Jack Lippes

Jack Lippes (born February 19, 1924 in Buffalo ) is an American gynecologist .

He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo , School of Medicine, and graduated in 1947 as a Medical Doctor . From 1948 to 1952, Lippes worked at Buffalo General Hospital, the Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland , the Chicago Maternity Center, and the University of Nebraska Clinic Women's Clinic . He then worked in his own branch from 1952 to 1985, with an interruption from 1954 to 1956 due to military service at the National Naval Medical Center . From 1975 to 1999 he was Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine. He has been retired since 1999 .

Lippes is considered a pioneer in family planning using intrauterine devices . In the 1960s he developed the so-called Lippes Loop, a trapezoidal and double S-shaped pessary made of plastic.

Jack Lippes is married and has three children.

Honors

From 1972/73 Jack Lippes was President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex , 1977/78 of the Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians , and from 1977 to 1980 of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine.

literature

• J. Lippes: Contraception with Intrauterine Plastic Loops In: American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology Vol. 93, 1965, pp. 1024-1030
• RJ Thomsen, DLJ Rayl: Dr. Lippes and his loop. Four decades in perspective. Reprod Med. 10: 833-6 (1999), PMID 10554741 .
• M. Thiery: Pioneers of the intrauterine device. Europ J Contraception Reprod Health Care 2 (1997), 15-23.