Bruce Chown

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Henry Bruce Chown (born November 10, 1893 in Winnipeg , Manitoba , † July 3, 1986 in Victoria , British Columbia ) was a Canadian hematologist and pediatrician .

Life

Chown's father was the surgeon and dean of the University of Manitoba Medical School Henry H. Chown . Bruce Chown received a bachelor's degree from McGill University in Montreal in 1914 . In the First World War he served as an artillery officer , for which he was awarded the Military Cross . In 1922, Chown earned his MD from the University of Manitoba at Winnipeg as a medical graduate. At the children's hospitals at Columbia University ( Babies' Hospital , New York City , 1922–1923), Johns Hopkins University ( Harriet Lane Home , Baltimore , 1923–1924) and Cornell University ( Nursery and Child's Hopital , New York City, 1925–1926 ) he received his training as a pediatrician . He then worked as a pathologist at the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg (University of Manitoba), whose medical director he was from 1949 to 1959. In 1961 he retired early to devote himself entirely to research. In 1944, Chown founded the Winnipeg Rh Laboratory , which he headed until 1972.

In 1922 Chown married Gladys Webb († 1948). The couple had four children. In his second marriage he married Allison Grant in 1949, with whom he had a child.

Act

At the beginning of his career, Chown dealt primarily with calcium and phosphate metabolism. He is considered to be the first to describe hypophosphatasia .

Chown made valuable contributions to understanding human blood types , particularly the detection, treatment, and prevention of neonatorum haemolytic disease , which was responsible for ten percent of perinatal mortality in Canada in the 1940s . He was considered a leading figure in clinical immunohematology .

Together with Connaught Laboratories , Chown developed an immune serum for the prevention of rhesus incompatibility . He established the exchange transfusion for the treatment of neonatal jaundice and bilirubin encephalopathy (kernicterus) and early delivery to prevent stillbirth .

With his long-time colleague Marion Lewis , Chown visited Canadian Indians and Inuit and made important contributions to anthropology .

Chown was instrumental in improving clinical standards and medical education at Children's Hospital in Winnipeg.

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Dr. Bruce Chown - An Appreciation. In: Vox Sanguinis. Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 241-248, October 1968. doi: 10.1111 / j.1423-0410.1968.tb01756.x
  • Jon M. Gerrard: Bruce Chown 1893-1986. In: Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Volume 4 (1989), p. 343 and 345-346 ISSN  0035-9122

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EC Leung, AA Mhanni, M. Reed, MP Whyte, H. Landy, CR Greenberg: Outcome of perinatal hypophosphatasia in Manitoba mennonites: a retrospective cohort analysis. In: JIMD reports. Volume 11, 2013, pp. 73-78, ISSN  2192-8304 . doi : 10.1007 / 8904_2013_224 . PMID 23580367 . PMC 3755555 (free full text).
  2. ↑ Bruce Chown, OC, MD with the Governor General of Canada (gg.ca); Retrieved January 25, 2014
  3. ^ Bruce Chown - Gairdner Foundation. In: gairdner.org. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
  4. ^ Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (rsc-src.ca); Retrieved January 25, 2015
  5. ^ Henry Bruce Chown, BA, MD, D.Sc. at the University of Saskatchewan (usask.ca); accessed on January 30, 2014
  6. ^ List of Past AABB Award Recipients. In: aabb.org. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Dr. Bruce Chown - Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. In: cdnmedhall.org. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Chown, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chown, Henry Bruce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian hematologist and pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1986
Place of death Victoria , British Columbia