Pirkko Santavuori
Pirkko Santavuori (1933 - 2004) was a Finnish paediatric neurologist. Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL) [Santavuori disease]
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Julia Bell
Julia Bell (1879 - 1979) was an English human geneticist. Martin-Bell syndrome (1943) [Fragile X syndrome]
Ingrid Gamstorp
Ingrid Gamstorp (1924 - 2007) was a Swedish paediatric neurologist. Gamstorp disease (1956); Gamstorp-Wohlfart Syndrome (1959)
Charlotte Dravet
Charlotte Dravet (1936 - ) French paediatric psychiatrist and epileptologist. Dravet Syndrome (Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy-6) in 1978
Margaret Dix
Margaret Ruth Dix (1902 - 1991) was an English neuro-otologist. Dix-Hallpike Test (1952); Peep-Show technique (1947)
Kristine Bonnevie
Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (1872 - 1948) was a Norwegian geneticist and zoologist. Bonnevie-Ullrich syndrome (1934)
Anna W. Williams
Anna Wessels Williams (1863 - 1954) was an American public health physician and bacteriologist. Park-Williams bacillus (1896)
Gertrud Schachenmann
Gertrud Dina Schachenmann (1910 - 1997) was a Swiss pediatrician. Smith-Theiler-Schachenmann syndrome (1966)
Denise Louis-Bar
Denise Louis-Bar (1914 - 1999) was a Belgian neuropathologist. Louis-Bar syndrome (1941), ataxia-telangiectasia
Ina Mae Gaskin
Ina Mae (née Middleton) Gaskin (1940 - ) American midwife. Gaskin (all-fours) manoeuvre 1976; The Farm
Lisa Welander
Lisa Welander (1909 - 2001) was a Swedish neurologist. Sweden's first professor of neurology. Welander distal myopathy; Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander syndrome
Edith Potter
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)