Female Medical Pioneer Archives • Page 8 of 10 • LITFL

Judy Waterlow

Judith Amy Waterlow. English nurse and educator. Waterlow created the Waterlow Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment/Policy in 1985, and updated it in 2005.

Dorothea Wilhelmine (née Barthel) Beauchamp (1911 - 2003) was an American physical therapist. Barthel index of functional independence (1965)

Łucja Frey-Gottesman (1889 - 1942) was a Polish physician and neurologist. Frey syndrome (1923); auriculotemporal syndrome

Ruth Illig (1924 - 2017) was a German pediatric endocrinologist. Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism; Illig syndrome (1970)

Marie Joubert MD, FRCP. Canadian neurologist. Joubert syndrome (1969)

Ida Bianco Silverstroni (1917 - 2006) was an Italian physician and haematologist. Silvestroni-Bianco anaemia (1948); heterozygotous thalassaemia

Helga V Toriello (1952 - ) PhD, FACMG. American Medical Geneticist and dysmorphologist. Toriello-Carey syndrome in 1988

Roberta A. Pagon (1945 - ) pediatrician and geneticist. Pagon syndrome - Anemia sideroblastic and spinocerebellar ataxia (1985)

Renata Laxova (1931 - ) Czech-American medical geneticist. Neu-Laxova syndrome (NLS) (1971)

Florence Chisholm Dudley (1902 - 1962) was an American assistant in medical genetics. Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (1943)

Eeva Therman-Patau (1916 - 2004) was a Finnish-American cytogeneticist. Mrs. X Chromosome

Jacqueline Tauber Hecht is an American medical geneticist. Hecht-Scott syndrome - congenital limb malformation syndrome - (1981)