Jon Morton Carrion

Jon Morton Aase (* 1936 in Wisconsin ) is an American pediatrician and morphologist . The Aase syndrome and the Aase-Smith syndrome are named after him.

Aase is known as an outstanding expert on fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), the most common cause of prenatal cognitive impairment without genetic influence.

Life

Aase grew up in California and Alabama . After graduating from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, with a medical degree , he went to the University of Minnesota and ultimately the University of Washington . He then spent two years studying the Alaskan indigenous population before returning to Seattle to work with pediatrician and dysmorphologist David W. Smith . After another five years in Alaska, he went to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque , where he became chief physician of the dysmorphology department.

Aase is the editor or co-author of over 45 articles in the field of dysmorphology. He developed the clinical checklist for the FAS as well as the screening protocol for the treatment centers for this disease and at the beginning of the 2nd millennium accompanied a study on the epidemiology of the FAS at these institutions.

He sits on the Advisory Board of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS). He also practices privately as an advisory dysmorphologist and offers his services in the field of treatment and training for various state and national supporting institutions.

literature

• Diagnostic Dysmorphology: An Approach to the Child with Congenital Abnormalities. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1990. 308 pages.
• The Clinical Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Edited by Flora & Company, PO Box 8263, Albuquerque, NM 87198-8263.