Lotte Strauss

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Lotte Strauss (born April 15, 1913 in Nuremberg ; † July 4, 1985 ) was a German-American pathologist . An allergic vascular inflammation, the Churg-Strauss syndrome, is named after her.

education and profession

She continued her medical studies, which she had begun in Germany, in Siena in 1937 , where she passed her medical examination. Already during her studies in Siena she developed a strong interest in laboratory medicine issues and worked at the bacteriological institute in Siena.

A year later she emigrated to the United States, where she was employed as a microbiologist at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City in 1938 and stayed until 1941. In the same position she worked at the Mount Sinai Hospital , New York, until 1949 , where she researched with Jacob Churg and described the Churg-Strauss syndrome with him. After three years as an assistant in the pathology department of Lebanon Hospital ( Bronx ), she returned to Mount Sinai Hospital in 1953 as a pathologist with her own department for pediatric pathology and taught here after her habilitation from 1966 as a professor of pathology until her death.

In addition, she had completed a study visit to the Boston Children's Hospital with Sidney Farber to further her education in the field of pediatric pathology. She also had a teaching position at Columbia University (1958-1966) and was a consultative pathologist at Elmhurst City Hospital and a member of the most important pathological societies in America.

She received an honorary doctorate from Augustin University in Peru and worked on issues relating to perinatal pathology for the national health authority.

power

Lotte Strauss can be considered a pioneer in the field of pediatric and perinatal pathology. She was a founding member of the American Society for Pediatric Pathology and introduced this branch of science at Mount Sinai Hospital , where she advised pediatricians, gynecologists, and neonatologists . She looked after more than 500 students in pediatric pathology, 20 specialists in the field emerged from her school.

In more than 100 scientific articles and research work, she dealt in particular with the ultrastructure of the placenta in various diseases and with intrauterine infections . The lifelong collaboration with Jacob Churg points to her interest in researching inflammatory vascular diseases .

Works

  • Allergic Granulomatosis, Allergic Angiitis, and Periarteritis nodosa (with J. Churg). In: Am J Pathol , 27 (1951) 277
  • Pulmonary Vasculitis (with KV Lieberman, J. Churg). In: AP Fishman (ed.): Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders. 2nd ed. New York 1988, 2: 1138

literature

  • Eberhard J. Wormer : Angiology - Phlebology. Syndromes and their creators . Munich 1991, pp. 23-25
  • American Men and Women in Science 6 (1986) 1088
  • Obituary: Lotte Strauss, MD International Pathol 26 (1985) no.3

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