Andrea Prader

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Andrea Prader, around 1977

Andrea Prader (born December 23, 1919 in Samedan , Graubünden , † June 3, 2001 in Zurich ) was a Swiss pediatrician and endocrinologist .

Life

Andrea Prader attended elementary school and high school in Zurich. He then studied at the University of Medicine . After completing his studies in 1944, he got a job as an assistant doctor at the Children's Hospital in Zurich in 1947 . In 1950 he was qualified as a specialist in pediatrics . He continued his studies at Bellevue Hospital in New York . Prader completed his habilitation in 1957 and was appointed to the chair of pediatrics in 1962 and, as the successor to Guido Fanconi, was appointed director of the children's hospital. He held this position until 1986.

Research areas

Prader made fundamental studies of the growth and development of healthy children. His research interests extended it on endocrinological diseases, disorders of metabolism , medical genetics and pathophysiology of steroid - synthesis .

His name is inextricably linked with the Prader-Willi syndrome  , named after him together with Heinrich Willi - a congenital hereditary disease with congenital muscle weakness, mental development retardation and obesity. A clinical classification of intersexuality based on his habilitation thesis is named after him.

He also developed the so-called orchidometer to measure testicle size. He was also involved in the discovery of hereditary hereditary fructose intolerance and pseudo-vitamin D deficiency . In 1962 and 1971 he was President of the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology . From 1972 to 1974 Andrea Prader was President of the Swiss Society for Pediatrics , of which he later became an honorary member.

honors and awards

Prader had been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1968 . He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Tokushima (1981), the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , the University of Lyon (both 1987) and the University of Saragossa (1988). He also received the Otto Naegeli Prize in 1966 , the Medal of the University of Turku in 1969 , the Berthold Medal of the German Society for Endocrinology in 1981 , the Aschoff Medal of the Freiburg Medical Society in 1985 and the Otto Heubner Prize of the German Society for Children in 1988 - and adolescent medicine .

The European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) awards an Andrea Prader Prize as its highest honor.

Works (selection)

  • Intersexuality … Springer-Verlag, 1957. 402 S. Habilitation thesis, Zurich
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the development of the notochord in humans . A. Kundig, Genève 1945. 34 S. Dissertation Mediz. Faculty of the University of Zurich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iris Ritzmann: Andrea Prader. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 12, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ A. Prader: Pathology of the growth and the endocrine glands. In: G. Fanconi, A. Wallgren (editor) Textbook of Pediatrics , 1972, 9th edition, Schwabe Verlag Basel, page 354
  3. ↑ Andrea Prader † . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online, Berlin, Boston 2010, De Gruyter; last accessed on April 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Prader, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pediatrician and endocrinologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Samedan
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 2001
Place of death Zurich