hodgkin disease (1832); Key-Hodgkin murmur (1827)
Yvonne Barr
Yvonne Margaret (née Barr) Balding (1932 - 2016) was an Irish virologist. Co-discoverer of Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) (1964)
Abdominal Imaging Cases 008
June 2020 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Isolina R. Rossi, MD, Brian P. Shreve, MD and Kyle Cunningham, MD