Women in Medicine Archives • Page 6 of 10 • LITFL

R. Ellen Magenis

Ruth Ellen Magenis (1925 - 2014) was an American pediatrician, medical geneticist and cytogeneticist. Smith-Magenis syndrome (1986)

Susan C. Dees (1909 - 2001) was an American pediatrician. First female division chief and first full professor at Duke Medical Center

Carol Nancy Dettman Wolcott (1941 - 1994) was an American pediatrician. Wolcott-Rallison syndrome (WRS) in 1972

Raissa Semenovna Nitabuch [Раиса Семеновна Нитабух] (1859 - ) was a Russian physician and pathologist. Nitabuch layer [Слой Нитабух] (1887)

Cornelia Catharina de Lange (1871 - 1950) was a Dutch pediatrician. Described Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) in 1933

Virginia P. Sybert. American medical geneticist and dermatologist. Palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) of Sybert (1988)

Ingegerd Frøyshov Larsen (1937 - ) Norwegian physician and endocrinologist. Hansen-Larsen-Berg syndrome (1976)

Olga Imerslund (1907 - 1987) was a Norwegian paediatrician. Identification of the Imerslund-Gräsbeck syndrome (1945-1956)

Katharine Krom Merritt (1886 - 1986) was an American pediatrician. Kasabach–Merritt syndrome (1940)

Dame Ida Caroline Mann (1893 - 1983) was an English ophthalmologist. Ida Mann classification of Coloboma (1937)

Virginia Claire Canale (1936 - 2005) was a pediatric hematologist. Canale-Smith syndrome (1967)

Seraphima Schachowa (1854 - ) was a Russian physician and histologist. Schachowa spiral tubulues (1876) [renal tubuli]