Richard Ellis (medic)

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Richard White Bernhard Ellis OBE FRCP (born August 25, 1902 in Leicester , † September 15, 1966 in London ) was a British pediatrician .

Career and work

Richard Ellis studied at Leighton Park School and King's College , Cambridge . He completed his medical training in 1926 at London's St Thomas' Hospital . He received his training as a specialist in pediatrics in the United States at Children's Hospital in Boston with Kenneth Blackfan . Then Ellis went back to London, where he worked at Guy's Hospital .

During World War II , Ellis served in North Africa , Italy, and Belgium ; most recently in the rank of Wing Commander . After the war, Ellis received a professorship in the Department for Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh in 1946 . In 1952 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . For health reasons he retired in 1964 and died two years later in London.

Ellis is the author or co-author of a wide variety of scientific publications. In 1940 he published an article with the Dutch pediatrician Simon van Creveld on a new disease, both of which called chondroectodermal dysplasia . This hereditary disease was later renamed Ellis-van-Creveld-Syndrome after its first description . An anecdote has it that the two authors met by chance on the train when they were on their way to a medical meeting. During the conversation, they both discovered that each of them was planning a publication about the same disease. They decided to publish it together. Because of the better sound ( euphony ) and the alphabetical order, Ellis became the first author.

Publications (selection)

  • RW Ellis (Ed.): Child Health and Development. 4th edition, J. & A. Churchill, 1966.
  • RW Ellis, RG Mitchell: Disease in Infancy and Childhood. 5th edition, E. & S. Livingstone, 1965.
  • RG Mitchell, RW Ellis: Child life and health. 5th edition, Churchill Verlag, 1970, ISBN 0-700-01478-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diseases of the nervous system. (PDF; 96 kB) In: Arch Dis Child. 22, 1947, p. 184. doi : 10.1136 / adc.22.111.184
  2. ^ Child Life and Health. ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. University of Edinburgh, accessed January 10, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.clah.mvm.ed.ac.uk
  3. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ RW Ellis, S. van Creveld: A Syndrome Characterized by Ectodermal Dysplasia, Polydactyly, Chondro-Dysplasia and Congenital Morbus Cordis: Report of Three Cases. In: Archives of Disease in Childhood. Volume 15, Number 82, 1940, pp. 65-84, ISSN  0003-9888 . PMID 21032169 . PMC 1987729 (free full text).
  5. ^ VC Baum, JE O'Flaherty: Anesthesia for genetic, metabolic, and dysmorphic syndromes of childhood. Edition 2, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006, ISBN 0-781-77938-3 , p. 120. Limited preview in Google Book Search

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personal data
SURNAME Ellis, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellis, Richard White Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1966
Place of death London