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Dorothy Hansine Andersen (May 15, 1901 – March 3, 1963) was the American physician and researcher who first identified and named cystic fibrosis.
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Dorothy Hansine Andersen, née le 15 mai 1901 à Asheville,...
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Dorothy Hansine Andersen, née le 15 mai 1901 à Asheville, Caroline du Nord, et morte le 3 mars 1963 à New York, est une pédiatre américaine.
Dr. Dorothy Hansine Andersen was the first physician to identify cystic fibrosis as a disease and, together with her research team, created the first tests to diagnose it. She also spent nearly a decade examining glycogen storage disease, and studied cardiac malformations in great detail.
As a tribute to her identification of cystic fibrosis, in 2002, 39 years after her death, Dorothy Hansine Andersen was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame for her contributions to medical science.
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Dorothy Hansine Andersen was an American pathologist and pediatrician who was the first person to identify cystic fibrosis and the first American physician to describe the disease. In 2001 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Dr. Dorothy Andersen’s role in groundbreaking cystic fibrosis research fails to get the recognition it deserves. Our associate producer, Sophie McNulty, rummages through boxes in a Connecticut basement, looking for clues to Dorothy Andersen’s life story.
18 juin 2017 · Dorothy Andersen studied cystic fibrosis in the United States during the early 1900s. In 1935, Andersen discovered lesions in the pancreas of an infant during an autopsy, which led her to classify a condition she named cystic fibrosis of the pancreas.
