Isadore Nathan Dubin

Isadore Nathan Dubin (occasionally Isidore Nathan Dubin , born July 13, 1913 in Montreal , † November 2, 1980 in Toronto ) was a Canadian-American pathologist . He and Frank B. Johnson described the Dubin-Johnson syndrome .

Life

Dubin studied at McGill University in Montreal , where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1935 and a medical degree in 1939. From 1942 he worked as a pathologist at Duke University and from 1944 - now as a lecturer - at the University of Tennessee . In 1949/1950 a research stay at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) followed. From 1951 to 1955 he headed the liver pathology department of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP). He then headed the Institute of Pathology at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania as a professor .

He was married to Alberta Sinkevitz from 1940 and the father of two daughters and one son. From 1947 Dubin was a US citizen.

The records left by Dubin are kept in the Drexel University library.

Fonts (selection)

• IN Dubin, FB Johnson: Chronic idiopathic jaundice with unidentified pigment in liver cells; a new clinicopathologic entity with a report of 12 cases. In: Medicine (Baltimore). 33, 1954, pp. 155-197, PMID 13193360 , doi : 10.1097 / 00005792-195409000-00001 (first description of Dubin-Johnson syndrome)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Dubin, Isadore N. In: Harry Cohen and Itzhak J. Carmin (eds.): Jews in the world of science. A biographical dictionary of Jews eminent in the natural and social sciences. Monde Publ., New York, 1956, p. 264.
2. ^ ^{A b} Obituaries: Liver expert Dubin . In: The Gazette . November 13, 1980, p. 86.
3. ↑ Dubin-Johnson Syndrome. In: Mosby's Medical Dictionary. 9th edition. Mosby, 2012, ISBN 978-0-323-08541-0 , p. 567.
4. ^ Drexel University Libraries: Papers of I. Nathan Dubin, MD, 1924–1980 1954–1980.