Women in Medicine Archives • Page 2 of 10 • LITFL

Priscilla White

Priscilla White (1900 - 1989) was an American physician. White Classification of Diabetes in Pregnancy (1949, 1965, 1978)

Mary Clayton Holt (1924 - 1993) was an English cardiologist. Holt-Oram syndrome (1960)

Nancy Burton Esterly (1935 - 2017) was an American pediatric dermatologist. Esterly-McKusick syndrome (1971)

Pirkko Santavuori (1933 - 2004) was a Finnish paediatric neurologist. Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL) [Santavuori disease]

Julia Bell (1879 - 1979) was an English human geneticist. Martin-Bell syndrome (1943) [Fragile X syndrome]

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

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

Margaret Ruth Dix (1902 - 1991) was an English neuro-otologist. Dix-Hallpike Test (1952); Peep-Show technique (1947)

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

Anna Wessels Williams (1863 - 1954) was an American public health physician and bacteriologist. Park-Williams bacillus (1896)

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

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