Dorothy Stuart Russell
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| Born | 29 June 1895 Sydney, Australia |
| Died | 19 October 1983 (aged 88) Dorking, England |
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Dorothy Stuart Russell (29 June 1895 – 19 October 1983) was an Australian born, British pathologist. She was a director of the Bernhard Baron Institute of Pathology.
Life
Dorothy Stuart Russell was born in
Medical studies
In 1918, Russell went on to study at the London Hospital Medical College (LHMC) where she discovered a mentor in Hubert Turnbull. Turnbull was the Professor of morbid anatomy and she was funded to work with him for some years. After qualifying in 1922, she pursued pathology studies. In 1928, Russell won a Rockefeller Scholarship and worked with Frank Mallory in Boston, and Wilder Penfield at the Montreal Neurological Institute. This year enabled her to move into a study of neuropathology. She graduated with her M.D. and the University Gold Medal in 1929.
Russell published A Classification of Bright's Disease in 1930,
In 1944 she returned to the London Hospital Medical College where she took over many of the duties of Turnbull.[4] She was made Professor of Morbid Pathology, succeeding her mentor Professor Turnbull in 1946.[2] She published her work, Observations on the Pathology of Hydrocephalus in 1949. Russell published her work with Lucien Rubinstein, The pathology of tumours of the nervous system, in 1959. She retired in 1960.
Memberships
Russell was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and Royal College of Physicians.
She won the Oliver Sharpey Prize of the Royal College of Physicians in 1968.
Russell died in Dorking in 1983.[4]
References
- ^ PMID 9307003.
- ^ a b Professor Dorothy Russell, LHMC alumna, Pathology Institute Director, Retrieved 7 September 2015
- ^ J. T. Hughes, ‘Russell, Dorothy Stuart (1895–1983)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Sept 2015
- ^ ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1.
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