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Doctors Faces, Senigallia (2025)

08/06/2025

Erich Hoffmann (Witzmitz, 8 maggio 1868 – Bonn, 8 maggio 1959) è stato un dermatologo tedesco. Studiò medicina presso l'Accademia Militare di Berlino, e in seguito fu professore presso le università di Halle e Bonn.Hoffmann è ricordato per le sue ricerche eseguite insieme con lo zoologo Fritz Schaudinn (1871-1906) presso la clinica Charité di Berlino. Nel 1905 Schaudinn e Hoffmann scoprirono il batterio responsabile della sifilide, una spirale a forma di spirochete chiamata Treponema pallidum. L'organismo è stato rimosso da una papula nella v***a di una paziente con la sifilide secondaria. I due medici documentarono le loro scoperte in un trattato intitolato Vorläufiger Bericht über das Vorkommen von Spirochaeten in syphilitischen
Krankheitsprodukten und bei Papillome..Hoffmann lasciò la Germania durante il periodo del nazionalsocialismo, ma ritornò a Bonn dopo la guerra e istituì un laboratorio. Alla fine del 1940 pubblicò due libri sulla sua vita nel campo della medicina, dal titolo "Wollen und Schaffen" e "Ringen um Vollendung

17/05/2025

Louis Edouard Octave Crouzon (meglio conosciuto come Octave Crouzon; Parigi, 1874 – Parigi, 1938) è stato un neurologo francese.Ha conseguito il suo dottorato all'Università di Parigi, dove ha avuto come professori Paul Georges Dieulafoy (1839-1911), Joseph Babinski (1837-1932) e Pierre Marie (1853-1940). Durante la sua carriera medica è stato associato all'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris e all'ospedale Salpêtrière.Crouzon si è specializzato in malattie neurologiche ereditarie, specialmente per l'Atassia spinocerebellare. Ha lavorato a fondo sulle deformità riguardanti la Cervicale e la Vertebra lombare e ha condotto studi su disturbi cronici reumatici. Crouzon è stato il primo a descrivere la condizione chiamata "Disostosicraniofacciale" , definita come un disturbo genetico riscontrabile in lineamenti facciali abnormi.Questa patologia è conosciuta come Sindrome di Crouzon.Lungo tutta la sua carriera, Crouzon si è interessato di Psicologia, in particolare al lavoro di Pierre Janet (1859-1947), che Crouzon considerava di notevole influenza.
Durante la sua carriera Crouzon è stato anche presidente della Société Neurologique de Paris (Società Neurologica di Parigi) e segretario del giornale R***e Neurologique

23/03/2025

Robert Degos (Mugron, 8 novembre 1904 – Parigi, 3 maggio 1987) è stato un medico e dermatologo francese, divenuto celebre in particolare per aver descritto per la prima volta la malattia di Degos.

12/03/2025

Angelo Mario DiGeorge[1] (April 15, 1921 – October 11, 2009) was an American physician and pediatric endocrinologist from Philadelphia who pioneered the research on the autosomal dominant immunodeficiency now commonly referred to as DiGeorge syndrome.

11/03/2025

Ernest William Goodpasture (October 17, 1886 – September 20, 1960) was an American pathologist and physician. Goodpasture advanced the scientific understanding of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, parasitism, and a variety of rickettsial and viral infections. Together with colleagues at Vanderbilt University, he invented methods for growing viruses and rickettsiae in chicken embryos and fertilized chicken eggs. This enabled the development of vaccines against influenza, chicken pox, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, Rocky mountain spotted fever, and other diseases.[1] He also identified and described what would become known as Goodpasture syndrome.[2]

06/03/2025

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (Bergen, 29 luglio 1841 – Florø, 12 febbraio 1912) è stato un dermatologo norvegese ricordato per la sua identificazione del batterio Mycobacterium leprae nel 1873 come l'agente eziologico della lebbra.Biografia Hansen nacque a Bergen e studiò medicina presso la Kongelige Frederiks Universitet (ora Università di Oslo), ottenendo la laurea nel 1866. Seguì un breve tirocinio presso il National Hospital di Christiania ad Oslo e come medico nelle isole Lofoten. Nel 1868 Hansen ritornò a Bergen per studiare la lebbra lavorando con Daniel Cornelius Danielssen, un noto esperto. Morì nel 1912 per una malattia cardiaca della quale soffriva da molti anni.

