Lisa Welander

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Lisa Welander (born August 9, 1909 in Frustuna församling , Södermanland County ; † December 9, 2001 ) was a Swedish neurologist .

After studying medicine at the Karolinska Institutet , Welander completed her specialist training in neurology at Serafimerlasarettet in Stockholm .

In the 1940s, she conducted research on a group of patients from the Gästrikland area whose members exhibited muscle wasting in their hands and feet. She described the disease and genetic disorders in her doctoral thesis in 1951 . Until her professorship , she taught at the Karolinska Institute in 1952 and from 1953 at the Medical College of the University of Gothenburg .

Lisa Welander was Sweden's first professor of neurology. In 1964 she took over her chair at Umeå University (Sweden).

Welander became known in particular through the publication of their joint study results with Eric Kugelberg on spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The juvenile form of the disease, the so-called SMA type III , is named after her and her colleague as Kugelberg-Welander syndrome .

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Lisa Welander in: Kerstin Öhrström, Sigrid Andersson: Vem är hon: kvinnor i Sverige: biografisk uppslagsbok. Norstedts, Stockholm, 1988, ISBN 91-1-863422-2 .
  • Kristian Borg, Berit Joélius: Lisa Welander and Eric Kugelberg - two Swedish myologists in the footsteps of Edward Meryon. In: Neuromuscular Disorders. 14, 2004, pp. 383-386, doi : 10.1016 / j.nmd.2004.03.003 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristian Borg, Berit Joélius: Lisa Welander and Eric Kugelberg-two Swedish myologists in the footsteps of Edward Meryon. In: Neuromuscular Disorders. 14, 2004, pp. 383-386, doi : 10.1016 / j.nmd.2004.03.003 .
  2. ↑ Lisa Welander ; Whonamedit.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Welander, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Frustuna församling , Södermanland County
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2001