Judith G. Hall
Medicine
Expert in congenital birth defects specializing in dwarfism and other genetic factors affecting children's growth. "To me, high achievement is not the number of publications but being a successful female in a world of professional men. And by that I mean caring more about peacemaking and nurturing the individual and the environment than success, winning, owning or directing." |
- Birthdate
- August 3, 1939
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Family Members
- Title
- Professor, Pediatrics/Medical Genetics; Physician-in-Chief
- Office
- Department of Pediatrics, UBC; Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
- Status
- Working
- Degrees
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- MSc, U of Washington, Seattle
- MD, U of Washington, 1966
- Awards
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- G. Malcolm Brown Award (Cdn.Fed. of Biological Societies), 1999
- Officer of the Order of Canada, 1998
- Gold Medal (BC Science Council), 1996
- Senior Killam Research Prize
- Phoenix-Anni Verdi Award for Genetic Research (Italian Medical Genetics Society)
- Mentor
Victor Almon McKusick, American physician considered the founder of modern medical genetics
- Last Updated
- October 10, 2011
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