Judith Goslin Hall

Judith Goslin Hall, OC (born July 3, 1939) is a pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.

Judith Goslin Hall
Born (1939-08-03) August 3, 1939[1]
Boston, Massachusetts
AwardsOrder of Canada
Scientific career
FieldsPediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist

Early life and education

The daughter of a minister, Judith Goslin Hall was born on July 3, 1939 in Boston, Mass..[1] She graduated from Garfield high school in Seattle and then attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. from which she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961.

She went to medical school in Seattle at the University of Washington (UW) from which she received an MD degree in 1966.[1] She was also awarded an MS degree in Genetics from UW.[1]

Career

In 1972, she returned to the University of Washington School of Medicine and was given a joint appointment in the Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine as, successively, assistant, associate and full professor. She also gained additional depth of knowledge concerning congenital malformations by working in Seattle with the pioneer dysmorphologist, David W. Smith (1926-1981).

In 1981, Hall was named professor of medical genetics at the University of British Columbia and the Director of the Genetics Services for British Columbia. From 1990-2000, she was also Ppofessor and head of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital.

In 1988 she received a Killam Senior Fellowship for a sabbatical year at Oxford University, UK. During 2001, she was a Distinguished Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge University, UK.

Research contributions

Hall's research has been far-ranging in the areas of congenital malformations including neural tube defects, the genetics of short stature, the mechanisms of disease such as mosaicism and imprinting, the natural history of genetic disorders, the genetics of connective tissue disorders such as arthrogryposis, and monozygotic (identical) twins. She has contributed to the knowledge of a number of syndromes. Her name is associated with the Hall type of pseudoachondroplasia (a severe form of dwarfism with short limbs), Sheldon-Hall syndrome, and the Hall-Pallister syndrome (hamartoma in the hypothalamus tract, hypopituitarism, imperforate anus and polydactyly).[2]

Awards

Hall has received a number of honors, including alumni awards from Garfield High School, Wellesley College, the University of Washington School of Medicine, and the University of British Columbia. In 1998, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada as "a leader and world authority in both genetics and pediatrics" and having "contributed to the development of resources and services essential to coping with genetic illnesses" [1] In 2011, she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2015, Hall was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.[3]

Hall is quoted as saying, with regard to her recognition, that

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.[1]

gollark: Yes, all hail Supreme Overlord Daelvn.,
gollark: lmgtfy.com, I hereby pronounce <@116952546664382473> your lawful wedded... I don't know, person.
gollark: ```To keep with the tradition, our first program in Lua just prints "Hello World": print("Hello World")If you are using the stand-alone Lua interpreter, all you have to do to run your first program is to call the interpreter (usually named lua) with the name of the text file that contains your program. For instance, if you write the above program in a file hello.lua, the following command should run it: prompt> lua hello.lua```What's the problem here?
gollark: Start at Getting Started, it seems to make sense.
gollark: You realise that telling people to shut up does not in fact improve your argument?

References
  1. "science.ca : Judith G. Hall". science.ca. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  2. "Whonamedit - dictionary of medical eponyms". whonamedit.com. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  3. "Dr. Judith G. Hall, OC - Canadian Medical Hall of Fame". cdnmedhall.org. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
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