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Alan Guttmacher

Alan Edward Guttmacher (born 1949), pediatrician, geneticist, & research administrator

Alfred Turner

Alfred Jefferis Turner (1861–1947), British and Australian pediatrician and entomologist

Arns

Zilda Arns (1934–2010), Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker

Asperger

Hans Asperger (1906–1980), Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome is named

C. Henry Kempe

1984, Hanauma Bay, Hawaii) was a pediatrician and the first in the medical community to identify and recognize child abuse.

David Meyer Wessel

He is the son of Morris A. Wessel, a pediatrician, and Irmgard R. Wessel, a clinical social worker.

Dexter W. Draper

Dexter Wright Draper (May 23, 1881 – August 22, 1961) was an American football player and coach, as well as a pediatrician.

Dilys

Dilys Craven, OBE, Welsh-born Australian pediatrician & World War II veteran

Djedmaatesankh

Dr. Peter Lewin, a pediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and researcher in the field of paleopathology, led the team that Holowka was a part of, and notes that it is possible that Djedmaatesankh was infertile.

Eliana Riggio

She is also the President of the Italian branch of Child In Need India (CINI), a humanitarian organisation founded by her husband, pediatrician Samir Chaudhuri.

Fe del Mundo

Among the international honors bestowed on del Mundo was the Elizabeth Blackwell Award for Outstanding Service to Mankind, handed in 1966 by Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the citation as Outstanding Pediatrician and Humanitarian by the International Pediatric Association in 1977.

Gerber Products Company

At the suggestion of a pediatrician, Gerber's wife Dorothy Gerber began making hand-strained food for their seven-month-old daughter, Sally.

Goldbloom

Victor Goldbloom (born 1923), Canadian pediatrician, lecturer, and politician

Richard Goldbloom (born 1924), Canadian pediatrician, professor, and academic administrator

Huda Zoghbi

Her residency as a neurological pediatrician brought Rett syndrome to her attention, and she learned molecular genetics from Arthur Beaudet in order to do research on Rett's and other genetic neurological disorders.

Institute for Juvenile Research

Franz Alexander who was known for his work on Psychosomatic Medicine, short-term psychotherapy, and the corrective emotional experience and Julius B. Richmond, M.D. a pediatrician who would later develop Head Start and served as Surgeon General of the United States under President Jimmy Carter .

James Alexander Daugherty

Daugherty's niece is the famous pediatrician and supercentenarian Leila Denmark.

Kenneth Kaye

His principal mentors were the social-cognitive psychologist Jerome S. Bruner, British ethologist M.P.M. Richards, and pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton.

Ladd's bands

Ladd's bands and the Ladd procedure are named after American pediatrician, William Edwards Ladd (1880-1967).

Marino Ortolani

Marino Ortolani (25 July 1904 in; † 1983) was an Italian pediatrician who developed a clinical test for the recognition of hip dysplasia called the Ortolani test.

Melvin L. Morse

Prior to his arrest, he was working as a pediatrician at an office in Milton, Delaware.

Melvin Morse

Melvin L. Morse, pediatrician and author on near death experiences

Meningism

Jozef Brudzinski (1874–1917), a Polish pediatrician, is credited with several signs in meningitis.

Michael Lesch

Bill Nyhan, a pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, was his mentor.

Mulago Foundation

The foundation was originally envisioned by Rainer Arnold, a San Francisco pediatrician and philanthropist, who taught at Mulago Hospital, Kenya.

Olga Imerslund

Olga Imerslund (9 April 1907 – 23 August 1987) was a renowned Norwegian pediatrician best known for her contribution to identification and naming of the Imerslund-Gräsbeck syndrome.

Pampers

At the time the Pampers Easy Ups were introduced, there was a controversy going on between pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton and syndicated columnist and best-selling author of books for parents, John Rosemond.

It was promoted in an advertising campaign featuring pediatrician and child development expert Dr. T. Berry Brazelton.

Paul Adelstein

Paul Adelstein (born April 29, 1969) is an American television and film actor, best known for the role of Agent Paul Kellerman in the television series Prison Break and his role as pediatrician Cooper Freedman in the series Private Practice.

Paul Rohmer

In 1946, he wrote with Robert Debré a famous manual entitled "Traité de Pathologie Infantile" (2,500 pages, two volumes) which became a reference for a whole generation of pediatricians.

Phayer

Thomas Phaer (alternate spelling Phayer), lawyer, pediatrician, and author

Portal, Georgia

Dr. Leila Denmark (1898–2012), oldest practicing pediatrician in the world

Rahul Parikh

Rahul K. Parikh is an American pediatrician practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sarat Chandra Bose

The children included Sisir Kumar Bose, who became a pediatrician and Member of Parliament, and Subrata Bose, who was an electrical engineer and also a Member of Parliament.

Scipione Riva-Rocci

Scipione Riva-Rocci (7 August 1863 in Almese, Piedmont – 15 March 1937 in Rapallo) was an Italian internist and pediatrician who was a native of Almese.

Strasburger

Victor C. Strasburger (born 1949), a noted American pediatrician, an adolescent medicine expert

Sumantra Bose

Bose is the son of Sisir Kumar Bose a pediatrician and Krishna Bose née Chaudhuri, professor of English, writer and politician, and a grandson of Sarat Chandra Bose.

Sylvester Sanfilippo

Sylvester Sanfilippo (January 1, 1926 – May 2, 2013) was a pediatrician from Edina, MN, who first described a mucopolysaccharide storage disease which bears his name.

Tanner scale

This scale was first identified by James Tanner, a British pediatrician, and thus bears his name.

Theodore Drake

Theodore G.H. Drake, MD(1891- 1959) was a Canadian pediatrician and one of three doctors that developed Pablum.

Thomas Cooley

Thomas Benton Cooley (1871–1945), his son, American pediatrician and hematologist

Tom Hornbein

In 2006, he moved from the Seattle area to Estes Park, CO, where he lives with his wife, Kathy Mikesell Hornbein, a retired pediatrician and young adult novelist.

Trupti Patel

It was one of a number of cases in which evidence was given by Roy Meadow, a controversial pediatrician whose testimony helped to convict Sally Clark, Angela Cannings, and Donna Anthony of murdering their babies.

United States presidential election in Vermont, 1972

Coming in a distant third was the People's Party candidate famed pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, who took 0.54% in Vermont on the Liberty Union ballot line.

Wan Quan

Wan Quan (1495–1585) was a famous Ming Dynasty pediatrician.


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