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Born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1901, Dorothy Andersen and her mother moved to Vermont after her Danish father died when she was 13. She attended Saint Johnsbury Academy and Mount Holyoke College. After earning her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1926, Andersen completed a surgical internship at Strong ...
Dr. Andersen died of lung cancer at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia on March 3, 1963. Today, more than 80 years after her initial discovery, Dr. Andersen’s breakthrough still resonates. “Most people with CF are diagnosed during childhood, but because of the improving therapies that have built on Dr. Andersen’s discovery, now more than 50 ...
Dorothy Hansine Andersen. American paediatrician and pathologist who identifi ed cystic fi brosis. Born in Asheville, NC, USA, on May 15, 1901, she died in New York, NY, USA on March 3, 1963, aged 61 years. As a tribute to her identifi cation of cystic fi brosis, in 2002, 39 years after her death, Dorothy Hansine Andersen was inducted into the ...
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (15 de mayo de 1901 - 3 de marzo de 1963) fue una doctora estadounidense especializada en patología, conocida por ser la primera persona que identificó la fibrosis quística como una enfermedad en 1938, así como por crear una sencilla prueba para su diagnóstico que sigue usándose en la actualidad.También dedicó parte de su vida al estudio de las enfermedades por ...
Dorothy Hansine Andersen's father, Hans Peter Andersen, had moved from the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea to the USA. Her mother, Mary Louise Mason, belonged to an old New England family. When her father died in 1914, Dorothy, barely an adolescent, was prematurely thrust into adulthood, taking the full responsible of caring for her invalid mother.
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (Asheville (North Carolina), 15 mei 1901 – New York, 3 maart 1963) was een Amerikaanse kinderarts en pathologe.Ze wordt beschouwd als de eerste arts die taaislijmziekte identificeerde en als ziekte beschreef.. Biografie. Dorothy Andersen was de dochter en enig kind van Hans Peter Andersen, een Deense arts van het eiland Bornholm, en zijn echtgenote Mary Louise Mason.
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (15 de maio de 1901 – 3 de março de 1963) foi uma patologista e pediatra estadunidense, a primeira pessoa a identificar a fibrose cística e a primeira médica estadunidense a descrever a doença. [1] [2] Primeiros anos. Nascida em Asheville ...
