Tag Female Medical Pioneer

Ingrid Gamstorp

Ingrid Gamstorp (1924 - 2007) was a Swedish paediatric neurologist. Gamstorp disease (1956); Gamstorp-Wohlfart Syndrome (1959)

BySarah Longstaffe and David Yu
OnOctober 12, 2020

Charlotte Dravet

Charlotte Dravet (1936 - ) French paediatric psychiatrist and epileptologist. Dravet Syndrome (Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy-6) in 1978

ByRose Laud and Mike Cadogan
OnOctober 11, 2020

Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (1872 - 1948) 340

Kristine Bonnevie

Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (1872 - 1948) was a Norwegian geneticist and zoologist. Bonnevie-Ullrich syndrome (1934)

ByJenny Stuart-Smith and Mike Cadogan
OnOctober 8, 2020

Gertrud Dina Schachenmann (1910 - 1997) 340

Gertrud Schachenmann

Gertrud Dina Schachenmann (1910 - 1997) was a Swiss pediatrician. Smith-Theiler-Schachenmann syndrome (1966)

ByKathryn Scott and Mike Cadogan
OnOctober 6, 2020

Denise Louis-Bar

Denise Louis-Bar (1914 - 1999) was a Belgian neuropathologist. Louis-Bar syndrome (1941), ataxia-telangiectasia

ByJenny Stuart-Smith and Mike Cadogan
OnOctober 1, 2020

Lisa Welander

Lisa Welander (1909 - 2001) was a Swedish neurologist. Sweden's first professor of neurology. Welander distal myopathy; Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander syndrome

BySarah Longstaffe and David Yu
OnSeptember 30, 2020

Edith Louise Potter (1901 - 1993) was an American pediatric pathologist. Potter facies (1946); Potter syndrome; Potter syndrome; Potter sequence; and the Potter classification of polycystic kidney disease (1964)