04/03/2025

Thomas Benton Cooley (June 23, 1871 – October 13, 1945) was an American pediatrician and hematologist and professor of hygiene and medicine at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. He was the director of the Pasteur Institute at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1904. He worked in private practice in Detroit as the city's first pediatrician starting in 1905. He worked with the Babies' Milk Fund and helped to reduce Detroit's high infant mortality rate in the 1900s and 1910s. During World War I, Cooley went to France as the assistant chief of the Children's Bureau of the American Red Cross. He was decorated in 1924 with the cross of the Legion of Honor for his work in France. From 1921 to 1941, Cooley was the head of pediatric service at Children's Hospital of Michigan. Cooley gained acclaim for his scientific work in the field of pediatric hematology and is principally remembered for his discovery of, and research into, a form of childhood anemia that became known as Cooley's anemia. Cooley was also a professor at the Wayne University College of Medicine from 1936 to 1941.

17/02/2025

David Aryah Karnofsky (March 28, 1914 – August 31, 1969) was an American clinical oncologist.[1] In 1940, while he was a resident at the Colis P. Huntington Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research of Harvard University, David A. Karnofsky began clinical research in cancer, and devoted himself to this area throughout his career. He was an internationally recognized specialist in cancer chemotherapy and affiliated with the Division of Experimental Chemotherapy, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.[2]

23/01/2025

Nikolaj Sergeevič Korotkov (in russo Николай Сергеевич Коротков?; Kursk, 26 febbraio 1874 – Pietrogrado, 14 marzo 1920) è stato un chirurgo russo, pioniere della chirurgia vascolare ed inventore della tecnica di misurazione della pressione sanguigna.

12/11/2024

Michael T. Modic, M.D.
Professor Radiology & Radiological Sciences

Prior to joining Vanderbilt Dr. Modic practiced for more than 35 years in Cleveland primarily at the Cleveland Clinic where he also served as Chairman of the Division of Radiology from 1989 through 2006, Chairman of the Neurological Institute from 2006 through 2015 and as Chief Clinical Transformation Officer through December of 2017. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Board of Directors of the Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. He is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology and a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Imaging.

Dr. Modic earned his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine in 1975. He completed a Diagnostic Radiology Residency and Neuroradiology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Modic’s clinical practice and research interests have been focused on Neuro Imaging with a special interest in degenerative disease of the spine and its natural history. He is a member of the Neuroradiology section within the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences.

06/10/2024

Hastings Gilford (July 2, 1861 – September 6, 1941) F.R.C.S. was an English surgeon, best known for his description of Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome in 1897.[1][2][3] Gilford was also an alternative cancer treatment advocate who wrote under the pseudonym John Cope.

Biography
Gilford was born at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England on July 2, 1861.[4] He qualified M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. from Guy's Hospital in 1887.[5] He took the F.R.C.S in 1889.[5] He was clinical assistant at Evelina Hospital for Sick Children and surgeon for the Reading Dispensary.[4] During World War I he was surgeon in charge of the Sutherland War Hospital and Hospital for Pensioners. He was elected vice-president of the Reading Pathological Society in 1908 and was a member of the British Medical Association.[4]

23/08/2024

Dr. Walter Evan Berdon, professor of medicine and radiology at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, died Aug. 6, 2017, after a long illness. He was 87. His illustrious career was filled with innumerable honors, including presidencies (Society for Pediatric Radiology, New York Roentgen Ray Society), gold medals (Society for Pediatric Radiology, American Roentgen Ray Society), honorary memberships (European Society of Paediatric Radiology, Australian and New Zealand Society for Paediatric Radiology) and speaking engagements at almost every named lectureship in pediatric radiology. However, Walter will be remembered most for his unique enthusiasm, endless knowledge, and his impact on his colleagues.

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